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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

Henry Eastman Bennett Papers

Collection

Identifier: UA 6.005

Scope and Contents

This collection contains copies of speeches and papers written by William and Mary faculty member Henry Eastman Bennett; royalty statements and contracts for books written by Bennett; correspondence; designs for chairs and desks and plans for starting a desk-making company.

Dates: 1907-1936; Majority of material found in 1907-1927

Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Earl Gregg Swem Papers

Collection

Identifier: Mss. 79 Sw4

Scope and Contents Papers, 1927-1965, of Earl Gregg Swem, librarian and historian. Includes correspondence, reports, poems, and newspaper clippings. Subjects covered by the collection include Virginia history, bibliography, American Library Association, Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, Colonial Williamsburg, College of William and Mary, Phi Beta Kappa, Virginia Colonial Records Project, Virginia Historical Society, Jamestown Festival, Hampton Celebration, and the Virginia Historical...

Dates: 1927-1965

Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Galt Papers (III)

Collection

Identifier: 01/Mss. 78 G73

Scope and Contents The collection covers the dates 1750-1982 and consists chiefly of the personal and business correspondence, financial and legal documents, literary documents, and family history and genealogy notes of the Galt family. The collection also contains clippings, photographs, and personal mementos such as artifacts. Negatives have been added to Galt III, Group XI, Box IV, folder 44. Some material pertaining to William R. Galt is filed in 78 G73 Galt Family Papers III,...

Dates: 1750-1991

Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Hall Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: Mss. 90 H14

Scope and Contents This collection consists of the papers of the Hall and Moore families of New York, Richmond, Va. and Williamsburg, Va. Includes wills, estate papers, legal and financial transactions, 1810-1915, of Jacob Hall, Sarah Hall and Cunningham Hall; and Bishop Richard Channing Moore, Virginia Moore, Harriet Glenworth Moore, Margaretta Moore and Louise Moore. Contains correspondence, 1854-1876, between Zebulon S. Farland and Ellen Douglas Gordon Farland; letters, 1906-1928, to Margaret (Farland)...

Dates: 1810-2007 and undated

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George Mason Papers

Collection

Identifier: Mss. 39.2 M38

Scope and Contents Letters, 1779-1792, from George Mason at "Gunston Hall," Fairfax Co., Va. to his son John in Bordeaux, France and to Richard Henry Lee commenting on Maryland's claim to Virginia's western lands; and a political essay, post 24 January 1791 by Mason on representation in Fairfax Co., Va. Includes papers and letters of other members of the Mason and Thomson families, in particular, Stevens Thomson Mason (his will and a letter to James Monroe on Alien and Sedition Laws), Armistead Thomson Mason...

Dates: 1706-1858

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Shelton H. Short III Papers

Collection

Identifier: Mss. 91 Sh9

Scope and Contents Dates, 1970-1990, professional and research papers of Shelton H. Short III, a William Osborne Good Scholar-in-residence at the Marshall-Wythe School of Law, 1987-88. Professional papers consist of correspondence, articles, and other papers that concern the Marshall-Wythe School of Law and the Institute of Early American History & Culture. Bulk of the collection consists of Short's research papers on his ancestor William Osborne Goode (1798-1859), a prominent 19th century Virginia...

Dates: 1970-1990

Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Sixty-Seventh Field Hospital Collection

Collection

Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2008.35

Scope and Contents

The 67th Field Hospital Collection contains documents and photographs depicting the history of the 67th Field Hospital during the European Theater of World War II and the 17 reunions of the 67th Field Hospital held from 1986 to 2002.

Dates: 1943-2002; Majority of material found in 1943-1946 and 1986-2002

Found in: Special Collections Research Center

William Booth Taliaferro Papers

Collection

Identifier: Mss. 65 T15

Scope and Contents Papers, 1811-1954, of William Booth Taliaferro and his family of Gloucester County, Va. Taliaferro's papers consist of diaries, letterbook (while at Harpers Ferry), correspondence, speeches, memoirs and accounts. The collection also includes papers of his wife, Sally Nivison Lyons Taliaferro (including diaries), his ancestors, siblings and descendants, as well as photographs, genealogical notes and artifacts of the Taliaferro family.There are papers of other people who are not...

Dates: 1811-1954

Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Tronson du Coudray Papers

Collection

Identifier: 01/Mss. Acc. 1998.59

Scope and Contents

Photostats, 1776-1777 and n.d. of military papers of Philippe Charles Jean Baptiste Tronson du Coudray (1738-1777), French soldier of fortune in the American Revolution who was a Major General in charge of works on the Deleware, 1777; manuscript; and notecards about Tronson du Coudray made by Dr. Joseph E. Fields of Williamsburg, VA.

Dates: 1776-1777

Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Upshur Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: Mss. 66 Up8

Scope and Contents Papers, 1622-1936, of the Upshur family of the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Chiefly the genealogical correspondence and notes of Thomas Teackle Upshur (d. 1910) who was interested in the local history of Northampton and Accomack counties, Va. and in the genealogies of Eastern Shore families. Includes three manuscript volumes (indexed) called "Genealogies of the Kingdom of Accomack." The family papers of the Upshur family includes correspondence, 1786-1910, unpublished writings, accounts, and...

Dates: 1662-1936

Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Virginia Counties Collection

Collection

Identifier: Mss. 39.4 V82co

Scope and Contents

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

Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Waring Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: Mss. 39.2 W23

Scope and Contents

Notes and accounts, 1776-1780 and n.d., concerning the service of Henry Waring, Thomas Waring and William Waring, brothers from Essex Co., Va. in the American Revolution. Includes payroll account for a detachment of the 7th Virginia Regiment; an inventory of the estate of Captain Henry Waring; enlistment record [during the American Revolution ?] giving men's names, heights, and complexion; commissions and allegiance oath of Henry Waring.

Dates: 1776-1780

Found in: Special Collections Research Center

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Art Song of Williamsburg Records

Henry Eastman Bennett Papers

Earl Gregg Swem Papers

Galt Papers (III)

Hall Family Papers

George Mason Papers

Shelton H. Short III Papers

Sixty-Seventh Field Hospital Collection

William Booth Taliaferro Papers

Tronson du Coudray Papers

Upshur Family Papers

Virginia Counties Collection

Waring Family Papers

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