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Includes photographs (including a CD) and programs.

This addition to RG 12 University Library includes clippings, university and student magazines about student life, faculty, alumni and UVA athletics, promotional cards and event ephemera about UVA and Special Collections exhibits and dinners, and a file on "Wednesdays in Mississippi" movement with a recording on CD of Dorothy Height at the University of Virginia, and a VHS tape of a Local PBS station's story on Lewis and Clark. The magazines include The Virginia Spectator, Crust Magazine, Libel Magazine, and UVA Athletic News.

Papers documenting Larry Gibson, an environmentalist and anti-mining activist from Kayford Mountain, WV. Gibson was greatly involved with the Sierra Club, the Keeper of the Mountains Foundation, and the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition. Papers include video and audio recordings of interviews Millimet conducted with Gibson and other residents of Kayford Mountain, publications written about Gibson, and more.

1. Physical folder of unsorted archival material from Angela Way and Maryska Connolly-Brown (incl. signed Tommy Shomo release form) 2. Born digital oral history recordings shared via Sharepoint app and stored in Digital Archive 3. To be received material donated to museum on 20/21/04/28 3a. Financial Records, including canceled checks and a running balance 3b. a sweatshirt 3c. snapshots of children at Log Cabin 3d. Professionally framed photo of children with ID on back 3e. Miscellaneous teaching materials 4. Business Office Materials in possession of Angela Way at Museum

The materials in this collection date from 1922-1928 and 1954-1958 and include scrapbooks, photographic images, textiles (scarf and collars), college textbooks, class papers, ceramics, and ephemera.

Collection includes business records, personal papers, photographs, and artifacts of Lucinda Ebersole, writer and editor, pertaining to herself and her bookstore, Atticus Books. Business records and personal papers include a few photographs of Ebersole and others, book release information, book sales and other receipts, pamphlets, and other notes (Boxes 1-3). Also included are two photograph albums, which primarily contain pictures (circa 1980-2000) from events at Atticus Books (Box 6). Other highlights include vintage and modern postcards of West Virginia and the U.S. South (Box 1, Folders 1, 5-7), various recipes (Box 1, Folders 2 and 4; Box 3, Folder 1), a Confederate Georgia bank note (Box 2, Folder 4), a signed letter by actress Eva Le Gallienne (Box 2, Folder 8), and a self-portrait by Ebersole (Box 1, Folder 10). Artifacts include many cooking and baking items, such as rolling pins for different pastas (Box 4), Ebersole's cake box, a pudding mold, painted recipe box, and other personal items (Box 5). Oversize Folder 1 contains a matted folk-art photograph and several poems.

This collection records the life of John D. "Pete" Sterrett, Jr. and his wife, Lula McCorkle Moore, and their Rockbridge County and Wytheville, Virginia families. Included in this collection are personal correspondence, which includes WWII correspondence to wife Lula from John D. "Pete" Sterrett, Jr., photographs, genealogies, and papers relating to their social lives.

Two tintypes showing Lydia Wisemen Nunley, nee Keatley, from Summers, WV: Lydia Wiseman with husband Jasper and Lydia Nunley with her second husband S. D. Nunley. Includes accompanying documentation of marriage records, census records, and Lydia Nunley's will from Ancestry/vital records.