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Box 15

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Contains 23 Results:

Box 15

 File — Box: 15
Identifier: id124680
Scope and Contents From the Series: Scope and Contents An artificial grouping of papers, 1632-1973, relating to Williamsburg, Va. Includes maps, articles, drawings, letters, material concerning the Battle of Williamsburg, papers concerning the Black population, photographs of buildings, church bulletins, papers concerning civic organizations, deeds, leases, tax receipts, advertisements, papers concerning education and items relating to Colonial National Historical Park. The materials that comprise this collection were donated...
Dates: 1663-1980

Box 15

 File — Box: 15
Identifier: id124682
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Letter written by W. Fred Andrews of Gahanna, Ohio to Parke Rouse, Jr. reminiscing about his days as a student at the College of William and Mary. 3 pp. June 22, 1974.

Dates: 1974

Box 15

 File — Box: 15
Identifier: id124683
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

ALS of C.P. Armistead, Williamsburg to the Hon. R. Taylor Scott, Richmond, Virginia, dated 27 May 1893 regarding his brother running for office, probably the Electoral Board of James City County.

Dates: 1893

Box 15

 File — Box: 15
Identifier: id124684
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Photocopies of newsclippings, journal articles, and Bruton Parish Bulletins about the 1991 dig by New Agers to search for evidence in the Bruton Parish Churchyard, Williamsburg, Virginia, to support the controversial claim that Sir Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays plus a formula for establishing world peace. August 20, 1992 photographs of Bruton Parish Churchyard digs with Marley Brown, archaelogist of Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. One photograph shows the Middleton Vault.

Dates: 1991, 1992 and 1999

Box 15

 File — Box: 15
Identifier: id124685
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Scope and Contents Handwritten letter from Samuel Putnam, Union soldier and Orderly in the 25th Massachusetts Volunteers while at Camp West near Williamsburg to his father. Putnam writes about the occupation of Williamsburg by Union soldiers, the destruction of the College of William and Mary, the "insane asylum" and his theft from a Williamsburg home of several letters by Thomas Jefferson, several letters by "revolutionary maidens" and one letter by Richard H. Lee.

Dates: undated

Box 15

 File — Box: 15
Identifier: id124686
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Scope and Contents Fragment of a receipt signed by Abram. Loc[ke]tt and "Wmsburg Dist" noted on the bottom of the page. undated.

Dates: undated

Box 15

 File — Box: 15
Identifier: id124687
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Signed Williamsburg Tricentennial poster, 1999.

Dates: 1999

Box 15

 File — Box: 15
Identifier: id124688
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Handwritten letter from O. F. Helner of the 33rd regiment, at a camp near Williamsburg to Mr. Abbott. He writes about the Battle of Williamsburg and a visit by General McClellan to the camp. May 1862. Transcript included.

Dates: 1862

Box 15

 File — Box: 15
Identifier: id124689
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Scope and Contents Playbills, 1891-1896 and undated, from plays staged at Cameron Hall at Eastern State Hospital with actors and actresses from the College of William and Mary and the local community. Some programs list "The Virginia Comedians" as the producer. Playbills, 1910 and 1916, from plays staged at the College of William and Mary.

Dates: 1891-1896, 1910 and 1916

Box 15

 File — Box: 15
Identifier: id124690
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Scope and Contents Union soldier's letter, "John" to his sweetheart "Mary," 12 May (1862), regarding the occupation of Williamsburg by the North. Mention of Northern dead in Williamsburg after the battle and burying soldiers. Excerpt, "...there are some very pretty girls here but I noticed that some of them were [wear] the rebel flag on their bosom." Stereoscopic card, "War Views, View of Court House and Church, Hospital of the 2nd Corps, Yorktown, Va." No. 2374, published by E. & H.T....
Dates: [1862]

Box 15

 File — Box: 15
Identifier: id124691
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Four pamphlets: Catalogue of the Williamsburg Female Academy, 1851-1852; two copies of the catalogue of the Williamsburg Military School, Richmond, 1853; prospectus and catalogue of the Williamsburg Male Academy, 1852-1853.

Dates: 1851-1853

Box 15

 File — Box: 15
Identifier: id124692
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Broadside dated December 14th, [1941], announcing a Citizen's Mass Meeting...at the Williamsburg Theatre.

Dates: [1941]

Box 15

 File — Box: 15
Identifier: id124693
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Three photographs of the Dedication of Ft. Magruder, May 5, 1952 by Von Dubell Studio.    Publication of a letter by The Business Men's Association of the City of Williamsburg about "taking early steps for the proper  celebration at Jamestown of the Tercentennial Anniversary...did on the September 7, 1900, in the name of the citizens of Williamsburg, pass resolutions for the appointment of a committee..."  On inside of pamphlet, resolutions are listed.

