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Parker Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 1989.20
Scope and Contents This collection contains papers related to the Parker family, notably Lena Parker and Bessie Parker of Cumberland County, Virginia. The bulk of the letters are from Harry Leach and Edward Embly, both living in Washington, D.C., which contain descriptions of everyday life. Other letters are from friends, family, the State Teachers College, schools where Lena Parker taught, and from children she had taught. The collection also includes photographs, greeting cards, and genealogical material....
Dates: 1923-1939
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Fay Parr Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 01/Mss. Acc. 2008.50
Scope and Contents

Family papers and a collection of Williamsburg ephemera and memorabilia of Fay Parr.  Includes family photograph albums, press photographs of Williamsburg residents and buildings, newspaper clippings of events and people in Williamsburg, Virginia and publications from Williamsburg and other places.

Dates: 1920-2002
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

George W. Parson Papers

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Identifier: Mss. 65 P25
Scope and Contents

Papers, 1917-1961, collected by George Washington Parson, a physician who practiced in Texarkana, Texas. Includes scholarship certificates from the College of William and Mary; diplomas, honors, and photographs.

Dates: 1917-1961
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Davis Young Paschall Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA 2.14
Scope and Contents This collection is composed of material collected by and about College of William and Mary President Davis Y. Paschall including articles and speeches, biographical material, material related to his inauguration as College President, news clippings, and subject files. The collection documents Paschall's life from his days as a student at the College of William and Mary, his tenure as Superintendent of Public Instruction for the Commonwealth of Virginia (1957-1960) and President of the...
Dates: 1931-2001; Majority of material found in 1931-2001
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Paul F. Reilly Photographs and Scrapbook

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Identifier: MS 00031
Scope and Contents This collection consists of a scrapbook compiled by Lieutenant Commander Paul F. Reilly concerning the occupation of Okinawa by the U.S. Navy immediately following World War II. It contains over a hundred black and white photographs of naval officers, the naval base, locals (some Japanese, some likely indigenous), ceremonies, locals working, and countryside, as well as ceremony brochures, a roster of American military in the region, currency, illustrations, and memos concerning the...
Dates: 1945-1946
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

John Barton Payne Papers

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Identifier: Mss. 39.1 P29
Scope and Contents

Chiefly letters and telegrams, 1920, received by John Barton Payne on the occasion of his appointment as U. S. Secretary of the Interior. Includes miscellaneous correspondence, some pertaining to his work as chairman of the American Red Cross and photographs, 1920, of Alaska.

Dates: 1893-1934; Majority of material found in 1920
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Peebles-Watson-Arrington Papers

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Identifier: Mss. 98 P34
Scope and Contents

Papers and photographs, 1871-1913, bulk 1873-1904, of the Peebles, Watson and Arrington families of Norfolk and Petersburg, Va. Includes letters, primarily from Joseph Littleton Peebles to Kate S. Watson during their courtship and marriage. Also includes genealogical notes. The Peebles farm is a part of the Petersburg National Battlefield Park.

Dates: 1871-1913
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Fred Pernert Papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2008.162
Scope and Contents This collection is composed of letters written by Fred Pernert of the U.S. Army to his girlfriend and family while stationed in Vietnam during the Vietnam War.  Letters discuss his job, the activity within his Division, a USO performance, Viet Cong attacks, deaths of friends and his friendship with a local Vietnamese family. Letters also show his growing feelings for his girlfriend, Connie Sleamon. A photograph album includes pictures of his buddies and shows the activities around his camp,...
Dates: 1967-1968
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Charles and William Person Papers

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Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2014.207
Scope and Contents This collection contains letters, photographs, scrapbooks and other material related to the Person, Hickman, and Walton families. The bulk of the collection contains material related to Charles and William Person. Included are photographs of family members and the trips they took including to the York River, scrapbooks of the Person-Walton family and scenes from the Newport News Naval Yards, and an oral history conducted with William Person describing Williamsburg, Virginia in the first half...
Dates: circa 1900-2011; Majority of material found in 1920-1950
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Person Family Papers

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Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2005.56 and 2006.44
Scope and Contents Papers, 1872-2002, of the Person family including account book of both Charles Person and William Person, Sr. and other account books and diaries; papers having to do with family life in the city of Williamsburg, Virginia in the early-to-mid 1900s; pictures, mainly of the Person family, which also show the lifestyle of the early-to-mid 1900s; artifacts, including fans and a Williamsburg Laundry thermometer and a charcoal drawing of a residence. Box 5 (oversize) also includes...
Dates: 1872-2002 and undated
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Phi Kappa Omicron Scrapbook

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Identifier: UA 7.017
Scope and Contents

Scrapbook of information about and pictures of Williamsburg,  the College of William and Mary, and the Home Economics Department. The book also contains newspaper clippings about the society and its members.

Dates: 1933
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Photograph Album (Hampton, Virginia)

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Identifier: MS 00161
Scope and Contents Photograph album, circa 1910-1919, of an unidentified resident of Hampton, Virginia. Pictures are primarily of African Americans and include shots of teachers in a summer program at Hampton Institute, a man in a baseball uniform, formal posed pictures, a trip to Alabama, tobacco leaves, and of the teachers and students of the Lott Carey School, among many others. Some photographs have notations beside them, while the majority do not. Names recorded are S. Vaughn, R. Whiting, L. Bass, S....
Dates: circa 1910-1919
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Photograph Collection of Military Life in Virginia

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Identifier: MS 00347
Content Description

This collection includes eighty two black and white photographs that depict American life at a military base in Virginia. Situated during the Korean War, these photographs mainly feature soldiers. However, couples, women, children, food preparation, and landscapes are also included in the collection. The collection belonged to a soldier stationed at Fort Lee and Fort A. P. Hill in Virginia in 1950. The photos were likely taken by a member of the Quartermaster Corps.

