Petersburg (Va.)--History--19th century
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Charles Campbell Papers
Collection
Identifier: 01/Mss. 65 C17
Scope and Contents
The Charles Campbell papers consist of papers received or collected by Charles Campbell (1807-1876), Virginia historian. The papers fall into four general headings: historical papers collected by Charles Campbell, correspondence, manuscript volumes, and miscellaneous. These include personal and professional correspondence as well as eighteenth century documents collected by Charles Campbell, newspaper clippings, diaries, scrapbooks, and notebooks, covering then period 1743-1896. The papers...
Charles Trotter Lassiter Notebooks
Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Ad109-MsV Ad111
Scope and Contents
Kept while a law student at the University of Virginia. Also includes notes made while practicing law with his brother Francis Rives Lassiter in Petersburg, Virginia.
George A. Cunningham Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 00245
Scope and Contents
Marriage announcement between George A. Cunningham of Alabama and Emma Branch of Virginia at the Washington St. M.E. Church in [Petersburg, Virginia]. Undated. Membership certificate for George A. Cunningham in the Virginia State Agricultural Society. October 22, 1875. Two incomplete notary drafts for George A. Cunningham and Emily Cunningham concerning a corporation in Georgia and Virginia, dated 1889. Letter to Emma Cunningham in Richmond, Virginia from her husband, George A. Cunningham,...
Minnie A. Hill Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 00932
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of letters from supervisors or sponsors to Minnie A. Hill, a northern female teacher, who was in Norfolk and then Petersburg, Virginia teaching at freedmen’s schools in the late 1860s.
John Bragg Ledger
Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Am1
Scope and Contents
Ledger, 1826-1848, of Dr. John Bragg, Petersburg, Va. concerning his medical practice.
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John Bragg Ledger
John Thompson Brown Letters
Collection
Identifier: SC 00506
Content Description
Series of letters, bound into a black volume with gold embossing around its edge. The letters span from 1828- 1857 but the bulk of the letters are from 1830- 1833. Brown writes to an assortment of recipients and from varied places such as Petersburg, Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, and Baltimore, Maryland. Topics in his letters include politics, Brown was a member of the House of Delegates for Virginia, love, business, and family affairs. One later letter laments the ill health of his father...
Manuscripts - People and Family Names
Collection
Identifier: 01/Mss. 39.2 Man3a
Scope and Contents
An artificial collection of papers created from material acquired during the 1930's and 1940's. Mostly letters, financial records, published material and official records of individuals in Virginia and elsewhere. Includes documents and signatures of well known people, such as Benjamin Harrison, John Randolph and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Documents from this collection are currently being transferred to the Small Collection as individual items with SC identification numbers. Please...
Mary Levick Simpson Diary
Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV D27
Scope and Contents
Diary, 1858 September 11-25, of Mary Levick Simpson [of Petersburg, Va.] kept during her trip to New York, a brief stay in New York, an ocean voyage to England and her stay in England.
Peebles-Watson-Arrington Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss. 98 P34
Scope and Contents
Papers and photographs, 1871-1913, bulk 1873-1904, of the Peebles, Watson and Arrington families of Norfolk and Petersburg, Va. Includes letters, primarily from Joseph Littleton Peebles to Kate S. Watson during their courtship and marriage. Also includes genealogical notes. The Peebles farm is a part of the Petersburg National Battlefield Park.
Petersburg in the Olden Time Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Ad135-136
Scope and Contents
From the library of Charles Trotter Lassiter. Scrapbooks, circa 1804-1901, containing a series of articles entitled,"Petersburg in the Olden Time," by Moratock. One scrapbook has handwritten copies of numbers 1-5; and the other scrapbook has newspaper clippings of the entire series.