Michael Plunkett, Editor
University of Virginia Press
© 1995 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of
Virginia
Conditions of Use
Michael Plunkett, Editor
University of Virginia Press
© 1995 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of
Virginia
Conditions of Use
The Valentine
Museum
1015 East Clay Street
Richmond, VA 23219
804-649-0711
Fax: 804-643-3510
A special collecting interest of the Valentine Museum has been in the photographic field. Two works detail a major part of the photographic collections: Shadows in Silver (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1954) and "Don't Grieve after Me": The Black Experience in Virginia 1619-1986 (Hampton University, 1986).
A letter from this Afro-American preacher to an unknown recipient
concerning the preaching of Jasper's sermon about the rotation of the
sun.
(Acc. V 86.60.1)
Correspondence, accounts, and other legal and financial documents of
A ledger with entries for voters' name, address, and occupation. It
is tentatively identified as a Henrico County document.
(Acc. MS. FB 83)
Many photographs and prints of Afro-Americans and Afro-American
scenes are included in subject files under "People" (subheadings,
"Negroes" and "Children"), "Agriculture," "Business-tobacco,n
"Cabins," and "Transportation." Prints and photographs of individual
Afro-Americans, including John Jasper and Gilbert Hunt, are filed
under their names.
Video tapes of a number of Richmond residents in connection with a
project concerning race relations. Included are tapes of interviews
with Virginius Dabney, Elise Richmond, Benjamin Lambert, Oliver
Records including constitutions, financial reports, order rituals,
annual meeting papers, and minutes of this Afro-American fraternal
organization created to provide for the sick and aged and burial
expenses. It later became a business organization which included an
insurance company and bank.
(Acc. MS. C 64)
Letters, business papers, and documents relating to these families
who migrated to Virginia from Ireland in the early nineteenth
century. Over 100 documents concern John R. Sedgwick's purchase and
sale of slaves from 1856 to 1863 in Mobile, Alabama, North Carolina,
Virginia, and Richmond.
(Acc. MS. C 7)
Business and legal correspondence of Sir Peyton Skipwith of
Prestwould, Mecklenburg County. The plantation records refer to
slaves.
(Acc. MS. C 8)
Primarily business papers of this Richmond theater owner. Contains
records of business dealings with film companies and live acts for
performances at the Byrd Theater and the Hippodrome in Jackson Ward.
Included is material on black entertainers and films.
(Acc. MS. C 55)
Business and legal papers of this Richmond manufacturer including
receipts for the sale of slaves.
(Acc. MS. C 10)
The private docket of this Richmond mayor, with many entries
concerning slaves and free blacks.
(Acc. MS. B75)
Medical daybook of Richmond-area doctors William Tazewell and Daniel
Norton, with entries for the medical treatment of slaves.
(Acc. MS. FB 14)
Legal, business, and personal papers of Mrs. Frances Tyndall, her son
Mark Anthony Tyndall, and her daughter Frances K. Tyndall Van Horn.
Included are four receipts for slaves bought by Mark A. and Frances
K. Tyndall.
(Acc. MS. C 51)