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University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Sadie commonplace book, 1878

.2 Cubic Feet 1 half-width letter sized document box

This collection consists of a commonplace book. It is not clear the provenance but inscribed in the front and back covers is the name Sadie. The album contains 170 pages of content and a few loose clippings. Each page is filled with clippings from magazines and newspapers that focus on women's work, loss, fairy tales, literature, and poetry. The owner hand colored all the illustrations from magazines. Many of the illustrations are of women; some in non-traditional roles. Many articles are from the periodical Hearth and Home. Many of the articles are by women and include writers such as Clio Stanley, Helen Forrest Graves, Lottie Brown, Hester a Benedict, Emma Alic Brown among others.

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Sadie commonplace book, 1878 .2 Cubic Feet 1 half-width letter sized document box

Sadie

This collection consists of a commonplace book. It is not clear the provenance but inscribed in the front and back covers is the name Sadie. The album contains 170 pages of content and a few loose clippings. Each page is filled with clippings from magazines and newspapers that focus on women's work, loss, fairy tales, literature, and poetry. The owner hand colored all the illustrations from magazines. Many of the illustrations are of women; some in non-traditional roles. Many articles are from the periodical Hearth and Home. Many of the articles are by women and include writers such as Clio Stanley, Helen Forrest Graves, Lottie Brown, Hester a Benedict, Emma Alic Brown among others.

University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Sarah Stoughton commonplace book, 1826/1838

0.03 Cubic Feet 1 letter size folder

Sarah Stoughton commonplace book filled with hand-written sentiments, poems, and inscriptions, with many signed and dated. There is genealogical information, relating to Reverend Jonathan Edwards of East Windsor, Connecticut, including "John Ellsworth married Anne Edwards daughter of Reverend Timothy Edwards, and sister of Reverend Jonathan Edwards. Their children were John, Frederick, Solomon, and Anne..." Later in the genealogy notes, "Sarah married John, son of Lemeul Stoughton..." Family names include Wetmore, Ellsworth, Bartlett, and Lockwood.

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Sarah Stoughton commonplace book, 1826/1838 0.03 Cubic Feet 1 letter size folder

Sarah Stoughton commonplace book filled with hand-written sentiments, poems, and inscriptions, with many signed and dated. There is genealogical information, relating to Reverend Jonathan Edwards of East Windsor, Connecticut, including "John Ellsworth married Anne Edwards daughter of Reverend Timothy Edwards, and sister of Reverend Jonathan Edwards. Their children were John, Frederick, Solomon, and Anne..." Later in the genealogy notes, "Sarah married John, son of Lemeul Stoughton..." Family names include Wetmore, Ellsworth, Bartlett, and Lockwood.

University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

James Southall Wilson and Davison papers, 1898/1994

6.88 Cubic Feet 3 document boxes, one oversize folder, and 28 scrapbooks.

Scrapbooks, photo albums, correspondence, travel diary, home movies of the Wilson and Davison families. 28 scrapbooks and loose correspondence related to three generations of the family of James Southall Wilson, with much material on the University of Virginia. Persons represented significantly include James Southall Wilson (1880-1963) and Julia Tyler Wilson (1881-1965);Charles Marshall Davison, Jr. (1914-1995) and Alida Wilson Davison (1913-1995); and Katharine "Kit" Stonestreet Davison (1943-).

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University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Susan's Friendship album, 1855/1860

.04 Cubic Feet 1 legal sized folder

This collection contains one album with 47 pages of inscriptions, prose, and autographs with named locations including Norwich, Canterbury, Bell Plane Minnesota, Providence R.I., Colchester, Attleboro, East Greenwich, Mystic River, Boston, and Hartford.

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Susan's Friendship album, 1855/1860 .04 Cubic Feet 1 legal sized folder

This collection contains one album with 47 pages of inscriptions, prose, and autographs with named locations including Norwich, Canterbury, Bell Plane Minnesota, Providence R.I., Colchester, Attleboro, East Greenwich, Mystic River, Boston, and Hartford.

University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Susan W. Tudor album, 1843/1860, bulk 1843

0.03 Cubic Feet 1 folder

Susan W. Tudor album with numerous handwritten sentiments and poetry inscribed to her by men and women in southern Pennsylvania, mostly from East Berlin and Locust Grove. Of interest are a pasted in die-cut card illustrated by hand, a floral sketch, and two poems about escaping "Indian Maidens" which is accompanied by a nice watercolor rendering of the eponymous character in a canoe in front of a waterfall scene.

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Susan W. Tudor album, 1843/1860, bulk 1843 0.03 Cubic Feet 1 folder

Susan W. Tudor album with numerous handwritten sentiments and poetry inscribed to her by men and women in southern Pennsylvania, mostly from East Berlin and Locust Grove. Of interest are a pasted in die-cut card illustrated by hand, a floral sketch, and two poems about escaping "Indian Maidens" which is accompanied by a nice watercolor rendering of the eponymous character in a canoe in front of a waterfall scene.

University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Therese Lieske scrapbook, 1917

0.2 Cubic Feet 1 scrapbook
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University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

University of Virginia Medical Wives Club records, 1968/1972

.25 Linear Feet 1 box

This collection consists of a scrapbook containing invitations, newspaper clippings, club by-laws, correspondence, photographs, and dinner menus. Also included are loose materials such as newsletters, schedules of club programs, a list of benefit contributors, and a card.

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University of Virginia Medical Wives Club records, 1968/1972 .25 Linear Feet 1 box

This collection consists of a scrapbook containing invitations, newspaper clippings, club by-laws, correspondence, photographs, and dinner menus. Also included are loose materials such as newsletters, schedules of club programs, a list of benefit contributors, and a card.

University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Verona Houghton memory book, 1854/1868

.03 Cubic Feet 1 letter-sized folder

This collection contains the memory book and autograph album of Verona A. Houghton of Weymouth, Massachusetts. A birthday gift from her mother, the book includes signatures and inscriptions with locks of hair and remembrances, predominately from 1854 to1857. There are fifty-four signatures, forty-one of which include a lock of hair. The signers of the book came from various locations in the United States including Massachusetts, Connecticut, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa The inscription at the front reads: "A birthday gift from my dear Mother -- Friendship's memorials are treasured here. A name, a sentiment, a lock of hair. Will oft remind me of the friends so dear. As time shall waft along each fleeting year. Fond "Memory's Leaves" the token still shall wear. Verona." The book was commercially produced; the printed title page includes this information: Memorys leaves, Moss and Brother, Philadelphia. It is a gilt-stamped album with engravings on the title page and five engraved plates through the book featuring women.

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Verona Houghton memory book, 1854/1868 .03 Cubic Feet 1 letter-sized folder

Houghton, Verona A., 1838-1874

This collection contains the memory book and autograph album of Verona A. Houghton of Weymouth, Massachusetts. A birthday gift from her mother, the book includes signatures and inscriptions with locks of hair and remembrances, predominately from 1854 to1857. There are fifty-four signatures, forty-one of which include a lock of hair. The signers of the book came from various locations in the United States including Massachusetts, Connecticut, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa The inscription at the front reads: "A birthday gift from my dear Mother -- Friendship's memorials are treasured here. A name, a sentiment, a lock of hair. Will oft remind me of the friends so dear. As time shall waft along each fleeting year. Fond "Memory's Leaves" the token still shall wear. Verona." The book was commercially produced; the printed title page includes this information: Memorys leaves, Moss and Brother, Philadelphia. It is a gilt-stamped album with engravings on the title page and five engraved plates through the book featuring women.

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