PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::00210::Blackford Family Papers)//EN" "ViU00210.sgm" A Guide to the Blackford Family PapersBlackford family. 2221-hProcessed by Special Collections Dept. staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Elizabeth SlombaFunded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. University of Virginia Library © 1997 By the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. All rights reserved.

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 Machine-readable finding aid derived from WordPerfect. [Date of source: 1997. Description is in English. Feb 16, 2004 PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::00210::Blackford Family Papers)//EN" "ViU00210.sgm" converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Feb 27, 2004 converted to conform to eadVIVA.dtd by vivastrict.xsl A Guide to the Blackford Family Papers A Collection in the Special Collections Department 2221-h

Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library 1997 Special Collections Department Staff 1997 Elizabeth Slomba Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, #2221-h Descriptive Summary University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept.
Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 USA
Blackford Family Papers ca. 1917 2221-h 1 item English Staige D. Blackford Administrative Information Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

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See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

 Preferred Citation

Blackford Family Papers, Accession 2221-h, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

 Acquisition Information

The photograph was given to the Library by Blackford's son, Staige D. Blackford, Charlottesville, Virginia, on September 17, 1993, without restrictions.

 Funding Note

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

 Scope and Content

This collection consists of a single black and white photograph, 10 x 20 inches, ca. 1917, of Staige Davis Blackford( Johnnie Blackford) and his World War I unit, S.S.U. 516, one of two ambulance units formed at the University of Virginiain May 1917. The photograph was probably taken in the early fall of 1917 while the unit was training at Allentownor later at Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania. Staige Davis Blackfordwrote a brief unit history for John S. Patton's Alumni Newspiece on the University in the Great War, later printed separately as The University of Virginia in the World War.