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Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections LibraryP.O. Box 400110
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
URL: https://small.library.virginia.edu/
Ellen Welch
Administrative Information
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research use.
Preferred Citation
RG-12, Library Development files, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was transferred from Sara Lee Barnes in the Library Development Office to the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia Library on 21 June 2019.
Content Description
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.
Arrangement
Series 1. UVA publications about student life, faculty, alumni and athletics; Series 2. UVA Library invitations to events and photographs; Series 3. Wednesdays in Mississippi and Dorothy Height.
Related Material
MSS 12241 also has materials related to Wednesdays in Mississippi.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Athletics
- Student life
- magazines (periodicals)
General
Appointments must be made in advance to use media formats such as LPs, audiotapes, videotapes, films, CDs, and DVDs held by Special Collections. In most cases, materials must be reformatted before they can be accessed, sometimes at the researcher's expense. Access cannot be guaranteed unless prior arrangements have been made.
Please use our via our online Reference Request form, https://small.library.virginia.edu/services/reference-request, to ask for further information or to schedule access to audio-visual materials. A link to the form can be found under External Documents in this record.
Container List
University publicatons include graduate bulletins, newspaper articles, The Cavalier Daily, University of Virginia Law School, final exercise program, football game programs, boxing match programs, The Virginia Spectator, Crust Magazine, Libel Magazine, UVA Athletic News publications. In addition to athletics there are articles about faculty, alumni, and Easters parties mostly from 1946-1952.
UVA library events particularly for Library Associates invitations to Special Collections exhibits, receptions, and library dedications. Edgar Allan Poe exhibit, First Folio Shakespeare exhibit, From Village to Grounds exhibit, J. J. Lanke woodcuttings exhibit, Library dinner invitation regarding Albert Russell Erskine, Jr. Planting tree dedication and bench for Ray W. Frantz, Carrs Hill Centennial Celebration, Senator Harry F. Byrd luncheon, and videotape (VHS) of Lewis and Clark: Roots of a Legacy.
Dorothy Height CD; photographs of Dorothy Height with Holly Shulman, her husband, and Sara Lee Barnes; Programs for Wednesdays in Mississippi Childs Defense Fund and Civil Rights as Women's Work 1964-1965; invitations to Dorothy Height events including her Congressional Gold Medal Reception in 2004; and article written by Holly Shulman about her mother Polly Cowhan and Dorothy Height; and paper written by Holly Shulman about the Civil Rights and Womens movement. Washington Post article about Dorothy Height, March 25, 2004.