Showing Names: 301 - 325 of 1571
Collection
Identifier: SC 01857
Content Description
Letter to Richmond, Virginia slave traders Davis, Deupree and Co., from Virginia physician Conway Davies Whittle inquiring about the rates of sale of 24 enslaved persons owned by Whittle. Age, gender, complexion, and skills are mentioned to describe the enslaved people.
Dates:
1860 November 2
Collection
Identifier: Mss. 65 C77
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Correspondence, business, tax and legal records, primarily 1848-1890, of various members of the Cook and Luttrell Families of Culpeper and Rappahannock Counties, Virginia. The Cook family correspondence is concentrated between 1855 and 1858 and discusses the migration of several members of the family to western Virginia and Missouri, courtship and marriage, farming, and detailed accounts of family visits. The Luttrell correspondence, 1874-1890, contains letters to Mollie Luttrell...
Dates:
1848-1890
Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Ame17
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Ledger, 1815-1818, of Cooke & Eustace, merchants, Aquia [Stafford County], Va. which includes bonds, 1821-1824.
Dates:
1815-1818
Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2008.12
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Ledger, 1906-1927, kept at Star Tannery, Va. (Frederick County, Va.) by John H. A. Cooper. The ledger is #3. The store sold Pratts Stock and Poultry Feed. Included with the ledger are some loose letters, and advertisements.
Dates:
1906-1927
Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 1993.43-2
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Papers of Professor H.D. Corey, formerly economics professor at the College of William and Mary and of his wife, an active member of the Williamsburg Garden Club. Includes typescript of "American Foreign Trade Zone Policy and its Application to Hampton Roads" by Hibbert D. Corey, August 1930 and a "Rose Test Notes" scrapbook and related papers from the Williamsburg Garden Club, 1947-1957. Publications include "National Geographic" October 1954 issue,"Williamsburg: Its College and...
Dates:
1930-1958
Collection
Identifier: SC 01892
Content Description
Correspondence contains fourteen letters sent to and from Cormay Graham and Myrtle Wynter, two African American women attending college including Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) during the mid-twentieth century. Cormay Graham attended Bennett College while Myrtle Winder attended King William Training School. The letters contain information about their families, daily lives, and experiences in college. Letters also contain information about their families and friends in...
Dates:
1949-1953
Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2000.40
Scope and Contents
Research material of Gerald Steffens Cowden from his Ph.D. dissertation on the Randolph's of Virginia, "The Randolphs of Turkey Island: a Prosopography of the First Three Generations, 1650-1806. " Also includes other works and essays from his earlier education, and the research accompanying those essays as well.
Dates:
1965-1982
Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Ame18
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Ledger, 1905, of B. R. Cowherd, merchant, of Pemberton, Goochland County, Virginiaa.
Dates:
1905
Collection
Identifier: SC 01700
Content Description
Diary of a medical student, Jonathan Bird Cowles, that includes notes on his family history, his practice, and several pages written by his sister Eunice Cowles. (Contains mentions of suicidal thoughts.)
Dates:
June 1820 - April 1st, 1822
Collection
Identifier: UA 6.062
Scope and Contents
Series 1 (Acc. 1999.059) contains correspondence regarding the School of Jurisprudence (now the Marshall-Wythe School of Law), the Faculty Club, the Quarterly Millennium Celebration, and notes on the teaching of law at William and Mary for the years 1931-1943. Series 2 (Acc. 2008.308) contains material acquired by Dr. Theodore Sullivan Cox in Germany during the Allied occupation after World War II. Includes British, US American and French military bulletins, manuals and pamphlets...
Dates:
1931-1946
Collection
Identifier: SC 00241
Scope and Contents
Letter from Clayton & (Ervin?), Napoleon, Arkansas to Alexander Craig, Richmond, Virginia stating they obtained a favorable judgment in the case against Solon B. Jones. June 11, 1860. James P. Clayton was a local attorney.
Dates:
1860 June 11
Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Ali1
Scope and Contents
Journal, 1865-1867, of Crawford & Co., Staunton, Virginia, a livery stable. 67 p. : bound volume ; 31 cm.
