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Eastern State Hospital (Va.)

 Organization

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

Armistead Journal and Broadside

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00918
Scope and Contents

Broadside, "A Card from the Engineer of The E.L. Asylum" by Galba Vaiden, late engineer of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum, about favoritism in firing and hiring employees. Possibly 1890.

Small notebook, belonging to an Armistead Family member, which includes names of a circa 1910 football team following family account information from 1901. Handwriting is different.

Dates: 1890-1910

Bozarth Brothers Account Book, 1907-1913

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Alu3
Scope and Contents

Account book, 1907-1913, of Bozarth Brothers, hardware merchants and lumbermen, Williamsburg, Va. including mill and lumber accounts, hardware store accounts, inventories of stock and accounts as potato brokers; also including lumber account, 1909, with Eastern State hospital.

Dates: 1907-1913

Eastern Lunatic Asylum Ledgers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2009.244
Scope and Contents 12 Ledgers from the Eastern Lunatic Asylum in Williamsburg, Virginia recording purchases of food items, kitchen items, tools, clothing and other items for the hospital. Classified Receipts: August 31, 1892 to February 28, 1899. Ledger book listing 3 months of daily receipts on each page, 9 pages of items per quarter ranging from bacon to furniture sets. Consolidated Morning Report Book: March 1, 1876 to May 7, 1877. Daily record of the...
Dates: 1876-1916; Majority of material found in 1876-1903

Eastern State Hospital Records

 Collection
Identifier: SC 01415
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of material, chiefly 1862-1868, relating to Eastern Lunatic Asylum (now Eastern State Hospital), Williamsburg, Va. Includes correspondence, a list of female patients and "coloured" female patients, patient reports, and requisition orders of Dr. Peter Wager, director of the hospital during the Union occupation of Williamsburg. There are also replies, 1956-1957, to inquiries for information about Dr. John de Sequeyera [or Sequeyra], a physician at the hospital from...
Dates: 1862-1868, 1956-1957; Majority of material found in 1862-1868

Facilities Management Records

 Collection
Identifier: 00/02/97/UA 29
Scope and Contents

The collection includes a number of accessions and groups of records directly from the Office of Facilities Management including publications, administrative records, blueprints, and other documents as well as blueprints and other architectural drawings that come under the administrative responsibility of the office, but may have been transferred from miscellaneous sources.

Dates: 1678, 1900-2003

Floyd J. Whitehead Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 65 W59
Scope and Contents

Dated 1805-1881. Business and  personal letters and papers of Floyd L. Whitehead, Deputy Sheriff of Nelson County.  Included are day books and fee books of the county; Confederate tax forms for the listing of cattle and agriculture products on which ten percent, tax-in-kind was to be paid; and broadsides advertising lotteries for the District of Columbia, Monongalia Academy, the Dismal Swamp Company and of the State of Virginia.

Dates: 1808-1888

Galt Papers (I)

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 78 G13
Scope and Contents Professional and personal papers; 1745-1892; of the Galt family of Williamsburg, Virginia. Papers primarily concern the Galt family's work at the Eastern State Hospital, including apothecary shop daybooks, account books, medical daybooks, clinical notebooks, weather diaries, commonplace books, reports, medical notes, lecture notes, correspondence, and other. The personal papers consist of diaries, letters, scrapbooks, school notes, financial papers, memoirs, and other material....
Dates: 1745-1892

Galt Papers (II)

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 78 G13 (II)
Scope and Contents Papers, 1840-1862, of John M. Galt II concerning his work at the Eastern State Hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia. Includes correspondence, reports, clinical notes, medical diaries, financial papers, and printed material. Two scrapbooks of newspaper clippings were added to the collection in 2011 and are in Box 17. The subject matter is mental health with topics such as insanity, murder, suicide and criminal behavior.  Some clippings are about Eastern State Hospital (Virginia...
Dates: 1840-1862

Galt Papers (III)

 Collection
Identifier: 01/Mss. 78 G73
Scope and Contents The collection covers the dates 1750-1982 and consists chiefly of the personal and business correspondence, financial and legal documents, literary documents, and family history and genealogy notes of the Galt family. The collection also contains clippings, photographs, and personal mementos such as artifacts. Negatives have been added to Galt III, Group XI, Box IV, folder 44. Some material pertaining to William R. Galt is filed in 78 G73 Galt Family Papers III,...
Dates: 1750-1991

Henry C. Hoar Memorial Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 01283
Scope and Contents Manuscripts purchased in memory of Henry C. Hoar, a volunteer in the Manuscripts Department of Swem Library, College of William and Mary from 1966 to 1976. Includes letters, 1861, written to Jane Margaret (Winfree) Brown by Catherine Virginia Winfree concerning the coming of the Civil War and by Virginia A. Brown Winfree concerning the evacuation of Hampton which bears letter of C. V. Winfree concerning the vulnerability of the Peninsula; letters, 1861-1863, from Civil War soldiers such as...
Dates: 1861-1886

R. Wayne Kernodle Papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA 6.044
Scope and Contents Acc. 1999.028: This collection contains copies of published articles by Professor Wayne Kernodle and others; book reviews; Marshall-Wythe Symposium correspondence; files about the athletic department scandal (1951); Sociology Department papers; Eastern State Hospital papers; the Hampton Roads Peninsula World War II study; correspondence between Kernodle and department members, College officials, and scholars at other institutions; and correspondence with William and Mary alum John Bell...
Dates: 1940-1960

