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Collection — Container: Small Collections Box 116
Identifier: SC 01698
Content Description
A single 10 page letter from a member of the Vermont Brigade describing the Battle of Dam No.1, specifically the Brigade's action during the Peninsula Campaign on April 16, 1862.
Dates:
May 11th, 1862
Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Ame120 Oversize
Scope and Contents
A business ledger kept from 1859-1861 by William W. Vest and Richard Hansford, merchants operating in Williamsburg, Virginia. Entries show Vest and Hansford's business dealings with the College of William & Mary and the Public Hospital.
Dates:
1859-1861
Collection
Identifier: SC 00680
Scope and Contents
Diary, 1931, of Dorothy Vick, a sixteen year old woman living in Alta Vista, Iowa. Vick attended a Catholic school and attends her local church most Sundays. Entrires are typically a few sentences long and deal with the events of that day. Includes entries about dances which she attended, going to confession at her church, movies that she saw, and her relationships. Vick often writes that she wishes that she could write what she truly thinks and that she wishes she could lock her diary.
Dates:
1931
Collection
Identifier: SC 00002
Scope and Contents
Handwritten travel diary by Victoria Brown (1921-2005), daughter of architect Arthur Brown, Jr. (1874-1957). The diary documents a trip to Europe taken when Victoria was a teenager from August to November 1935. The Brown family travelled across the United States from California to New York, then stayed in Paris before visiting Rome and several other cities in fascist Italy. The diary features a description of a fascist rally in Rome and dozens of sketches, some in color, of flags, uniforms,...
Dates:
1935
Collection
Identifier: SC 01677
Scope and Contents
Copy of a memo from the Assistant Secretary of Defense to Harry Rowen "regarding the distribution and use of the Vietnam Papers." It was Exhibit B-1 in the trial of U.S. v. Ellsberg-Russo, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, No. 9373-WMB-CD. The memo outlines who has full access to the Vietnam Papers, composed of the Warnke Private Papers, the McNaughton Private Papers, and the OSD Task Force Papers. It is signed by Paul C. Warnke, Horton H....
Dates:
18 December 1968
Collection
Identifier: MS 00205
Content Description
Collection of photographs from the Vietnam conflict. Most of the pictures are of African American soldiers in their encampment in Vietnam and shots of their interaction with the local Vietnamese women and children. One picture shows the back of an Army soldier with the writing, "When I die I'll go to Heaven Because I've Spent My Time in Hell. Long Binh Bien Hoa, Vietnam, 1967- 1968." Along with the wording is also an outline of North and South Vietnam. There are also photographs of a base...
Dates:
1965- 1968
Collection
Identifier: UA 7.111
Content Description
This collections contains shirts, stickers designed and sold by the Vietnamese Student Association, and a poster advertising their 2023 culture show.
Dates:
2020-2024
Collection
Identifier: MS 00247
Content Description
Records maintained by the Village Green Condominium Association. Village Green was one of the first apartment developments in Williamsburg, Virginia, built in 1968-1970 by the Geddy family as a family owned venture. It was sold to a Richmond, Va. group and converted into a condominium community in 1984- 1985. The records in this collection span the years of the condominium's creation through 2016. They include the original Declaration and By-Laws along with a 2009 revision, Real eEstate...
Dates:
1984-2016
Collection
Identifier: MS 00176
Scope and Contents
Letters, 1963-1966, of Raymond Vincent to a woman named June. He is training on Kessler Air Force Base in Mississippi. Vincent is also a drummer and mentions that the gets his own room because of it. He also mentions in the last letter that his orders have been cancelled.
Dates:
1963-1966
Collection
Identifier: Mss. 84 D49
Scope and Contents
Papers of Doctor Vincent T. DeVita, former director of the National Cancer Institute and chief of surgical oncology at Sloan-Kettering Memorial Medical Center concerning aspects of National Cancer Institute's activities, programs, and agenda. Includes congressional testimony, minutes of meetings, correspondence relating to committees and associations, articles by Dr. DeVita, memoranda, and speeches. Also included are histories of various programs at NCI, correspondence about cancer...
Dates:
1964-1988
Collection
Identifier: MS 00368
Content Description
Collection contains newsletters from the Vintage Ladies of Williamsburg as well as two scrapbooks containing photographs and ephemera.
Dates:
June 1999 - April 2007
Collection
Identifier: Mss. 2000.V79
Scope and Contents
Papers of the Vinyard Family who lived near Vinton, Virginia in Roanoke County. The collection is primarily composed of the business papers (ledgers, bills, receipts, legal papers, accounts and printed material) of N. J. Vinyard, Walter H. Vinyard, and Walter D. Vinyard, Sr. who farmed near Vinton, Virginia. The collection also includes papers of Fannie Persinger, James Thomas Wood and S. H. Wood. The Vinyard family lived near Vinton, Virginia (Roanoke County) and engaged in farming and milk...
Dates:
1781-1999; Majority of material found in 1915-1955
Collection
Identifier: Mss. 39.1 V81an
Scope and Contents
Papers including correspondence, circular letters, accounts, minutes, reports, speeches, printed matter and newspaper clippings relating to the campaign for prohibition in Virginia. Includes correspondence with members of anti-saloon leagues in other states and the Woman's National Christian Temperance Union. (2162 items; 1930 addition: 132 items).
