Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

No restrictions.

Preferred Citation

Mary Oakley Hay Collection, MS 688, Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society

Acquisition Information

Unknown

Biographical Information

Mary Oakley Hay (1873-1965) spent the last decade of her life in Charlottesville. She was known for her volunteer and social work, especially for children. She had previously lived in Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Great Britain.

Scope and Content

Folder 1: Correspondence (20 files)

1911-35, 1938, 1939, 1940, Postcards from the 1940s, 1945, 1946, 1947, Jan-April 1948, May 1948, June 1948, July-August 1948, Sept.-Oct. 1948, Nov.-Dec 1948, Jan. 1949, Feb. 1949, March 1949, Apr.-Dec. 1949, 1950, Unknown dates (contains a lock of hair)

Folder 2: Photographs

two of Sarah Hay, Mary Oakley Hay, Home of Mrs. J.W. Robertson Scott in Oxfordshire, England

Photographs from this collection are available online at https://albemarlehistory.org/mary-oakley-hay-collection-photographs/

Folder 3: Checks and Invoices

most from the Charlottesville area 1940s-50s

Folder 4: Ephemera

unknown dairy from 1817, cemetery record of Sara Oakley Hay, two address books belonging to Mary Oakley Hay, letter from Phillip Hay to his sister Amelia Sprigg, Employment Record of Mary Oakley Hay

Arrangement

Chronological

Index Terms

Persons:

• Bacon, Franklin
• Barker, D.
• Barller, D.
• Biggie, Julia
• Bowie, Russel
• Bullard, Margaret Goodwin
• Burtter, Claude
• Carter, Lillian S.
• Carter, Robert
• Cash, James Robert
• Chamberlain, Bernard
• Clark, C.
• Darden, Constance
• Dill, Edna Dorsey
• Donovan, H.A.
• Doyce, Edith G.
• Dundas, Thomas
• Evans, Ted
• Faison, H.R.
• Gattan, Virginia M.
• Grant, Gene
• Haman, Edward V.
• Harman, C.
• Hay, Elizabeth C.
• Hay, Mary (Molly) Oakley
• Hay, Phillip
• Hay, Sara Oakley
• Hay, Theodora
• Hillman, Isabel Page
• Hoyt, Roberta
• John, Marjorie
• Keyes, Anne
• Mace, John
• McCullough, H.P.
• McGregor, Rupert
• Mitchell, F.F.
• Montagu, V.M.
• Moran, Sue
• Parle, Annie
• Pulley, Frank E.
• Rev. Montague, R.C.
• Rolles, Florrie
• Shovely, William G.
• Skinner, Irene
• Smith, M.
• Smith, Nellie
• Smith, Sarah M.
• Sprigg, Amelia
• Taylor, A.
• Varner, Coolie
• Wallace, L.F.
• Welte, Gladys
• Wiggin, Ann

Family Names:

• Darden family
• Hay family

Corporate Names:

• Child Labor Association of Philadelphia
• Federation of Churches of City of New York
• Lord Baldwin Fund for Refugees
• McGuire Clinic
• Young Women's Christian Association

Subjects:

• Alderman Library
• Darden, Colgate W. -- (Colgate Whitehead) -- 1897-1981
• Darden, Constance duPont
• Hay, Elizabeth Condit -- 1808-1874
• Hay, Samuel Cox -- 1836-1911
• International relations
• Letters (Correspondence)
• South Africa
• South Africa -- Politics and government
• United States -- Federal Emergency Relief Administration
• University of Virginia -- Administration
• University of Virginia -- Auditing
• University of Virginia -- Extension Division
• University of Virginia -- Faculty
• University of Virginia -- Library
• University of Virginia -- Office of the President
• University of Virginia -- Students