Lee Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 1993.06-01 and Mss. Acc. 1995.27
Scope and Contents Mss. Acc. 1993.06-01, Series 1 - 4: Papers and photographs of the Edward Myers Lee Family of Williamsburg, Virginia. Lee graduated from the College of William and Mary, as did many of his children.  An album has photos of a May Pole in front of the Williamsburg Court House on Duke of Gloucester St. The papers include material for some of his children, particulary Elizabeth Mallory Lee (Mrs. John Walston Henderson), Peticolas Lee (Mrs. Robert Edward Lee), Mary King Lee, and Edward M. Lee. ...
Dates: 1858-1976; Majority of material found in 1900-1950

Office of the President. Davis Young Paschall Records

 Collection
Identifier: 00/02/UA 2.15
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1942-1974; Majority of material found in 1960-1971

Questions on Physiology

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00663
Scope and Contents

Handwritten note for possible examination, "Questions of Physiology", dated February 17, 1820. Found inside a printed volume from the Western State Hospital Medical Library collecion, The Elements of Physiology by A. Richerand. Reverse side has notes on vaccinations and catheters.

Dates: 1820 February 17

H. Clinton Thompson, M.D. Affidavit on the Eastern Lunatic Asylum

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00668
Scope and Contents Manuscript affidavit of Dr. H. Clinton Thomson, MD, on the conditions of Eastern Lunatic Asylum (the present day Easter State Hospital) in Williamsburg, Virginia dated March 3, 1866. The affidavit describes the patients and the buildings when Thomson arrived in 1862 to take charge of the hospital. He indicated patients were in need of food and clothing, the sewage system of the buildings had been confiscated for the war, and bedding and other items used when the "rebels" were in...
Dates: 1866 March 3; Majority of material found in 1866

Archibald F. Ward, Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 00210
Scope and Contents This collection contains correspondence, clippings, notebooks, and other material related to Archibald F. Ward, Jr. Included in the collection are notebooks and articles pertaining to Ward while he was the Chaplain at Eastern State Hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia, biographical material related to Ward, a notebook describing Ward's experience at Magruder and Camp Peary, correspondence with various members of the Rockefeller family, and correspondence related to the 250th anniversary...
Dates: 1939-2007; Majority of material found in 1945-1960

Additional filters:

Subject
Correspondence 10
Eastern State Hospital (Va.)--History 9
Eastern State Hospital (Va.)--History--19th century 5
Williamsburg (Va.)--History--19th century 5
Williamsburg (Va.)--History--20th century 5
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Williamsburg (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 5
Mental illness--Treatment--History 4
Account books 3
Diaries 3
Financial records 3
Mental illness--Treatment--United States 3
Mental illness--United States 3
Reports 3
Certificates 2
College of William and Mary--History--20th century 2
Daybooks 2
Drawings and graphics 2
Laboratory notebooks 2
Legal documents 2
Manuscripts (document genre) 2
Mentally ill--Care 2
Notebooks 2
Pamphlets 2
Photographs 2
Scrapbooks 2
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 2
Williamsburg (Va.)--Colonial Period--History 2
Williamsburg (Va.)--History--18th century 2
African Americans--Medical care--Virginia 1
African Americans--Medical care--Virginia--Williamsburg 1
African Americans--Virginia--Williamsburg 1
Armistead family 1
Associated and Branch Campuses--Christopher Newport College 1
Athletics--Football--Scandal of 1951 1
Big Bethel, Battle of, 1861 1
Blueprints (reprographic copies) 1
Broadsides 1
Buildings and Grounds 1
Chaplains, Hospital. 1
Clippings (information artifacts) 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Artillery. Richmond Howitzers--History 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 3rd--History 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 4th--History 1
Design drawings 1
Diplomas 1
Education--Virginia--Williamsburg--20th century 1
Flags 1
Genealogy 1
Hampton (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 1
James City County (Va.)--History--19th century 1
Journals (accounts) 1
Lecture notes 1
Ledgers (Accounting) 1
Letter books 1
Lumber trade--United States--History 1
Medical practice--Virginia--History 1
Medicine 1
Medicine--Practice--Virginia 1
Medicine--Study and teaching--Virginia 1
Medicine--Virginia--History--18th century 1
Memorandums 1
Merchants--Virginia--Nelson County 1
Merchants--Virginia--Williamsburg 1
Minutes 1
Nelson County (Va.)--History--19th century 1
Newspapers 1
Norfolk (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 1
Pen drawing--19th century. 1
Peninsular Campaign, 1862 1
Poems 1
Publications 1
Slavery--Virginia--Williamsburg--History--19th century. 1
Speeches 1
Summer sessions 1
United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 142nd (1861-1865) 1
United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 40th (1861-1865) 1
Universities and Colleges--Virginia--Faculty 1
Williamsburg (Va.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 1
Williamsburg (Va.)--Photographs 1
Williamsburg (Va.)--Social life and customs 1
Williamsburg, Battle of, Williamsburg, Va., 1862 1
Women college students 1
Women--Education--Virginia 1
Women--Virginia--Williamsburg--Social conditions--19th century 1
World War, 1939-1945 1
Wren Building (Williamsburg, Va.) 1
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