Dates: 1900 and 1952

Subject: Solar Eclipse to Tax Lists

 File — Box: 15, Folder: 33
Identifier: id108663
Scope and Contents From the Series: Scope and Contents An artificial grouping of papers, 1632-1973, relating to Williamsburg, Va. Includes maps, articles, drawings, letters, material concerning the Battle of Williamsburg, papers concerning the Black population, photographs of buildings, church bulletins, papers concerning civic organizations, deeds, leases, tax receipts, advertisements, papers concerning education and items relating to Colonial National Historical Park. The materials that comprise this collection were donated...
Dates: 1663-1980

Subject: Tourists' Guides to Williamsburg

 File — Box: 15, Folder: 34
Identifier: id108667
Scope and Contents From the Series: Scope and Contents An artificial grouping of papers, 1632-1973, relating to Williamsburg, Va. Includes maps, articles, drawings, letters, material concerning the Battle of Williamsburg, papers concerning the Black population, photographs of buildings, church bulletins, papers concerning civic organizations, deeds, leases, tax receipts, advertisements, papers concerning education and items relating to Colonial National Historical Park. The materials that comprise this collection were donated...
Dates: 1663-1980

Subject: Williamsburg to Zoning

 File — Box: 15, Folder: 35
Identifier: id108670
Scope and Contents From the Series: Scope and Contents An artificial grouping of papers, 1632-1973, relating to Williamsburg, Va. Includes maps, articles, drawings, letters, material concerning the Battle of Williamsburg, papers concerning the Black population, photographs of buildings, church bulletins, papers concerning civic organizations, deeds, leases, tax receipts, advertisements, papers concerning education and items relating to Colonial National Historical Park. The materials that comprise this collection were donated...
Dates: 1663-1980

Solar Eclipse, 1925

 Item — Box: 15, Folder: 33
Identifier: id108664

Speech and Pronunciation of Residents

 Item — Box: 15, Folder: 33
Identifier: id108665
Scope and Contents From the Series: Scope and Contents An artificial grouping of papers, 1632-1973, relating to Williamsburg, Va. Includes maps, articles, drawings, letters, material concerning the Battle of Williamsburg, papers concerning the Black population, photographs of buildings, church bulletins, papers concerning civic organizations, deeds, leases, tax receipts, advertisements, papers concerning education and items relating to Colonial National Historical Park. The materials that comprise this collection were donated...
Dates: 1663-1980

Tax Lists, 1946-1949

 Item — Box: 15, Folder: 33
Identifier: id108666
Scope and Contents

List of paid Capitation Taxes for 1946, 1947 and 1948 on or before May 7, 1949 and for 1947, 1948 and 1949 on or before December 12, 1949.

Dates: 1946-1949

Tourists' Guides

 Item — Box: 15, Folder: 34
Identifier: id108668
Scope and Contents From the Series: Scope and Contents An artificial grouping of papers, 1632-1973, relating to Williamsburg, Va. Includes maps, articles, drawings, letters, material concerning the Battle of Williamsburg, papers concerning the Black population, photographs of buildings, church bulletins, papers concerning civic organizations, deeds, leases, tax receipts, advertisements, papers concerning education and items relating to Colonial National Historical Park. The materials that comprise this collection were donated...
Dates: 1663-1980

Williamsburg Bibliography

 Item — Box: 15, Folder: 34
Identifier: id108669
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents "A Bibliography on the Restoration of Colonial Williamsburg" by Elsie Alderson.

Dates: 1663-1980

Williamsburg, Jamestown, Yorktown and Colonial National Historical Park, 1928, 1930-1934

 Item — Box: 15, Folder: 35
Identifier: id108671
Scope and Contents Scope and Contents Flyers, pamphlets and more on the Colonial National Monument, "A Brief History of and Guide Book to Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown" by Rutherfoord Goodwin (signed by the author), "A Historic Old Virginia Pilgrimage" brochure for taking a cruise to the Williamsburg area on April 29 - May 1, 1930 and brochures and reprints about Williamsburg, Jamestown and Yorktown. Tourist hardback book, "Historic Peninsula of Virginia," distributed by Stone and Webster, Inc. in 1928....
Dates: 1928, 1930-1934

Zoning Ordinances, 1945 and 1947

 Item — Box: 15, Folder: 35
Identifier: id108673
Scope and Contents

A Proposed Zoning Ordinance for the City of Williamsburg, 1945. Zoning Ordinance Adopted 1947.

Dates: 1945 and 1947