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Caroline Maury Baker Papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA 5.249
Scope and Contents

This collection includes a scrapbook created by Baker while a student at William & Mary. It is largely clippings combined with handwritten notes. The paper is very fragile. A copy has been made for patron use. Also included are two letters written to her by her son, Tom Hunter, while he was a student at William & Mary in 1967.

Cary Grant William and Mary Photograph

 Collection — Container: Small Collections Box 125, Folder: 1
Identifier: SC 01772
Content Description

A black and white photograph of a female William and Mary student and Cary Grant ducking under an archway of raised arms at a dance. There is writing on the back of the image that reads, "Grant + WM+Mary student (pres of German club) leading figure at club dance in Williamsburg."

Center for the Study of Equality Records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 293
Scope and Contents

This collection contains booklets from a 2001 conference entitled "American Becoming: Racial Trends and their Consequences" from the Center for the Study of Equality at the College of William and Mary.

Central New Hampshire Congregational Club Minute Book

 Collection
Identifier: SC 01333
Scope and Contents Minute book, 1891-1921, of the Central New Hampshire Congregational Club. Meetings were held three times per year at different Congregational Churches throughout New Hampshire, including in Concord, Manchester, and Nashua, and consisted of a social hour, business meeting, dinner, musical entertainment, and a keynote lecture. Keynote speakers include Dartmouth College presidents S.C. Bartlett and W.J. Tucker, University of Vermont president M.H. Buckham, Christian Endeavor Society president...

Office of the Chancellor. John Stewart Bryan

 Collection
Identifier: UA 99.001
Scope and Contents

This collection contains the correspondence of John Stewart Bryan from 1926 to 1944, including when he served as Chancellor of the College of William and Mary from 1942-1944. Included is correspondence about fraternities on campus; the construction of William Barton Rogers Hall; and the financing and construction of James Monroe Memorial Hall (now Monroe Hall), a men's dormitory.

Meta J. Chapman Diaries

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Identifier: MS 00163
Scope and Contents Contains three handwritten diaries that once belonged to Meta J. Chapman of Pennsylvania. The first diary is for the year 1929, and contains information about the weather, family gatherings, birthdays, playing bridge, and other activities of daily life. There is an entry for everyday from January 1 through May 10, but the rest of the diary is blank. The second diary is for the year 1930, and is a travel diary of a trip Meta took through Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania from...

Charles D. Elliot Diary

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00903
Scope and Contents

Diary of surveyor and new father. Entries are from August 10, 1870 to September 8, 1870. Writes of working on surveying jobs in Somerville and Wakefield, MA. Writes of opening an office in Somerville. Begins with the birth of his first child, a son.

Charles Page Bryan Autograph Album

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Identifier: Mss. MsV Auto3
Scope and Contents

Autograph album and guest book, 1892-1897, of [Charles Page Bryan, diplomat], containing autographs, poems, and sketches by visitors to "Byrd's Nest," Elmhurst [Chicago, Ill.] and by visitors, 1913-1917, to his home in Washington, D. C. The volume also contains photographs.

George W. Chesbrough Diary

 Collection
Identifier: SC 01024
Scope and Contents

Diary, 1851, of George W. Chesbrough, a Methodist minister from Niagara County, New York. Concerns Chesbrough's teaching of sabbath school, preaching, and attendence at religious conferences along the Lake Erie coast. Also details the people with whom he met, primarily other ministers, Bible passages upon which he wrote sermons, and the chores he did.

Mary Jane and Sallie Chisholm Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00914
Scope and Contents

Letter from an unknown female to an unknown person about "Grandpap helping Polly Parnell to move into a new house," anticipating a visit every friday night, school out in March, weddings, new dress and hurt arm. March 1, 1871. Includes 5 envelopes addressed to either Mary Jane or Sallie Chisholm in German Settlement, Preston County, Virginia and sent from Waterford, Pennsylvania, Grafton, Virginia or Topeka, Kansas.  No dates on the envelopes.

Christian-Charles Family Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00623
Scope and Contents Candid photographs of Christian and Charles families, 1920's and 1930's, in Williamsburg, Virginia. Includes photograph of a group of women around an indoor pool, with Margaret Lewis Tuthill noted; photographs of the Charles/Christian house from the front (facing Prince George Street), the side (facing Prince George and Nassau Streets) and the rear (facing Duke of Gloucester Street); and group shots of family and friends in front of the house. Names mentioned are...

