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University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building.

7.5 Cubic Feet 12 document boxes, 2 os boxes and 1 cubic box

The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building is an artificial collection and periodic additions are expected.

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Handmade concertina album made by students of the Modescule der Stadt Wien in Vienna appealing to designer Oskar Kokoschka for help in purchasing art supplies (Addition 71) 0.04 Cubic Feet illustrated album

This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a handmade fundraising appeal concertina album to the artist Oskar Kokoschka. The book was created by design students at the Modeschule der Stadt Wien (Fashion School of Vienna). In 1946, the school relocated to Schloss Hetzendorf, an eighteenth-century palace that sustained significant damage during the Second World War.Students were pressed to raise money for their art supplies amid the renovations. This fundraising appeal was addressed to exiled Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka, known for his contributions to expressionism. The album contains hand-cut stencil letters, hand-colored illustrations, and collages of paper, felt, yarn, tin foil, leather, and chipboard. The book reads: "Dear O.K. [Oscar Kokoschka] / if we would have brushes and colours to paint / coloured paper for handykraft / wools to weave / leather for gloves and bags / felt for millinery/magazines to get suggestions / spezial [sic] books for library/material for dressmaking / then all would be OK. Photographs of the students at rest and at work sewing, trimming, painting, weaving, and drawing are pasted on the verso of each collage. Kokoschka fled Vienna, Austria under the Nazi regime and never returned. It is unknown whether he responded to this appeal from the Modeschule students.

  1. Series 4. 1950-2014
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Julia Ellen duVal papers

0.12 Cubic Feet 4 letter-sized file folders

This collection contains the papers of Julia duVal, dating from 1890 to 1930. Contents include a program to the Lynchburg High School 1910 graduation; an invitation to the Randolph-Macon Women's College 1914 graduation ceremony; a typescript copy of duVal's 1924 University of Virginia Master's thesis on Jane Austen titled "Jane Austen: the determining influences of her life on her works;" a handwritten eulogy for duVal; a photograph of duVal in her academic regalia; the 1912/1913 issue of the Randolph-Macon catalog; an issue of "The Campus Quill" from Bessie Tift College, in which duVal's death is announced; five photographs of Julia at Randolph-Macon; a Randolph-Macon postcard addressed to her father, R.A. duVal. This collection also contains three letters from duVal to her parents, dated 1916, describing Columbia University, St. John the Divine cathedral, sightseeing, and mentioning the infantile paralysis epidemic in New York City and her fears of carrying the contagion if she comes home. There are also two letters to her brother, Gabriel duVal, dated May 6 and May 8, 1916, and an undated letter to Julia from an aunt. Also included is a scripture book dated 1890 and several blank undated postcards.

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Julia Ellen duVal papers 0.12 Cubic Feet 4 letter-sized file folders

This collection contains the papers of Julia duVal, dating from 1890 to 1930. Contents include a program to the Lynchburg High School 1910 graduation; an invitation to the Randolph-Macon Women's College 1914 graduation ceremony; a typescript copy of duVal's 1924 University of Virginia Master's thesis on Jane Austen titled "Jane Austen: the determining influences of her life on her works;" a handwritten eulogy for duVal; a photograph of duVal in her academic regalia; the 1912/1913 issue of the Randolph-Macon catalog; an issue of "The Campus Quill" from Bessie Tift College, in which duVal's death is announced; five photographs of Julia at Randolph-Macon; a Randolph-Macon postcard addressed to her father, R.A. duVal. This collection also contains three letters from duVal to her parents, dated 1916, describing Columbia University, St. John the Divine cathedral, sightseeing, and mentioning the infantile paralysis epidemic in New York City and her fears of carrying the contagion if she comes home. There are also two letters to her brother, Gabriel duVal, dated May 6 and May 8, 1916, and an undated letter to Julia from an aunt. Also included is a scripture book dated 1890 and several blank undated postcards.

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