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A string bound photo album featuring African American paratroopers stationed in Japan after the Korean War. There are 126 black and white/sepia-toned photographs, a few with captions, majority without. The photos depict the paratroopers engaged in training, camp activities, and leisure.

Autograph album of Anna Sherman. Cover is inscribed "Floral Album" and interior has cutouts of flowers pasted in. Contains brief entries from friends and family.

Autograph album, 1925-1958, of an unidentified person, likely of Williamsburg, Virginia. Includes the signatures of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., John D. Rockefeller, III, Winthrop Rockefeller, David Rockefeller, Harry F. Byrd, Grace Warren Landrum, James Hardy Dillard, Robert Morton Hughes, W.A.R. Goodwin and his wife, Earl Gregg Swem and Lilia Swem, Westmoreland Davis and Marguerite Davis, John Garland Pollard, Donald W. Davis, and Louise Chandler and Alvin Duke Chandler, among many others.

Autograph book with entries written to Luella, with many short notes and poems. Most entries are signed and dated in Massachusetts.

Autograph book addressed to Sarah. Contains several engravings and poems written in French.

Photographs and photograph albums, circa 1950s-1980s, of Doris C. Baker, author and poet of Virginia Beach, Virginia. The photographs document her travels throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia and include images of scenery, people with whom she met, and people with whom she traveled. Baker was from Muskegon, Michigan and went to work teaching in Department of Defense schools in Europe in the 1950s.

Photograph scrapbook by William Brayshaw.  Photographs include family photographs from locations all over the world.  Many photographs include chapels and churches, American Mission Schools and early photographs of the College of William and Mary and Virginia Beach, Virginia.

One scrapbook bound in black pleather with a gold design of a woman and man on the front cover. Inside there are nine photographs, two are of Holloway, the rest are of her family and friends. Twenty-nine name cards are held in the back of the book, along with Holloway's last report card from George Wythe High School, and autographed messages from her classmates.

There is also a certificate of award for typewriting awarded to Brenda H. Baylor with the scrapbook.

Autograph album containing various short notes and poems from people, with many saying "remember me." Most are signed with a location in New York, and several paper cut-outs have been pasted into different entries.

Autograph album and guest book, 1892-1897, of [Charles Page Bryan, diplomat], containing autographs, poems, and sketches by visitors to "Byrd's Nest," Elmhurst [Chicago, Ill.] and by visitors, 1913-1917, to his home in Washington, D. C. The volume also contains photographs.

Autograph book, 1947, of Perfecta Chavez of Albequerque, New Mexico. Includes addresses and notes from classmates and teachers after her graduation from Albuquerque Business College.

Autograph album, 1850-1856, of Annie Haseltine Judson Chiles, Chesterfield, Virginia which also contains engravings.  Contains one carte-de-visite of an unknown man.

Autograph album, 1884-1892, of Cornelia Bradford Pittman, Tarborough, North Carolina which contains printed illustrations.

Photograph album, circa 1950s, of John Dillinger. Primarily contains picture of Dillinger in the United States Army, with handwritten annotations by his unnamed brother. Includes pictures from the United States as well as pictures from what seems to be Korea.

Autograph book of Dorcas Slocum. Cover says "Leaves of Friendship" and interior has purple pages. There are several longer poetic entries from friends.

Artificial collection of English autographs and signatures, 1710-1915. The signatures were collected by Earl Gregg Swem. ca. 100 items.

Autograph album of Frederick L. Torrey with entries from friends and family. Many entries are longer poems.

Autographs albums, library catalogs of personal libraries, maps, math notes and scrapbooks.

Many collections and material were purchased from John Hart during the 1930's and filed under their own accession numbers or interfiled with existing collections.

This collection contains manuscript diaries and related ephemera of Pvt. Herbert J. Satchwell, U.S.M.C., of the U.S.S. Kearsarge, recounting several cruises of the ship along the Eastern Seaboard of the United Staes, the Gulf of Mexico, and the West Indies.

Bound photograph album of the attendees at The House of Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States Triennial Convention.  Includes a carte des visite photograph of each Bishop with a printed biography on the facing page.  Made from heavy paper stock, with gilt edged paper showing impressions of lambs and doves.  Tooled leather binding.  Photographed by J. Gurney and Sons and published by T. Porter Shaw of New York. 49 pp.