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Box 4

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Contains 29 Results:

Box 4

 File — Box: 4
Identifier: id286710
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains legal and business records documenting the operations of Mr. Gary's tailoring and dry-cleaning business, the West End Valet Shop, as well as family estates. Detailed business ledgers survive for the years 1944 to 1953. Legal documents comprise leases and deeds signed by Mr. and Mrs. Gary, as well as deeds, plats, and other materials about estate settlements concerning the related Gary, Randall, Parker, Peagley, Baker, and Outten families.

Dates: 1944-2007

Letters to Newspapers, 1973-1981

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 1
Identifier: id286712
Scope and Contents

Copies of 3 letters sent by Mr. Gary transmitting information about the shop and proposals for advertisements.

Dates: 1973-1981

Letters to Governmental Agencies, 1973-1981

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 2
Identifier: id286714
Scope and Contents

Copies of 3 letters sent by Mr. Gary

Dates: 1944-2007

Photographs and Negatives of West End Valet Shop, 1977 and undated

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 3
Identifier: id286716
Scope and Contents

Includes a series of photographs of Mr. Gary in his shop and of his equipment taken by a Colonial Williamsburg photographer in 1977, one of which was selected for the newspaper article "A Tailor-made Gift for CW."

Dates: 1977 and undated

Newspaper Clippings about the West End Valet Shop, circa 1977

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 4
Identifier: id286718
Scope and Contents

Articles "Dry Cleaning Equipment Given to CW" and "A Tailor-Made Gift for CW" regarding Mr. Gary's donation of his 1948 Hoffman dry cleaner to Colonial Williamsburg

Dates: circa 1977

Advertisements and Business Card

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 5
Identifier: id286720
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains legal and business records documenting the operations of Mr. Gary's tailoring and dry-cleaning business, the West End Valet Shop, as well as family estates. Detailed business ledgers survive for the years 1944 to 1953. Legal documents comprise leases and deeds signed by Mr. and Mrs. Gary, as well as deeds, plats, and other materials about estate settlements concerning the related Gary, Randall, Parker, Peagley, Baker, and Outten families.

Dates: 1944-2007

Blank Forms and Letterhead

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 6
Identifier: id286725
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains legal and business records documenting the operations of Mr. Gary's tailoring and dry-cleaning business, the West End Valet Shop, as well as family estates. Detailed business ledgers survive for the years 1944 to 1953. Legal documents comprise leases and deeds signed by Mr. and Mrs. Gary, as well as deeds, plats, and other materials about estate settlements concerning the related Gary, Randall, Parker, Peagley, Baker, and Outten families.

Dates: 1944-2007

Photocopies of Materials re. Tailoring, Sewing, and Crocheting

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 7
Identifier: id286730
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains legal and business records documenting the operations of Mr. Gary's tailoring and dry-cleaning business, the West End Valet Shop, as well as family estates. Detailed business ledgers survive for the years 1944 to 1953. Legal documents comprise leases and deeds signed by Mr. and Mrs. Gary, as well as deeds, plats, and other materials about estate settlements concerning the related Gary, Randall, Parker, Peagley, Baker, and Outten families.

Dates: 1944-2007

"Notary Public", 1956-1976

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 8
Identifier: id286735
Scope and Contents

Includes, among others, a 1956 guidebook "Laws Relating to Notaries Public" by the Commonwealth of Virginia, and a certificate and membership card from the Notaries Public Association.

Dates: 1956-1976

Leases, 1950 and 1967

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 9
Identifier: id286740
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains legal and business records documenting the operations of Mr. Gary's tailoring and dry-cleaning business, the West End Valet Shop, as well as family estates. Detailed business ledgers survive for the years 1944 to 1953. Legal documents comprise leases and deeds signed by Mr. and Mrs. Gary, as well as deeds, plats, and other materials about estate settlements concerning the related Gary, Randall, Parker, Peagley, Baker, and Outten families.

Dates: 1950 and 1967

Lease, 1967

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 10
Identifier: id286745
Scope and Contents

Rolled-up and brittle item

Dates: 1967

Leases, 1972-1975

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 11
Identifier: id286750
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains legal and business records documenting the operations of Mr. Gary's tailoring and dry-cleaning business, the West End Valet Shop, as well as family estates. Detailed business ledgers survive for the years 1944 to 1953. Legal documents comprise leases and deeds signed by Mr. and Mrs. Gary, as well as deeds, plats, and other materials about estate settlements concerning the related Gary, Randall, Parker, Peagley, Baker, and Outten families.

