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369th African American Infantry Regiment Photographs
Alice Nellie Letter
Letter to Mary about getting her tintype done, taking the omnibus, and the new baby at home.
Aliquando Press Collection
Broadside by Christopher Morley and a print of Jerseyville Farm (30/230). Aliquando Press, printer, Will Reuter. Includes more broadsides with a typed list of descriptions.
Robert Andrews Papers
Acc. 1980.119: This accession includes biographical material, silhouette, correspondence, deed of sale for one slave, and copies of the Virginia Almanac, edited by Andrews (1781-1796).
Acc. 1985.014: This accession contains photocopies (no originals) of genealogical material about Robert Andrews, his ancestors, and his descendants.
Bagley Woodcut Prints
Boswell Collection
Charles Page Bryan Photograph Album: "Some Beautiful Women I Have Known"
Photograph album, circa 1865-1920, of Charles Page Bryan entitled "Some Beautiful and Interesting Women I Have Known." The book contains black and white and tinted photographs, cartes-de-visite, and newspaper clippings of hundreds of women including Ethel Barrymore, Sarah Berhardt, Florence (Lathrop) Field Page, Alice (Roosevelt) Longworth, members of royalty, and wives and daughters of diplomats.
Chapin-Horowitz Cynogetica Collection
The Chapin-Horowitz Cynogetica Collection includes a variety of material in various formats.
AKC Gazette, 1985-2003 on microfilm SF423 .A52 (1995- )
Annie Haseltine Judson Chiles Autograph Album
Autograph album, 1850-1856, of Annie Haseltine Judson Chiles, Chesterfield, Virginia which also contains engravings. Contains one carte-de-visite of an unknown man.
Civil War Caricature Postal Covers, circa
Collection of eight unused illustrated postal covers. Each with a wood engraving, printed in red or black, and satirizing the Confederate leadership or military as seen from the Union point of view.
Jefferson Davis Papers
Heinz and Gertrud Siegel Elber papers
The Heinz and Gertrud Siegel Elber papers consist of a scrapbook and a guestbook documenting their social life and Heinz Elber's professional career as a kapellmeister (bandmaster) in Dresden, Germany. Heinz Elber (30 April 1882-5 December 1969) and Gertrude Siegel in 1951.
Also included is biographical background information provided by relatives in form of diary excerpts, correspondence and a newsletters article about Heinz Elber's life and violins.
Adam Empie Papers
Engraving of King William III and Queen Mary II with Signatures
18th century copperplate engraving of King William III and Queen Mary II's portraits. Their autographs were cut from unknown documents and added to the engraving by an unknown person. The engraving says "Printed for Joseph Watts in St. Pauls Church Yard."
Engraving of the Right Honorable Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt, late Governor of Virginia
Engraving print of Lord Botetourt, right facing with the additional writing, "Done from a medalion of the same size in the possession of John Norton, Esq. To the General Assembly of Virginia, this plate is most humbly inscribed by their obliged humble servant. H. Ashby." Publication of this print was from London by H. Ashby.
Galen W. Ewing Papers
This collection includes sixteen prints collected by Galen W. Ewing to serve as accompanying illustrations to his article "Early Teaching of Science at the College of William and Mary in Virginia," Journal of Chemical Education, 15, No. 1 (Jan 1938); three notebooks filled with extensive manuscript notes and correspondence; thirteen engraving plates of various sizes used in printing the article. Inventory available in the Special Collections Research Center.
Gregory Family Papers
Dorothy E. Howe Scrapbooks
Two scrapbooks, 1923-1924 and 1925-1927 of high school student Dorothy E. Howe of Omaha, Nebraska, where she attended Edward Rosewater South High School. Scrapbooks contain photographs, invitations, letters, written entries by friends, printed programs and ephemera.
Japanese Woodblock Prints
John Smith, Pocahontas, and Benjamin Franklin engravings
Contains prints of engravings depicting John Smith, Pocahontas, and Benjamin Franklin.
Joseph E. Johnston Papers
Joseph J. Bernius Scrapbook
World War II Scrapbook of Corporal Joseph J. Bernius, Company B, 591st Engineer Boat Regiment, covering the years 1942 through 1944. This extensive scrapbook consists predominantly of photographs. Also included are postcards, currency, and examples of English regimental insignia. Places covered according to entries on the second page include Scotland, England, North Africa, and Italy.
Joseph Thomas Wood London Engravings
Richard G. Joynt Collection of British Manuscripts
Richard G. Joynt's collection of British manuscripts, from the 15th to the 20th century, of 88 letters and documents, 41 cut signatures, and many book engravings. The authors and signatures include kings, queens, prime ministers, nobles, military officers, authors, and other dignitaries. Personal matters, military orders and letters, religion, treaties, politics, intrique, and much more are covered in these letters, often interwoven with current events.