Skip to main content

Women -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 399 Collections and/or Records:

Mary Burlow Keepsake Book

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1981-101
Abstract

This collections contains a book of poetry and prose from Mary Burlow's friends to her. Burlow was a resident of Laurens County, Georgia.

Dates: 1851 - 1853

Records of the Office of the President, Julian A. Burruss

 Record Group
Identifier: RG-02-08
Abstract

The bulk of the collection contains correspondence concerning Julian Ashby Burruss' tenure as president of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, as well as lecture notes, reports to the Board of Trustees of the State Normal School, and Experiment Station reports.

Dates: 1906 - 1946

California Women in Environmental Design Records

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1990-059
Abstract

The California Women in Environmental Design (CWED) is a California organization of women professionals that are involved in planning, architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, interior design, and other related fields. The collection contains materials relating to the operations of the organization including newsletters, membership and conference materials, and audiocassettes of sessions at CWED conferences.

Dates: 1990 - 1994

Caperton Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1991-034
Abstract Photocopied, typed transcripts of letters written by Mary Eliza Henderson Caperton to her husband George Henry, then serving in the Confederate Army, most written from Whitethorne, in Montgomery County, Virginia, between May and October, 1861, and concentrating on news of the Preston family, relatives, and mutual acquaintainces; fears of a slave rebellion; a fire at Whitethorne; and the deaths of Ann Barraud Taylor Preston and Col. James Francis Preston. Also includes typescript extracts...
Dates: 1861-1862, n.d.

Carter/Cash Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-090
Abstract

The Carter/Cash Family Collection contains memoirs, biographies, photographs, funeral programs, newspaper and magazine articles, and memorabilia relating to the Carter family and Johnny Cash.

Dates: c.1940-2009

Charles Willis Cassell Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1984-170
Abstract This collection consists of the papers of a Wythe County, Virginia, Lutheran minister, farmer and businessman and his family. It includes Cassell's personal, professional, and business correspondence; the personal correspondence of his wife and children; financial and legal records; diaries; notes on catechetics; and scrapbooks containing historical sketches of various Lutheran Churches, obituaries, family-related social events, and newspaper clippings concerning Cassell's services as...
Dates: 1883 - 1950

Center of Contemporary Architecture Media Collection,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-026
Abstract

The Center of Contemporary Architecture, a cultural non-governmental organization in Moscow, produced a weekly television series (2001-2004) titled Architecture Gallery which was supported by the Ford Foundation and authored and narrated by Irina Korobina. This collection contains selected videos from the Architecture Gallery television program produced by the C:CA. Also present are DVDs of other films produced by the C:CA, "Ivan Leonidov, the Architect" and "Netherlands' Coasts."

Dates: 2000 - 2009; Majority of material found within 2000 - 2003

Olive Chadeayne Architectural Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1990-057
Abstract

The Olive Chadeayne Architectural Collection includes drawings for residences, schools, churches and businesses primarily located in southern California. In addition to Olive Chadeayne's work, the collection also contains over twenty-five drawings by American architect Lillian Rice.

Dates: 1924 - 1956

Mary Brown Channel Architectural Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2007-030
Abstract After graduating from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in 1929, Mary Ramsay Brown Channel earned her degree in architecture at Cornell University in 1933. She returned to her hometown of Portsmouth, Virginia, and worked at a firm for two years before opening her own office as the first registered woman architect in Virginia. She became known for her residential and church designs. Her collection includes sketches and drawings for about 160 mostly residential projects in the Portsmouth area....
Dates: 1936 - 2002; Majority of material found within 1936 - 1950

Cheatham/Horsley Marriage License

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-107
Abstract

The collection contains a marriage license for George W. Cheatham and Nannie P. Horsley.

Dates: 1873