Benjamin Johnson Barbour scrapbook, 1890/1895

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
170 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Special Collections Public Services & Reference Staff
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
Preferred citation:

MSS 1486, Benjamin Johnson Barbour scrapbook, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.

Summary

Extent:
1 items one ledger removed from Box 6 of the Barbour family papers
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

MSS 1486, Benjamin Johnson Barbour scrapbook, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.

Background

Scope and content:

Benjamin Johnson Barbour scrapbook (1890-1895) is part of the James Barbour family papers (1793-1941) Orange County, Virginia. The scrapbook is in poor condition and contains a few newspaper clippings about the family.

enThe other boxes in this collection include complaints of extravagance by a Harvard student, 1815; the War of 1812; enslaved persons and slavery (including an 1854 inventory); genealogy; the American Party and its opposition to Roman Catholics as office holders; rail travel from Virginia to Florida in 1857; cotton; Orange County court house construction; and Reconstruction, the Republican Party, and the Virginia Convention of 1867.

Also included is the Immigration Society; the shooting of General Thompson by Osceola at Fort King; William Mahone's political activities; a St. Paul law practice in 1886; the Minneapolis exposition, 1886; the destruction of Madison letters by a gardener; a building for the Library of Congress; Fitzhugh Lee as governor; Thomas L. Rosser's political opinions; and Russian and Polish affairs, 1889.

There are also James Barbour's orations, 1890; race relations in 1891; the Boer War; the San Francisco earthquake; a 1917 poetry reading by Robert Frost; Red Cross Work; Catherine Booth; the Yorktown Sesquecentennial; and Garden Week.

Acquisition information:
This collection was purchased from Caroline H. Barbour Ellis by the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia Library on 3 August, 1942.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard