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Anne and Alan Morledge Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2001.23 and Additions
Scope and Contents

Collections of programs, pamphlets and other items from the Williamsburg, Virginia area. Biography and photograph of Comer Clarke Jackson, Manager of Casey's Department Store.

Dates: 1969-2005; Majority of material found in 1969-1988
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Anne Cary Wynne Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00702
Scope and Contents

Papers of Anne Cary Wynne of Williamsburg, Virginia. Includes her high school year book "The Key," with drawings, photographs, jokes, anecdotes, class roles, etc., a play called "The Class Prophecy - 1927" featuring 3 witches, a president and the class of 1927 and her high school diploma.

Dates: 1927
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Dora and Cara Armistead Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2004.24, 2006.54
Scope and Contents Papers from the household of Dora Travis Armistead (1890-1979) and Rowland Cara Armistead, sisters of Williamsburg, Virginia. Includes letters, personal, financial and business papers of Cary Peyton Armistead (1856-1901), father of Dora and Cara, Steward of Eastern Lunatic Asylum (now Eastern State Hospital), and prominent local Episcopal Church and school leader; Eudora Ester Armistead (d. 1940), mother; Cary Champion Armistead (d. 1944), brother, and lawyer for a time in Detroit, Michigan;...
Dates: 1880-1950
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Armistead Journal and Broadside

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00918
Scope and Contents

Broadside, "A Card from the Engineer of The E.L. Asylum" by Galba Vaiden, late engineer of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum, about favoritism in firing and hiring employees. Possibly 1890.

Small notebook, belonging to an Armistead Family member, which includes names of a circa 1910 football team following family account information from 1901. Handwriting is different.

Dates: 1890-1910
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Art Song of Williamsburg Records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2007.58
Scope and Contents This collection contains the records and paperwork related to Art Song of Williamsburg.  This organization existed from 2000 through 2007 and was responsible for an average of three concerts a year.  Their records include papers relating to their creation and termination, financial and tax records, biographies and contracts for the artists they featured, as well as inter-organizational correspondence between board members.  Genevieve McGiffert was the founder and features prominently in the...
Dates: 2000-2007
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

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...
Dates: 1896-1989
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

University Archives Audiovisual Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA 58
Scope and Contents The University Archives Audiovisual Collection is an artificial collection of various audio and visual formats documenting the College of William and Mary campus, events, people, etc. The collection contains analog, magnetic, and digital media and while not comprehensive, it does include material from a variety of time periods and types of events including commencements, Charter Day, building dedications, lecture series, Raft Debates, visiting scholars and distinguished guests, athletic...
Dates: 1930-2015; Majority of material found in 1985-2005
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Autograph Album (Williamsburg, Va.)

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00713
Scope and Contents

Autograph album, 1925-1958, of an unidentified person, likely of Williamsburg, Virginia. Includes the signatures of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., John D. Rockefeller, III, Winthrop Rockefeller, David Rockefeller, Harry F. Byrd, Grace Warren Landrum, James Hardy Dillard, Robert Morton Hughes, W.A.R. Goodwin and his wife, Earl Gregg Swem and Lilia Swem, Westmoreland Davis and Marguerite Davis, John Garland Pollard, Donald W. Davis, and Louise Chandler and Alvin Duke Chandler, among many others.

Dates: circa 1925-1958
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Cynthia Barlowe and Raymond Kimbrough Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 1993.29
Scope and Contents

Papers, 1909-1966, relating to institutions in Williamsburg, Virginia including William and Mary, Matthew Whaley School and Bruton Parish Church collected by Cynthia Barlowe and Raymond Kimbrough.

Dates: 1909-1966
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Cynthia Barlowe Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 01/Mss. Acc. 2001.19 and 2002.63
Scope and Contents

Collection of photographs, newspaper clippings, publications, postcards and other items relating to Williamsburg, Virginia.

Dates: 1902-2001
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Bell Hospital Records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 1995.61
Scope and Contents

Business ledgers of receipts and expenditures for Dr. Baxter I. Bell for Bell Hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia and one folder of loose business papers (25 items). 1926 to 1970. (Acc. 1995.61 and 1999.11)

Dates: 1926-1970
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Birchwood Estates Garden Club Records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 1995.30
Scope and Contents

Scrapbooks, 1960-1990, of the Birchwood Estates Garden Club in Williamsburg, Va. Contains minutes, announcements of programs, photographs, newspaper clippings, correspondence and cartoons.

