Albert Gallatin (1761–1849) holds the record as the longest-serving U.S. treasury secretary; Meriwether Lewis named a tributary of the Missouri River after him; and now, thanks to a gift to the University, books from his personal and family library live at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. The above image, “Homme du Kamtchatka Voyageant en Hiver,” is from a book in the collection, Troisieme Voyage De Cook (1785).
More than 300,000 historical artifacts unearthed at David and Mary Harrison’s family farm in Virginia, Flowerdew Hundred, is being carefully catalogued and conserved at Morven Farm, a historic property in Albemarle County.
The "Flowerdew Hundred" exhibition at the Mary and David Harrison Institute for American History, Literature, and Culture presents material evidence of Virginia’s early inhabitants.
This winter, the Library will make available the senatorial papers of Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., former U.S. representative, U.S. senator, governor of Connecticut, and graduate of U.Va. Law School. Among his many accomplishments, Senator Weicker is responsible for the creation of the National Undersea Research Program. This is a photo of him outside the 16-foot Hydrolab, an experimental research facility built by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that hosted more than 700 “aquanauts” from 1966 to 1985.
This year the Library received the papers of U.Va. Law alumnus, former secretary of the Navy, and five-term U.S. senator from Virginia, John W. Warner. Shown here visiting Alderman Library in 1977 with Library benefactor Clifton Waller Barrett, Warner spent a lifetime in public service and garnered many awards, including the National Intelligence Distinguished Public Service medal. The Warner papers are being processed for scholarly use in 2011.
The Library’s collection growth in the twentieth century came from gifts by alumni and supporters, and the University continues to benefit from major gifts of special collections materials, from rare books and maps to important literary manuscripts and historic documents.
New endowments will allow the Library to acquire rare materials and to build the Library’s general circulating collections, both print and digital. Support is needed to keep this heavily used circulation vital and up to date in traditional, new, and emerging academic areas.
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