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School notebooks

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Branch J. Epes lecture notebook

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSS 16469
Content Description This collection contains one notebook with handwritten notes on lectures at the University of Virginia Law School, with some earlier lectures during his enrollment at Hampden-Sydney College. These notes seem to be lectures on philosophy and ethics rather than law, perhaps taken at different stages of Epes's matriculation, with reference to Locke, Hobbes, Bentham, and Stewart. One early lecture may be attributed to "McGuffie" suggesting possibly William Holmes McGuffey (of McGuffey Reader...
Dates: 1850 - 1853

A.W. Francis school notebook (University of Virginia)

 Collection — Box BW 51, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16741

G. Firth mathematic notebook

 Unprocessed Material — Folder ViU-2023-0057_001
Identifier: ViU-2023-0057

Thomas Kern mathematics exercise book

 Collection — Box BW 41, Folder: ViU-2022-0090-001
Identifier: MSS 16707
Content Description This collection contains a mathematics exercise book from the mid-1800s belonging to Thomas Kern. The notebooks contains exercises and solutions for simple mathematics concepts, such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Towards the end of the notebook, two pages contain longer writings of a religious nature written by Kern. The headings of each page contain many calligraphic flourishes and ornate touches. It is unclear if Kern was enrolled in a school or if this was his...
Dates: ca. 1856 - 1871

Madeline Shaw papers

 Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: ViU-2020-0126
Dates: Majority of material found within 2015 - 2019

Ruth A. Curtis art notebook

 Unprocessed Material — Folder ViU2023-0105_001
Identifier: ViU-2023-0105

Madeline Shaw papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16794
Content Description This collection contains six class notebooks and a folder of material on the One Less Resource booklet detailing the classes and work of Madeline Shaw a student at the University of Virginia. The notebooks and essays that document her class work related to a variety of topics including the Civil Rights movement, modern political thought, immunology, arts and pop culture, 18th century philosophy, microeconomics, history of the British empire and early American law. Also included is a manual...
Dates: Majority of material found within 2015 - 2019

John Henry Timberlake University of Virginia student notebooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16691
Content Description The first notebook covers courses on modern languages taught by Professors Maximilian Schele de Vere and [George Frederick] Holmes. Generally divided into a French and Spanish section, with an "Index Variorum," "Notes on French Idioms," and timelines of authors' lives. The second notebook covers the courses on mathematics taught by Professor Albert Taylor Bledsoe, with sections on differential calculus, integral calculus, and analytical problems. The third...
Dates: 1854-1858

Louisa Wooten botany and zoology notebook

 Collection — Box BW 53, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16781
Content Description This collection contains one handwritten notebook from an English female student learning about botany and zoology in 1857. The notebook includes sixty-eight pages of notes and essays on plant and animal biology. The notebook cover has the handwritten signature of the original owner, Louisa Wootten (possibly Woodson or Woodrow).It is unusual for a female student to study botany and zoology in 1857 so this notebook is remarkable in that regard.The cover also notes an...
Dates: 1857