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Size | 1.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 500 items) |
Abstract | Dashiell of Richmond, Va., was an illustrator of scenes in Richmond, Va., Charleston, S.C., and New Orleans, La.; an importer of French fashion prints; and a business woman. Correspondence, 1921-1948, with various literary and artistic figures, including Ellen Glasgow; watercolor illustrations; poems; and French fashion prints, 1798-1914. |
Creator | Dashiell, Margaret, 1869-1958. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Suzanne Ruffing, March 1996
Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008
Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, January 2010
This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.
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Correspondence, 1921-1948, with various literary and artistic figures, including Ellen Glasgow; watercolor illustrations; poems; and French fashion prints, 1798-1914.
Back to TopLetters written to Margaret Dashiell and two undated manuscripts, "The Archbishop's Garden" and "Confederate Capital" both short stories for children, the former with four watercolor illustrations.
Folder 1 |
Correspondence, 1921-1948 |
Folder 2 |
Manuscripts |
A collection of Dashiell's watercolors to be used as illustrations in her books and French fashion prints from her import business in Richmond.
Watercolors primarily of race relations in Richmond, Charleston, and New Orleans. Many are of African-American servants tending white children. Some include quotes from Dashiell's stories. Also included are watercolors of Civil War veterans residing in the Soldier's Home and from a reunion at Hotel Jefferson in Richmond, 1922.
Folder 3-5
Folder 3Folder 4Folder 5 |
Watercolors of people |
Folder 6 |
Watercolors of veterans, 1922 |
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-2632/1 |
Oversize watercolors |
Arrangement: chronologically.
Single prints, mainly of women's fashion imported and collected by Dashiell for her business, the Serendipity Shop in Richmond, which she ran from 1915 to 1930. Also included is a color reproduction of a oil painting by Sully.
Folder 7 |
1798-1820 |
Folder 8 |
1821-1824 |
Folder 9 |
1825-1829 |
Folder 10 |
1830-1835 |
Folder 11 |
1836-1917 |
Folder 12-13
Folder 12Folder 13 |
Undated |
Folder 14 |
Sully painting |
Books and scrapbooks of Margaret Dashiell.
Folder 15 |
Volume 1: 1920, 47 pp.Spanish Moss and English Myrtle, a book of poems by Dashiell. |
Folder 16 |
Volume 2: Undated, 160 pp.Sketch and note book of Margaret Dashiell containing poems and illustrations. |
Folder 17 |
Volume 3: 1942, 39 pp.Richmond Reverie, short story for children by Margaret Dashiell. |
Folder 18 |
Volume 4: 1806-1914, 114 pp.Scrapbook of fashion prints compiled by Dashiell. |
Folder 19 |
Volume 5: Undated, 18 itemsChristmas cards containing poems written each year by Virginia Lyne Tunstall. |
Arrangement: alphabetical.
Image Folder PF-2632/1 |
Photographs and prints of friends and relatives of Margaret Dashiell |