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University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
160 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Primary Collecting Areas:
American literature, antiquarian and contemporary, American history (Southeastern United States), Virginiana, British literature, Sporting books and manuscripts, World War I, Bibliography, the book arts, history of the book and typography
Fine press and artist’s books, Pop-up books, Victorian publishers bindings, Typography, Archives of the University of Virginia
Description:

The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library administers over 13 million manuscripts, 3.6 million items in the University archives, and 325,000 rare books, as well as approximately 5,000 maps, over 4,000 broadsides; more than 250,000 photographs and small prints; over 8,000 reels of microfilm; and substantial holdings of audio recordings, motion picture films, and ephemera.

The major emphasis of the Department’s collections are American history and literature, with additional substantive collections in Virginiana, British literature, African-American history, book arts, the history of sporting and World War I, among others. In addition, the library serves as the University Archives, holding records of historic significance to UVA.

POC: Brenda Gunn
Phone: (434) 924-1037
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
Start Over Repository University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept. Date range 1622
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Richard J. DeMartino papers

14 Cubic Feet 34 archival boxes, plus some oversized items.

This collection was organized by Richard J. DeMartino during his tenure as one of the "historian advisors" to the International Military Tribunal for the Far East between 1946-1948.

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W. Jett Lauck papers

212 Cubic Feet

The W. Jett Lauck collection consists of his professional, business and personal papers as an economist, statistician and government consultant on immigration, banking, railroads, coal, and unemployment problems as well as other facets of labor in the United States. Included are correspondence, scrapbooks of news clippings reflecting his activities, labor reports and studies, drafts of congressional bills, legal briefs, and other material concerning labor problems in the United States from its formative World War I years until 1949. They begin with his association with the progressive labor codes of the Taft-Walsh Labor Relations Commission and continue with the Railway Labor Act of 1926; the fight to gain recognition of labor's right to collective bargaining "through representatives of their own choosing" under the National Industrial Recovery Act in 1933; the incorporation of its principles in the National Labor Relations Act; and further activity in defense of this act.

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Christian S. Hutter miscellany

2.5 Cubic Feet

This autograph and miscellany collection created by Christian Sixtus Hutter consists of miscellaneous material ranging from circa 1602 to 1945 and includes autographs, correspondence, government documents, financial and legal documents, military documents, and telegrams, chiefly from the United States and Great Britain, but also including some material from continental Europe. While most of the collection is in the English language, there are a number of documents in French, German, Spanish, and Dutch. This material was formerly stored in the Hutter cabinets when Special Collections was located in Alderman Library, and consists of material which could not be matched with known Hutter accession numbers. Autographs include those of royalty, such as George I, George III, and George IV; theologians, ministers, and religious leaders; nobility, chiefly English; jurists, lawyers, and judges; family correspondence; and public officials.

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Christian S. Hutter miscellany 2.5 Cubic Feet

Hutter, Christian Sixtus, 1891-1957

This autograph and miscellany collection created by Christian Sixtus Hutter consists of miscellaneous material ranging from circa 1602 to 1945 and includes autographs, correspondence, government documents, financial and legal documents, military documents, and telegrams, chiefly from the United States and Great Britain, but also including some material from continental Europe. While most of the collection is in the English language, there are a number of documents in French, German, Spanish, and Dutch. This material was formerly stored in the Hutter cabinets when Special Collections was located in Alderman Library, and consists of material which could not be matched with known Hutter accession numbers. Autographs include those of royalty, such as George I, George III, and George IV; theologians, ministers, and religious leaders; nobility, chiefly English; jurists, lawyers, and judges; family correspondence; and public officials.