Dates:
1900-1922
Collection
Identifier: 00/02/01/UA 81
Scope and Contents
The collection includes publications, grant proposls, an audit report, minutes of the governing committee, and other material documenting the Virginia Associated Research Campus (VARC) of the College of William and Mary. The largest group of records (Accession 1991.099) includes material related to grants and contracts, buildings, personnel, ledgers, correspondence, manuals, insurance, audit, and other operations of VARC. It is 20.4 cubic feet in size and is currently unprocessed.
Dates:
circa 1960-1984
Collection
Identifier: SC 01296
Scope and Contents
Printed broadsides, pamphlets and newspapers published by the Virginia Association for Local Self-Government which was against statewide prohibition. Includes "The Trumpeter" a newspaper style publication of the Virginia Association for Local Self-Government (July-August 1914) and a July 14, 1860 address, "The American Citizen" by Hon. D. W. Voorhees of Indiana before the Liberary Societies of the University of Virginia. A note in the accession record suggests these...
Dates:
1860, 1913-1914; Majority of material found in 1913-1914
Collection
Identifier: Mss. 39.1 V81ba
Scope and Contents
Correspondence of Robert M. Hughes relating to Virginia Bar examinations. Includes examination questions. Also includes examinations, 1900-1906, in admiralty law given by Hughes at Columbian University (now George Washington University). Robert Morton Hughes (1855-1940) was chairman of the Virginia Board of Bar Examiners from 1910-1923.
Dates:
1900-1923
Collection
Identifier: 01/SC 00269
Scope and Contents
Large color print drawing of map number 6, part of the Virginia Beach Development Company. The Pollard-Seaton Company, Incorporated are listed as the general agents. The print features a section of land plots available along a beach front section of Virginia Beach in Princess Anne County and was probably printed between 1914 and 1926. The beachfront drawing features a casino, arcade, and roller coaster and also a proposed large hotel. In 1914, the Pollard-Wrenn Company, Inc. changed their...
Dates:
1914-1926
Collection
Identifier: Mss. 39.4 V82ci
Scope and Contents
Artificial collection of papers relating to various cities in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Dates:
1663-1980
Collection
Identifier: MS 00349
Content Description
The Virginia Clark and Tillie Clark papers contains papers and notebooks belonging to Martha Washington College students Virginia Clark and Tillie Clark. Papers include classroom notes, booklets from the Locker Easy Writing Method System, poems and short stories.
A note on names, Clark is occasionally spelled with an “e” for both students. Tillie is sometimes spelled with a "y" instead of an "ie."
Dates:
Circa 1920-1941
Collection
Identifier: Mss. 68 V82
Scope and Contents
The Virginia Council on Human Relations (VCHR) was a non-profit organization that attempted to find resolutions to the "race problem," i.e., school desegregation, fair employment practices, housing, inter-cultural relations, public facility desegregation, voting rights and registration in the state of Virginia. Stressing both constructive solutions and cooperative action, the VCHR worked with the Southern Regional Council and with Councils on Human Relations in other Southern states to...
Dates:
1960-1966
Collection
Identifier: Mss. 39.4 V82co
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Artificial collection of papers relating to various counties in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Includes current West Virginia Counties of Berkeley, Hardy, Jefferson, Morgan, Nicholas and Pendleton because the material was generated when these counties were part of Virginia.
Dates:
1600-2000; Majority of material found in 1730-1890
Collection
Identifier: SC 00267
Scope and Contents
Two letters to Miss Virginia Emory from Richmond, VA from a Joe and Joey. They may be the same individual, but the envelope of one of the letters sheds some doubt. The letters are informational in that they detail duty stations in Florida and highlight the importance of morale for the soldiers preparing to go to battle in World War II and the role correspondence had in maintaining high morale.
Dates:
1943, 1944
Collection
Identifier: Mss. 39.2 V81go
Scope and Contents
Papers, 1777-1900, of Virginia governors. Includes official and personal correspondence, and official papers, 1777-1900, of 32 governors and acting governors. Most items relate to their period of service and reflect gubernatorial duties of appointment, correspondence with governors of other states and national officials, and responses to invitations and questions.
Dates:
1777-1900
Collection
Identifier: SC 00877
Scope and Contents
Correspondence to and from members of the Fairfax Harrison Family regarding the Virginia Historical Index and ownership of the publishing rights. Individuals involved are Fairfax Harrison, Mrs. Ursula Harrison Baird, Mrs. Sally Harrison Dieke, Earl Gregg Swem and G. Jeter Jones of the First and Merchants National Bank. Upon the death of Mrs. Hetty Fairfax Harrison, lawyers were trying to determine who had the publishing rights to the Virginia Historical Index. Correspondence...
Dates:
1927-1960
Collection
Identifier: UA 301
Scope and Contents
This collection contains program from the play titled "Meeting of the Board of Visitors of William and Mary College Dec. 7, 1779." The play was produced to commemorate when William and Mary was reorganized as a university, as well as when the honor and elective systems were established. The play was just one episode in the Virginia Historical Pageant, a celebration of the penetration of English civilization into America from Queen Elizabeth I through the American Civil War. The pageant...
Dates:
1922; Majority of material found in 1922