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Knights of the Church. Puer Lodge No. 1 (Goldsboro, Wayne County, N.C.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2009.159
Scope and Contents Minute book, 1905-1908 and loose items, 1908 and undated of the Knights of the Church, Puer Lodge No. 1 (Goldsboro, Wayne County, N.C.). The religious organization for boys met in the I.O.O.F. (Independent Order of Odd Fellows) Orphanage in Goldsboro and at least some of the members were orphans of this I.O.O.F. institution.Recorded are passwords for each year, officers, ranks (like Grand Knight and Knight Secretary), members, attendance, reports, etc. Mentions songs performed...
Dates: 1905-1908
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Andrew Knox Letter

 Collection
Identifier: SC 01620
Scope and Contents Four page letter from Knox from Hampton, Va. near Fortress Monroe to his wife, Sarah in Ddanbury, Connecticut. He was attached to the 1st Regiment of the Connecticut Volunteers and was involved in the push to take the peninsula under McClellan's Division. His letter describes to rubble Hampton was reduced to after their shelling and anticipates that the Army would move through Yorktown and take control of it by nightfall. He also anticipated that the Army would take Richmond quickly. The...
Dates: 1862 April 5
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Anna Koch to Erich Koch Letter

 Collection
Identifier: SC 01324
Scope and Contents

Letter, 3 December 1946, from Anna Koch, Frankfurt a.M., Germany, to her son Erich Koch,  a prisoner of war (ISN31G, 130194 MI). Anna believed Erich to be kept in Camp Patrick Henry in Newport News. At the time of the letter she had not heard from her son since August 1944.

She mentions that Erich was promoted to train inspector during his absence, is relieved that he was never a member of a political party and gives him news on relatives.

Dates: 1945 December 3
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Charles E. Kolodzey Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2009.563 and 2011.276
Scope and Contents

Included are 32  diaries, 1947-1978 (1955 is missing) of  engineer Charles E. Kolodzey of Texas with entries of varying length and regularity.  The author mentions activities related to work, family and social life.  There are also photographs and slides of Charles Kolodzey from his work and personal life. Charles E. Kolodzey designed and constructed the first offshore oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico.

Dates: 1947-1978
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Amos Koontz Papers I

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 65 K83
Scope and Contents The collection consists mainly of certificates presented to Amos R. Koontz, M.D., by the army, together with his medals in a frame, and membership certificates in organizations. Included is a competition for designs for National Military Dress (1809); and shoemaker’s account books of Harden Keyser (1849-1861), one of which Mattie Keyser used as a scrapbook at a later period and in which she wrote autograph poems; a souvenir booklet of the Panama Pacific Exposition (1915); and genealogical...
Dates: 1809-1965; Majority of material found in 1936-1965
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Amos Koontz Papers II

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 91 K83
Scope and Contents Personal and professional papers of Amos Ralph Koontz, surgeon. The personal papers, 1865-1986, include the correspondence of Koontz, his wife, Besse (Stocking) Koontz and their son, James William Koontz. Included are travel diaries, documents concerning the College of William and Mary and Johns Hopkins and material relating to social clubs and societies. The professional papers contain correspondence relating to Koontz' medical practice, political material, documents pertaining to military...
Dates: 1865-1970
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Anthony Korczak Letters

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00043
Scope and Contents

11 letters written to Army Private Anthony Korczak from Dot Tocha, a nursing student from Buffalo, NY in 1945. At the time, Korczak was stationed at Camp Howze, Texas and Fort Meade, Maryland.  The letters describe Tocha's day-to-day activities and affections for Korczak.

Dates: 1945
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Korean American Diaspora Studies Blog Book

 Collection
Identifier: UA 179
Scope and Contents

Blog book titled "Lessons in Jeong: What we learned in Korean American Diaspora Studies from our professors, from our class, and from each other." In the class, students blogged about Korean American and Asian American issues. Hayley Daniels compiled key points from their work and put them in this book.

Dates: 2016 Spring
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Harry E. Krauss III Anglican Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 91 K86
Scope and Contents Letters from the archbishops of Canterbury and York, Anglican and Episcopal bishops and British prime minister, William Ewarts Gladstone chiefly concerning church business. Included among the correspondents are William E. Gladstone, John Henry Hobart, A. F. Winningham Ingram, Richard Channing Moore, Charles Manners Sutton, and Archibald Campbell Tait. Also included are etchings of Richard Channing Moore and of Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London; and the published volume "The House of Bishops"...
Dates: 1765-1935
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Kurt Richard Weimer letters

 Collection
Identifier: SC 01890
Scope and Contents

This collection contains 46 letters and 4 cards sent by Kurt Richard Weimer to Helen Kriner from 1965 to 2017, while serving as a U.S. marine in Vietnam.

Dates: 1965-2017
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Christine Kusyk diary

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00057
Scope and Contents Diary of Christine Kusyk (Ukrainian: Христа Кузик), with entries and illustrations from 1944-1956. Some entries are school notes in history and literature. The volume is labelled "Христа Кузик Денник 1944" (English: Christa Kusyk [Diary] 1944); the Ukranian word for diary is "щоденник" so this may be a shortening. The collection also contains three loose, undated pages written in English in which Christine describes her feelings about the United States, after having lived here for more than...
Dates: 1944-1956, and undated
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Kyger Funeral Home Records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 1988.03 and 2011.568
Scope and Contents Acc. 1988.03 includes funeral records from Robert W. Kyger's and Robert P. Miller's undertaking business, 1920s to 1940s, Williamsburg. There are 3 volumes as well as nine scrolls. Acc. 2011.568 includes four funeral home ledgers from 1929-1935,1936-1940, 1942-1947, and 1948-1949. There are also order forms for headstones, letters from people unable to pay for the funeral, and various government documents from World War II, including a receipt for tires that the Kyger family gave to the...
Dates: 1920-1949
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Kyger Marriage Commissioner Records

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Identifier: SC 01166
Scope and Contents

Marriage records kept by Robert W. Kyger when he was the Williamsburg, Virginia Marriage Commissioner.

