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MSS. Manuscript Collections

 Record Group
Identifier: MSS

Found in 2050 Collections and/or Records:

Virginia Extension Homemakers Council Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-090
Abstract

This collections includes institutional records, photographs, publications, yearbooks, slides, videos, and artifacts from the Virginia Extension Homemakers Council (currently named the Virginia Association for Family and Community Education). Materials in the collection date from 1948 to 2007.

Dates: 1948 - 2007

Virginia Federation of Garden Clubs Records,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-020
Abstract

The Virginia Federation of Garden Clubs Records contains program papers, correspondence, and publications relating to the VFGC from 1942-2003.

Dates: 1942 - 2003

Virginia General Assembly Bill No. 233,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2015-022
Abstract

Virginia General Assembly Bill No. 233 contains several amended versions of Bill No. 233. Each of the bills lists the rights and privileges given to free African-Americans living with in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The bill also discusses the process by which a free person can be sold into slavery if they have been convicted of a crime.

Dates: c. 1859-1861

Virginia General Assembly Transportation Bills

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2010-064
Abstract

The Virginia General Assembly Transportation Bills contain five bills from the Virginia General Assembly relating to the construction of turnpikes around Wythe and Grayson counties, Virginia and the associated companies.

Dates: 1848, 1858

Virginia Home Economics Association: Committee for the Standardization of Consumer Goods Records

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1963-001
Abstract

This collection contains correspondence and reports of the Virginia Home Economics Association: Committee for the Standardization of Consumer Goods Records.

Dates: 1930 - 1936

Virginia Iron, Coal and Coke Company Receipts

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-046
Abstract

The collection includes receipts issued to the Virginia Iron, Coal and Coke Company for various purchases.

Dates: 1902 - 1909

Virginia Junior Academy of Science Records

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1981-094
Abstract

The Virginia Junior Academy of Science Records contain correspondence (including some correspondence predating the founding of the VJAS); notes and minutes from committees and general meetings, reports, publications, memorabilia, and subject files.

Dates: 1931 - 1997

Virginia Manual Labor School of the Negro Reformatory Association of Virginia Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2021-010
Abstract

This letter was sent from G. C. Shippen, acting superintendent of the Virginia Manual Labor School of the Negro Reformatory Association of Virginia, to Mr. F. W. Whittaker of Lynchburg. This letter is a response to a request to commit a young man named Lucien Gilmore to the institution. Shippen writes that the institution is at capacity and that it will be six weeks before they can accept any new inmates.

Dates: 1914

Virginia Newspaper Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2012-034
Abstract

The collection contains individual or groups of issues of Virginia newspapers, organized by location and dating from the 1860s-1970s.

Dates: 1861 - 1992