Preferred Citation

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

Immediate Source of Acquisition

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.

Scope and Contents

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.

Related Material

Related materials include the main part of this collection: James Barbour family papers, MSS 1486 and and a related collection MSS 4460.The scrapbook came out of the James Barbour family papers MSS 1486 Box 6. The collection consists chiefly of the personal and financial papers of James Barbour, his son, Benjamin Johnson Barbour, and granddaughter Caroline Homassel Barbour Ellis.

Topics of interest include complaints of extravagance by a Harvard student, 1815; the War of 1812; slaves 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 the Immigration Society; the shooting of General Thompson by Osceola at Ft. 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.

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.

MSS 4460 Barbour family papers [1827]-1857. The collection includes a letterbook of James Barbour, 1828-1829; two Barbour family account books, 1830-1840 and ca.1850-1857

Separated Material

This album was separated from Box 6 of the Barbour family papers, MSS 1486 and and a related collection MSS 4460.The scrapbook came out of the James Barbour family papers MSS 1486 Box 6. The collection consists chiefly of the personal and financial papers of James Barbour, his son, Benjamin Johnson Barbour, and granddaughter Caroline Homassel Barbour Ellis.