Dates: 1960-1990
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Leonard Born Papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA 5.048
Scope and Contents The collection includes papers written by Born during the course of his attendance at William & Mary, mainly for English classes. There is also correspondence from 1985 and loose pages from a photo album believed to have been assembled by Born, while a student at William & Mary. The contents are primarily photographs of campus and Williamsburg area from the 1926-1927. Additional photographs relate to life in rural, early twentieth century Virginia, the Newport News Shipyard,...
Dates: 1924-1927, 1985
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Bozarth Brothers Journal

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Ame7
Scope and Contents

Journal, 1912-1913, of Bozarth Brothers, merchants, of Williamsburg, Va.

Dates: 1912-1913
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Bozarth Brothers Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Ame8
Scope and Contents

Ledger, 1913-1916, of Bozarth Brothers, merchants, of Williamsburg, Va., including accounts with the College of William and Mary and with Eastern State Hospital.

Dates: 1913-1916
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Bozarth Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2003.13
Scope and Contents Business and family papers of the Bozarth family. Acc. 2003.13 Scrapbook of Mary Hockaday Bozarth, Worthy Grand Matron of the Virginia Order of the Eastern Star with a list of Matrons and Patrons from 1941 to 1942 and certificates of membership for members of the Pocahontas Chapter 103 located in Williamsburg, Virginia from 1941.  Other related items in the collection is a photograph of Eastern Star women on the way to Bermuda and the Proceedings of the Grand Chapter...
Dates: 1931-1985; Majority of material found in 1931-1962
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

John N. Bozarth Account Books

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 1989.45-
Scope and Contents

Nine account books of John Bozarth, 1925-1932.

December 5, 1930 to November 11, 1931:  Includes Hartford Fire Insurance policy for Mary C. Taylor and Lois S. Nixon, Indemnity Insurance policy for John N. Bozarth and banking information.

Dates: 1925-1932
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

William A. Bozarth Account Book 1

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Alu1
Scope and Contents

Ledger, 1910, of William A. Bozarth, lumberman, Williamsburg, Va., including an account, 1910, with the College of William and Mary for a roof and for delivery of coal.

Dates: 1910
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Benjamin Bray Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2002.35
Scope and Contents

One box plus oversize diploma of Benjamin Bray, William and Mary class of 1949.  He was a Common Glory actor, poet, playwright, teacher and social worker. Papers consist mostly of his poetical writings plus one play written with his brother James.

Dates: 1950-1999; Majority of material found in 1985-1995
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Bright Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 1996.24
Scope and Contents Papers of the Bright Family of Williamsburg, Virginia and Philadephia, Pennsylvania.  Correspondence and business papers of Robert Anderson Bright of Williamsburg, Virginia and his son Robert Southall Bright, College of William and Mary class of 1891 and a Philadelphia lawyer.  Personal and professional correspondence, bills and receipts, photographs and legal papers. Includes letters between Robert Southall Bright while a student at William and Mary to his father and letter...
Dates: 1876-1933
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Marianna Broaddus Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00696
Scope and Contents This collection consists of miscellaneous Williamsburg and Virginia related materials, compiled by Marianna Broaddus. Included are a Colonial Williamsburg Foundation library exhibit catalog (1991), a Williamsburg Reunion booklet, and a print of John Tyler, Sr.'s home in Greenway, Virginia. Also included are photographs, some of which relate to the Christian family, as well as typescripts (in part photocopies) of reminiscences of members of the Christian family about their life in...
Dates: 1917-1991
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Bruton Parish Church Parish Aid Society Minute Book

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Ch7
Scope and Contents

Minute book, 1905-1914, of the Parish Aid Society of Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, Va.

Dates: 1905-1914
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Bucktrout Funeral Home Records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 1997.22
Scope and Contents

8 volumes of burial records, 1916-1945 of the Bucktrout Funeral Home:

Vol 1 Aug 1916-Nov 1920

Vol 2 Nov 1920-Jan 1925

Vol 3 Jan 1925-July 1929

Vol 4 July 1929-Sept 1932

Vol 5 Sept 1932-Dec 1935

Vol 6 Dec 1935-Apr 1938

Vol 7 Apr 1938-May 1942

Vol 8 May 1942-Feb 1945.

