Dates: 1864-1982

Collection Number: MS 647

Physical Location: Archive Room Shelves

Extent: 1 box

Access Restrictions: Open for research

User Restrictions: Glove Use Required for photographs

Preferred Citation: Thomas Payne Carver Family Collection, MS 647, Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society, Charlottesville, VA

Acquisition Information: Unknown

Biographical/Historical Information: Thomas Payne Carver (1863-1918) had two children with his first wife Lelia May Herndon Carver (1866-1895) (Alphonso Payne Carver (1889-1910) and Virginia Carver Beck (1892-1947)) and four children with his second wife Stella Annette Dunham Carver (1869-1957) (Harold Carver (1898-1899), Velora C. Carver Thomson (1900-1988), Marjorie Dunham Carver (1903-1984), and Elizabeth Carver McCue Fowler (1907-1991)). He had no biological grandchildren.

Scope and Content:

Photographs

-Including members of the Carver and Dunham family and friends.

Correspondence

-A majority written to Marjorie Dunham Carver or her mother Stella Dunham Carver.

Checks and Receipts 

-M.M. Dunham Bank Records, Household goods receipts

Religious Ephemera

-Sunday School Roll Book, Young People’s Bible Class, First Baptist Church Sunday School Songs, Worker’s Conference First Baptist Church, Misc. Scripture Papers, Sunday School Class

Personal Ephemera

       -Order of the Amaranth Nannie Dunham, Certificates, Recital programs, baby bootie, Dunham- Jones Marriage Certificate Book, Bradford High School, Notes, baby book for Harold Carver

Arrangement:

Folder 1: Photographs Subject, Chronological

-Persons including :Thomas Payne Carver, Alphonso Payne Carver, Virginia C. Carver Beck, Velora Alme Carver Thomson, Marjorie Carver, Elizabeth Ellis Carver McCue Fowler, Lelia May Herndon Carver, Stella Annette Dunham Carver, Harold Carver, Myron Dunham, Jo Johnston, Myra Bruce, Peggy Gray, Ida Ruth, James Sample Leitch, Nannie Dix Carver, Nannie Hundon Payne, Dabney Clarke Carver, Chas Carver, Nannie Dunham, Catherine Dudley, Mildred Clark, Adelaide Brown, Elizabeth Hildebrand, Marjorie Mitchel, Phyllis Faylor, Guy D. Carter Jr., Edna, Myra, A.A. Vandergrift, Nelson Carver Leitch, Brack, Ibby, Laura Ann Messerly

Folder 2: Correspondence Chronological

– To: Marjorie Carver, Helen Clark, Velora Carver, Peggy, Stella Carver, Elizabeth Carver

-From: Marjorie Carver, Dick, Click, Bill, Ibby, Dottie M. Flynn, Pauleen, Johnny, Mother, Carroll, Mya B. Johnson, Ruland Huddleston, Paul Jr, Bobby, M. Walsh, John and Pauline, Robert Lewis Leitch, Bishop, Wellford, Bebe and Johnnie, H. M. Klise, Ella, Jessie Moore, J.M. Herr, Clarice, Helen and John, Oscar Thomas Allegree, Mrs. L Carter, Leuchman family, Lucille Branham Watson, Johnny Flynn, Cousin Mollie, Charles Barrett, Henry L. Lyman, William James Booth, George Spinhel, Bettre Valentine, John Henry White, Mrs. Henry F. Zweygatt, L.J. and M.B. Hunter, Hugh and Evelyn, James Wood Building, Nancy, L. Waller, Mr. Williams, Nannie M. Silbert, Bessie Berrett, Anna Priscilla Risher, Minnie

Folder 3: Checks and Receipts 

-M.M. Dunham Bank Records, Household goods receipts

Folder 4: Religious Ephemera

-Sunday School Roll Book, Young People’s Bible Class, First Baptist Church Sunday School Songs, Worker’s Conference First Baptist Church, Misc. Scripture Papers, Sunday School Class

Folder 5: Personal Ephemera

       -Order of the Amaranth Nannie Dunham, Recital programs, baby bootie, Dunham- Jones Marriage Certificate Book, Bradford High School, Notes, baby book for Harold Carver

