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McConnell, Frank P., b. 1870. Papers, 1912-1918.

Title: Papers, 1912-1918.

Papers, 1912-1918, of Frank P. McConnell, president of the Manchester National Bank, Richmond, Va. Mostly letters concerning banking, politics, Kappa Alpha fraternity and the Shriners. Correspondents include Joseph M. Brown, Julian Alvin Carroll Chandler, Westmoreland Davis, Stanley Hubert Dent, James Thomas Heflin, John Lamb, John Garland Pollard, Joseph Taylor Robinson, Claude A. Swanson, J. Hoge Tyler, S. Heth Tyler, Oscar Wilder Underwood, and John Skelton Williams.

ArchivalResource: 82 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22877011 View

Pollard, Violet McDougall, 1889-1977. Papers, 1907-1976 1933-1968.

Title: Papers, 1907-1976 1933-1968.

Papers include correspondence, records, publications, and clippings concerning Democratic Party politics in Virginia and nationally; correspondence, records, and publications pertaining to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and Virginia artists; files on various civic activities; and personal correspondence. Prominent correspondents include Watkins Moorman Abbitt, J. Lindsay Almond, John Stewart Battle, Schuyler Otis Bland, Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., Harry Flood Byrd, Jr., Colgate W. Darden, Westmoreland Davis, Jessie Ball duPont, J. Vaughan Gary, Mills E. Godwin, Jr., Albertis S. Harrison, A. Linwood Holton, Hubert H. Humphrey, Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, James Hubert Price, David E. Satterfield III, George Campbell Peery, John Garland Pollard, William B. Spong, Thomas B. Stanley, E. Lee Trinkle, William M. Tuck.

ArchivalResource: 46 boxes.

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Westmoreland Davis memorabilia, 1917.

Title: Westmoreland Davis memorabilia, 1917.

The collection consists of six items related to Westmoreland Davis's run for governor in 1917. One of two broadsides in the collection is a two-sided document with reprinted articles previously published in journals, "The Power to Tax is the Power to Destroy" in Altavista Journal and "Go Home and Slop the Hogs" in Southern Planter. The letter to S.R. Fred (n.d.) appears to be a form letter sent to Davis's supporters.

ArchivalResource: 6 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/244570439 View

Pidgeon, Mary Elizabeth. Oral history interview of Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon [manuscript], 1976 November 12, 1977 March 26.

Title: Oral history interview of Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon [manuscript], 1976 November 12, 1977 March 26.

Life and career of Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon with particular emphasis on her student years at the University of Virginia, her connection with the University of Virginia Extension Division, and her work in the Woman Suffrage Movement. Interviewer is Charles E. Moran, Jr., University History Officer.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647913110 View

Virginia. Children's Code Commission. Bills submitted by the Children's Code Commission [manuscript], 1922.

Title: Bills submitted by the Children's Code Commission [manuscript], 1922.

Bills submitted by the Children's Code Commission, along with memorandum regarding some of the more important accomplishments of the Westmoreland Davis Administration.

ArchivalResource: 19 items.

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Westmoreland Davis photographs, 1919-1921, 1938-1940, n.d.

Title: Westmoreland Davis photographs, 1919-1921, 1938-1940, n.d.

The collection contains formal portraits of Davis and Mrs. Davis including three copies of Davis on the cover of "The Southern Planter"1938-1940; photographs of oil paintings of Gov. and Mrs. Davis; and photographs of Davis with [returning World War I soldiers, 1919?] and with French General Foch, 1921.

ArchivalResource: 9 photos.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49620693 View

Davis, Westmoreland, 1859-1942. Papers of Westmoreland Davis [manuscript] 1889-1942.

Title: Papers of Westmoreland Davis [manuscript] 1889-1942.

Political, business and personal papers consisting of correspondence, memoranda and reports, Davis's speeches, campaign literature, newsclippings, photographs and miscellaneous items. Political papers concern Davis' campaign for gov. of Va. in 1917, his governorship, 1918-22, his unsuccessful campaign for senator in 1922, and his involvement in Virginia politics throughout his life, especially the presidential campaigns of 1932 & 1936. Correspondence discusses: development of the state's highways, agriculture, development of a state lime grinding plant, the penitentiaries and pardons, the poll tax, prohibition, taxes, the Democratic Party in Va., etc. Correspondents include: Va. and national Democrats, state officials, friends and supporters, Harry Flood Byrd, William Jett Lauck, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Martin Slaughter Stringfellow, Claude Augustus Swanson, Woodrow Wilson and many others.

ArchivalResource: 60 ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647936092 View

Underwood & Underwood. Photographs of the University of Virginia Centennial [manuscript], 1921.