Financial and Legal documents – Great Britain 1 folder(s) Box 2, Folder 13

Documents include: Document signed by Thomas Duddeley and William Lambarde (1536-1601), [ante 1602?]; Document signed by Henry King (1592-1669), bishop of Chichester, Thomas [Wynne?], John Montfort, and Thomas Turner (1591-1672), Dean of Canterbury, requesting information about all the tenants of the manor and parsonage of [Loybridge], including the demesne lands and the glebe lands belonging to the parsonage before the next general court, St. Paul's, 1640 April 23; Bond of Joseph Einham to Robert Hall, New Sarum, Great Britain, 1706 July 25; Summons for Francis Borland issued by Deputy Sheriff Thomas Savage, Suffolk County1720/1 March 21; Warrant for the pay of Henry Earl of Deloraine's Regiment of Foot, signed by William Strickland and R. Worthington, 1729 June 25-December 24; and a warrant to provide and deliver to the drum major and each of the five drummers of His Majesty's household a livery with His Majesty's cypher and embroidery as was customary, signed by [Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of] Grafton, [Horace] Walpole, George Dodington, George Oxender and Thomas Dummer, 1736/7 February 8. Other documents include: a claim against the estate of Sir John Lambert Middleton, a bankrupt, by Sir William Saint Quintin, Newtown, Southampton County, 1766 July 31; Payment to John Durand for provisions shipped to the island of St. Vincent, signed by Charles Townshend, Francis Viscount Beauchamp, and Charles Wolfram Cornwall, undated fragment, but possibly circa 1776-1782; a complaint of John Bruce against James Dundass for two hundred and seventy-two pounds, 1779 August 6; Power of Attorney of George Rome, London, to William Tilghman, Maryland, 1787 May 3; Booth and Leggatt, Solicitors for the Affairs of Taxes, Craven Street, London, Tax Office memorandum concerning them, 1810-1813; Receipt signed by Sir Charles Wetherell (1770-1846), Attorney General for England and Wales, to George Maule (1776-1851), Solicitor to the Treasury, 1826 December 30; and London and Glasgow booksellers accounts with Miss Morris, chiefly for religious texts, 1843-1849.

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John W. Warner papers

756 Cubic Feet Approximately 730 cubic foot boxes, 42 document boxes, and oversize scrapbooks and folders.

This collection includes general and constituent correspondence, office files, speeches, appointment books, photographs, scrapbooks, and clippings documenting Senator Warner's life and career.

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John W. Warner papers

756 Cubic Feet Approximately 730 cubic foot boxes, 42 document boxes, and oversize scrapbooks and folders.

This collection includes general and constituent correspondence, office files, speeches, appointment books, photographs, scrapbooks, and clippings documenting Senator Warner's life and career.

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English and American legal documents

2 Linear Feet 32 oversize documents

Miscellaneous English and American documents that include indentures, wills, deeds, land titles and financial records. These documents span the years 1559 through 1847

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English and American legal documents 2 Linear Feet 32 oversize documents

Miscellaneous English and American documents that include indentures, wills, deeds, land titles and financial records. These documents span the years 1559 through 1847

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European figure engravings

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Wade Hampton Frost papers

6.25 Linear Feet

Historical Collections and Services houses seventeen boxes of Wade Hampton Frost materials. The Frost Papers include personal and official correspondence, photographs, scientific publications, newspaper articles, taped interviews, and assorted memorabilia pertaining to Wade Hampton Frost and his family. Frost's daughter, Susan Frost Parrish, donated the collection to the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library in 1984 with added research notes. (It is noted that the maiden name of Susan Frost Parrish is Susan Haxall Frost which is also her mother's name. She is entered in our collection as Susan Frost Parrish).

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Ollen Lawrence Burnette, Jr. papers

6 Cubic Feet 13 document boxes and one oversize newspaper box.

Ollen Lawrence Burnette, Jr. papers, 1815-2014, 6 cubic feet, containing Dr. Burnette's research and manuscripts for "Coastal Kingdom: A History of Baldwin County, Alabama" and other writings (1953-2011); correspondence with history professors and academics at state and private universities about teaching jobs, education, and history (1946-2003); military service records and assignments (1945-1987), and personal papers (1815-2011) including correspondence, school papers and yearbooks, pocket diaries, financial and legal papers, business ventures, organizations, awards, medals, photographs, church affiliations, and politics. Also included are papers of the Highsmith family containing slave receipts, confederate money, and a "cipher" book.

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Henry Rose Carter papers

4.25 Linear Feet

The Carter Papers include correspondence relating to Carter's work on yellow fever and malaria as a surgeon in the Marine Health Service (later United States Public Health Service) and notes for drafts of his Yellow Fever: An Epidemiological and Historical Study of its Place of Origin. (Baltimore: The Williams and Wilkins Company, 1931). Included are photographs of and newspaper clippings about Carter, in addition to a small collection of reprints and publications by Carter and others. Also included is the correspondence of his daughter, Laura Armistead Carter with Frederick F. Russell and other members of the Rockefeller Foundation International Health Board, Wade Hampton Frost, of Johns Hopkins University, and others concerning her collaboration with Frost in the editing and publication of Carter's book. Also included are a series of eighteenth-century to mid-nineteenth-century documents principally belonging to Carter's great-grandfather, George Mason, of Spotsylvania and Caroline Counties, Virginia and to Mary Ann Brown, sister of Carter's mother.

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