Fay Parr Papers
Collection
Identifier: 01/Mss. Acc. 2008.50
Family papers and a collection of Williamsburg ephemera and memorabilia of Fay Parr. Includes family photograph albums, press photographs of Williamsburg residents and buildings, newspaper clippings of events and people in Williamsburg, Virginia and publications from Williamsburg and other places.
English
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Fay Parr was born in 1913 on Spotswood Street next to the Governor's Palace in Williamsburg, Virginia and is one of Williamsburg's oldest residents. She was a journalist with the Daily Press and also an editor with the Napa Daily Record in California, and has written stories about many of the people and places she loved.
Fay was married to James Erwin Dula in 1929, to Macbaeth Danel Dula in 1960 in Vallejo, California and Harold Hudson Fox in 1972. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki:
2.50 Linear Feet
Arranged into five series: Series 1: Personal Papers, Series 2: Photographs, Series 3: Newspaper clippings, Series 4: Printed material, Series 5: Williamsburg related ephemera.
Gift.
The following books have either been transferred to Swem Stacks, Rare Books, Archives or deaccessioned.
Growing Up in Williamsburg, Ed Belvin, 1981; History of Public Schools in Williamsburg, Rawls Byrd, 1968; Williamsburg, Facts and Fiction, 1900-1950, Ed Belvin, undated; History of the Williamsburg Baptist Church, 1828-1978, Susie Dorsey, 1976 (2 copies); History of James City and James River Baptist Churches, Jesse E. Bowman, undated; Colonial Williamsburg, Its buildings and Gardens (moldy, deaccessioned. Others in stacks); Garden Flowers, Galahad Books, New York City, 1973; An Eighteenth-Century Garland, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1951; New World Science Series, Primer of Sanitation by Ritchie, World Book Company, State Edition. Undated; Stories of Great American Heroes, American Patriot’s Series, Rand McNally and Company; A Plan for Individualizing Study Remedial English, Walter Scribner Guiler and Ralph L. Henry, Ginn and Company, 1942 ; The Williamsburg Collection of Antique Furnishings, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1973; The Parson’s Page, Thomas E. Pugh, 1977; Telephone Almanac, 1957, Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia; Twenty-five lessons in Citizenship by D.L. Hennessey, Ninety-third Edition, 1985-86; The Ports of Virginia, published by Virginia State Ports Authority, 1955 (?); I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes; To Lift the Spirit, selections made by Julia Oxrieder for Fay Lionel Parr, May 1, 1995; Kiss the Door Knob: Folkways and Folklore of Floyd County, Virginia, Julia Woodbridge Oxrieder, 1996 and Spices and Herbs, Lore and Cookery by Elizabeth S. Hayes, 1961.
Part of the Special Collections Research Center Repository