Toole Family Papers, 1860-1979

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Toole Family Papers, 1860-1979

1860-1979

https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/archival/items/u2416434

Include letters, 1860-1902, to Mary Jane Toole, Washington, D.C., regarding family matters, Omaha, Neb., Albemarle County, Va., Reconstruction, and economic conditions in the South in the 1890's, and including descriptions of Salt Lake City in 1898 and the Yazoo River flood of 1897. Correspondents include Toole's daughters, Martha Jane Hapgood and Alice Barnes, and her sister and brother-in-law, Sarah and Henry A. Darrow, respectively. Also include letters, 1926-27, to Alice Barnes, regarding her father, painter John Toole; and correspondence, 1951-1979, of B. Woodruff Weaver and Elizabeth Weaver, regarding Toole family genealogy, John Toole's life and exhibitions of his work, and the establishment of the John Toole Memorial Trust. Correspondents with the Weavers include the Bayly Museum at the University of Virginia, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Alexandria Athenaeum, and William B. O'Neal, regarding his book, Primitive into painter. Also include correspondence, 1953-1958, between the Weavers and residents of North Garden, Va., regarding the Toole family cemetery; photo album, n.d., of the Toole family; miniature watercolor portrait, n.d., by John Toole of an unidentified child; and a charcoal portrait, n.d., by John Toole of an unidentified woman.

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Darrow, Sarah Suddarth, 1821-1882

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Darrow, Henry A. (Henry Allen), 1820-1903

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Toole family

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Family of Albemarle County, Va., and later of Washington, D.C. From the description of Papers, 1860-1979. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32672137 ...

John Toole Memorial Trust

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Toole, John, 1815-1860.

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Itinerant painter, portraitist, miniature painter; Piedmont, Va. Was an Irish immigrant to Virginia and a self-taught painter. Worked during the ante-bellum period. From the description of John Toole collection, [undated] and 1959. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122515046 ...

University of Virginia. Art Museum

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Toole, Marry Jane Suddharth, 1817-1902,

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Weaver, Elizabeth Nixon

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Athenaeum (Alexandria, Va.)

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O'Neal, William B. (William Bainter), 1907-1994

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Professor of architectural design and history at the University of Virginia. Art collector. From the description of [Scrapbook] / [William Bainter O'Neal] [195-?] (National Gallery of Art Library). WorldCat record id: 170972066 ...

Weaver, B. Woodruff.

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Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

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Art museum; Richmond, Va. From the description of Virginia Museum of Fine Arts records, 1919-1981. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86132799 The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the nation's first state-supported art museum, opened to the public in 1936, "to promote education in the realm of art throughout the commonwealth," (Section 9-78, Code of Virginia). Partnership between private donors and state legislators, however established a pattern begun in 1919 when Joh...

Toole, Mary Jane Suddarth, 1817-1902.

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Hapgood, Martha Jane Toole, 1841-1917.

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Barnes, Sarah Alice Toole, 1851-1932.

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