Conditions Governing Use

Any rights (including copyright and related rights to publicity and privacy) are maintained by the University of Virginia. Permission to publish or reproduce materials in this collection must be secured from repository.

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation

RG 23/9 Virginia Spectator papers, box number, folder number, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.

Biographical / Historical

The Virginia Spectator was a student-run newspaper that was sponsored by the Jefferson Society. The University of Virginia Magazine became the Virginia Spectator early in the 1935-1936 session. The Spectator was shut down in the 1950s by the president of the university due to obscenity but was revived briefly in the late 1960s.

Scope and Contents

Chiefly financial papers including a ledger, 1939-1940, loose bills and receipts, a certificate of incorporation, 1938, and a copy of the Constitution and By laws of the Jefferson Society indicating that the Spectator was a publication of the Society.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• The Jefferson Literary and Debating Society
• University of Virginia
• newspapers