Title: Photographs of the University of Virginia Centennial [manuscript], 1921.

Photographs of the 1921 University of Virginia Centennial depicting events such as the pageant and the unveiling of the World War I memorial at the Rotunda. Included are group photographs and posed pictures of attending dignitaries.

ArchivalResource: 29 photos.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647910121 View

Harkrader, Charles Johnston, 1885-. Charles Johnston Harkrader correspondence [manuscript] 1934-1967.

Title: Charles Johnston Harkrader correspondence [manuscript] 1934-1967.

Correspondence of the editor of the Bristol Herald-Tribune & Virginia state senator, 1936-40. Most regarding current Virginia political issues and editorials or columns on them. Particularly interesting is a letter on David Eli Lilienthal & the Tennessee Valley authority by Kenneth Douglas McKellar. Other correspondents include James Lindsay Almond, Westmoreland Davis, William Orville Douglas, John Shively Knight, Arthur Krock, Carter Glass, James Clark McReynolds, Henry Morgenthau, Henry Louis Mencken, John Lloyd Newcomb & Drew Pearson.

ArchivalResource: 49 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647934162 View

Davis, Westmoreland, 1859-1942. Westmoreland Davis political materials, 1918-1922.

Title: Westmoreland Davis political materials, 1918-1922.

Inaugural address and program (1918) and brochures, platform card, poster, and letter, related to Davis's campaign for the U.S. Senate in 1922.

ArchivalResource: 6 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70967032 View

Garrett, William Allen, 1854-1951. Papers of William Allen Garrett [manuscript] 1905 (1913-40) 1950.

Title: Papers of William Allen Garrett [manuscript] 1905 (1913-40) 1950.

Collection pertains to the political career of thisThere are letters from his constituents, requests for patronage, and letters from state politicians and officials. Subjects discussed include prohibition, workman's compensation, bill boards, financial support for state institutions, Byrd's pay-as-you-go plan, and state and local politics. Correspondents include Maitland Bustard, Harry Floyd Byrd, Thomas Granville Burch, Colgate Whitehead Darden, Westmorland David, Patrick Henry Drewry, Nathaniel B. Early, James Taylor Ellyson, S.L. Ferguson, Leroy Hodges, Rorer Anderson James, Rorer Anderson James, Claggett Bennett Jones, John Adam Lesner, John Preston McConnell, Lewis H. Machen, Henry Read McIlwaine, Thomas Staples Martin, James Hubert Price, and John Paul. Also John Garland Pollard, George Campbell Peery, George Townes Rison, Absolm Willis Robertson, Thomas Bahnson Stanley, Edward Watts Saunders, Claude Augustus Swanson, Elbert Lee Wrinkle, William Munford Tuck, Henry St. George Tucker, Stafford Corman Whittle, Kennon Caithness Whittle and "The Bishop" Carter Wormley.

ArchivalResource: 2 ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647970073 View

Davis, Westmoreland, 1859-1942. Papers of Westmoreland Davis, 1877-1949.

Title: Papers of Westmoreland Davis, 1877-1949.

Collection includes a framed, printed genealogical chart of the descendants of Sir Thomas West, 2nd Lord De La Warr, prepared by George C. Gregory; two studio portraits of Davis by Blackstone Studios of New York; a print of a photograph of Cadet Westmoreland Davis, 1st Lt., Company C., Virginia Military Institute, Class of 1877; and an editorial in the October 1942 edition of the "Southern Planter" re the life and death of Davis.

ArchivalResource: 7 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32959797 View

Glass, Carter, 1858-1946. Papers of Carter Glass [manuscript], 1858-1946, and n.d.

Title: Papers of Carter Glass [manuscript], 1858-1946, and n.d.

