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Historical Pageant of Colonial Jamestown, Williamsburg, Yorktown, Inc. Records

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00624
Scope and Contents

Plans, correspondence, pictures of a proposed historical pageant planned by the "Historical Pageant of Colonial Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown, Inc." in 1939.  The pageant never happened.  Correspondence with Clark Robinson of New York, President  General of the SAR, and others.  Includes prospectus which explains the object of the pageant.  Pageant script called "Symphonic, Out-door Play, Depicting the Colonial Days of Jamestown and Yorktown, Virginia" by John C. Temple.  Copies.

Dates: 1939
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Jamestown Corporation Records

 Collection
Identifier: 01/Mss. 77 C73
Scope and Contents

Records, 1946-1979, of the Jamestown Corporation which was responsible for two of Paul Green's outdoor dramas, "The Common Glory," and "The Founders." Includes certificate of incorporation, by-laws, minutes, yearbooks, scripts, programs, ground plans, costume designs audio-visual materials, photographs, music and loose papers (correspondence and budgets).

Dates: 1946-1979
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Howard Scammon Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 01/Mss. Acc. 1992.38 and additions
Scope and Contents This collection consists of correspondence, clippings, photographs, programs, playbooks and other material collected by William and Mary Theatre professor Howard Scammon. The bulk of the material is correspondence between Scammon and his former students, but the papers also include documentation related to the William and Mary Theatre, The Common Glory, the Jamestown Festival of 1957, other Williamsburg theatre groups and famous William and Mary alumni such as Glenn Close and Linda Lavin. ...
Dates: 1917-1994; Majority of material found in 1940-1970
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

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Jamestown (Va.)--History--Drama 2
Negatives 2
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Birthday cards 1
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Christmas cards 1
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College of William and Mary--Faculty and Staff 1
College theater--United States 1
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Green, Paul, 1894-1981. The Founders 1
Greeting cards 1
Jamestown 350th Anniversary 1
Jamestown Festival (1957) 1
Letters (correspondence) 1
Maps 1
Minutes 1
Notebooks 1
Plays (document genre) 1
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Visitors to Campus--Queen Elizabeth II (1957) 1
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Jamestown Corporation 2
Close, Glenn, 1947- 1
College of William and Mary--Alumni and alumnae 1
College of William and Mary. Dept. of Theatre, Speech, and Dance 1
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Colonial Williamsburg Foundation 1
Dept. of Theatre, Speech, and Dance 1
Green, Paul, 1894-1981 1
Green, Paul, 1894-1981. Common Glory 1
Lavin, Linda, 1937- 1
Long, William Ivey 1
Newport News Women's Club (Va.) 1
Phi Beta Kappa. Virginia Alpha (College of William and Mary) 1
Scammon, Howard, 1911-1999 1
Virginia Shakespeare Festival 1
Williamsburg Historic Records Association (Williamsburg, Va.) 1
Williamsburg Players (Williamsburg, Va.) 1
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