Dates: 1972-1975

Deeds, 1952 and 1954

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 12
Identifier: id286755
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains legal and business records documenting the operations of Mr. Gary's tailoring and dry-cleaning business, the West End Valet Shop, as well as family estates. Detailed business ledgers survive for the years 1944 to 1953. Legal documents comprise leases and deeds signed by Mr. and Mrs. Gary, as well as deeds, plats, and other materials about estate settlements concerning the related Gary, Randall, Parker, Peagley, Baker, and Outten families.

Dates: 1952 and 1954

Deeds and Power of Attorney, 1961-1964

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 13
Identifier: id286760
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains legal and business records documenting the operations of Mr. Gary's tailoring and dry-cleaning business, the West End Valet Shop, as well as family estates. Detailed business ledgers survive for the years 1944 to 1953. Legal documents comprise leases and deeds signed by Mr. and Mrs. Gary, as well as deeds, plats, and other materials about estate settlements concerning the related Gary, Randall, Parker, Peagley, Baker, and Outten families.

Dates: 1961-1964

"Buck Henry Randall Estate", 1953-1967

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 14
Identifier: id286765
Scope and Contents

Documents found in a folder labeled "Buck Henry Randall Estate," of which Charles Gary was a beneficiary. Randall married Charles' mother Georgia Parker after her divorce with Charlie Gary Sr.

Dates: 1953-1967

Documents regarding Celestine and Clarence Outten, 1959-1962

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 15
Identifier: id286948
Scope and Contents

Legal documents concerning Mr. Gary's sister Celestine and her husband.

Dates: 1959-1962

Deeds regarding Charlie E. Gary Estate, 1960

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 16
Identifier: id286770
Scope and Contents

Documentation about the partition of Mr. Gary's father's property between the related Gary, Peagler, Parker, Outten, and Baker families.

Dates: 1960

Wallace R. Parker Estate Documents, 1960 and undated

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 17
Identifier: id286775
Scope and Contents

Charles Gary's uncle on his mother's side. Comprises a bill of estate settlement costs and a plat of Parker's estate near Ironbound Rd.

Dates: 1960 and undated

Gary vs. Wade Case Documents, 1969-1970

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 18
Identifier: id286780
Scope and Contents

Letter and deeds pertaining to a court case about Randall family property.

Dates: 1969-1970

Purchase Money Deed of Trust with Mr. and Mrs. Givens, 1972

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 19
Identifier: id286785
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains legal and business records documenting the operations of Mr. Gary's tailoring and dry-cleaning business, the West End Valet Shop, as well as family estates. Detailed business ledgers survive for the years 1944 to 1953. Legal documents comprise leases and deeds signed by Mr. and Mrs. Gary, as well as deeds, plats, and other materials about estate settlements concerning the related Gary, Randall, Parker, Peagley, Baker, and Outten families.

Dates: 1972

Sales Contract and Deed of Trust with William T. Stone, 1973-1975

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 20
Identifier: id286790
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains legal and business records documenting the operations of Mr. Gary's tailoring and dry-cleaning business, the West End Valet Shop, as well as family estates. Detailed business ledgers survive for the years 1944 to 1953. Legal documents comprise leases and deeds signed by Mr. and Mrs. Gary, as well as deeds, plats, and other materials about estate settlements concerning the related Gary, Randall, Parker, Peagley, Baker, and Outten families.

Dates: 1973-1975

"Peagler File", 1981-1982 and undated

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 21
Identifier: id286795
Scope and Contents

Documents found in a folder labeled "Peagler File" pertaining to Mr. Gary's nephew Owen Peagley, including a curriculum vitae (see Civic Life, series 3, box 5, folder 11), notes about a deed and family property transaction, and a survey map of the Charles E. Gary Sr. estate to be partitioned.

Dates: 1981-1982 and undated

Property Sale to Endowment Association of the College of William and Mary, 1996-1997

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 22
Identifier: id286800
Scope and Contents

Includes inspection reports of the Ironbound Road property and copy of the deed.

Dates: 1996-1997

"Charles Gary Life Estate", 2007

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 23
Identifier: id286805
Scope and Contents

Documents found in a folder labeled "Charles Gary Life Estate Parcel 041" from the Virginia Department of Transportation about rights of way for the Ironbound Road property.

Dates: 2007

Armistead Avenue Development Program, 1976-1983

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 24
Identifier: id286810
Scope and Contents

Short testimony about the history of businesses at 204 Armistead Avenue, letters, and maps regarding a Williamsburg development project.

Dates: 1976-1983