Papers of Glass consist of personal and professional papers including correspondence, speeches, notes and memoranda, documents, printed matter, photographs, clippings and miscellaneous material. Much of the collection centers on banking and currency legislation, in the enactment of which Glass was active while in both Houses of Congress and while serving as Secretary of the Treasury. Subjects include: the Federal Reserve Bank Act and Federal Reserve system; the Federal Farm Loan Act; branch banks; currency [reform] bill of 1913; Emergency Banking Act, 1933; the Banking Act of 1933 (Glass-Steagall Act) to establish the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; the Bank Bill of 1935; opposition to the National Industrial Recovery Act; the National Labor Relations Act; the Bank Holding Company Bill; and the Office of Price Administration; Additional topics include World Wars I and II, particularly their domestic economic aspects; the League of Nations; the World Court; Democratic Party platforms and policies; the presidential elections of 1912, 1920, 1924, 1928, and 1940; Senator Huey P. Long; Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal; the attempted packing of the Supreme Court , 1937; neutrality legislation; disarmament; regulation of the coal industry; child labor; anti-lynching law; immigration restriction (especially Chinese in Hawaii); Muscle Shoals; trade with Russia; diplomatic relations with the Vatican; Four-Power Treaty; soldiers' bonus bill; tariffs and protectionism; and national defense. Virginia topics of concern to Glass or his constituents include poll tax elimination; Negro suffrage; highways; the University of Virginia Board of Visitors; patronage requests from Lynchburg, Roanoke, and Bedford, Campbell, Floyd, Montgomery, and Roanoke Counties, Va.; the Woodrow Wilson Foundation; a national Patrick Henry shrine at "Red Hill"; the gubernatorial election of 1924; Bishop James Cannon, prohibition and the Anti-saloon League; the Skyline Drive; Spotsylvania Battlefield Park; the Woodrow Wilson Foundation; the Virginia Fight For Freedom Committee; and operation of the Lynchburg News and Advance. Miscellaneous items of interest include a letter describing the early life of Booker T. Washingrton, election tickets for 1848, a 1906 recipe book, and letters concerning Glass' belief in the Baconian theory of Shakespeare authorship. In addition to speeches by Glass there are speeches by Edwin A. Alderman, Harry Byrd, Sr., George M. Coffin, Gilbert M. Hitchcock, Henry Cabot Lodge, Francis Pickens Miller, Al Smith, and Henry St. George Tucker. Among the many correspondents are : Edwin A. Alderman, Newton Baker, Ray Stannard Baker, Alben Barkley, Bernard Baruch, William E. Borah, Chester Bowles, John Stewart Bryan, William Jennings Bryan, Harry F. Byrd, Richard E. Byrd, Calvin Coolidge, John W. Daniel, Josephus Daniels, Colgate W. Darden, Westmoreland Davis, F. A. Delano, the Democratic National Committee, Marriner S. Eccles, James A. Farley, Douglas Southall Freeman, James A. Garfield, Samuel Gompers, Cary Grayson, Charles S. Hamlin, W. P. G. Harding, Warren G. Harding, J. Edgar Hoover, Herbert Hoover, Edwin M. House, Cordell Hull, Harold Ickes, Hugh S. Johnson, Jesse Jones, Joseph P. Kennedy, Walter Lippmann, Huey Long, William G. McAdoo, G. Walter Mapp, Andrew Mellon, Eugene Meyer, Andrew J. Montague, R. Walton Moore, Henry Morgenthau, Robert L. Owen, George C. Peery, John G. Pollard, A. Willis Robertson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dave E. Satterfield, C. Bascom Slemp, Rixey Smith, Billy Sunday, Claude A. Swanson, Harry S. Truman, Joseph P. Tumulty, Oscar W. Underwood, Samuel Untermeyer, Arthur H. Vandenberg, Robert F. Wagner, Henry A. Wallace, Paul Moritz Warburg, Richard S. Whaley, William Allen White, John Skelton Williams, H. Parker Willis, Edith Bolling Wilson, Woodrow Wilson, Clifton A. Woodrum, and Walter Wyatt.

ArchivalResource: 215,000(ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647902109 View

Davis, Westmoreland, 1859-1942. Papers of Westmoreland Davis [manuscript] 1905-1920.

Title: Papers of Westmoreland Davis [manuscript] 1905-1920.

The collection consists of newsclippings pertaining to Davis as a foxhunter in Loudoun County, Va.

ArchivalResource: 7 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647936101 View

Westmoreland Davis Campaign (Va.). Correspondence, 1922.

Title: Correspondence, 1922.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122647463 View

Drewry, Patrick Henry, 1875-1947. Papers of Patrick Henry Drewry [manuscript] ca. 1825, 1897-1947.

Title: Papers of Patrick Henry Drewry [manuscript] ca. 1825, 1897-1947.

The collection consists of papers from Drewry's legal and political career. Files from many of his cases as a partner of Lassiter and Drewry, Petersburg, Va. and Drewry and Old, Petersburg, Va. contain correspondence on claims settlement, veterans benefits, divorce cases, and real estate dealing. Of interest are letters regarding the 1906 murder trial of an indigent Negro. As Virginia state senator, 1912-20 Drewry served on the Virginia Governor Advisory Board on the Budget, the Virginia Association for Local Self Government, the Virginia State Auditing Committee, the Virginia Commission on Economy and Efficiency, the Virginia State Highway Commission, the Virginia Council of Defense, and the U.S. Committee on Public Information, Division of Four Minute Men. His papers reflect the interests of his constituents on prohibition and local option, Battlefield Park in Petersburg, better roads, women's suffrage, game laws, and post-office and scholarship appointments. His congressional papers deal almost entirely with patronage, appointments, and private claims. The collection also contains papers of the Harris family, 1843-1943, consisting chiefly of the settlement of an estate and financial records; organizational papers, 1906-11, of the Southside Realty Co., Petersburg, Va.; papers of the Ryland family, 1830-1905, including a 1901 inventory of a general store in Petersburg, Va.; and some personal and financial papers. Correspondents include W.L. Bragg, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Westmoreland David, LeRoy Hodges, George Walter Mapp, Thomas Staples Martin, Claude Augustus Swanson, R. Turnbull, and Walter Allen Watson.

