Galt, Alexander D. II, 1827-1863
Person
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Alexander Galt Letters
Collection
Identifier: SC 01686
Scope and Contents
(2) letters by Alexander Galt (1827-1863), a sculptor from Norfolk, Virginia, and John Young Mason (1799-1859), Secretary of the Navy and Attorney General to President James K. Polk. In the 1848 copy-letter, Mason writes that Galt will sail on the Erie ship, under the command of Lieutenant William M. Blair. Mason also tells Galt to secure employment as Blair’s clerk by networking with Blair’s friends in Norfolk. It is addressed from Washington, on July 28, 1848. The...
Dates:
1848-1849
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Galt Papers (I)
Collection
Identifier: Mss. 78 G13
Scope and Contents
Professional and personal papers; 1745-1892; of the Galt family of Williamsburg, Virginia. Papers primarily concern the Galt family's work at the Eastern State Hospital, including apothecary shop daybooks, account books, medical daybooks, clinical notebooks, weather diaries, commonplace books, reports, medical notes, lecture notes, correspondence, and other. The personal papers consist of diaries, letters, scrapbooks, school notes, financial papers, memoirs, and other material....
Dates:
1745-1892
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Galt Papers (III)
Collection
Identifier: 01/Mss. 78 G73
Scope and Contents
The collection covers the dates 1750-1982 and consists chiefly of the personal and business correspondence, financial and legal documents, literary documents, and family history and genealogy notes of the Galt family. The collection also contains clippings, photographs, and personal mementos such as artifacts. Negatives have been added to Galt III, Group XI, Box IV, folder 44. Some material pertaining to William R. Galt is filed in 78 G73 Galt Family Papers III,...
Dates:
1750-1991
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Galt Papers (III-A)
Collection
Identifier: Mss. 78 G13 (III-A)
Scope and Contents
Papers of Alexander Galt, Jr. and his family. Mostly correspondence but also includes contracts, financial records, diaries, notebooks, sculptures and ephemera. Most items written to, or by, Alexander Galt, Jr. when he was living in Florence, Italy. Alexander Galt's sketchbook which includes photograph of Galt's sketch of General Stonewall Jackson.
Dates:
1848-1917
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
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- Correspondence 3
- Financial records 3
- Diaries 2
- Eastern State Hospital (Va.)--History 2
- Italy--Description and travel--19th century 2
- Sculptors, American--19th century 2
- Williamsburg (Va.)--Colonial Period--History 2
- Williamsburg (Va.)--History--18th century 2
- Williamsburg (Va.)--History--19th century 2
- Account books 1
- Americans--Italy 1
- Art (sketches) 1
- Cartoons 1
- Certificates 1
- Clippings (information artifacts) 1
- Daybooks 1
- Genealogy 1
- Homesickness 1
- Laboratory notebooks 1
- Legal documents 1
- Letter books 1
- Manuscripts (document genre) 1
- Mentally ill--Care 1
- Minutes 1
- Notebooks 1
- Photographs 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Sculptors--United States 1
- Speeches 1
- Williamsburg (Va.)--History--20th century 1
- Williamsburg (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Williamsburg (Va.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 1
- Women--Virginia--Williamsburg--Social conditions--19th century 1
- Yellow fever--Virginia--Norfolk 1 + ∧ less
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