Bucktrout Funeral Home Records in Swem Library’s microforms area, 4 reels, call number  F234 .W7 B83.

Dates: 1916-1945
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Capital Club of Williamsburg Records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 1996.09
Scope and Contents

Records of the Capital Club of Williamsburg (formerly named the Middle Plantation Club of Williamsburg), which was founded by Rawls Byrd in 1966. The collection includes organizational histories, membership directories and rosters, meeting minutes, scrapbooks of club events, and other material.

Dates: 1960-2019; Majority of material found in 1970-2000
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Carlton Casey Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 1999.48
Scope and Contents

The inventory is a guide to Mss. Acc. 1999.48 which is the postcard collection documenting pre-restoration Williamsburg, restored Williamsburg, Jamestown, the College of William and Mary, the University of Virginia, and cities, towns, and holidays in Virginia. Also includes clippings, articles, photographs, programs, and souvenir publications.

Additions to the collection are described individually.

Dates: 1894-1999
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

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Photographs 56
Correspondence 51
Programs 26
Scrapbooks 22
College of William and Mary--History--20th century 20
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Williamsburg (Va.)--Photographs 20
Williamsburg (Va.)--Social life and customs 20
Minutes 19
Williamsburg (Va.)--History--19th century 19
Financial records 18
Newspapers 16
Pamphlets 15
Printed ephemera 15
Reports 15
Clippings (information artifacts) 14
Account books 13
Legal documents 12
Matthew Whaley School (Williamsburg, Va.) 11
Education--Virginia--Williamsburg--20th century 10
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation--History 9
Fliers (printed matter) 9
Jamestown (Va.)--History--20th century 9
Certificates 8
Diaries 8
Invitations 8
James City County (Va.)--History--20th century 8
Notebooks 8
Williamsburg (Va.)--City Council 8
Yorktown (Va.)--History--20th century 8
Clubs--Virginia--Williamsburg 7
Eastern State Hospital (Va.)--History 7
Ledgers (Accounting) 7
Letters (correspondence) 7
Manuscripts (document genre) 7
World War, 1939-1945 7
Merchants--Virginia--Williamsburg 6
Speeches 6
Broadsides 5
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Genealogy 5
Jamestown Festival (1957) 5
Maps 5
Obituaries 5
Poems 5
Postcards 5
Publications 5
Receipts (financial records) 5
Schools--Virginia--Williamsburg 5
Williamsburg (Va.)--History 5
Williamsburg (Va.)--History--21st century 5
Williamsburg (Va.)--Library 5
African Americans--Virginia--Williamsburg 4
Agendas (administrative records) 4
Deeds 4
Deeds--Virginia--Williamsburg 4
Garden Clubs--Virginia--Williamsburg 4
Newsletters 4
Slides (photographs) 4
Video recordings 4
Williamsburg (Va.)--History--World War, 1939-1945 4
Women--Education--Virginia 4
Women--Societies and clubs 4
World War, 1914-1918 4
York County (Va.)--History--20th century 4
African Americans--Virginia--Williamsburg--History 3
Audiocassettes 3
Baptist Church--Virginia--History 3
Booklets 3
Books 3
Confederate Memorial (Williamsburg, Va.) 3
Deeds--Virginia--Williamsburg--20th century 3
Eastern State Hospital (Va.)--History--19th century 3
Episcopal Church--Virginia--Clergy--20th century 3
Gardening--Societies, etc.--Virginia 3
Journals (accounts) 3
Journals (periodicals) 3
Land use--Virginia--Williamsburg 3
Merchants--Virginia--History--20th century 3
Oral histories 3
Photocopies 3
Speeches, addresses, etc. 3
Virginia--History--20th century 3
Williamsburg (Va.)--Biography 3
Williamsburg (Va.)--History--18th century 3
York County (Va.)--History 3
Yorktown (Va.)--History--Siege, 1781--Centennial celebrations, etc 3
African Americans 2
African Americans--Virginia--James City County 2
Announcements 2
Burial records 2
Calendars 2
Chaplains, Military--United States--20th century 2
Charities--Virginia 2
Charter Day 2
Checks (bank checks) 2
Christmas cards 2
Church bulletins 2
College of William and Mary--History--19th century 2
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English, Old (ca.450-1100) 1
French 1
German 1
 