ArchivalResource: 16500 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647934568 View

Anti-Saloon League of Virginia. Westmoreland Davis political collection, 1918-1922.

Title: Westmoreland Davis political collection, 1918-1922.

The Westmoreland Davis Political Collection consists of several broadsides, booklets, and pamphlets from Davis's years as governor. The circulars are small cards that state Westmoreland Davis's platform as respect for fundamental labor rights and remedial legislation for farmers, and urges voters to select him as their next governor. The next two items are pamphlets declaring Westmoreland Davis as "the Friend of the Children of Virginia." They discuss Davis's role in appointing the Children's Code Commission and credit him with passing eighteen laws promoting children's welfare. There are also two pamphlets entitled, "Westmoreland Davis: Of the People, For the People." They are concerned with improvements he made as governor, including an effective budget plan for Virginia, and improvements in health care, education, and law enforcement. This collection also contains two copies of Davis's Inaugural Address, given in Richmond on 1 Feb. 1918. In it he discusses the need for education funds and developing state highways. The next item in the collection is a booklet listing the inaugural ceremonies that took place, as well as pictures of state officials and the governor's mansion. Also included is an Anti-Saloon League of Virginia broadside, warning voters not to support Davis and other "wet," or anti-prohibition, political figures if they wish to sustain law and order in the state. Lastly, the collection contains an anti-Davis broadside, insisting that his ambivalence towards labor movements will result in compulsory arbitration and anti-strike laws.

ArchivalResource: 12 items.

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Scott, Austin Wakeman. Austin Wakeman Scott papers. 1906-1979.

Title: Austin Wakeman Scott papers

The bulk of the correspondence in this collection relates to Scott's activities as law teacher and legal scholar, and to his work as an authority in the fields of trusts and civil procedure. Other material relates to his service as clerk of the Ames Foundation (1920-1966); member of the board of the Harvard Cooperative Society (1940's and 1950's); and miscellaneous writings concerning the history of the Harvard Law School and his courses at the Rutgers U. School of Banking.

ArchivalResource: 35 boxes and 5 Paige boxes

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Spivey, Paul. Papers of Paul Spivey [manuscript], 1881-1967 bulk 1915-1967.

Title: Papers of Paul Spivey [manuscript], 1881-1967 bulk 1915-1967.

The collection contains correspondence, legal and business documents, plats and photographs, chiefly generated by Spivey while acting as co-executor of the estate of Marguerite G. Inman Davis, widow of Virginia governor Westmoreland Davis, and by his assistance to Mrs. Davis in settling her husband's estate. Material concerning Spivey's positions, 1915-1944, as business manager, editor, president and publisher of "The Southern Planter" is also present. Topics include the administration of Mrs. Davis' financial affairs in conjunction with the United States Trust Company represented by Henry G. Diefenbach; the Davis estate Morven Park, Leesburg, Loudoun County, Va.; Inman family properties in New York; and the Westmoreland Davis Memorial Foundation. Also other financial interests of the Davises including the Loudoun Times Publishing Company, the Central Manhattan Improvement Company, the Federal Land Bank of Baltimore, the Florida Trading Corporation, and The Hotel Chelsea in New York. With these are a small group of political papers of Westmoreland Davis concerning the occupations of directors of Federal Reserve banks; a bill to establish a Bureau of Markets for Agricultural Products, 1916; the gubernatorial primary of 1917 in which Davis defeated J. Taylor Ellyson and John Garland Pollard; and a 1904 report by E.P. Cox concerning railroads chartered in Virginia. A portrait of Davis completes the collection.

ArchivalResource: 2500 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647830838 View

McCabe, W. Gordon (William Gordon), 1841-1920. Papers of W. Gordon McCabe [manuscript], 1757-1920.

Title: Papers of W. Gordon McCabe [manuscript], 1757-1920.

