Manuscripts - People and Family Names
Scope and Contents
An artificial collection of papers created from material acquired during the 1930's and 1940's. Mostly letters, financial records, published material and official records of individuals in Virginia and elsewhere. Includes documents and signatures of well known people, such as Benjamin Harrison, John Randolph and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Dates
- Creation: 1621-1949
- Creation: Majority of material found in 1800's
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access:
Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.
Conditions Governing Use:
Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.
Extent
6.00 Linear Feet
Arrangement of Materials:
Alphabetical by last name.
Acquisition Information:
This collection is an artificial grouping of material given to Special Collections or purchased by Special Collections during the 1930's and 1940's.
Subject
- Allison White and Company (Organization)
- Centenary Church (Organization)
- Exchange Bank of Virginia (Organization)
- Titanic (Steamship) (Organization)
- Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (Organization)
- Forrest Family (Family)
- Marshall, John, 1755-1835 (Person)
- Valentine, Edward Virginius, 1838-1930 (Person)
- West, Francis (Person)
- West, John (Person)
Genre / Form
- Correspondence
- Financial records
- Lectures
- Military records
- Orders (military records)
- Pamphlets
- Printed ephemera
Geographic
- Jefferson County (W.Va.)--History--18th century
- Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
- Mississippi--History--19th century
- New York (State)--Social life and customs
- Virginia--Genealogy
- Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- Virginia--Politics and Government--18th century
- Virginia--Social life and customs--19th century
- West Point (Va.)--History--19th century
Occupation
- Apprenticeship programs--Virginia
- Merchants--Massachusetts
- Physicians--Virginia--York County
- Women physicians--Virginia--History--19th century.
- Women--Physicians
Topical
- Agriculture--History--19th century
- Cotton trade--Southern States--History--19th century
- Debt
- Decedents' estates
- Dyes and dyeing
- Finances
- Horses--Virginia
- Insurance, Fire--Virginia--History
- Jefferson County (W.Va.)--History--19th century
- Legal documents
- Logging--Virginia
- Lumber trade--Virginia--History
- Mecklenburg County (Va.)--History--19th century
- Medical practice--Virginia--History
- Merchants--Virginia--Richmond
- Merchants--West Virginia--Jefferson County
- Petersburg (Va.)--History--19th century
- Richmond (Va.)--History--19th century
- Slavery--Southern States--History
- Texas--History--Republic, 1836-1846
- Tobacco industry--Virginia--Richmond
- United States--Abolition--History
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States--Slavery
- Wills
- Women--Virginia--Social life and customs
- Title
- Guide to the Manuscripts - People and Family Names
- Author
- Finding Aid Authors: Anne T. Johnson.
- Date
- 2008-10-28
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- The collection description/finding aid is written in English
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Research Center Repository