Showing Names: 751 - 775 of 1572
Collection
Identifier: UA 5.211
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Debate, written and presented by Richard Henry Jones while a student at William & Mary, arguing that marriage is better than bachelorhood.
Dates:
circa 1858-1861
Collection
Identifier: Mss. 80 J72
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Papers, 1951-1976, of Spotswood Hunnicutt Jones concerning the state-commissioned elementary school textbook, "Virginia: History, Government, Geography" (New York: Scribner, 1957), which Hunnicutt Jones co-authored. Used in 7th-grade instruction, this textbook aided in the dissemination of the pro-Confederacy "Lost Cause" ideology. Includes correspondence with Earl Gregg Swem, Francis Butler Simkins and others, as well as typescripts, revisions and galley proofs....
Dates:
1951-1981
Collection
Identifier: SC 00535
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Walter Jones to the Governor of Virginia [?William H. Cabell] recommending his friend, [?] Taylor to be appointed to the command of a regiment of dragoons, a position vacated by Larkin Smith. November 23, 1807. Includes a newspaper clipping with biographical information on Walter Jones.
Dates:
1807 November 23
Collection
Identifier: Mss. 39.1 J75
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Papers, 1807-1891, of Warner T. Jones, judge of Gloucester County, Virginia; his brother Richard P. Jones; and his nephew John R. Page. Papers include letters concerning the Jones family and the Seawell family. Prominent correspondents include John Randolph Bryan, Joseph Bryan, Samuel Bassett French, James Barron Hope, Charles Triplett O'Ferall, William Booth Taliaferro, John Randolph Tucker, and Lyon Gardiner Tyler. Collection includes printed advertisements for sewing and...
Dates:
1818-1891
Collection
Identifier: SC 01600
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Indenture between William Perkins, Thomas Buchanan and William Brown, London Merchants and Henry Holland, Halfmoon Street Piccadilly, builder and William Powell and Cordall Powell Ironmongers of Picaddilly in relation to the disposal of the lands, effects and tobacco shipments of the estate in Virginia of John Morton Jordan. July 1, 1773.
Dates:
1773 July 1
Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Ab15-18
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4 Account books, 1842-1888, of William Jordan, a blacksmith, merchant, carpenter, and farmer who lived in the vicinity of Rockbridge County, Va.
Dates:
1842-1888
Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Ame81
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Volume used as inventory book and day book, 1870-1872, by Joseph A. Logan & Co., merchants, at Fishersville, Augusta County, Va.
Dates:
1870-1872
Collection
Identifier: SC 00035
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This collection consists of two ledgers belonging to Joseph C. Farrar, a doctor in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. The first ledger includes accounts from 1848-1849 while the second ledger includes accounts from 1856-1861. The ledgers contain lists of patients, treatments and prices, and expenditures, as well as entries for both enslaved persons and "free persons of color" who were treated. The 1856-1861 ledger was partially used by an unknown prior owner in 1852-1853, most likely...
Dates:
1848-1861
Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Am8
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Ledger, 1823-1851, of Joseph Edie, physician, of Christiansburg, Montgomery County, Virginia.
Dates:
1823-1851
Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Am9
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Journal, 1837-1845, of Joseph Edie, physician, of Christiansburg (near Montgomery County) Virginia.
Dates:
1837-1845
Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Ame94
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Day book, 1854-1861, of Joseph T. Miller, merchant, and of his estate, 1862-1863. Some pages were used as a scrapbook for newspaper clippings. Many entries for people living in Rockingham County, Virginia.
Dates:
1854-1863; Majority of material found in 1854-1861
Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Am16
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Ledger, 1845-1871, of Joseph Wilson, physician, of Churchville, Augusta County, Va.
Dates:
1845-1871
Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Ame82-84
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Journals, 1857-1861, of Josiah G. Low, merchants, at Gainesville Depot, Prince William County, Va.
Dates:
1857-1861
Collection
Identifier: Mss. 39.2 J78
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Letters, 1868-1916, received by Levin Joynes of Richmond, Va. from relatives and friends. Includes letters written from Virginia Military Institute as well as letters concerning Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. Acc. 2010.492 includes pencil drawings by Levin Joynes.
