Rouse, Parke Shepherd, Jr.
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
David Edward Cronin's "The Vest Mansion"
Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 1996.32 and Acc. 1997.11
Scope and Contents
Two typescripts (copy) of David Edward Cronin's history of the occupation of Williamsburg during the Civil War entitled "The Vest Mansion, its Historical and Romantic Associations as Confederate and Union Headquarters, 1862-1865." 302 pp. Cronin served as Provost Marshall during the occupation. The Vest Mansion served as headquarters. Original is in the New-York Historical Society. Parke Rouse's pencilling of the copy is evident in the manuscript. Not to...
Dates:
1908-1910
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Jamestown Festival Park Scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 1996.48
Scope and Contents
Scrapbooks of newsclippings and some photographs about Jamestown Festival Park beginning in 1955 for the 350th anniversary of Jamestown.
Dates:
1955-1958; Majority of material found in 1957
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Parke Shepherd Rouse, Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss. 71 R75
Scope and Contents
Professional and personal papers of Parke Shepherd Rouse, Jr. who was a newspaper writer and columnist and an author of books on Virginia. His personal correspondence covers his college years at Washington and Lee University; his years in the Navy during World War II; his early career while working in Richmond, Virginia and Newport News, Virginia; and his business affairs. His college and Navy letters include not only the letters he wrote home, but the letters he received from...
Dates:
1930-1998
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
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- Photographs 2
- Research notes 2
- Authors, American--20th century 1
- Clippings (information artifacts) 1
- Education, Higher--Virginia--History 1
- Jamestown (Va.)--History--20th century 1
- Jamestown 350th Anniversary 1
- Jamestown Festival (1957) 1
- Manuscripts (document genre) 1
- Newspaper columns 1
- Photocopies 1
- Playbills 1
- Programs 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Theater 1
- Typescripts 1
- United States. Navy--History--20th century 1
- Virginia--History 1
- Virginia--History--20th century 1
- Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 1
- Virginia--Social life and customs 1
- Washington and Lee University 1
- Williamsburg (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Williamsburg (Va.)--Photographs 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1 + ∧ less
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