Selected Accessions
September 15, 2012 – November 15, 2012
Books
Armfield, Felix Lionel. Eugene Kinckle Jones: The National Urban League and Black Social Work, 1910–1940. Urbana, Ill., 2012. Jones graduated from Virginia Union University in 1906 where both his parents taught. He went on to become the executive secretary of the National Urban League and worked closely with sociologists and social reformers on behalf of African Americans who experienced racial discrimination. Purchased through the William Anderson Hagey Fund.
Carey, Daniel and Claire Jowitt. Richard Hakluyt and Travel Writing in Early Modern Europe. Farnham, Surrey, England, 2012. Contains an article by Carey entitled “Hakluyt, Purchas, and the Romance of Virginia.” Purchased through the First Settlers Fund.
Central Virginia Mining and Manufacturing Company. Central Virginia Mining and Manug'g Company: Incorporated June 1878, Mining Property, Four Gold Mines Located in the Counties of Orange and Louisa , Va. . . . New York, 1878. Includes a folded map of the Great Vaucluse Gold Mine in Orange County. Purchased through the Douglas H. Gordon Fund.
Chesterfield Historical Society. Bermuda Hundred Campaign Tour Guide. Chesterfield, 2010. Tour book of historic sites prepared for the sesquicentennial of this pivotal Civil War campaign. Gift of Jim Alberston.
Coddington, Ronald S. African American Faces of the Civil War: An Album. Baltimore, 2012. Collection of photographs of African American soldiers accompanied by narratives of their lives. Gift of the Johns Hopkins University Press.
Coldham, Peter Wilson. Maryland and Virginia Convict Runaways, 1725–1800: A Survey of English Sources. Baltimore, 2011. Lists of convicts who were sentenced to serve a period of forced labor and ran away from their masters, generated from runaway advertisements in newspapers. Purchased through the Charles S. Fazel Fund.
College of William and Mary, St. Helena Extension. The Saint, 1948. College yearbook of the extension branch of William and Mary that was established after World War II for Virginia veterans but only operated for two years. Gift of William A. Hallett, Jr.
Fisher, Lewis F. No Cause of Offence: A Virginia Family of Union Loyalists Confronts the Civil War. San Antonio, 2012. The family of Samuel Hence Lewis of Rockingham County gave "no cause of offence by overt act" yet did not hide their convictions and support of the United States. Gift of the author.
Fraser, Gertrude Jacinta. African American Midwifery in the South: Dialogues of Birth, Race, and Memory. Cambridge, Mass., 1998. Improvements in maternal and infant care as seen through the eyes of the midwives and nurses in rural areas. Purchased through the St. Gertrude's Fund for Students of American History.
Galuszka, Peter A. Thunder on the Mountain: Death at Massy and the Dirty Secrets Behind Big Coal. New York, 2012. The April 2010 coal mine explosion at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch Mine killed twenty-nine miners and, according to the author, exposed a cycle of poverty, exploitation and environmental abuse in the entire Appalachian region. Purchased through the Douglas H. Gordon Fund.
Garrigus, John D. and Christopher Morris. Assumed Identities of Race in the Atlantic World. College Station, Tex., 2010. Includes an essay entitled "Child Should Be Made a Christian: Baptism, Race and Identity in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake." Purchased through the Leo J. Wellhouse Fund.
Garry, Jim. Weapons of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Norman, Okla., 2012. Arms and ammunition were an important component of the expedition and were used to procure food and protect members of the Corps of Discovery. Purchased through the Carrie Wheeler Buck Memorial Fund.
Gillespie, Michele. Katharine and R. J. Reynolds: Partners of Fortune in the Making of the New South. Athens, Ga., 2012. From modest beginnings this couple helped drive the rapid urbanization of the South in an age of changing race relations. Purchased through the Betty Sams Christian Fund.
Kennedy, V. Lynn. Born Southern: Childbirth, Motherhood, and Social Networks in the Old South. Baltimore, 2010. Birth and motherhood in the Southern household illustrate the shared experiences of women within the power structures of race, gender, and class. Purchased through the St. Gertrude's Fund for Students of American History.