Dates: 1944-1964
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

David Kyle Account Book

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Identifier: Mss. MsV Ame80
Scope and Contents

Account book of David Kyle, merchant of Harrisonburg, Rockingham County, Virginia.  256 pages.

Dates: 1810-1864
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

L. C. Watts Receipt Book

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Lev2
Scope and Contents

Receipt book, 1887-1909, of L. C. Watts, sheriff of Albemarle County, Virginia.

Dates: 1887-1909
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

L. D. Switler Notebook

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Identifier: Mss. MsV Nge1
Scope and Contents

Notes, 1870, taken by L. D. Switler while a student at the Webster Institute, Norfolk, Virginiaa. The notes concern history, mathematics, philosophy, geography, and Latin.

Dates: 1870-1870
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

L. Guild Letter

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00301
Scope and Contents Letter from L. Guild, Medical Director, Army of Northern Va., Camp near Culpepper Court House, Va., to [?], no place. He requests lists of medical officers, hospital stewards, nurses and attendants from the division who were left behind at Gettysburg or any other point behind enemy lines with the sick and wounded. The letter contains the official signatures of Hunter McGuire, Medical Director, 2nd Corps, Army of Northern Va., Samuel B. Morrison, Chief Surgeon, Early's Division, and Surgeon...
Dates: 1863 July 30
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

L. J. Bell Notebook

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Nla7
Scope and Contents

Notes, circa 1840-1860, by L. J. Bell, of Accomack County, Virginiaa. concerning law. The volume includes loose papers.

Dates: 1840-1860
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

L. Q. C. Lamar Letter to Beverly Tucker

 Collection
Identifier: SC 01221
Scope and Contents

[1883?] ALS

Mississippi Senator Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (1825-1893) to Nathaniel Beverly Tucker (1820-1890) sending regrets that he will be unable to attend Tucker's birthday celebration.

Dates: circa 1883
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

La Organización de Hispanos Unidos records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 7.101
Dates: 1994-1999
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Lacrosse Records,

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Identifier: 00/UA 181.1
Scope and Contents The collection contains programs, brochures and media guides related to the women's lacrosse team at the College of William and Mary from the years 1973-2010. There are also two photographs of individual players. Additionally, publications related to the United States Women's Lacrosse Association as well as the College of William and Mary women's field hockey team are also present. Lacrosse sticks, game footage on VHS, DVD, and mini-DV, artifacts for the education collection, and textiles...
Dates: 1973-2010
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Walter Lada Letters to Irma Marhan

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Identifier: SC 01691
Scope and Contents Two handwritten letters from Walter Lada to his girlfriend Irma Marhan while Lada was stationed in Bainbridge, Maryland at the United States Naval Training Center, perhaps as part of the lead-up to the Korean War. Marhan's address is Long Island City, New York, and Lada refers to her as "Hon" in both letters. Both letters are written on U.S.N. stationery. The first sheet includes an illustration of a topless woman with a short hair bob dancing for a group of sailors. The second...
Dates: 1952
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Ladies of Alpha Day for Admitted Students Quotes

 Collection — Container: UA Small Collections Box 11
Identifier: UA 7.092
Content Description

46 yellow 5 1/4 x 5 1/4 inch cards with quotes from a survey conducted by the Ladies of Alpha. The survey asked women around campus to respond to the questions, "What does 100 years of women's co-education mean to you, and who inspires you?"

Dates: 2019
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Ladies' Soldiers' Aid Society Minute Book

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00959
Scope and Contents Minute book of the Ladies' Soldiers' Aid Society of Monroe, Michigan. Includes minutes of the Society, whose purpose was to "furnish such hospital stores as are not known to be furnished by the general government." This would typically involve making packages and shipping them to the hospitals of various armies. Also includes list of members, constitution, and bylaws of the organization. Among the members listed are Elizabeth Bacon, the wife of George Armstrong Custer. She was elected...
Dates: 1862-1865
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Lady Nancy Astor Letter to Thomas Edward Lawrence

 Collection — Container: Small Collections Box 116
Identifier: SC 01712
Scope and Contents

Very short letter where Lady Astor asks for a copy of Col. Thomas Lawrence's new book.

Dates: 1924-03-20
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

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State Male Normal College of Virginia 15
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Monroe, James, 1758-1831 14
Phi Beta Kappa. Virginia Alpha (College of William and Mary) 14
United States Congress 14
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Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture 13
University of Virginia 13
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Marshall, John, 1755-1835 12
Virginia House of Delegates 12
Washington, George, 1732-1799 12
Chandler, J. A. C. (Julian Alvin Carroll), 1872-1934 11
College of William and Mary. Dept. of Music 11
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Paschall, Davis Young, 1911-2001 11
United States. Army 11
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Mary II, Queen of England, 1662-1694 10
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Virginia State Senate 9
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Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 7
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College of William and Mary. Dept. of Biology 7
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Galt family 7
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Nichol, Gene R., 1951- 7
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Washington family 7
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College of William and Mary. Dept. of Government 6
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