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Women -- History

 Subject

Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 388 Collections and/or Records:

Porches [Details], "Villa de Plinio", June 1985 (Ms2001-021)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms2001-021_EspegelAlonsoCarmen_Oversize2_Drawing_1985_06_14
Dates: 1985-06

Preston Family (Alice Preston Moore Collection) Papers,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1962-004
Abstract

The collection consists of family papers, receipts, correspondence, and original and photocopied materials relating to the Preston family, primarily William and Susanna Smith Preston, John Preston, and William Ballard Preston, dating from the 1740s to the 1880s. Other materials include 19th and 20th century genealogy research on the Prestons.

Dates: 1749-1882, n.d.

Preston Family (Charles Peale Didier Collection) Papers,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1985-020
Abstract

The Didier Collection of Preston Family Papers includes papers of James Patton, Patton's grandson William Preston, and Preston's eldest son, John Preston, all of Montgomery County, Virginia. The papers consist of business and legal documents, surveys, and correspondence.

Dates: 1747 - 1897

Preston Family Correspondence

 File
Identifier: Ms-2010-070
Abstract

This collection consists of two letters. The first is written by James Francis Preston to his wife, Sarah Caperton Preston; he details the events of and his involvement in the First Battle of Bull Run. The second letter is written by Sarah to Colonel Grabowski and discusses her son’s (Hugh Caperton Preston) failure to follow an order at VMI.

Dates: 1861, 1872

Sarah Buchanan Preston Land Deed,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1987-034
Abstract

The Sarah Buchanan Preston Land Deed collection consists of a manuscript copy of a land transfer indenture statement for lands in Russell, Tazewell, and Scott counties, Virginia. The land was sold by Preston to John and Edward Fulton of Washington County, Virginia, in 1835.

Dates: 1835 - 1835

Sue R. Preston Diary

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2008-034
Abstract

Diary of Sue R. Preston, a young middle-class woman of Detroit, Michigan and later nurse-in-training at Sarah Leigh Hospital in Norfolk, Virginia, dated January 7, 1907 to October 13, 1907. Describes her daily activities in Detroit, including shopping, reading, watching her favorite stage personalities at the Temple Theatre, and following the famous Thaw Murder Trial. Enclosed are numerous newspaper clippings that pertain to the trial and theater gossip.

Dates: 1907 - 1907

Price Family Collection,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2012-047
Abstract

The Price Family Collection includes letters, photograph albums, receipts, and other ephemera. The collection is divided into three series: Correspondence, Photographs and Artifacts, and Ephemera.

Dates: 1840 - 1905

Jimmie L. Price Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1987-048
Scope and Content Information His collection consists of four videotapes of interviews conducted by Price with Montgomery County residents, including an interview in 1986 with Elizabeth Kent Adams about the Kentland property; interviews conducted in 1987 with four Montgomery County residents, including Robert H. Surface, Albert Hamlin, Evans Linkous, and Arnold Linkous, about coal mines and mining in the county; and an interview with Frank Bannister of Montgomery County, whose ancestors were slaves and later servants at...
Dates: 1986 - 2003

Berta Rahm Architectural Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1998-011
Abstract

Berta Rahm was one of the early Swiss women architects. Included in the collection are exhibition panels and a competition proposal containing architectural drawings, photographs, and slides.

Dates: 1951 - 1963

Lucy Randolph Letter

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1988-031
Scope and Content

Two page letter from Randolph of New Market, Virginia, to Patsy, her former slave. 

Dates: n.d.