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Boatwright Memorial Library

Manuscript Collections

Manuscript collections that are highlighted in bold are completed and open for research; the rest are currently being processed. Finding aids for completed collections are available online in the rare book reading room. 

MS-1: Carl Van Vechten - Mark Lutz Collection

MS-2: Ernest Lee Bolling Collection

MS-3: Edward Henry Peple Collection

MS-4: Lt. Henry S. Kinsey Papers

MS-5: Historic Maps Collection

MS-6: Commander Horace Elmer Papers

MS-7: Fred O. Seibel Cartoon Collection

MS-8: World War I & World War II Pamphlet Collection

MS-9: Marguerite Roberts Papers

MS-10: Calvin Robinson Scrapbook

MS-11: Gresham Incunabula Collection

MS-12: James Rachels Papers

MS-13: Civil War Collection

MS-14: Gresham Papers

MS-15: Garnett Ryland Papers

MS-16 Miscellaneous Correspondence Collection

MS-17 Richmond Print Collection

MS-18 Martin Staples Shockley Collection

MS-19 Claudia Stevens Collection (held at Parsons Music Library Special Collections)

MS-20 Congressman Watkins Moorman Abbitt Papers

MS-21 Jack Welsh Collection

MS-22 Richmond Civil War Photographs 

MS-23 W.H. Brown Botanical Drawings 

MS-24 Rev. and Mrs. Wyatt Tee Walker Collection

MS-25 UR's 175th Anniversary Collection

MS-26 Civil War Era Naval Correspondence Collection

MS-27 Rose Poetry Collection

MS-28 Harleigh Bridges Schultz Collection

MS-29 Dr. Jack Welsh Scrapbook Collection

MS-30 Modlin Center Scrapbook Collection

MS-31 Robert Ray Martin Collection

MS-32 Hazel Paris Cederborg Collection

MS-34 Frederic W. Boatwright Collection

MS-35 Dave Clinger Collection

MS-36 Fletcher Stiers, Jr. Collection

MS-37 (anonymous) Collection

MS-38 Virginia Screenwriters Forum Collection

MS-39 Dr. George M. Modlin Book Award Collection

MS-40 Irina Rogova Civil Rights at UR Collection

MS-41 Earl & Jewell Ratliff Collection

MS-42 Cheryl Pierce Craddock Theater Design Collection

MS-43 James Jackson Award for Excellence in Library Research Award Collection

MS-44 Gary McDowell Collection 

MS-45 Charles Meredith Civil War Broadsides Collection

MS-47 Willis Andrew Shell Collection

MS-48 Stereograph & Stereoscope Collection

MS-49 Phyllis Laskey Renick Law School Papers

MS-50 Black Student Coalition Collecton

MS-51 Westhampton Time Capsule Collection

MS-52 Fred Basye Corr Scrapbook

MS-53 Richmond Female Institute Scrapbook

MS-54 Lucille Burnett Scrapbook

MS-55 Westhampton College Class of 1947 50th Reunion Scrapbook

MS-56 University of Richmond Student Organizations Activities Collection

MS-57 Partners in the Arts Collection

MS-58 Ronald A. Crutcher Papers

MS-59 Steven Barza Poetry Collection

MS-60 Perry Jester Diplomatic Collection

MS-61 David E. Howard Papers

MS-62 Edward Ayers Collection

MS-63 Charles Hamilton Smith Print Collection

MS-64 Boatwright Memorial Library Collection

MS-65 Carolyn F. Baker Collection

MS-66 Jasper Hunter Jr. Photographic Collection

MS-67 Peple Family Collection

MS-68 British Parliamentary Pamphlets Collectoin

MS-69 Leland Melvin Collection

MS-70 William Roxburgh Botanical Print Collection

MS-71 John Gould Ornithological Lithograph Collection

MS-72 John Gould Ornithological Proof Print Collection

MS-73 Christine Chenowith King Collection

MS-74 Student Development Award Collection

MS-75 will Collection

MS-76 Comic Books & Graphic Novels Collection

MS-77 Historic Map Collection

MS-78 American Association of University Professors (UR Branch)

MS-79 Dr. David Burton Pop-Up Book Collection

 

 

 

Small Collections

SC-1: Journal of a Whaling Voyage

SC-2: Kenyan Fabric

SC-3: Maps of Jerusalem

SC-4: C.F. James Diary

SC-5: Bail Bond of Jefferson Davis

SC-6 Receipt for US Direct Taxes 1866

SC-7 Diary of Thomas Eugene Massie, Randolph Macon College

SC-8 Alfred Dunhill Tobacco Patents and Product List 

SC-9 Edward E. Reavely - USS Chester 1917

SC-10 Edward Paul Duffy - US Flagship Trenton 1880

 

Book Arts Collection

The Book Arts collection combines technical manuals, descriptive and historical works, and artists' book and creations.  Book Arts technical manuals are currently housed in the Book Arts studio, while more general descriptive and historical works are located in the circulating collection.  Artists' book are housed in the Rare Book Room.  All are noted as part of the Book Arts Collection, so that the collection may be searched as a whole in the library catalog. Individual artists' books are cataloged and may be searched as a featured collection of Boatwright Library.