Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
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Preserving and providing access to more than 16 million manuscripts, archival records, rare books, maps, broadsides, photographs, audio and video recordings at the University of Virginia.
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The exhibition entries for Kits and Sea Monsters and much more are in the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, UVA, while Horror is on the 4th floor of Clemons, near the DVDs. Read more about H is for Horror on UVA Today:
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Looking for a good scare? Here’s what to watch this Halloween
Horror movie enthusiasts on UVA Library’s staff offer their recommendations.
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October 31, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The exhibition entries for Kits and Sea Monsters and much more are in the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, UVA, while Horror is on the 4th floor of Clemons, near the DVDs. Read more about H is for Horror on UVA Today:
news.virginia.edu/content/look...
news.virginia.edu/content/look...
Visit our blog, Notes from Under Grounds, to learn more about Brittany in today's Staff Spotlight: smallnotes.library.virginia.edu/2025/11/03/s...!
November 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Visit our blog, Notes from Under Grounds, to learn more about Brittany in today's Staff Spotlight: smallnotes.library.virginia.edu/2025/11/03/s...!
Register for the event here: at.virginia.edu/visions-cata...
Visions of Progress Catalog Launch
Public unveiling of the catalog Visions of Progress: Portraits of Dignity, Style, and Racial Uplift, with Dr. John Edwin Mason.
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October 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Join the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society, @johnedwinmason.bsky.social, the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, and @uvalibrary.bsky.social in revisiting these beautiful portraits during the exhibition catalog launch celebration October 25, 3-5pm @ JMRL’s Swanson Room!
October 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Join the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society, @johnedwinmason.bsky.social, the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, and @uvalibrary.bsky.social in revisiting these beautiful portraits during the exhibition catalog launch celebration October 25, 3-5pm @ JMRL’s Swanson Room!
Thanks to Abigail for sharing the joy of working with archival materials with others!
Interested in seeing these items and more like them yourself? Plan your own visit with our handy new LibGuide:
guides.lib.virginia.edu/speccoll/home.
Interested in seeing these items and more like them yourself? Plan your own visit with our handy new LibGuide:
guides.lib.virginia.edu/speccoll/home.
LibGuides: Visiting Special Collections: Home
LibGuides: Visiting Special Collections: Home
guides.lib.virginia.edu
September 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Thanks to Abigail for sharing the joy of working with archival materials with others!
Interested in seeing these items and more like them yourself? Plan your own visit with our handy new LibGuide:
guides.lib.virginia.edu/speccoll/home.
Interested in seeing these items and more like them yourself? Plan your own visit with our handy new LibGuide:
guides.lib.virginia.edu/speccoll/home.
Take this opportunity to print your own copy of the Declaration on the University's replica “Franklin” press. Then, walk downstairs to the Declaring Independence exhibit and see 1 of the 2 copies of the original Dunlap Broadside, part of the Albert H. Small Declaration of Independence Collection.
June 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Take this opportunity to print your own copy of the Declaration on the University's replica “Franklin” press. Then, walk downstairs to the Declaring Independence exhibit and see 1 of the 2 copies of the original Dunlap Broadside, part of the Albert H. Small Declaration of Independence Collection.
Approximately 200 copies were printed by young Philadelphia printer John Dunlap the night the Second Continental Congress ratified the words of Thomas Jefferson. The challenge of setting into type and printing this important document is often overlooked.
June 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Approximately 200 copies were printed by young Philadelphia printer John Dunlap the night the Second Continental Congress ratified the words of Thomas Jefferson. The challenge of setting into type and printing this important document is often overlooked.
Gifts Sent to President Teresa Sullivan (RG-2/1/8.122), Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
June 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Gifts Sent to President Teresa Sullivan (RG-2/1/8.122), Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
Sullivan was reinstated just two weeks later. A full timeline via Virginia Magazine:
uvamagazine.org/articles/tim...
uvamagazine.org/articles/tim...
Timeline: Teresa Sullivan’s Resignation and Reinstatement
A comprehensive timeline of the events of June 2012 at UVA.
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June 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Sullivan was reinstated just two weeks later. A full timeline via Virginia Magazine:
uvamagazine.org/articles/tim...
uvamagazine.org/articles/tim...
We would congratulate you on your continued tenure @ UVA. You are a class act! One we wish we knew! Peace.”
June 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
We would congratulate you on your continued tenure @ UVA. You are a class act! One we wish we knew! Peace.”
Postage was placed on the insole, and the shoe mailed without any packaging on July 2, 2012. The inscription on the shoe reads: “Dear Dr. Sullivan – If only we could click our Red Ruby slippers together and make our way to Charlottesville we would!!! …
June 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Postage was placed on the insole, and the shoe mailed without any packaging on July 2, 2012. The inscription on the shoe reads: “Dear Dr. Sullivan – If only we could click our Red Ruby slippers together and make our way to Charlottesville we would!!! …
Michael Laurie, White Fire (London: Quality Press, Ltd., 1949). (PR6023.A87 W5 1949)
June 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Michael Laurie, White Fire (London: Quality Press, Ltd., 1949). (PR6023.A87 W5 1949)