Lassiter, Kitty. History of Beechwood Cemetery, Meherrin Road, Boykins, Virginia. Boykins, 2001. Includes an index of gravestone plots in this Southampton County cemetery. Gift of Hon. Daniel T. Balfour.
Lee, Maureen D. Sissiertta Jones: The Greatest Singer of Her Race, 1868–1933. Columbia, S.C., 2012. Born in Portsmouth, Virginia, this African American singer was regarded as an early twentieth-century superstar of the American concert and vaudeville stage. Purchased through the Donald Haynes Fund.
Leibiger, Stuart Eric. A Companion to James Madison and James Monroe. Malden, Mass., 2012. Includes images of James Madison, James Monroe, and the Virginia Convention of 1829–30 from the collections of the Virginia Historical Society. Gift of Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.
Lofgren, Stephen J. Then Came the Fire: Personal Accounts from the Pentagon, 11 September 2001. Washington, D.C., 2011. A collection of the extensive oral interviews collected by the U.S. Army Center of Military History and published for the incident's tenth anniversary. Purchased through the Douglas H. Gordon Fund.
McCartney, Martha W. Jamestown People to 1800: Landowners, Public Officials, Minorities, and Native Leaders. Baltimore, 2012. Comprehensive biographical dictionary of not only people who lived in Jamestown but also more than a thousand people who traveled to or had business on Jamestown Island. Gift of the Genealogical Publishing Company.
McCraw, Thomas K. The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy. Cambridge, Mass., 2012. The United States emerged from the American Revolution on shaky financial footing but was rescued by immigrant founders whose financial innovations allowed them to control debt, pay for the Louisiana Purchase, and have funds to fight the War of 1812. Purchased through the Betty Sams Christian Fund.
McGuffey, William Holmes. The New McGuffey Third Reader. New York, 1901. McGuffey readers were one of the most popular books in American culture next to the Bible. McGuffey's final teaching position was at the University of Virginia, where he continued to produce these graded readers for primary school students. Purchased through the Battle Abbey Council Fund.
Newby-Alexander, Cassandra, Jeffrey Littlejohn, Charles H. Ford and Sonia Yaco. Hampton Roads: Remembering Our Schools. Charleston, S.C., 2009. Historic images of the public school system in Hampton Roads and the struggle for racial equality. Purchased through the Douglas H. Gordon Fund.
Richardson, George A. Down in Ole Virginny: Being Pages from the Notebook of a Joyful Tramp. Philadelphia, 1920. An early amateur photographer, Richardson presents a "plain, unvarnished narrative of a most enjoyable and delightful tramping trip" for his own personal amusement. Purchased through the John and Diana Dudley Memorial Fund.
Sharp, Joshua. The Pennsylvania, New-Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia Almanac for the Year of Our Lord, 1801. Philadelphia, 1799. Contains manuscript notes throughout and the signature of Esther Bartolet on the back cover. Purchased through the Leo J. Wellhouse Fund.
Theobald, Mary. First House: Two Centuries With Virginia's First Families. Richmond, 2012. This story of Virginia's Executive Mansion, which has served the commonwealth's citizens and its governors since 1813, contains numerous images from the collections of the Virginia Historical Society. Gift of Sarah Huggins Scarborough, Virginia Executive Mansion.
United States. Office of Naval Intelligence. Uniforms and Insignia of the Navies of World War II. Annapolis, 1991. Uniforms of the fifteen navies that served in World War II are depicted in detail with hundreds of color illustrations. Gift of Judith Harris.
Van Cleve, John V., and Barry A. Crouch. A Place of their Own: Creating the Deaf Community in America. Washington, D.C., 1989. The structure of the deaf community in America and Virginia is examined through its achievements. Includes information on the Bolling family in Virginia and the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind. Purchased through the William A. Hagey Fund.
Von Daacke, Kirt. Freedom Has a Face: Race, Identity and Community in Jefferson's Virginia. Charlottesville, 2012. Free African Americans in Albermarle County struggled to maintain a complex relationship structure with their white neighbors. Purchased through the Carrie Wheeler Buck Memorial Fund.