Names
Williamsburg Historic Records Association (Williamsburg, Va.) 51
College of William and Mary--Alumni and alumnae 13
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation 13
Bruton Parish Church (Williamsburg, Va.) 11
College of William and Mary. 5
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Eastern State Hospital (Va.) 5
Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, 1853-1935 4
Virginia Gazette (Williamsburg, Va.) 4
Williamsburg Garden Club (Williamsburg, Va.) 4
Williamsburg High School (Williamsburg, Va.) 4
Cole, Henry Denison, 1856-1938 3
Pulaski Club (Williamsburg, Va.) 3
Williamsburg Baptist Church (Williamsburg, Va.) 3
Williamsburg Reunion (Va.) 3
Armistead Family 2
Barlowe, Cynthia Beverly Tucker Kimbrough 2
Boy Scouts of America 2
Bozarth family 2
College of William and Mary 2
College of William and Mary. School of Education 2
Colonial National Historical Park (Va.) 2
Democratic Party (U.S.) 2
Democratic Party (Va.) 2
Eastern Lunatic Asylum (Va.) 2
Ewell, Benjamin Stoddert, 1810-1894 2
Geddy, Vernon M., Jr 2
Hall, Channing Moore, III 2
Jackson, Comer Clarke 2
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 2
Kibler, James Luther, 1867-1953 2
Kimbrough, Janet C 2
King's Daughters (Williamsburg, Va.) 2
Marshall-Wythe School of Law 2
Molineux, Will 2
Nicholson High School (Williamsburg, Va.) 2
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture 2
Oxrieder, Julia W. 2
Pedersen, Thelma 2
Peninsula News (Toano, Va.) 2
Richmond (Va.) News Leader 2
Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison), 1874-1960 2
Shiflett, Glenna Graves 2
The Model School (Williamsburg, Va.) 2
United Service Organizations (U.S.) 2
University of Virginia 2
Williamsburg Businessmen's Association (Va.) 2
Williamsburg Community Council (Williamsburg, Va.) 2
Williamsburg Female Institute (Williamsburg, Va.) 2
Williamsburg Post-War Planning Commission (Va.) 2
Alexandria gazette 1
American Association of University Women 1
American Red Cross 1
Anthony, James 1
Armistead, Cary Champion, d. 1944 1
Armistead, Dora Travis, 1890-1979 1
Armistead, Rowland Cara 1
Art Song of Williamsburg (Williamsburg, Va.) 1
Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities 1
Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. Colonial Capitol Branch 1
Bell Hospital (Williamsburg, Va.) 1
Bell, Baxter I. (Dr.) 1
Bennett, Henry Eastman, 1873-1941 1
Blackstone Female Institute (Va.) 1
Board of Supervisors of James City County (Va.) 1
Born, Leonard L. 1
Bowen family 1
Bradby family 1
Bradby, Signor 1
Bray, Benjamin F., b. circa 1926 and d. 2002 1
Bright family 1
Bright family. 1
Bright, Robert Anderson, 1839-1904 1
Bright, Robert Southall, 1872-1943 1
Bright, Robert Southall, 1872-1947 1
Buildings and Grounds--Fires 1
Bundles for Britain, Inc 1
Burger, Warren Earl, 1907-1995 1
Burleson, Harry 1
Busch Gardens (Williamsburg, Va.) 1
Camp Peary (Va.) 1
Carrie Cooper, Dean of University Libraries 1
Casey, Carlton 1
Chapman, Anne T., 1868-1954 1
Charles family 1
Charles, John S., 1851-1930 1
Choir and Chorus 1
Christian family 1
City Council of Williamsburg (Va.) 1
Clark, James W. 1
Cole Family 1
Coleman family 1
Coleman, Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington, 1832-1908 1
College of William and Mary. Board of Visitors 1
College of William and Mary. Dept. of Biology 1
College of William and Mary. Dept. of History 1
College of William and Mary. Dept. of Modern Languages 1
College of William and Mary. Dept. of Music 1
College of William and Mary. Dept. of Theatre, Speech, and Dance 1
College of William and Mary. Swem Library 1
College of William and Mary. University Relations. 1
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