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Beardsworth, Ada Bantz, 1877-1965. Ada Bantz Beardsworth papers [manuscript], 1874-1953 (bulk 1897-1924).

Title: Ada Bantz Beardsworth papers [manuscript], 1874-1953 (bulk 1897-1924).

The collection consists primarily of Bantz and Beardsworth family papers, including letters, diaries, ledgers, and photographs. They reflect the life of Ada Bantz,a strongminded, artistically talented, and independently oriented Virginia woman and her husband, the musician Tom Beardsworth. Topics include Ada B. Beardworth's search for employment, family troubles, health, social life, travels,long engagement and evenutal marriage and struggle with social conventions. Of interest is correspondence with her gay godson and cousin William Baker Powell, an advertising salesman, author of home decorating articles, and friend of Gene Tunney, Noel Coward and Cole Porter. Topics also include Tom Beardsworth's positions at the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind, Mary Baldwin Seminary, the Virginia Female Institute, Camp Terra Alta, the Stonewall Band Brigade and the Staunton Military Academy and tours and performances in numerous Virginia cities including Charlottesville. Other topics include current events,particularly the election of 1896, Spanish American war, World Wars I and II, and the depression; fashion trends; life in Winchester and Staunton, Va.; student life at Amherst; employment with Sherwin-Williams, advertising as a career, women owned businesses. There are also mentions of Allen Caperton Braxton, Barnett McFee Clinedinst, Lady Duff Gordon, Leonard Hanna, Jr., Cole Porter, John Powell, Maggie Teyte, Gene Tunney,and Woodrow Wilson. There are brief references to birth control and abortion, the bicycling fad, ping pong, a flood in Winchester in 1902, the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1901, the inaugurations of William McKinley and Warren G. Harding, Woodrow Wilson as president, Walter Damrosch's orchestra, the Pan American Exposition, the Jamestown Expostion, the New York Worlds Fair, voyage to Europe on the RMS Mauretania, the stock market crash, Cole Porter musicals and nostalgia for the "good old days of slavery." Of interest are letters from William Glass and Sidney Moss, University of Virginia students, 1892-1895, 1912-1913, regarding student life and misbehavior, the Glee Club and the Rotunda fire and aftermath. Correspondents include: Richard E. Byrd, Henry LaT Cavenaugh, John Warwick Daniel, George Dewey, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Frank R. Gillis, William Wood Glass, Jr., Curtis Guild, James Hay, Louis E. McComas, Perry L. Miles, Alexander M. Patch, Fitz-John Porter, William Baker Powell, and Charles "Broadway" Rouss. Several of these letters are routine replies to requests for patronage.

ArchivalResource: circa 9000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/648004500 View

Johnson, S. Douglas,. Papers, 1861-1995.

Title: Papers, 1861-1995.

This collection consists of a cover letter (1 leaf), a letter from T. H. Watts to his niece (Miriam Holt Michaels) (14 leaves), photographs of Dr. John Walter Michaels (1 leaf), a biographical sketch of John W. Michaels (2 leaves), and by-laws for "The Deaf Christian Band" (2 leaves). The letter contains a description of sectional differences that flared up in Indiana in the Civil War period. John W. Michaels was a leader in the education of the deaf in Arkansas. Also included is correspondence to various Virginia officials concerning the designation of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind as a historical landmark, a copy of THE BAPTIST MESSEHGER newsletter, which includes biographical information on Dr. John W. Michaels, photographs of muskets anhd swords, and an alumni newsletter from the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind.

ArchivalResource: 37 leaves.11 Photographs.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122498117 View

Virginia. Office of the Second Auditor. Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind, Staunton, Virginia : reports of expenses from the Office of the Second Auditor, 1902-1905.

Title: Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind, Staunton, Virginia : reports of expenses from the Office of the Second Auditor, 1902-1905.

These records are part of Office of the Second Auditor. Literary Fund: Special Topics. These records list expenses for the school: v. 1, October 1902-September 1903, v.2, October 1904-September 1905.

ArchivalResource: 2 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/423385002 View

Goodson, John J. Journal for Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind [manuscript], 1880-1883.

Title: Journal for Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind [manuscript], 1880-1883.

The journal contains transactions for the school's "store" which sold goods grown, produced or made at the school to the community.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/648007852 View

Stuart, Alexander H. H. (Alexander Hugh Holmes), 1807-1891. Papers of Alexander H. H. Stuart and the related Stuart and Baldwin families [manuscript], 1776-1878 (bulk 1850-1861).

Title: Papers of Alexander H. H. Stuart and the related Stuart and Baldwin families [manuscript], 1776-1878 (bulk 1850-1861).

The collection contains the political correspondence of Alexander H.H. Stuart, particularly from 1850-1853, when he served in Fillmore's cabinet and from 1857-1861, when he was in the Virginia State Senate. The Whig Party is a major topic. Other topics include national and Virginia politics, the presidential elections of 1848, 1852, and 1868, the reestablishment of a national bank, the Virginia Reform Convention of 1850, the American Know-Nothing Party, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Also slavery, abolition, Southern conservative opposition to secession, Virginia elections of 1831, 1851, 1859, 1867, the aftermath of Nat Turner's rebellion, the use of statistics in government, the Confederate Congress, sectional reconciliation after the Civil War, the Readjustor controversy, political patronage, and internal improvements. Also mentioned are Revolutionary War pension claims, migration of free blacks to Liberia, affairs at the Chickasaw and Choctaw Indian Agency in 1851, California politics and Indians in 1851, the Tehuantepec Isthmus route, Iowa in 1851, San Francisco in 1854, New Orleans in 1861, West Virginia in 1861, the U.S.S. Princeton explosion, Dorothea Dix's efforts to establish hospitals for the mentally ill, building of the U.S. Capitol, the Virginia Central Railroad and the University of Virginia. Many letters convey local news in Staunton and Augusta County, Va., such as the development of Alum Springs, the establishment of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind, smallpox cases and land sales and controversies in Virginia and Kentucky. Others refer to legal cases handled by Stuart, including suits involving the Bath Iron Works and Buffalo Forge, and the Wheeling Bridge. Several letters discuss family affairs including plans by a cousin to run a boarding house for young women in Athens, Greece. Only a few letters mention the Civil War and Reconstruction and include references to the military movements of Confederate general Robert S. Garnett. Topics in earlier Stuart and the related Baldwin family papers include ratification of the U.S. constitution, Jeffersonian party politics, political events during the administration of George Washington, Washington Academy, the University of Virginia and its honor system, Washington College, and William Wirt's biography of Patrick Henry. The papers also contain an architectural drawing of an unidentified house, an engraving of Alexander H.H. Stuart, insurance policies, stock certificates, indentures, wills, land plats, and speeches by Alexander H.H. Stuart. Military papers of Captain George M. Cochran, Jr., Quartermaster, 52nd Virginia Infantry, consist chiefly of requisitions and receipts. There are also two printed pamphlets, 1849, in French and German, on the potato blight.

ArchivalResource: 800 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647857203 View

Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind (Staunton, Va.). Reports of expenses, October 1902-September 1905.

Title: Reports of expenses, October 1902-September 1905.

These records list expenses for the school: v. 1, October 1902-September 1903, v.2, October 1904-September 1905.

ArchivalResource: 2 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122497980 View