The papers consist chiefly of McCabe's correspondence with prominent scholars, U.S. and British literary figures, and Civil War veterans. Topics include the Civil War, the Confederacy, Confederate veterans organizations, World War I, black suffrage, the University of Virginia, and British literature. Of particular interest are accounts of the destruction of Hampton and the seizing of the powder magazine at Norfolk, accounts of the Meuse-Argonne offensive, and of Australian troops in Egypt, the retaining of Robert E. Lee's body in Lexington, Swedenborgianism in 1864, and Einstein's theory of relativity in 1920, the Rotunda fire, changes in the University of Virginia's degree program, and a controversy regarding professor William Howard Perkinson. Also of interest are a letter of Robert E. Lee on William Johnson Pegram, a letter of recommendation from Matthew Arnold, three pages of Thackeray's "The Virginians," a sonnet of Egerton Webbe copied and annotated by Leigh Hunt, two pages from John Richard Green's "Short history of the English people," Edmund Clarence Stedman's "The old admiral," and a poem on being seasick written in imitation of Tennyson by John Reuben Thompson. Tennyson items include a letter,1884 Aug 20 from Audrey Tennyson, brief social letters 1884 Nov 26 and 1888 Feb 12 from Lord Tennyson, a copy of "Carmen Saeculare, an Ode in Honor of the Jubilee of Queen Victoria," sent to McCabe, 1887 Aug 19, and a quotation by Tennyson, 1889 Aug 8. The papers also contain COPIES of letters including Edgar Allan Poe to John Collins McCabe critiquing a poem by McCabe; Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer re Gilmer's mission to obtain University of Virginia professors abroad; visits to Tennyson by McCabe, 1884 and 1887; Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie on her father's writing habits and a note to her from Robert Browning; Henry James on a promised volume and his "busy scribbling autumn"; and a letter of Stonewall Jackson to Robert E. Lee re the impending battle of Chancellorsville. There are papers, 1757-1796, of McCabe's ancestor George Taylor chiefly re his iron business in Easton, Pennsylvania including a plat of the site of present day Pittston, Pennsylvania, 1771. In addition there are class rolls from McCabe's University School, "The old Virginia gentleman" by George William Bagby, an autograph book, 1905 - 1908, an address book, 1920, and a replica of the great seal of the Confederacy, 1911.

ArchivalResource: 1,016 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647820111 View

Edwards, W. T.,. Virginia post cards regarding the gubernatorial election of 1917, 1917.

Title: Virginia post cards regarding the gubernatorial election of 1917, 1917.

The collection includes four post cards to Richmond, Va, addresses discussing the gubernatorial election of 1917. At least one, and possibly all four, were sent to Westmoreland Davis. W.T. Edwards of Boykins, Va., sends notification of the count in Boykins District, Southampton County. A.W. Smith reports on the first two votes at Brookneal. R.A. Frazier from Elkton reports that [Davis] is doing well with the farmers of Rockbridge County, and David Feier of Lynchburg reports that he has succeeded in getting the Jewish vote for Davis.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50861137 View

Nalle, Eleanor Ritchie. Correspondence of Eleanor Ritchie Nalle [manuscript] 1929-62.

Title: Correspondence of Eleanor Ritchie Nalle [manuscript] 1929-62.

Principle correspondent is Harry Flood Byrd whose letters are introductions of Miss Nalle to American ambassadors, and comments of various tax bills and U.S. finances [34 items]. Other correspondents include: Wallace Foster Bennett who comments on federal spending, and his opposition to the Revenue Act of 1962-proposal to withhold 20 on dividends; Westmorland Davis, Barry M. Goldwater, Clyde Roak Hoey commenting on a 1951 tax bill; Thomas Henry Kuchel and Thruston B. Morton and the Revenue Act of 1962; A. Willis Robertson regarding 1951 tax bill, an opinion of Article V of the Constitution, and on hording silver certificates [3 items]. Howard W. Smith, Edward R. Stettinius and Robert A.Taft. Also carbons of Miss Nalle's letters [ca. 15 items].

ArchivalResource: 100 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647950288 View

Pollard, John Garland, 1871-1937. Papers, 1683-1968, 1856-1937.

Title: Papers, 1683-1968, 1856-1937.

Professional and personal papers of John Garland Pollard, lawyer, educator and governor of Virginia. Subjects covered by the collection are Virginia Democratic Party politics, the Southern Baptist Church, threats to the separation of church and state, Williamsburg, Va., Colonial National Historical Park, YMCA in World War I, Prohibition, the Depression, the Federal Trade Commission, College of William and Mary and founding of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Prominent correspondents include Henry Watkins Anderson, Lady Astor, Frederic W. Boatwright, David K.E. Bruce, John Stewart Bryan, William Jennings Bryan, Harry F. Byrd, James Cannon, J.A.C. Chandler, Calvin Coolidge, Westmoreland Davis, Jessie Ball Dupont, Carter Glass, John D. Rockefeller, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Claude A. Swanson, Lyon G. Tyler, Alexander W. Weddell, and Woodrow Wilson.

