Collections : [University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.]

This collection contains high-resolution digital images of rare legal texts. The Arthur J. Morris Law Library created these images for its "1828 Catalogue Project."

This collection consists of the records of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the American Rhododendron Society. Correspondence, minutes, newsletters, and photographs pertaining to various activities of the chapter. The additions to this collection include information about regional chapters other than the Mid-Atlantic Chapter.

This collection consists of fifty black-and-white print photographs created by André Kertész, and their digital copies. The photographs capture scenes of New York and Paris.

The papers of Anna Maria (Campbell Hickman) Otis Mead Chalmers (1809-1891) and her family offer a deep look into a 19th century American family with a sharp focus on enslaved and formerly enslaved persons. The collection documents the life of a young, widowed woman, Anna Maria Mead Chalmers, who was the granddaughter of General William Hull (1753-1825). She was a mother of four children and became a businesswoman in Richmond, Virginia. She was a writer, an editor of the Southern Churchmen, an educator and founder of Mrs. Mead's School for Young Ladies, and a director of The Southern Churchmen Cot ("Retreat for the Sick"), a hospital for children. Anna Maria's family enslaved people who are represented in the papers including Othello "Tillo" Freeman (1790's-1860's?). It includes a letter from William written in [1875], who was their carriage driver, and letters about Sam the fiddler, who settled on the farm after escaping harsher enslavement in Louisianna, and Jordan who was described as being hired out in a letter dated September 8, 1841 from Thomas R. Blair.

This collection consists of contact sheets and photographic negatives used in the Barrister yearbook.

The administrative records, scrapbooks, websites, newsletters, and artifacts in this collection document the history of the Virginia Law Chapter of the Black Law Students Association (BLSA).

This web archive includes web pages about the activities of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors. Topics covered include upcoming board meetings, past meetings, public minutes, committee work, and a listing of membership and related staff. The University of Virginia Board of Visitors is composed of seventeen members who are appointed by the governor of Virginia along with one full-time student and faculty member. The Board approves policies and budget for the University of Virginia.

This collection contains a highly illuminated medieval vellum Book of Hours in Latin and French, from the 1500s. It is housed in a deluxe, custom-made red morocco folding box, with gilt lettering on the spine: "Horae France Early 16th Cent." The book has 19th-century red velvet over wooden boards, endpapers composed of a vellum document dated 1467, with a notarial signature, pastedowns removed. The book itself measures 7 7/8 x 5 ¾ inches (200 x 145 mm) in a single column, with 26 lines per column, in a bâtarde hand. There are 132 leaves and the contents include Calendar, Gospel lessons, Passion Sequence, Hours of the Virgin, mixed with the Hours of the Cross and Holy Spirit, Penitential Psalms, Litany, Office of the Dead, "Obsecro te," "O Intemerata," and "Stabat Mater," prayers to various Saints, other prayers in French and Latin, Passion Sequences, Fifteen Joys of the Virgin. Each page is illuminated with decorative borders featuring acanthus, flowers, rustic branches, painted gold patterns, and more than fifty large and small miniatures. The calendar is illustrated with 24 small miniatures consisting of the appropriate labor and zodiac sign for each month. Eight paintings in the text measure up to half the page and are placed as space fillers at the ends of texts (subjects including the Arma Christi, the Wound of Christ, two depictions of the Holy Spirit as a dove, two flower arrangements, and two hearts pierced with the nails of the Crucifixion). Nineteen large miniatures, each surrounded by a full border composed of angels holding a coat of arms (painted over in silver), with subjects St. John on Patmos, Betrayal, Annunciation, Visitation, Crucifixion, Pentecost, Nativity, Annunciation to the Shepherds, Adoration of the Magi, Presentation in the Temple, Flight into Egypt, Coronation of the Virgin, David in Prayer, Funeral Procession, Adoration of the Virgin, with kneeling patron, Entrance into Jerusalem, Last Supper, and Man of Sorrows.

This collection consists of permanent and historically significant institutional records created by the University of Virginia Health Sciences Library and the antecedent Medical Library. These records include, but are not limited to: annual reports, planning documents, newsletters, online exhibits, blogs, social media content, conference programs, department histories, committee records, and library-sponsored lecture materials.

This collection consists of three published books and one notebook. The Moral philosophy notebook and Standard Masonic Monitor have been digitized by the library.