Persons:

  • Allegree, Oscar Thomas
  • Barrett, Charles
  • Bebe and Johnnie
  • Beck, Virginia C. Carver
  • Berrett, Bessie
  • Bishop
  • Bobby
  • Booth, William James
  • Brack
  • Brown, Adelaide
  • Bruce, Myra
  • Building, James Wood
  • Carroll
  • Carter, Guy D. Jr.
  • Carter, L
  • Carver, Alphonso Payne
  • Carver, Chas
  • Carver, Dabney Clarke
  • Carver, Harold
  • Carver, Lelia May Herndon
  • Carver, Marjorie Dunham
  • Carver, Nannie Dix
  • Carver, Stella Annette Dunham
  • Carver, Thomas Payne
  • Clarice
  • Clark, Mildred
  • Click
  • Cousin Mollie
  • Dick
  • Dudley, Catherine
  • Dunham, Myron
  • Dunham, Nannie
  • Edna
  • Ella
  • Faylor, Phyllis
  • Flynn, Dottie M.
  • Flynn, Johnny
  • Fowler, Elizabeth Ellis Carver McCue
  • Gray, Peggy
  • Helen and John
  • Herr, J.M.
  • Hildebrand, Elizabeth
  • Huddleston, Ruland
  • Hugh and Evelyn
  • Hunter, L.J.
  • Hunter, M.B.
  • Ibby
  • John and Pauline
  • Johnny
  • Johnson, Mya B.
  • Johnston, Jo
  • Klise, H. M.
  • Leitch, James Sample
  • Leitch, Nelson Carver
  • Leitch, Robert Lewis
  • Leuchman family
  • Lyman, Henry L.
  • Messerly, Laura Ann
  • Minnie
  • Mitchel, Marjorie
  • Moore, Jessie
  • Mother
  • Myra
  • Nancy
  • Paul Jr
  • Pauleen
  • Payne, Nannie Hundon
  • Risher, Anna Priscilla
  • Ruth, Ida
  • Silbert, Nannie M.
  • Spinhel, George
  • Thomson, Velora Alme Carver
  • Valentine, Bettre
  • Vandergrift, A.A.
  • Waller, L.
  • Walsh, M.
  • Watson, Lucille Branham
  • Wellford
  • White, John Henry
  • Williams
  • Zweygatt, Henry F.

Family Names:

  • Beck
  • Carver
  • Dunham
  • Fowler
  • Herndon
  • McCue
  • Thomson

Corporate Names:

  • Holsinger's Studio (Charlottesville, Va.)
  • Tyson and Perry
  • Wampler Excelsior Art Gallery

Subjects:

  • Carver family
  • Beck family
  • Carver, Dabney Clark -- 1816-1885
  • Payne family
  • Carver , Marjorie, 1903-
  • University of Virginia -- Faculty
  • Thompson, Velora C. -- Photographs
  • Carver, Marjorie -- 1903- -- Photographs
  • Holsinger's Studio (Charlottesville, Va.)
  • Charlottesville (Va.) -- Pictorial works
  • Charlottesville (Va.) -- History -- Pictorial works
  • Charlottesville (Va.) -- Photographs
  • Studio portraits
  • Photographers -- Virginia -- Charlottesville
  • Wampler Excelsior Art Gallery
  • Leitch, James Sample -- 1848-1892
  • Leitch, Nannie Dix Carver -- 1854-1901
  • Vandegrift, A. A. -- (Alexander Archer) -- 1887-1973
  • Vandegrift, A. A. -- (Alexander Archer) -- 1887-1973 -- Photographs

Geographical Names:

  • Bear Mountain Bridge
  • Crater Lake, Wa.
  • Germany
  • Milton, Va.
  • Pennsylvania
  • Venice, Italy
  • Simplon Pass, Switzerland
  • Spain
  • Spartanburg, Sc.

Record Types:

  • Correspondence
  • Photographs
  • Ephemera

Related Collections: Thomas Payne Carver Family Collection Photographs