Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

Glove use required for photographs.

Preferred Citation

Thomas Payne Carver Collection, MS 643, Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society

Acquisition Information

Unknown

Biographical 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, Workers 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

The photographs are viewable at https://albemarlehistory.org/carver-family-collection-photographs/

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 of M.M. Dunham Bank Records and 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

Index Terms

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
• 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
• White, John Henry
• Zweygatt, Henry F.

Family Names:

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

Corporate Names:

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

Subjects:

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

Geographical Names:

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