- "What are you Like?" Victorian parlor game, 1870/18791
- A. E. Dick Howard papers, 1928/20171
- African American man tintype portrait, 1865/19001
- Albemarle County ledger book, 1871/18801
- Albert Frederick Wilson papers, 1840/19343
- Albert R. Gallatin papers, 1795/18281
- Albert Taylor Bledsoe and Sophia Bledsoe Herrick letters, 1858/19085
- Alderman family papers, 1779/19617
- Alexander Family Papers
1800-18907
- Alfred C. Garnett, Jr. Papers
1868-19453
- Alfred Spates Papers
1843-19095
- Alfred Tennyson papers, 1875/18762
- Alice and Phoebe Cary Collection
1858-18901
- Anna Maria Hickman Otis Mead Chalmers family papers, 1821/189719
- Arlene Keeling Collection, 1861/20061