ArchivalResource: ca. 15, 000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23291773 View

Magruder family. Papers of the Magruder family, [manuscript], 1787-1945.

Title: Papers of the Magruder family, [manuscript], 1787-1945.

The collection contains correspondence, reports, articles, speeches, laboratory data, architectural drawings, blueprints, surveys, account books, printed material and photographs. The collection consists primarily of the papers of Egbert W. Magruder, chemist for the Virginia Department of Agriculture and the F. S. Royster Guano Company. Topics include the livestock and field crops of Virginia, agricultural and chemical research, fertilizers, food adulturation, professional organizations, & Potomac River pollution as well as the Norfolk Community Fund, First Presbyterian Church, family genealogy, the Clan McGregor , and farm accounts. Earlier Magruder family papers consist of correspondence, legal and business papers, surveys, estate settlement, South Plains Presbyterian Church, Keswick, the Virginia Experiment Station, Blacksburg, account book for personal expenses, Henry Minor Magruder [1844- ], and the Charlottesville Grange, 1875-1876, and papers pertaining to the purchase and management of Glenmore and Edgehill in Albemarle County, Blenheim, Caroline County, Union Mills, Fluvanna County, and River Bend, Spotsylvania County. There are Civil War letters of John Bowie and Horatio Erskine Magruder describing camp life, the battles of 2nd Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, and Suffolk (White Marsh Road), and imprisonment at Point Lookout. Correspondents include: Eugene Cook Bingham, Lloyd Campbell Bird, Richard Newman Brackett, Charles Franklin Burroughs, Julian Ashby Burrus, Harry Flood Byrd, Julian Alvin Carroll Chandler, Wat Tyler Cluverius, John Warwick Daniel, Westmoreland Davis, Edward Griffith Dodson, Meade Ferguson, James Gaven Field, John T. Goolrick, Norman Rond Hamilton, William Flowers Hand, John Redd Hutcheson, Wilbur Fisk Massey, Charles Lathrop Parsons, William Ballard Preston, William Horace Ross, Wortley F. Rudd, William Woolford Skinner, Henry Louis Smith and Joseph Glass Venable.

ArchivalResource: 3000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647897647 View

Woods, Samuel Baker, 1856-1952. Papers of Samuel Baker Woods 1894-1937.

Title: Papers of Samuel Baker Woods 1894-1937.

Papers of Woods consist primarily of business, legal, political and personal correspondence. With these are ledgers, journals, and letterpress copybooks pertaining to farming at Arrowhead and the Albemarle Orchard Company. Main topics in the correspondence are livestock sales, farming, insurance sales, property matters, prohibition and the Anti-Saloon League, Virginia and national politics, labor unions and strikes, and the Presbyterian Church including controversies regarding union with the Federal Council of Churches and a Charlottesville, Va., pastor whose theological soundness was questioned. Of interest are three letters from James B. Woods, Presbyterian missionary at Tsingkiangpu General Hospital, Ku, China, concerning hospital work, bandits, and the unstable political situation; a 1931-1932 directory of Albemarle County, Va., public schools, listing "white" and "colored" schools and teachers; and a broadside from L.B. Railey, local candidate for the House of Delegates. J.D. Eggleston, president of Hampden Sydney, is a major correspondent. Many prominent residents of Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Va., are represented by one or two letters as are a few noted national or Virginia political, educational or church leaders.

ArchivalResource:

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Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958,. Letters from Virginians [manuscript], 1917-1960.

Title: Letters from Virginians [manuscript], 1917-1960.

Collection contains a form letter from Westmoreland Davis thanking L. A. Futh for his support in the Democratic Primary in 1917, and enclosing a postal card asking for names of other Democrats in his neighborhood. Collection also contains an undated receipt from James Branch Cabell to the purchaser of two of his genealogies of the Branch family. Collection also contains a letter from Eudora Ramsay Richardson to Nellie Shackleford Smith regarding the Federal Writers' Project and referring her to the county worker Lucille Jayne. Collection also contains a letter from Fred G. Pollard to James B. Walthall, 1959 July 6, seeking his support in the Democratic Primary for the House of Delegates and announcing his opposition to public school integration. Collection also contains a letter from Margaret Freeman Cabell to James B. Walthall, 1960 May 15 soliciting funds for the Confederate Memorial Chapel restoration and enclosing a leaflet of "Questions and answers concerning the Restoration of the Confederate Memorial Chapel."