Dates:
1868-1916
Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Tr2
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Memoranda, 1810, made by Thomas R. Joynes on a journey from Virginia and Ohio to Kentucky.
Dates:
1810
Collection
Identifier: UA 2.09
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Personal papers of and concerning Julian Alvin Carroll Chandler, president of William & Mary. The collection includes biographical materials, a student notebook kept at John Hopkins University; scrapbook of letters compiled in honor of the fifteenth anniversary of Chandler's presidency; and correspondence, 1895-1916. There is correspondence of Frederic William Boatwright and some letters concerning the Richmond Academy, the Women's College of Richmond, and Richmond College....
Dates:
1893-1934
Collection
Identifier: 00/05/UA 5.009
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The bulk of the collection includes drafts, proofs, publicity material, photographs, correspondence, and related material from the writing career of Wilford Kale. Material is available for Hark Upon the Gale, Private Homes in Williamsburg, The Brafferton: The Education of the Indian, Goal to Goal: 100 Seasons of Football at William and Mary, and Parke Rouse's Jamestown. There is also correspondence and reports from the 275th and 300th anniversaries of the College of William and Mary, the...
Dates:
1966-2008
Collection
Identifier: SC 01375
Content Description
Eight letters addressed to Kate Tuck from various individuals regarding family news and personal events. News is of events and people of their town, Scottsburg in Halifax County, Virginia. In one letter, a friend describes two townspeople who had gone insane, Captain Whit, and a dear friend, Mrs. Arnold. Both were taken to the Asylum in Staunton, Virginia. News in the letters also covers other personal matters of townspeople, economic events, and personal matters.
Dates:
1870-1879
Collection
Identifier: 01/Mss. 90 K29
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Four mathematical copybooks, 1841-1849 and n.d., with handwritten entries belonging to Elizabeth Gernet[s] and Isaac Knecht. Also included are S. Augustus Mitchell's First Lessons in Georgraphy for Young Children (1870) and Peter Parley's Method of Telling About Georgraphy to Children (1840).
Dates:
1840-1870
Collection
Identifier: UA 5.631
Content Description
Graduate student Kelly Organski interviewed five female student-athletes who were enrolled in the early to mid-1970s at William & Mary. During their time, Title IX was passed in 1972, prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs and activites. These transcripted audio files include alumnae Jane Bates, Jean Blackwell, Mary Anne Blazek, Peg Hutchinson, and Mindy Wolff.
Dates:
2019
Collection
Identifier: SC 01610
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Sound recording on a 45 Victor record titled, "Virginian Judge: Southern Court Scene- First Session, Part I and II (on reverse side)." The recording was done by the Victor Talking Machine Company and featured Walter C. Kelly. It was billed as a humorous monologue.
Dates:
circa 1920
Collection
Identifier: SC 00967
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Collection includes two official copies of Kentucky and Virginia's acts to confirm and establish a boundary line. The acts were fixed by Commissioners appointed by both states. Though the two acts serve similar purposes, they differ in how each Commissioner's report was written and rendered as official copies. The Kentucky document is dated 26 May 1803 and it has several discrete parts. It contains (1) a copy of the "Agreement between the commissioners of the states of Virginia...
Dates:
1799-1803
Collection
Identifier: UA 6.044
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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
Collection
Identifier: SC 00393
Content Description
Copy of a recollection of life in Williamsburg as an African American from the Ketron family, particularly concerning local draft board practices during the ramp up of involvement in the Vietnam conflict. The letter, directed to the attention of the Lemon Project on the campus of William and Mary, highlights the observations of this family and clear recollections that African American men, especially poorer men, were drafted in this town at a much higher rate than their white...
Dates:
2017 February 17
Collection
Identifier: SC 01243
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Typescripts of material concerning Richard Bland, (1710-1776), of Williamsburg, Virginia composed mainly of biographical and genealogical information on Bland and his family and information about the Bland House in Williamsburg, Virginia. Also included, biographical material on Henry Wetherburn in connection with running his tavern in Williamsburg. This material concerns the dates of 1671-1776 although the typescripts are not from that era. The typescripts of the articles and notes on the...
Dates:
1950
