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College of William and Mary. William and Mary Theatre

 Organization

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

University Archives Audiovisual Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA 58
Scope and Contents The University Archives Audiovisual Collection is an artificial collection of various audio and visual formats documenting the College of William and Mary campus, events, people, etc. The collection contains analog, magnetic, and digital media and while not comprehensive, it does include material from a variety of time periods and types of events including commencements, Charter Day, building dedications, lecture series, Raft Debates, visiting scholars and distinguished guests, athletic...
Dates: 1930-2015; Majority of material found in 1985-2005

University Archives Bound Volumes Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA 15
Scope and Contents

This collection contains information about the College of William and Mary from the Eighteenth Century to the present. Included in the collection are faculty lecture notes from a variety of classes, scrapbooks, research notes, correspondence, textbooks used at the College of William and Mary, minute and account books, poetry books, student notebooks, a literary manual, and various other miscellaneous bound volumes.

Dates: 1739-1993

Joseph Cohron Papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA 5.026
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of clippings and photographs relating to the William and Mary Theatre and drawings and possibly directions for a play by designer Prentice Hill, a faculty member at William and Mary from 1941-1943.

Dates: 1929-1942; Majority of material found in 1929-1933

Joseph Daragan Papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA 5.155
Scope and Contents Contains school course notes, programs, and other material kept by Joseph Daragan, class of 1971, while a student at the College of William & Mary. Included in the papers are programs from William and Mary Theatre productions of Hamlet (1969), The Investigation (1969), The Devil's Disciple (1968), and Of Thee I Sing (1970). The course notes are from classes in Anthropology, including ANTH 321, taught by professor Ted Reinhart, and ANTH 432. The papers also include punch cards from a...
Dates: 1967-1971

Thomas Marshall Forsyth, Jr. Scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: UA 5.052
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of two large scrapbooks. One is an official scrapbook from the 1939 New York World's Fair, featuring the Trylon and Perisphere on the cover. It contains theater programs, photographs,notes, art programs, and clippings from newspapers and magazines. The other book has a treasure chest on the cover and contains newspaper clippings about radio and transcripts of radio broadcasts.

Dates: 1933-1940

Albert Haak Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: 00/06/UA 6.072
Scope and Contents

A scrapbook kept by Albert Haak, William and Mary Theatre technical director from 1947 through 1977.

Dates: circa 1947-1977

Virginia E. Hinkins Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: UA 5.081
Scope and Contents

This collection contains the scrapbook of Virginia E. Hinkins, a student at the College of William and Mary from 1935-1939. The scrapbook includes photographs of Hinkins in various campus locations such as the Wren Yard, invitations, tickets to various College and Williamsburg events, William and Mary handbooks, copies of the College's Literary Magazine, programs from the Williamsburg Theatre, and correspondence with her family.

Dates: 1933-1937; Majority of material found in 1933-1937

Althea Hunt Papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA 6.028
Scope and Contents Papers of Althea Hunt, faculty member at the College of William and Mary in the English and Fine Arts departments and director of the William and Mary Theatre from 1926-61, including news clippings, articles by and about Miss Hunt, programs from productions, photographs, correspondence (mostly by students to Miss Hunt), galley proofs, computer lists, and preliminary materials relating to the publication of the William and Mary Theatre: A Chronicle, edited by...
Dates: 1926-1961 and undated

Elizabeth A. Meyer Papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA 5.094
Scope and Contents

This collection contains correspondence, photographs, and publications collected by Beth Meyer, a member of the class of 1958 at William & Mary. The bulk of the material dates from when Ms. Meyer was a student from 1955-1958. Included are copies of various issues of the Flat Hat, Alumni Gazette, and programs from productions of the William & Mary Theatre. The photographs mostly consist of different reunions of the class of 1958 from over the years.

Dates: 1955-1983; Majority of material found in 1955-1958

Christian Hollis Moe Papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA 5.216
Scope and Contents This collection includes two copies of Moe's script for the play "Hark Upon the Gale." One copy is edited, the other is clean. The play was commissioned by the College of William and Mary to function as one of the Jamestown Festival Program events. It was directed by Howard Scammon and performed by the William & Mary Theatre. There is also a 1961 letter from Moe to Earl Gregg Swem which accompanied the clean script copy. Lastly, there are two copies of the program for "Hark Upon the...
Dates: 1956-1957, 1961

Office of the President. Paul R. Verkuil Records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 2.17
Scope and Contents

This collection is composed of files from the College of William and Mary Office of the President during the administration of Paul Verkuil. For the most part, headings assigned to folders in their office of origin have been maintained in the box list inventories available here.

Dates: 1984-1992

Jack Peet Script

 Collection
Identifier: UA 5.213
Scope and Contents

Script for "Shut Up, and Eat Your Fish or Martial Bliss of Sempronius Smythe," written by Jack Peet. The play was performed by the William & Mary Theatre from March 17-18, 1964.

Dates: 1963-1964

Publications Office Records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 180
Scope and Contents

Brochures and pamphlets for the William & Mary News, William & Mary Theatre, and the 1982 history of the college publication..