ArchivalResource: 7 items.

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Shackelford, George Scott, 1856-1917. Papers of George Scott Shackelford and Virginius Randolph Shackelford [manuscript], 1914-1926.

Title: Papers of George Scott Shackelford and Virginius Randolph Shackelford [manuscript], 1914-1926.

Letters and printed articles of correspondence of Judge George S. Shackelford and his son Virginius Randolph Shackelford of Orange, concerning Virginia politics especially in Louisa and Orange Counties, Va., Federal appointments, Virginia legislation and legal matters, normal schools, highways, University of Virginia, Woodberry Forest, the Monticello Association, the Shenandoah Park Association, and business and legal matters. Correspondents include: Edwin A. Alderman, Edward C. Anderson, George Gordon Battle, Charles T. Bland, George Bryan, John Stewart Bryan, Thomas Pinckney Bryan, Julian A. Burruss, Harry F. Byrd, C.C. Carlin, Lewis D. Crenshaw, Westmoreland Davis, Nathaniel B. Early, H. D. Flood, Carter Glass, James Hay, John P. McConnell, William Hodges Mann, George W. Mapp, Thomas Martin, R. Walton Moore, Thomas Walker Page, Fred G. Pollard, James H. Price, A. Stuart Robertson, Edward R. Stettinius, Claude A. Swanson, William M. Thornton, Elbert Lee Trinkle, Stephen N. Watts, and Lewis C. Williams.

ArchivalResource: 2,000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647966776 View

Flannagan, Roy C. (Roy Catesby), 1897-1952. Papers of Roy Catesby Flannagan [manuscript] 1862-1951.

Title: Papers of Roy Catesby Flannagan [manuscript] 1862-1951.

Correspondence, reports, and news clippings. Principal correspondents are: Lucy Catesby Flannagan, Roy Knight Flannagan, Ned Flannagan, and W.Hugh Flannagan. Also: Nannie Barringer, Harry Flood Byrd, Colgate Whitehead Darden, Westmorland Davis, Carter Glass, Mary Johnston, Ruth D. Lionsberger, Margaret Mitchell and James Southall Wilson. Included are Catesby's notebooks, 1915-1917, while a student at the University of Virginia.; manuscripts of his short stories and political articles; and genealogical notes on the Flannagan family. Subjects mentioned are: Virginia Conference on Social Work, National Woman's Party, tobacco, Mark Catesby, Thomas Jones, member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, and Paul Brandon Barringer. The collection also contains an incomplete typescript "The devil's dance" by Richard Ambrose and the papers of John T. Jones of King William County, Virginia, 1862-83, and some Civil War items [8 items].

ArchivalResource: 2 ft.

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Thomas, A. F. (Alsen Franklin), 1862-1943. Papers of A. F. Thomas [manuscript], 1914-1943.

Title: Papers of A. F. Thomas [manuscript]

Topics in Thomas's political papers reflect his interest in improving health care, and especially institutions for tuberculosis. Other topics discussed are the economy, education, and Virginia politics. In addition there are his speeches and articles, newsclippings especially of book reviews of "The way out, " 1923, and a fragmented scrapbook. Correspondents include: William E. Borah, Louis D. Brandeis, Harry F. Byrd, Westmoreland Davis, Joseph D. Eggleston, James A. Farley, Henry Delaware Flood, Carter Glass, Leroy Hodges, Cordell Hull, and Louis M. Howe. Also Mary Johnston, Robert M. LaFollette, Thomas S. Martin, George C. Peery, John G. Pollard, Agnes D. Randolph, Henry G. Shirley, Aubrey E. Strode, Claude A. Swanson, Elbert Lee Trinkle, Wendall L. Wilkie and Ennion G. Williams.

ArchivalResource: 300 items.

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Underwood and Underwood. Photographs of the University of Virginia centennial celebration, 1921.

Title: Photographs of the University of Virginia centennial celebration, 1921.

The photographs depict centennial ceremonies at the University includiing the unveiling of the World War I Tablet Memorial at the Rotunda and an address in the ampitheater by Sir Auckland Geddes, British ambassador. Dignitaries identified in the latter include President Alderman, Governor Westmoreland Davis, the Rev. Henry W. Battle, the Rt. Rev. Dennis Joseph O'Connell, John Stewart Bryan, and John Bassett Moore. There is also a photograph of 12 young women dressed as Greek dancers for the pageant "In the shadow of the builder" performed in the amphitheater.

ArchivalResource: 3 photos. : silver gelatin ; 28 x 35 cm.

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Snavely, Tipton R. (Tipton Ray), 1890-. Correspondence of Tipton Ray Snavely [manuscript] 1915-71.

