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Postcards of buildings and scenes in Williamsburg, Yorktown and Jamestown.

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Scope and Contents Cardboard signs not associated with a business or event.  "Office Hours...," "No Parking," "Safety First" and "Caution-Glass Front."

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Invitations, announcements and greeting cards from local residents for weddings, dances, christmas parties, holidays and dinners. Includes a few Christmas cards from Janet C. Kimbrough, a humorous invitation to a housewarming at the Mary-Wall Christian House, a 1945 Christmas card from Jean and Kenneth Chorley, a 1940 invitation to the 333rd annual Jamestown celebration and envelopes with postmarks for Williamsburg (1938) and Jamestown (1940).

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Invitation, menu, toasts, guest list for dinner honoring the Lord Mayor of London during his visit to Colonial Williamsaburg,

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Menu, toasts, guest list for luncheon honoring Lord Mayor of London Colonel Sir Cullum Welch by the City Council of Williamsaburg at the Williamsburg Inn

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Invitation from the Virginia 350th Anniversary Commission and Jamestown-Williamsburg-Yorktown National Celebration Commission to reception in honor of Queen Elizabeth II. Menu, toast, guests

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Scope and Contents Eight black and white photographs of early Williamsburg, circa 1930's. Includes pictures of excavation, newly restored buildings, reconstruction, a pile of construction material and "Williamsburg Seven Flags" Confederate flag.

Scope and Contents Scope and Contents Six photographs of Williamsburg, probably reproduced about 1984 from originals. Duke of Gloucester Street Scene (1890), Duke of Gloucester Street - The Same View about 35 years later (undated), Grammar and "Mattey" School (undated), Matthew Whaley Student Representative Committee with names listed (December 18, 1936), Class Picture of Class of 1942, probably Matthew Whaley School, with names listed (1942 or earlier) and Matthew Whaley class officers sitting on wall with...

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Four black and white photographs, possibly of the Governor's Palace garden.  Gift of Mrs. Bryant Prentice.

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Proceedings of the Tenth Anniversary Banquet in Honour of the Colonial Williamsburg Hostesses, April 12, 1944 and a photograph of hostesses at the banquet with most identified.

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Scope and Contents Two photographs of female students standing in front of Williamsburg High School.  One has a notation, "'Shep,' Evelyn and Bernice Maynard, 1930" and the other, "Mary Margaret Brooks." There is also one small photograph identified as "Cabin in Jamestown, Va. 1930."

Scope and Contents Scope and Contents Photograph of 5 girls, identified as Anna Henderson, Christine Henderson, Jean Etheridge, Mary Wall Christian and Unknown, circa 1920. Photograph of Mary Wall Christian and Jack Goodwin, circa 1920. Photocopy of a photograph of the "Old Capital Club" in front of the Imperial Building, Rollo Theater. Names included are Horace Ridenour, Collier Harris, Bill Anderson, Jimmy Vaiden, Ray Miller, George Kidd, Clyde Thorpe, Elmer Farthing, Dan Jones, Hugh Hitchens, Cecil Layne,...

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Photograph album with gold plaque on cover "David E. Hooker, Teachers Reunion Luncheon, October 25, 1989."  Given by Jeanne Etheridge through Turner Richardson.  125 photographs with some people identified.

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Photograph of Williamsburg Rotary Club, circa 1930. Seventeen men out of 28 are identified: Bob Kyger, Bob Watts, Les O'Hara, Rawls Byrd, W.A.R. Goodwin (Willie), Bela Norton, Lloyd Williams, Dr. Henry Davis, Gardiner Brooks, Bob Hornsby, Randolph Tucker, Pappy Gooch, Vernon Geddy, Bob Wallace, Merritt Foster and Bat Peachy.

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Photograph of Girl Scouts with Mrs. Edith Porterfield, Leader. Identified girls are: Barbara Richardson, Janet Campbell, Mary McGinnes, Dora Dean Rogers, Sue Green, Edie Porterfield, Frances Allen, Mary Alice Holland, Mary Sacalis, Evelyn Stryker, Dorothy Belvin, Nancy Bozarth, Helen Youong with Ted, Frances Cottingham and Doris Freidman. Note says "copy of a picture which belongs to Evelyn Stryker Peyton).

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Photograph of 9 unidentified women in colonial costumes. Photograph of a large group of unidentified men and women, possibly on a tented stage, dressed in costumes from all eras. Circa 1930.

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Photocopy of a photograph of a group of Matthew Whaley students standing in front of the school: Bill Geiger, John Taylor, Baxter Bell, Bill Brigham, Joe Hall, Calvin Johnston, Harold Swengle, Channing Hall, Bowry, Buddy Geddy, Dave Bartlett, Clarence Belvin and Page Dye. Photograph of a group of people around and on the porch of a hotel that stood near the Powder Magazine. Both photographs circa 1900. Gift of James Bowry via Donna Garrett.

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Hand tinted 8x10 photograph of Martha Terrell Warburton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Gregory Warburton of Williamsburg, Virginia and granddaughter of Mrs. R.J. Rhodes of the North End. Nachman's Studio.

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Newspaper photograph with caption about the demolition of the Towne & Country Laundry Inc.  Two photographs of the Towne & Country Laundry Inc., one when it was called Collins Cleaning & Dyeing Co.  Circa 1930's and 1990's.

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Copy of a photograph of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's visit to Williamsburg, Virginia on July 5, 1936. The photograph shows Roosevelt and his wife, Eleanor, in a limousine in front of the Old Tower Church in Jamestown. The people in and near the limousine have been identified on a photocopy of the picture. Gift of Rodney Taylor.

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Programs for weddings and funerals of Williamsburg residents given by members of the Williamsburg Historic Records Association.