Albemarle County Historical Society Officer and Committee correspondence [manuscript], 1951-1952.

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Albemarle County Historical Society Officer and Committee correspondence [manuscript], 1951-1952.

The collection correspondence and memoranda regarding houses to photograph; the magazine exchange; committee meetings; ownership of a framed drawing of Jefferson; and purchase and framing of a copy of the Thomas Sully portrait of Thomas Jefferson by Scaisbrooke Abbot. Correspondents include Helena Koiner, Bernard P. Chamberlain, Thomas J. Michie and Ruth Evelyn Byrd.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Albemarle County Historical Society (Va.)

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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

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Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was an American statesman and third president of the United States. From the description of Thomas Jefferson letter, 1809. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367818629 Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was the third president of the United States, born in Goochland (now Albemarle County), Virginia. He was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1769 to 1775, and with R. H. Lee and Patrick Henry initiated the inter-colonial committee of correspond...

Chamberlain, Bernard Peyton, 1896-

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Alumnus of the University of Virginia. Past student of the School of Law. From the description of Oral history interview of Bernard P. Chamberlain by Robert C. Light [manuscript], February 14, 1973. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647919951 Charlottesville, Va., lawyer and historian. From the description of Bernard P.Chamberlain papers [manuscript], 1977-1982. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647821474 ...

Koiner, Helena,

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Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872

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Artist Thomas Sully was born in London, although his actor parents soon emigrated to the United States. A trip back to England to study painting expanded his horizons, and upon his return to the United States he developed a reputation as a first rate painter. He specialized in portraits, especially portraits of women, and painted full-length portraits of many public and private figures. He is perhaps most closely associated with his portrait of Queen Victoria and for his painting, Washington cro...

Abbot, Scaisbrooke Langhorne, 1908-1985

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Born Jan. 16, 1908, Lynchburg, Va.; artist, portraitist; grandson of Elizabeth Dabney Langhorne Lewis and cousin of Lady Nancy Astor and Nancy Perkins Lancaster; studied in Paris and at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia; served with 89th Field Artillery in World War II, wounded at Guadalcanal, sent to New Zealand for hospitalization, worked as medical illustrator for 39th General Hospital; involved with theatrical productions in Lynchburg as set designer and actor; noted for portra...

Michie, Thomas Johnson

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Charlottesville, Va., lawyer and United States District Judge of the Western District of Virginia. From the description of Papers of Thomas Johnson Michie, 1781-1816, 1943-1961. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 53795006 Charlottesville, Va., lawyer, and United States District Judge, Western District of Virginia. From the description of Papers of Thomas Johnson Michie, 1891, 1917-1967. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 53795093 ...

Byrd, Ruth Evelyn,

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