Dates:
1865-1867
Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Adi1 Oversize
Scope and Contents
Account book, 1813-1818, of David Crawford, distiller, of Shenandoah County, Va.
Dates:
1813-1818
Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV T5 Oversize
Scope and Contents
Records, 1814-1815, of David Crawford, [U. S.] deputy collector of revenue in Shenandoah County, Va. for the eighth collection district of Virginia. The volume includes abstracts of duties on licences granted for distilleries; duties on retailers of wine, liquors and foreign merchandise; duties on sales at auction; and duties on carriages.
Dates:
1814-1815
Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV R10
Scope and Contents
Receipt [recipe] book, ca. 1890, of R. B. Cringan, Richmond, Va. which includes home remedies and loose papers.
Dates:
circa 1890
Collection
Identifier: Mss. 39.2 C875
Scope and Contents
Accounts of Crist & Blakemore, merchants of Sangersville, Augusta County, Va., with Baltimore, Md. wholesale merchants.
Dates:
1869
Collection
Identifier: 01/Mss. 39.1 C89
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The collection contains letters, receipts, invoices, and account books of Thomas Croxton concerning his law practice at Tappahannock, Va. Includes accounts with J.M. Parr & Son, commission merchants of Baltimore, Md. who received grain from Croxton by ship and sold it on consignment.
Dates:
1858-1899
Collection
Identifier: MS 00203
Content Description
This collections consists of photographs and papers primarily belonging to Doris Crump Rainey, but also her husband Herbert Rainey, who both lived in Williamsburg. Doris was involved with a local neighborhood association of women called the Philodendron Club; some local Baptist churches, especially Mt. Ararat Baptist Church; and with her 40th and 50th high school reunion from the class of 1945 Bruton Heights School (BHS). The papers and photos also show that the Raineys were involved in the...
Dates:
Other: circa 1945-2013
Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Ame21u Oversize
Scope and Contents
Account book of an unknown merchant in the vicinity of Culpeper County, Virginia.
Dates:
1847-1851
Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Ame127
Scope and Contents
Account book of an unknown merchant in the Cumberland County area of Virginia. Some names appear to be from Fluvanna and Albemarle Counties.
Dates:
1891-1892
Collection
Identifier: SC 00245
Scope and Contents
Marriage announcement between George A. Cunningham of Alabama and Emma Branch of Virginia at the Washington St. M.E. Church in [Petersburg, Virginia]. Undated. Membership certificate for George A. Cunningham in the Virginia State Agricultural Society. October 22, 1875. Two incomplete notary drafts for George A. Cunningham and Emily Cunningham concerning a corporation in Georgia and Virginia, dated 1889. Letter to Emma Cunningham in Richmond, Virginia from her husband, George A....
Dates:
1875-1890
Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Al2-3
Scope and Contents
Ledgers, 1799-1808 and 1805-1818, of Ellyson Currie, a lawyer in Lancaster County, Va. The ledger for 1799-1808 has a partial index.
Dates:
1799-1818
Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2010.500
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Collection contains printed materials, photographs, and church-related documents related to Georgia Ragsdale Curtis of Roanoke, Virginia and her family including her sister Laura Ragsdale Barnett. The earliest materials include a 1912 handwritten diary of a Ragsdale family member. The papers in the collection include newspaper clippings of family obituaries, family funeral service programs, family photographs, civil rights related papers and magazines, Addison High School and Patrick Henry...
Dates:
1912-2002; Majority of material found in 1930-1975
Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Ame19 Oversize
Scope and Contents
Journal, 1837-1844, of Curtis, Jones & Co., merchants, Gloucester Court House, Va.
Dates:
1837-1844
Collection
Identifier: Mss. 39.2 C96
Scope and Contents
Letter, 11 August 1836, written by W. P. Custis, Philadelphia, Pa. to James W. Custis of Accomack County, Va. concerning the purchase of horses; and a newspaper clipping from "Harper's New Monthly Magazine" concerning a Civil War era anecdote about someone named Custis.
Dates:
1836