Ward, Harry M. Public Executions in Richmond, Virginia: A History, 1782–1907. Jefferson, N.C., 2012. The carnival atmosphere of public executions is examined by studying its cast of unusual characters. Purchased through the Douglas H. Gordon Fund.
Yeck, Joanne L. The Jefferson Brothers. Kettering, Ohio, 2012. The relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his younger brother Randolph is examined through their common roles of planters and slaveholders. Purchased through the Carrie Wheeler Buck Memorial Fund.
Manuscripts
Diary, 1862–65, kept by Danville B. Stevens (while serving in Company F of the 17th Maine Infantry, U.S. Army, stationed in Virginia). 1 vol. (c. 200 p.): holograph; 3 5/8 x 5 3/4 in. Stevens served as an orderly sergeant in the Union army. Many of his entries concern the distribution of clothing and equipment; they also concern weather, camp life, drilling, pastimes (including baseball), and his extended stay at the Division Hospital. After his medical discharge, the diary concerns Stevens's personal life in Lewiston, Maine. Gift of the estate of Jeannine Opal Rising.
Diary, 1864 January 1–1865 March 1, kept by David Longenecker (while serving in Company G of the 110th Ohio Volunteers, U.S. Army). 1 vol.: printed and holograph; 2 3/4 x 7 3/8 in. Entries are brief and concern weather, news of home, and the monotony of camp life. After his capture at the battle of Monocacy, entries concern Longenecker's imprisonment in Danville and Richmond (Libby Prison). Gift of Thomas Ray Crowel.
Letter, 1865 September 4, of West, Beardsley & Co., Richmond, to Capt. W. W. Beckwith, provost marshal. 3 p. on 1 l.: handwritten; 8 x 9 1/2 in. Concerns J. L. Hardwick, who swindled West, Beardsley & Co. and others in a scheme to buy scrap metal. Bears endorsements of Beckwith, Gen. J. W. Turner, and Lt. Col. Charles Warren. Gift of Ursula Overturf.
Papers, 1881–1999, of the Roden family (of Richmond) including the correspondence and scrapbooks of Littleton Hewitt Roden (1901–1947), concerning his education at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and his personal and professional life as an assistant engineer with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company, and records of his son Littleton Hewitt Roden, Jr. (1927–1997), primarily concerning his work as division chief of the first wastewater treatment plant in Richmond. 839 items. Gift of Littleton Hewitt Roden III.
Record book, 1894–99, kept by John Peyton McGuire, Jr., as a teacher at McGuire's University School, Richmond. Includes teaching notes, examination questions, grade lists, and quotations. 1. vol. (c. 200 p.): handwritten; 4 3/4 x 7 1/2 in. Gift of John Peyton McGuire Boyd.
Letter, 1975 February 7, of Norma Franklin Biggs Robertson (of Port Jefferson, N.Y.) to her niece, Mrs. Gail Parnelle (of Atlanta, Ga.), concerning Mrs. Robertson's grandfather Joseph Franklin Biggs (1868–1932), founder of Biggs Furniture, Richmond. 4 p. on 2 leaves: holograph; 6 1/4 x 7 in. Gift of Gail Parnelle.
Objects
Paintings and portraits by Edward Caledon Bruce ([1825–1900] including "Lee's Headquarters, October 1864" and portraits of Sidney Smith Bruce and railroad pioneer John Bruce of Winchester, parents of the artist), as well as additional items related to the Bruce family. Gift of William J. Burnett and Nancy S. Burnett. Total gift: 19 pieces. A number of these items had previously been on deposit with the VHS and have now been returned as gifts to the permanent collection.
Civil War–era doll that belonged to Edith Ridgway Slaughter Duke (1863–1921), daughter of Mary Harker Slaughter and John Flavel Slaughter. Gift of Margaret Duke Lundvall and Lucy Duke Tonacci.
World War I–era trunk with the identification of "Lt. Col. J. A. Cutchins / General Staff A.E.F." stenciled on the side. Gift of Thomas Cox. John Abram Cutchins was a member of the Richmond Light Infantry Blues and served in the 29th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army.
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