Dates: 1974-1982

Jere Rapp Papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA 5.127
Scope and Contents This collection contains clippings, correspondence, a photograph, and other material related to the William and Mary Theatre collected by Jere Rapp, class of 1967. The bulk of the material includes clippings and planning documents about William and Mary Theatre director Howard Scammon and a Common Glory reunion in 1999, but there are also Christmas Cards, correspondence between Rapp and fellow William and Mary alumnus Linda Lavin, and sheet music entitled "Music of The Founders" by the...
Dates: 1966-1999; Majority of material found in 1980-1999

Howard Scammon Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 01/Mss. Acc. 1992.38 and additions
Scope and Contents This collection consists of correspondence, clippings, photographs, programs, playbooks and other material collected by William and Mary Theatre professor Howard Scammon. The bulk of the material is correspondence between Scammon and his former students, but the papers also include documentation related to the William and Mary Theatre, The Common Glory, the Jamestown Festival of 1957, other Williamsburg theatre groups and famous William and Mary alumni such as Glenn Close and Linda Lavin. ...
Dates: 1917-1994; Majority of material found in 1940-1970

Scrapbook of Theatre Programs

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Sct3
Scope and Contents

Scrapbook of theatre programs from major productions in the United States, 1922-1936.  Includes programs from productions at Phi Beta Kappa, College of William and Mary and the Musical Art Society of Hampton Institute.

Dates: 1924-1936

S. Louise Seymour Scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: UA 5.051
Scope and Contents Acc. 1983.028: Loose pages of an unbound scrapbook that include newspaper clippings, theater programs and tickets, convocation programs, a ticket to a lecture given at Phi Beta Kappa Hall by Robert Frost, a handbook of the Women Students' Cooperative Government Association, a registration card for spring 1940 classes, a program from the 1943 inauguration of John E. Pomfret as President of the College, and other materials. Acc. 1994.079: Scrapbook containing news clippings, a...
Dates: 1939-1943

Roger Sherman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA 6.073
Scope and Contents

This collection contains magazine pictures used by Department of Theatre, Speech, and Dance professor Roger Sherman to inspire his stage designs for productions at William & Mary Theatre.  Topics that are present in the pictures include various geographic areas and their people, paintings, elements such as water and fire, and fashion from different time periods and locations.

Dates: 1948-1977

University Archives Poster Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA 12
Scope and Contents

This is an artificial collection of posters acquired by the University Archives. It consists predominantly of advertisements for events organized by departments and students at the College of William and Mary including concerts, plays, musicals, recitals, exhibits, athletic events, rallies, lectures, etc.

Dates: 1926-2014

William and Mary Theatre Records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 67
Scope and Contents Acc. 1979.007. William and Mary Theatre Records, circa 1975-1979. This series contains photographs and programs that were used by Howard Scammon in his book The William and Mary Theatre: 50 Years; layout sheets for the final copy and cover; correspondence; pre-publication material about fundraising; photocopy of a typed draft of the book. Acc. 1979.008.  William and Mary Theatre Records, 1926-1977. This series contains photographs, programs, and other materials from plays produced...
Dates: 1896-2013 and undated

Additional filters:

Subject
Photographs 9
Programs 8
College of William and Mary--Students 7
Correspondence 6
College of William and Mary--History--20th century 5
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Scrapbooks 5
Athletics 4
Publications 4
Clippings (information artifacts) 3
College theater--United States--History 3
President's House (Williamsburg, Va.) 3
Charter Day 2
Christmas cards 2
College theater--United States 2
Graduation (School) 2
Lecture notes 2
Notebooks 2
Playbills 2
Plays (document genre) 2
Student Plays 2
Transcripts 2
Visitors to Campus--Queen Elizabeth II (1957) 2
World War, 1939-1945 2
American poetry--19th century 1
Anthropology--Study and teaching 1
Athletics--Basketball 1
Athletics--Football 1
Birthday cards 1
Buildings and Grounds 1
Buildings and Grounds--Adair Gym 1
Buildings and Grounds--Barrett Hall 1
Buildings and Grounds--Lake Matoaka Ampitheatre 1
Buildings and Grounds--Lake Matoaka and Matoaka Woods 1
Buildings and Grounds--Landrum Hall 1
Buildings and Grounds--Old Dominion Hall 1
Buildings and Grounds--Old Library (1908) 1
Buildings and Grounds--Phi Beta Kappa Hall (1957) 1
Buildings and Grounds--Sunken Garden 1
Buildings and Grounds--Swem Library 1
Burgesses Day 1
Class materials 1
College and school drama 1
College of William and Mary--Faculty and Staff 1
College of William and Mary--History 1
College of William and Mary--History--18th century 1
College of William and Mary--History--19th century 1
College of William and Mary--Presidents--Dwellings--History 1
College of William and Mary--Students--Social life and customs 1
College sports--United States--History--20th century 1
Curriculum 1
DVDs 1
Design drawings 1
Education--Virginia--Williamsburg--20th century 1
Fort Eustis (Va.)--History 1
Greeting cards 1
Invitations 1
Jamestown 350th Anniversary 1
Jamestown Festival (1957) 1
Letters (correspondence) 1
Little theater movement--United States 1
Memorandums 1
Minutes 1
Motion pictures (visual work) 1
Natural and Experimental Philosophy 1
Negatives 1
Newsletters 1
Pamphlets 1
Posters 1
Radio stations--Virginia 1
Registration instructions and schedules 1
Reports 1
Scripts (documents) 1
Set designers 1
Sheet music 1
Slides (photographs) 1
Sound Recordings 1
Speeches 1
Student Government 1
Student Government--Women Students' Cooperative Government Association 1
Student Life--1930's 1
Student Life--1940's 1
Student Organizations 1
Tercentenary of the College--1993 1
Textbooks 1
Theater 1
Theater--United States--History 1
Tickets 1
Typescripts 1
Video recordings 1
Visitors to Campus--Charles, Prince of Wales (1981) 1
Visitors to Campus--Ford, Gerald R. (1976) 1
WCWM (radio station : Williamsburg, Va.) 1
Williamsburg (Va.)--History--20th century 1
Williamsburg (Va.)--History--Drama 1
Williamsburg (Va.)--Photographs 1
Williamsburg (Va.)--Social life and customs 1
Women college students 1
Wren Building (Williamsburg, Va.) 1
Wren Building (Williamsburg, Va.)--Wren Yard 1
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