Dates: 1950
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Photographs of Groxall Family Tombstones

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Identifier: SC 01160
Scope and Contents

Two photographs of the Groxall Graveyard in Garrison Forest.  Notes on the reverse of photographs give description and history of graveyard and some of the occupants. One photograph is of Charles Croxall's stone who died in 1782.

Dates: undated
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Photographs of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Funeral Procession

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Identifier: SC 01179
Scope and Contents

Thirteen photographs of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt funeral procession, 1945, and two photographs of Harry S. Truman, one of his being sworn in as President.

Dates: 1945
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Photographs of the St. Augustine Institute

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Identifier: SC 01163
Scope and Contents

Two photographs of the exterior of St. Augustine Institute.

Dates: undated
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Miriam D. Plotnicov Papers

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Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2010.331
Scope and Contents

The Miriam D. Plotnicov papers consist of her research notes, slides and photographs relating to beads of indigenous peoples from different parts of the world.

Dates: circa 1960-2003
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

John Garland Pollard Papers

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Identifier: Mss. 70 P76
Scope and Contents Letters, clippings, manuscript volumes, business papers, pamphlets, genealogical material, family papers, reports, memos, campaign literature, photographs of John G. Pollard (1871-1937), lawyer, educator, statesman, humanitarian, and governor of Virginia, 1930-1934. Prominent correspondents include Henry Watkins Anderson, Lady Astor, Frederic W. Boatwright, David K. E. Bruce, John Stewart Bryan, William Jennings Bryan, Harry F. Byrd, James Cannon, J. A. C. Chandler, Calvin Coolidge,...
Dates: 1683-1968; Majority of material found in 1856-1937
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Adam Porter Papers

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Identifier: SC 00359
Scope and Contents

The collection contains the letters of Pvt. Adam Porter of Co. A, 194th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, stationed at Camp Carroll, Md. to his sister and brother-in-law in Williamsport, Pa. He describes camp life. Included is a pen and ink sketch of Porter and a carte-de-visite of him in uniform.

5 items.

Dates: 1864
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Lina Nancy Potter Papers

 Collection — Box: Small Collections Box 82, Folder: 1
Identifier: SC 01198
Scope and Contents Correspondence, photographs, and military papers concerning the World War II service of 2nd Lt. A.N.C. Lina Nancy Potter (1901-1975) of Narragansett, Rhode Island. Potter enlisted in the United States Armed Forces in 1942 and served as a nurse in a military hospital in India from 1943-1945. This collection consists of 23 letters of her outgoing wartime correspondence to family (her Aunt Harriet E. Weaver and Uncle Charles Weaver of Rhode Island) in the United States, her military papers, and...
Dates: 1942-1945
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Paul Presnell and Alice Arikawa Photograph Album

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Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2011.057
Scope and Contents

Photograph album, circa 1940s, of Paul Presnell and Alice Arikawa, a married couple. Presnell is a former member of the United States military. Photograph album primarily concerns a trip to Silver Spring, Florida, taken by the couple, but also includes pictures of a parade and of what seems to be the couple's child.

Dates: circa 1948
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Maude M. Presslor Papers, 1913-1972

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Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2009.593
Scope and Contents This collection contains the diaries, correspondence, and biographic material of Maude M. (Mathas) Presslor (1898-1972) of Montezuma, Indiana from 1913-1970. Earlier papers and material relate to Presslor's life as a teenager and young adult during the World War I period. Letters from friends serving in France and a baby book detailing the early years of her three children, Betty Jean (Presslor) Montgomery, Frank Richard Presslor, and David Lowell Presslor, date from this period. Later...
Dates: 1913-1972; Majority of material found in 1943-1972
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

John Morris Presson Photograph Album, 1910-1916

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Identifier: UA 5.057
Scope and Contents Photograph album, circa 1910-1916, of John Morris Presson (W&M Class of 1916).  The album contains photographs of William & Mary's campus,  the Virginia Peninsula, and the Blue Ridge Mountains. Included are pictures of President Woodrow Wilson's 1916 visit to campus, the Lord Botetourt statue, male students, the 1916 championship baseball team, Coach Dexter Draper, Bob Newton, as well as campus buildings, including various fraternity houses and the old gymnasium. The...
Dates: 1910-1916
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Department of Psychology Records

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Identifier: 00/UA 145
Scope and Contents

The records of the Department of Psychology at the College of William and Mary include correspondence, meeting minutes, policies and procedures, reports, information about the graduate program, selected syllabi and other class material, research notes, fliers, and copies of the

Dates: 1944-2007
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Thomas E. Pugh Papers

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Identifier: MS 00005
Scope and Contents The papers of Rev. Thomas E. Pugh, who was the minister of the Williamsburg Baptist Church in Williamsburg, Virginia from 1952-1981. Collection includes both personal and ministerial related material.  Early photograph albums show Pugh's childhood but his correspondence and papers begin with his student days at the University of Richmond in 1940.  He attended Crozer Theological Seminary and Harvard University Chaplain School before becoming an Army Chaplain in 1944.  His first...
Dates: 1914-2001; Majority of material found in 1941-1998
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

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