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Blair, Banister, Braxton, Horner, Whiting Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 39.1 B58
Scope and Contents Letters, chiefly 1765-1817, of the Blair, Banister, Braxton, Horner, and Whiting families. Correspondents include John Blair (1732-1800), Anne (Blair) Banister and Mary (Blair) Braxton Burwell Prescott. Many of the letters are written by women.Subjects covered in the collection include the Baron de Botetourt, William Tryon, Martha Washington, dueling, social life and customs, marriage and courtship, medicine, the Richmond theater fire, slavery, War of 1812, the College of William...

Parke Shepherd Rouse, Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 71 R75
Scope and Contents Professional and personal papers of Parke Shepherd Rouse, Jr. who was a newspaper writer and columnist and an author of books on Virginia. His personal correspondence covers his college years at Washington and Lee University; his years in the Navy during World War II; his early career while working in Richmond, Virginia and Newport News, Virginia; and his business affairs. His college and Navy letters include not only the letters he wrote home, but the letters he received from...

Virginia Cities Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 39.4 V82ci
Scope and Contents

Artificial collection of papers relating to various cities in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Williamsburg (Va.) Area Ephemera Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 1.09
Scope and Contents This collection covers the Greater Williamsburg Area, including Williamsburg, Yorktown, Jamestown, James City County, York County and other nearby communities. It includes gifts and purchases whose contents are ephemeral in nature and not well-suited as stand-alone collections.  The items are usually transient documents of everyday life and can include menus, flyers, advertisements, and programs but can also be postcards, games, ticket stubs, and the like. The majority of...

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Photographs 3
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Education--Virginia--Williamsburg--19th century 2
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Jamestown (Va.)--History--20th century 2
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Jamestown Festival (1957) 2
Programs 2
Theater 2
Virginia--History--20th century 2
Williamsburg (Va.)--History--18th century 2
Williamsburg (Va.)--Photographs 2
Account books 1
African American physicians 1
African Americans--Virginia--Williamsburg 1
Agricultural exhibitions--Virginia--Williamsburg 1
Agriculture--Virginia--History--19th century 1
Alexandria (Va.)--History 1
Announcements 1
Authors, American--20th century 1
Baptist Church--Virginia--History 1
Blue Ridge Springs (Va.) 1
Broadsides 1
Bumper Stickers 1
Calendars 1
Catalogs 1
Charles City County (Va.)--History--20th century 1
Charlottesville (Va.)--History 1
Clippings (information artifacts) 1
College of William and Mary--History--18th century 1
College of William and Mary--History--20th century 1
College of William and Mary--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 1
College of William and Mary--Presidents 1
College of William and Mary--Students 1
College theater--United States 1
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation--History 1
Community theater 1
Courtship--Virginia--History 1
Danville (Va.)--History 1
Dueling--Virginia 1
Editorials 1
Education, Higher--Virginia--History 1
Fliers (printed matter) 1
Fredericksburg (Va.)--History 1
Gardening--Virginia 1
Greeting cards 1
Hanover Courthouse (Va.)--History 1
Harrisonburg (Va.)--History 1
Hopewell (Va.)--History 1
Horticultural literature 1
Invitations 1
Isle of Wight County (Va.)--History--20th century 1
James City County (Va.)--Tercentenary 1
Jamestown Exposition (1907) 1
Jamestown Ter-centennial Exposition (1907) 1
Journals (periodicals) 1
Land use--Virginia--Williamsburg 1
Legal documents 1
Lexington (Va.)--History 1
Lynchburg (Va.)--History 1
Manuscripts (document genre) 1
Maps 1
Marriage--Virginia 1
Matthew Whaley School (Williamsburg, Va.) 1
Medicine--Virginia--History--18th century 1
Menus 1
Methodist Church--Virginia--Williamsburg 1
Microfilms 1
Newspaper columns 1
Norfolk (Va.)--History 1
Obituaries 1
Occasion for the Arts 1
Pamphlets 1
Petersburg (Va.)--History 1
Petitions 1
Physicians--Virginia--Williamsburg 1
Playbills 1
Postcards 1
Postcards--Virginia 1
Postcards--Virginia--Jamestown 1
Posters 1
Prints 1
Providence Forge (Va.)--History 1
Public libraries--Cultural programs 1
Receipts (financial records) 1
Reports 1
Research notes 1
Restaurants--Virginia--Williamsburg 1
Richmond (Va.)--History--Theater disaster, 1811 1
Signs (declaratory or advertising artifacts) 1
Slavery--Virginia--History--18th century 1
Slavery--Virginia--History--19th century 1
Smithfield (Va.)--History--20th century 1
Speeches 1
Strasburg (Va.)--History 1
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Transportation--Virginia 1
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 1
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Destruction and pillage 1
United States--History--War of 1812 1
United States. Navy--History--20th century 1
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Bruton Parish Church (Williamsburg, Va.) 2
The Virginia Comedians 2
Williamsburg Businessmen's Association (Va.) 2
Banister, Anne Blair 1
Bannister family 1
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Blair family 1
Blair, James, 1656-1743 1
Blayton, James Blaine, Sr., (Dr.) 1
Botetourt, Norborne Berkeley, Baron de, ca. 1718-1770 1
Braxton family 1
Busch Gardens (Williamsburg, Va.) 1
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation 1
Crump family 1
Daily Press (Hampton Roads, Va.) 1
Dunlop family 1
Educational and Civic Association (Williamsburg, Va.) 1
Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006 1
Grace Street Gardens (Richmond, Va.) 1
Horner family 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Mathews, Mary 1
Meade, Robert Douthat, 1903-1974 1
Michaux, Lightfoot Solomon 1
Middle Plantation Agricultural Society (Williamsburg, Va.) 1
Miller, Shirley Fout 1
Miss Williamsburg Pageant (Va.) 1
Mt. Ararat Baptist Church (Williamsburg, Va.) 1
Peninsula News (Toano, Va.) 1
Peninsula Transit Corporation 1
Prescott, Mary Blair Braxton Burwell 1
Pulaski Club (Williamsburg, Va.) 1
Richmond Theatre (Richmond, Va.) 1
Rouse, Parke Shepherd, Jr. 1
Simpson family 1
Special Collections Research Center 1
The Palace (Williamsburg, Va.) 1
Tryon, William, 1729-1788 1
Unitarian Church (Williamsburg, Va.) 1
United States Amateur Ballroom Dancers Association. Chapter #609 (Williamsburg, Va.) 1
United States. Army. Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, 25th 1
Virginia Gazette (Williamsburg, Va.) 1
Virginia Independence Bicentennial Commission 1
Virginia Shakespeare Festival 1
Washington, Martha, 1731-1802 1
Whiting family 1
Williamsburg Baptist Church (Williamsburg, Va.) 1
Williamsburg Community Council (Williamsburg, Va.) 1
Williamsburg Female Academy (Williamsburg, Va) 1
Williamsburg High School (Williamsburg, Va.) 1
Williamsburg Male Academy (Williamsburg, Va) 1
Williamsburg Military School (Williamsburg, Va) 1
Williamsburg Press, Inc 1
Williamsburg Theater (Williamsburg, Va.) 1
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