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Women -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 404 Collections and/or Records:

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, 1865-1973, contain correspondence, newspaper clippings, and poetry and advertisements by Lucy Dickinson Urquhart (1881-1975), an advertising copywriter and local historian in Virginia. 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

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 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 Republican Party Flyer

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2008-058
Abstract

The Virginia Republican Party Flyer lists the African American Republican candidates for Virginia elected offices in 1921 and includes Maggie L. Walker, the first American female bank president, as the candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction and John Mitchell, Jr., the editor of the Richmond Planet, as the candidate for Governor.

Dates: 1921

Virginia Tech Faculty Women's Club Records

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1997-014
Abstract

The collections consists of records and scrapbooks from the Virginia Tech Faculty Women's Club.

Dates: 1965 - 2008