John Church Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2012.405
Scope and Contents

Papers, circa 1880s-1890s, of John Church, a music publisher from Cincinnati, Ohio. Includes legal documents, financial documents, letters, photographs, a book relating to music theory, and material relating to the settlement of Church's estate after his death. Also includes records from the John Church Company, 1924-1929.

Lottie V. Clark Papers

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Identifier: Mss. 65 C54
Scope and Contents Papers of members of the Clark family of Amelia County, Virginia, dated 1849, 1889-1899, 1915. The collection consists primarily of letters written to Lottie V. Clark of Namozine, Amelia County, Virginia, by Anthelia Holt and other friends in Chesterfield County, Virginia, which discuss social, religious, and family matters, and Anthelia's work in a cotton mill. In addition, there are letters, invitations, and poems, 1849, 1890, and n.d., addressed to Martha Susan Clark and Missouri A....

S.H. Cleveland Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2008.58
Scope and Contents

Papers, 1887-1900, of Pennsylvania sawmill worker S.H. Cleveland. The collection takes the form of 13 diaries and several deposit slips. The diaries chronicle the daily activities of S.H. Cleveland. Cleveland writes of work, his engagement and marriage, travels, and various other aspects of his life.

Ann Coffey Papers

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Identifier: SC 01146
Scope and Contents Contains one typed transcript of a diary as well as a scrapbook of photographs entitled "The Coffey Pot" by Ann Coffey for her daughter Ann Elaine Coffey. The diary gives an account of the daily life of Ann and Ann Elaine, from large events like Ann Elaine's birth, her first day of school, her adventures at camp, moving to different towns, and a family trip to Niagara Falls, to everyday occurrences including being bitten by the neighbor's scottie dog and getting a perm for her hair. The...

Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington Coleman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 00007
Scope and Contents

The collection contains the papers of Williamsburg resident Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington Coleman and includes correspondence, Coleman's personal writings, various publications, legal and financial papers, and artifacts.

Coleman-Wilson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 96 C67
Scope and Contents Letters, chiefly 1919-1964, written by Mary Haldane Begg Coleman (1875-1967) of Williamsburg, Virginia, to Julia Gardiner Tyler Wilson (1881-1965), of Charlottesville, Virginia. Diaries of Mary Haldane Begg Coleman and Isabella Haldane.Other correspondents include Janet Coleman Kimbrough, Mary H.B. Coleman's daughter and Alida Wilson Davidson, the daughter of Julia Gardiner Tyler Wilson.Scrapbooks containing information on John Tyler, Tyler descendants, and the Tucker...

Collection of Spanish Language Manuscripts

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 1.16
Scope and Contents

Includes printed and manuscript material written in Spanish and originating from Spain and Spanish-speaking countries in North America and South America. The collection is currently being processed and new items will be added on an ongoing basis. For this reason, the indicated date range is approximate at this point. This collection has multiple creators, which have not been indexed at this time.

College Women's Club Records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 19
Scope and Contents

This collection includes bylaws and constitution, minutes, financial records, clippings, correspondence, and other material related to the College Women's Club, a faculty organization at the College of William and Mary.

Gertha Sykes Collins Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2011.487
Scope and Contents Primarily this is a collection of love letters written between 1942-1944 to Gertha Barbara Jean Sykes residing in St. Louis, Missouri and James NMI Dansby, an African-American soldier in the United States Army. There are also letters from two other Army soldiers, Jack Smith, stationed in the Pacific and Benjamin D. Collins, an aircompany soldier, whom Sykes married in 1949. The letters begin when Dansby joined the Army and started basic training in Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg,...

Colonial Dames of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Susan Constant Committee

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2004.15
Scope and Contents

This collections includes organizational records of the Susan Constant Committee of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Material such as scrapbooks, news clippings, meeting minutes, correspondence, and related material is available.

Colonial Echo Records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 8.001
Scope and Contents The collection includes photographs and artifacts created for use in the College of William and Mary yearbook, the Colonial Echo.  Note that many yearbook photographs may be part of the University Archives Photograph Collection due to the various copies made over time and the irregular accessioning of these photographs.Acc. 1987.036 is an album containing photographs used by EG Swem,Jr., as business manager, in the preparation of the 1931 Colonial Echo, Presented by EG Swem,Jr....

Colonial Pageant Photographs and Programmes

 Collection
Identifier: SC 01752
Scope and Contents

Oversize photograph of Williamsburg Colonial Pageant, Griffith, photographer from Newport News, Virginia, 1921.  In very poor condition Photograph of the pageant, cut into 7 pieces.  One rolled photograph added in 2011, location uncertain in 2022. 2 programmes of the event.