Title: Correspondence of Tipton Ray Snavely [manuscript] 1915-71.

The correspondence covers Snavely's academic career at U. Va. The Snavely chair in economics, his books, the Snavely library and the Snavely prize in economics are mentioned. Many of the letters congratulate Snavely on various achievements in his career. Correspondents include Charles Cortez Abbot, Edwin Anderson Alderman, Westmoreland Davis, James Hardy Dillard, Thomas Walker Page, Edwin Austin Gassage Robinson, Lindsay Rogers, Edgar Finley Shannon, Charles Alphonso Smith, Edward Reilly Stettinius, Frank William Taussig, & David McCord Wright.

ArchivalResource: 82 items.

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Dillard, Avarene Lippincott. Papers of the Dillard family, 1717-1964.

Title: Papers of the Dillard family, 1717-1964.

The collection centers on the Southern black education efforts of James Hardy Dillard. Contents include correspondence (1905-1935) of Dillard, his diaries and journals (1919-1926), speeches and articles. There is considerable material regarding the Negro Rural School Fund, the Phelps-Stokes Fund, Washington, D.C. (also known as the Anna T. Jeanes Fund), the John F. Slater Fund, the Southern Education Board, and the General Education Board, as well as Dillard University, New Orleans, and William and Mary College, Williamsburg, where Dillard served as Rector (1917-1940). Other topics of interest are the Education Commission to East Africa (1923-1924), the University Commission on Southern Race Relations (1912-1927), and the Scottsboro case (1931-1933). The collection also contains personal and business papers of his second wife, Avarene Lippincott Budd Dillard, and their son, Hardy Cross Dillard. Published works by Dillard and genealogical information are also included. Among the correspondents are: Ray Stannard Baker, Stringfellow Barr, Mary McLeod Bethune, Benjamin Griffith Brawley, Wallace Buttrick, George Herbert Clarke, Philander Priestley Claxton, Virginius Dabney, Charles William Dabney, Jackson Davis, Westmoreland Davis, W.E.B. Du Bois, James Aloysius Farley, Francis Pendleton Gaines, Grace Elizabeth King, John La Farge, Arthur Selden Lloyd, Rayford W. Logan, Dumas Malone, Lucy Randolph Mason, Edwin Mims, Samuel Chiles Mitchell, Josiah Morse, Robert Russa Moton, Edgar Garner Murphy, Nelson Olsen Nelson, John Lloyd Newcomb, Albert Jay Nock, Edward Washington Odum, Robert Curtis Ogden, Rosewell Page, Walter Hines Page, Robert William Patton, George Foster Peabody, Paul Norton Pearson, John Garland Pollard, John Davison Rockefeller, Wickliffe Rose, Julius Rosenwald, Josiah Ryce, Albert Shaw, Anson Phelps Stikes, William Howard Taft, Booker T. Washington, James Southall Wilson, and Carter G. Woodson.

ArchivalResource: ca. 19,400 items.

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Papers of Thornton family [manuscript] 1869 (1886-1946) 1962.

Title: Papers of Thornton family [manuscript] 1869 (1886-1946) 1962.

The collection consists mainly of the correspondence of William Mynn Thornton [1851-1935] dean of the U. Va. engineering school. Major segments contain letters of his children Rosalie Thornton, a concert pianist, Janet Thornton, a pioneer medical social worker, & Edward Thornton, an engineer and World War I ambulance driver. Topics of interest include academic & social affairs at the university such as the fight for a coordinate college, the centennial, and the 50th reunion of Civil War veterans, & World War I preparedness, the southern better roads campaign, Rosalie's description of Germany in the 1890's, letters, 1958-59 from China sent to the sister of Janet's roommate, Ida Cannon, 10 chapters of The true Robert E. Lee by W.M. Thornton, & a copy of American watercolor and Winslow Homer by Lloyd Goodrich [1897- ] Correspondents include many U. Va. professors, & engineering professors at other Southern universities as well as Edwin Anderson Alderman [1861-1931], David Crook & Isabel Crook, teachers at the Foreign Language Institute, Peking, Westmoreland Davis [1859-1942], Federation of American Engineering Societies, Henry Delaware Flood [1865-1921], Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve [1831-1924], George Washington Goethals [1858-1928], William Hodges Mann [1843-1927], Thomas Staples Martin [1847-1919], Mary Cooke (Branch) Munford [1865-1938], John Lloyd Newcomb [1881-1954], Robert Riddick Prentis [1818-1871], Edward Watts Saunders [1860-1921], Anna Louise Strong [1885-1970], & Woodrow Wilson [1865-1924].

ArchivalResource: 6,000 items.

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