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Thomas Fauntleroy Ball Papers, 1902-1960, Accession #12711-b, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
This collection was made a gift to the University on 1969 August 4 by Mrs. Thomas Fauntleroy Ball Willis.
University of South Carolina, B.S., electrical engineering, University of Virginia, M.S.,1919; University of Virginia Instructor, Adjunct Professor and Assistant Professor of Physics, 1916-1922; also, taught at the University of South Carolina and headed the physics department, United States Naval Academy.
The collection consists of the personal and professional papers of Thomas Fauntleroy Ball including: articles; business correspondence; genealogical material regarding the Venable family; correspondence and papers dealing with cancer research at Johns Hopkins University; writings while at the University of South Carolina and Hughes Aircraft Company; testimonials for Samuel Reynolds Pritchard of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute; notes and notebooks; and newspaper clippings.
This collection is arranged alphabetically.