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Joseph Hampton Barnett Medals
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1979-001
Abstract
The Joseph Hampton Barnett Medals contains the Southern Cross of Honor, reunion medals from Florida and Richmond, Virginia, and ribbons from the Grand Camps Confederate Veterans of Virginia reunions.
Dates:
1899 - 1916
William W. Barnett Diary,
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2012-075
Abstract
Diary for the year 1862 by William W. Barnett, a private in the 8th Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Corps.
Dates:
1862
Janet Barnhill Collection on Cora Bolton McBryde
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2016-019
Abstract
This collection consists of a handwritten recipe book belonging to Cora Bolton McBryde, as well as three peraonal artifacts: an anniversary plate, a Tiffany & Co. silver spoon, and a metal mold. Most of the materials are undated, other than the plate (1913), but they likely date from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Cora Bolton McBryde was the wife of John McLaren McBryde, president of Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College before and during the transition to Virginia...
Dates:
c. 1860s-1910s
Records of the Office of the President, Paul B. Barringer
Record Group
Identifier: RG-02-06
Scope and Content
This collection contains mainly incoming and outgoing correspondence (1907-1913) concerning college activities and issues of Barringer's administration. Topics include academic standards; hazing; Hog Cholera outbreak (1908); fires; prohibition; water/sewage system; refrigeration plant; and advantages and dangers of football. A few letters from Barringer are to United States presidents: Theodore Roosevelt; William Howard Taft; and Woodrow Wilson. Also included with the collection are the...
Dates:
1900 - 1914
William H. Barron Letter
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2010-042
Abstract
The collection contains a post-American Civil War letter written by Private William H. Barron of the U. S. Army Signal Corps. Letter written from Richmond, Virginia to friend, describing visits to local battlefields, boredom in camp, watching the soldiers return to their homes in the North, his hope that Jefferson Davis will hang, and the arrival of Governor Pierpont in Richmond.
Dates:
1865
Barry-Parker Family Letters
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1991-052
Abstract
Letters of the Barry, Parker, and related families of Holly Springs, Mississippi; Somerset, Kentucky; and elsewhere, focusing on family matters, including lengthy, detailed accounts of the illnesses and deaths of John G. Parker and Ann Barry Dewey, who both died in Somerset in 1856.
Dates:
1855 - 1860
Bartender's Cocktail Mixing Notebook [San Francisco, CA]
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2019-002
Abstract
The Bartender's Cocktail Mixing Notebook [San Francisco, CA] contains typed cocktail recipes with directions for their creation in a small binder. Different sections include lesson plans for specific types of drinks, suggesting this was used in a bartending school or for bartending instruction.
Dates:
n.d.
Ansil T. Bartlett Letter,
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2012-008
Abstract
The collection consists of a letter by Ansil T. Bartlett to his father, dated April 15, 1865.
Dates:
1865
Henry T. Bartlett Letter
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1989-031
Abstract
Letter of Henry Thurlow Bartlett (1839-1898), formerly a bugler in Companies H and F, 1st Massachusetts Cavalry during the American Civil War and later vice-president of the Cavalry Corps in the Society of the Army of the Potomac (S.A.P.), written to Samuel E. Chamberlain, president of Cavalry Corps, S.A.P., in 1888, urging the nomination of a cavalryman as the next S.A.P. president and describing the importance of cavalry at the Battle of Gettyburg.
Dates:
1888
Bassett Furniture Company Letters to Richardson Electric Co.
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2022-049
Abstract
This collection includes two letters from the Bassett Furniture Company to Richardson Electric Co. in 1922. The first letter from J. D. Bassett, President, is in regards to a burned out motor, and the second letter from J. C. Hooker, Secretary and Treasurer, is in regards to the installation of a hot air furnace.
Dates:
1922
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