Cookbook (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

 Collection
Identifier: MS 00149
Scope and Contents

Cookbook, circa 1900-1910, of an unknown person from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Includes recipes both cut out of a newspaper and glued into the volume as well as hand written recipes. There are also assorted newspaper clippings unrelated to cooking that have been glued into the volume.

Giles B. Cooke Papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA 5.100
Scope and Contents The collection includes Cooke's student scrapbook from the College of William and Mary (black and orange felt cover). a college notebook related to biology, diplomas, yearbooks, correspondence, photographs of various Arbor Day events across southern states, a 1923 William & Mary class photograph, publications written by Cooke, and ephemera (membership cards, voter card).It also includes Cooke's Chi Beta Phi pin, a felt green pillow cover with gold lettering and the Temple...

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Bruton Parish Church (Williamsburg, Va.) 5
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Brown, Frances Bland Coalter, 1835-1894 3
Brown, Henry Peronneau, 1883-1942 3
Coalter family 3
Coalter, John, 1769-1838 3
Coleman, Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington, 1832-1908 3
Taliaferro family. 3
Tucker, St. George, 1752-1827 3
Williamsburg High School (Williamsburg, Va.) 3
American Red Cross 2
Braxton family 2
Brown family 2
Camp Peary (Va.) 2
Christopher Newport University 2
Coalter, Maria Rind, d. 1792 2
Coalter, St. George Tucker, 1809-1839 2
Coleman, Mary Haldane Begg, 1875-1967 2
College of William and Mary 2
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College of William and Mary. Backdrop Club 2
College of William and Mary. Board of Visitors. 2
College of William and Mary. William and Mary Theatre 2
Cunningham family 2
Eastern State Hospital (Va.) 2
Galt family 2
Galt, William Richard, 1818-1892 2
Keiter, Edmund 2
Kimbrough, Janet C 2
Mason, J. M. (James Murray), 1798-1871 2
Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC 2
National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century. Virginia Society 2
National Society of The Colonial Dames of America 2
National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Virginia 2
Peninsula News (Toano, Va.) 2
Perrin family 2
Phi Beta Kappa. Virginia Alpha (College of William and Mary) 2
Pulaski Club (Williamsburg, Va.) 2
Randolph, John, 1773-1833 2
Tabb family 2
Taliaferro family 2
Thurston, Edward C. 2
Tucker, Henry St. George, 1780-1848 2
Tucker-Coleman Family 2
Tyler, John, 1790-1862 2
Tyler, John, Jr., 1819-1896 2
Virginia Gazette (Williamsburg, Va.) 2
Virginia Shakespeare Festival 2
Washington family 2
Williamsburg Reunion (Va.) 2
Woman's Club of Williamsburg (Williamsburg, Va.) 2
Woman's National Christian Temperance Union 2
6th Battery of Binghamton . N. Y. Veterans 1
Adair's Club (Brooklyn, New York) 1
Adams, Florence 1
Addis, Charlotte Emily 1
Akin, Mary H. 1
Aldrich, Walter 1
Alexander, James W. 1
Alfriend, Frank H., 1841-1887 1
Allen, Frances 1
Allison White and Company 1
Allison, Anna Dorsey Cooke 1
Allison, Bertha E. 1
Alpha Delta Sigma Chapter, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. 1
Alpha Phi Alpha. Kappa Pi Chapter (College of William & Mary) 1
American Chemical Society 1
American Fireside Club 1
Anderson Gallery 1
Anderson Seminary 1
Anderson, Walter B. 1
Anthelia Holt 1
Archer family 1
Archer, William Segar, 1789-1855 1
Armistead Family 1
Armistead, Cary Champion, d. 1944 1
Armistead, Dora Travis, 1890-1979 1
Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities--History. 1
Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. Colonial Capitol Branch 1
Austin family 1
Austin, Archibald, 1772-1837 1
Baber, T.B. 1
Baker, Carolina Maury 1
Baldwin, Olive 1
Ball family 1
Ball, Hugh 1
Ball, Mary Pierce 1
Ballard, Harlan H., Jr. 1
Barber, Henry J., 1918-2002 1
Barhite, Blanche Luella, b. 1887 1
Barlowe, Cynthia Beverly Tucker Kimbrough 1
Barnes, C.M. 1
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