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Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, Colonial Capitol Branch Records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 82 A7
Scope and Contents Records of the Colonial Capitol Branch of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities(APVA), Williamsburg, Va. Includes correspondence, financial and legal documents, minutes and photographs. The long run of minutes, 1900-1976, document the development and work of this preservation group which took an interest in the historical sites of Jamestown and Williamsburg, Va. There is material relating to the Branch's work to preserve and restore the Capitol grounds, the...
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Hamilton Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 01/Mss. Acc. 2009.139 and 2011.520
Scope and Contents

Papers pertaining to the Hamilton Family of Norge, James City County, Virginia and related families. Among the formats included are diaries, scrapbooks,  correspondence, Norge High School records, church records, photographs, slides, CD-Roms, certificates, financial records, a Langley Air Force base photo album, and news clippings and ephemera.

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Vinda Elizabeth Kibler Letters

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Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2009.597
Scope and Contents Letters written to Vinda Elizabeth Kibler, also called Kitty or Elizabeth, between 1917-1924, while she was at Bridgewater College in Rockingham County (1917-1922), the State Teacher's College in Harrisonburg (1923), and at her teaching post in Front Royal, Virginia (1923-1924). Most letters are from her mother and father on their small farm in Woodville, Rappahannock County, Virginia. Also included are a number of letters from other relatives, businesses, and a pen pal in France....
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Niebling Duke Family Letters

 Collection — Container: Small Collections Box 124, Folder: 1
Identifier: SC 01758
Content Description Twenty-four letters written by members of the Niebling and Duke families. Seventeen of them are written to Salena Niebling Duke. Salena Niebling married Richard Hardin Duke and moved to Richmond, Virginia from Baltimore, Maryland. The couple had three sons, Frank M. Duke, Walter Garland Duke, and Charles R. H. Duke. This group of correspondence spans geographically from Virginia and Maryland to Massachusetts and Illinois, and features letters from all three Duke sons, Richard Duke, his...
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Rice Family Papers, 1905-1966

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Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2011.077
Scope and Contents

Contains letters, publications, and photo negatives collected by the Rice family of Staunton, Virginia, from 1905-1966. Betsy Rice was involved with the local American Youth Hostels, and many of the booklets relate to hostels in the 1940s. A more detailed description is provided at the series level..

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Rosalie White Irwin Letters

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Identifier: MS 00342
Content Description A collection of two hundred and twenty-one letters sent to Rosalie White Irwin, a resident of Richmond, Virginia, dated from 1937 to 1950. Most of the letters included are from a variety of male admirers or boyfriends, including her future husband, Ted. The men are all serving in the army at the end of World War II and in the years following. Their letters provide descriptions of army and camp life both at home and abroad in India, the Philippines, Australia, Japan, and the South Pacific....
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Whittle-Greene Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 65 W61
Scope and Contents

Papers of Cloe Tyler Whittle Greene. Mostly diaries, 1855-1924, before and after her marriage to John Newport Greene. Also includes printed cards, photographs, verse, newspapers, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and prints of colonial and Civil War figures. Topics covered by the diaries include secession, Civil War, Reconstruction, travel, life in Norfolk, Virginia and marriage.

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American diaries--Women authors 1
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Capitol (Williamsburg, Va.) 1
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College of William and Mary--History--20th century 1
College of William and Mary--Students 1
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French language 1
Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration--Virginia--Williamsburg 1
Historic sites--Conservation and restoration 1
James City County (Va.)--History 1
Jamestown (Va.)--History--20th century 1
Legal documents 1
Letter writing 1
Love-letters 1
Minutes 1
Negatives 1
Newsletters 1
Norfolk (Va.)--History--19th century 1
Norfolk (Va.)--History--20th century 1
Norge (Va.)--History 1
Norwegian Americans--Virginia 1
Parent and child 1
Powder Magazine (Williamsburg, Va.) 1
Printed ephemera 1
Public gaol (Williamsburg, Va.) 1
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
Scrapbooks 1
Slides (photographs) 1
Soldiers--United States--Correspondence 1
Tourist camps, hostels, etc 1
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 1
Virginia--Description and travel 1
Virginia--History--19th century 1
Virginia--History--20th century 1
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Women--Diaries 1
Women--Education--Virginia--History 1
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Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. Colonial Capitol Branch 1
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Greene family 1
Greene, Cloe Tyler Whittle, 1843-1925 1
Greene, John Newport, 1842-1902 1
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Hamilton, Frances H., 1928-2008 1
Rice family 1
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