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Women -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 397 Collections and/or Records:

Mattie Lamb Tucker Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1984-176
Abstract

This collection includes certificates, newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence and miscellaneous printed material of Mattie Lamb Tucker, a Red Cross volunteer and community service worker in Blacksburg, Virginia.

Dates: 1945 - 1984

Tuesday Afternoon Book Club Records

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1989-052
Abstract

This collection includes records--including programs, minutes books, a club chronology, and a list of checked out books--belonging to the Tuesday Afternoon Book Club, a Blacksburg, Virginia group that met to discuss books and current affairs.

Dates: 1933 - 1989

Turner Family Genealogy Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1994-002
Abstract

Genealogical information, consisting of photocopied documents, transcriptions, and notes, about the Turner family of Snow Creek (Franklin County), Virginia, including Meshack Taylor (1820-1877) of Company E, 64th Virginia Militia during the American Civil War.

Dates: c.1987

Tyler-Ellis-Marye Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2010-067
Abstract The Tyler-Ellis-Marye Family Collection contains the family papers of President John Tyler, his second wife, Julia Gardiner Tyler, and descendants, mostly through the couple's daughter, Pearl Tyler Ellis. The collection includes letters written to the Tylers from family and friends; a letter written by the Tyler's son, David G. Tyler; an autograph book used at the 1868 Democratic National Convention; a published memorial to Mary L'Hommedieu Gardiner Horsford; photographs of Pearl Tyler...
Dates: 1848 - 1939

Anne Griswold Tyng Architectural Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2001-049
Abstract Anne Griswold Tyng was born in 1920 in Lushan, Jiangxi province, China where her parents were living as missionaries, Tyng was an architect, professor, and design theorist best known for her collaborations with Louis I. Kahn. She studied at Radcliffe-Harvard (1942), received her Masters at Harvard Graduate School of Design (1944), and PhD in Architecture from University of Pennsylvania (1975). She specialized in space frame architecture and mathematics. Tyng designed and built the first...
Dates: 1969 - 1999

Photograph of Unidentified Woman

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-117
Abstract

This photograph is of an unidentified woman taken at an undetermined date.

Dates: n.d.

United Daughters of the Confederacy, Dr. Harvy Black Chapter Records,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1990-050
Abstract

This collection contains the records of Dr. Harvy Black Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy. It contains files devoted to local Confederate veterans, as well as chapter financial records, minute books, membership records, printed materials and scrapbooks.

Dates: 1862 - 2010

Lucy Dickinson Urquhart Papers,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1987-046
Abstract

The Lucy Dickinson Urquhart Papers contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, and poetry and advertisements by Lucy Dickinson Urquhart. The collection also includes correspondence, papers, and other materials related to her family.

Dates: 1865 - 1973

Blanche Lemco van Ginkel Architectural Collection,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1988-122
Abstract

Blanche Lemco van Ginkel is a retired architect and Professor Emerita at the University of Toronto. The collection consists biographical information about van Ginkel and her career, some of her publications, professional project information, articles and research materials about the history of women in architecture in Canada.

Dates: 1956 - 2013

Virginia Association of Family and Consumer Sciences Records

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2008-032
Abstract

The collection contains the administrative records of the Virginia Association of Family and Consumer Sciences and its predecessor, the Virginia Home Economics Association, including minutes, membership lists, reports to the state legislature, convention programs, constitutions and bylaws, newsletters, and materials related to the Student Member Section.

Dates: 1922 - 2002