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Letters and Postcards of Concentration Camp Detainees at Auschwitz, Dachau, and Gusen

 Collection
Identifier: SC 01351
Content Description

Ten letters and seven postcards, 1940-1945 from concentration camp prisoners in Germany. Letters contain the name of the detainee, date of birth, and prisoner number. The majority of the letters were written on official camp stationary which contained the rules and warnings (in German) of what was allowed to be included in correspondence addressed to the detainees.

Dates: 1940-1945
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Austin-Twyman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 69 Au7
Scope and Contents Papers, 1765 (1800-1890) 1939, of the Austin, Twyman, Spiller and Horsley families of Amherst and Buckingham counties, Virginia.The papers include correspondence, accounts, legal papers and manuscript volumes. Includes papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), member of Congress, 1817-1819, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1815-1816, 1835-1837, his wife, Grace R. (Booker) Austin and their children, James M. Austin, John Austin and Bernard Austin, Grace Austin and Frances...
Dates: 1765-1939
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Author in Residence Program Records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 185
Scope and Contents

This collection contains fliers from the Author in Residence Program at the College of William and Mary.  The English Department offers the program to help fill its course offerings each year by inviting a known fiction author.

Dates: 1975
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Autograph Album (Martinsville, Va.)

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00944
Scope and Contents

Autograph album, 1938-1942, of an unidentified woman (Clara), most likely of Martinsville, Va. Contains signatures and brief entries, like verses and poems by her friends from Virginia and North Carolina.

Dates: 1938-1942
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

Autograph Book for Luella

 Collection
Identifier: SC 01550
Scope and Contents

Autograph book with entries written to Luella, with many short notes and poems. Most entries are signed and dated in Massachusetts.

Dates: 1876
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Autograph Book for Sarah, Pawtucket R.I.

 Collection
Identifier: SC 01557
Scope and Contents

Autograph book addressed to Sarah. Contains several engravings and poems written in French.

Dates: 1878-1879
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Autographs of Virginians

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Sm Coll Add.9
Scope and Contents

Autographs of four Virginians in letters:

John Strode Barbour  (1846 letter);

Thomas Henry Bayly (undated);

John Warwick Daniel (1908) and

Charles Triplett O'Ferrall (1897).

Dates: 1846-1908
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Automobile Repair Shop Account Book

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2009.153
Scope and Contents Account book, 1928-1929, 473 pp. detailing names of customers, customers location, parts, repairs, costs, and other information relating to the business transactions. Includes a few loose notes and receipts, e.g. from J.C. Moss. Most of the addresses listed in the book are in Virginia (Richmond, Warsaw, Hague, Gloucester, Alexandria). Baltimore, Maryland is also mentioned. Name and address written in pencil inside the front cover is Freddie Gurdy (?), 428 N. Carleton St.,...
Dates: 1928-1929
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Daniel Auty Letter

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00464
Scope and Contents

Letter, 1891 March 24, Daniel Auty to "Silas." 1 p. ; 27 cm. Auty who served in the 11th Massachusetts infantry regiment mentions a [document ?] he picked up while stationed in Williamsburg after the Battle of Williamsburg, 5 May 1862. He also mentions the use of the College of William and Mary as a Confederate Hospital.

Dates: 1891 March 24
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Auxiliary Services records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 184
Scope and Contents

This collection includes announcements, brochures, catalogs, and fliers from the various offices that comprise Auxiliary Services at the College of William and Mary. Included in the collection is information on the Campus Bookstore, Elderhostel, the McCormack-Nagelsen Tennis Center, and Conference Services, Dining Services Plans "Real Food on Campus".

Dates: Circa 1962-2019
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Myrta Locket Avary Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 65 Av1
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and typescripts of articles concerning Reconstruction. Includes reminiscences of her father Harrison Alexander Lockett concerning southside Virginia and photographs.

Dates: 1901-1941
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Charles Avery Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MS 00116
Content Description This collection contains letters from Private First Class Charles Avery to his sister Ruth Dunlap in Pocono Pines, Pennsylvania during and immediately after World War II. Charles writes about the training and attending school at the University of Connecticut while in the Army, health problems in his family, the leisure activities available to him, a little about his combat experience, and the death of his mother. During the war he trains in Virginia (Camp Pickett), North Carolina, and...
Dates: 1944-1945
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Awards and Scholarships Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA 183
Scope and Contents

This collection includes material related to awards and prizes presented by the College of William and Mary to students and faculty.

Dates: 1940-ongoing
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Ayres Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 39.2 Ay7
Scope and Contents Correspondence, 1833-1855, of members of the Ayres family including John W. Ayres at Chillicothe and Cincinnati, Ohio; and Fort Madison and Agency City, Iowa (with his father John B. Ayres at Diana Mills, Buckingham County, Va.), Robert H. Ayres, Hillsboro, Ohio and Jackson, Tenn. (with John B. Ayres, Matthias L. Ayres and Suckie Ayres) and Nathan W. Ayres (with Matthias L. Ayres and William Ford & Co., Richmond, Va. Letters concern the Methodist Church, abolitionists, politics,...
Dates: 1833-1855
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

B. Davenport & Co. Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Ame20
Scope and Contents

Ledger, 1841-1861, of B. Davenport & Co., merchants, of Williamsburg, Va. which includes accounts, 1860, with the College of William and Mary and which was used as a scrapbook, 1892-1905, for newspaper clippings of poems and articles; Christmas cards; valentines; advertisements; cigarette cards; and seed catalog covers.

Dates: 1841-1861
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

B. T. Owen Letter to Sally Atkinson

 Collection
Identifier: UA 5.257
Scope and Contents

Letter dated June 11, 1840 and written by William & Mary student, B. T. Owen, to Sally Atkinson of Parham's Store, Virginia. It is essentially a love letter to Sally, assuring her he will address her as soon as he leave Williamsburg at end of term.

Dates: 1840 June 11
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

John L. Babb's Notebook of Pike's Arithmetic and Smith's Arithmetic

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Nm17
Scope and Contents

Pike's Arithmetic and Smith's Arithmetic copied by John L. Babb, probably in Hardy County, WV.  Also contains exercises in punctuation, valedictory address of Jennie Cross at Morgantown Female Seminiary and a dialogue read by Julia F. Ackon and Annie C. Ballon June 27, 1856 at the annual examination of the Wesleyan Female Institute in Staunton, Virginia.

Dates: 1856-1858
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

William J. Babb Notebook

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Nm16
Scope and Contents

Pike's Arithmetic, 1856-1858, [either Nicholas Pike's A New and Complete System of Arithmetic or Stephen Pike's The Teacher's Assistant] copied by William J. Babb, Hardy County, Va. [W. Va.]. The volume also includes verse.

Dates: 1856-1858
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Bachelor Club of Middletown (Pennsylvania) Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS 00212
Scope and Contents Minutebook, 1877-1879 of the Bachelor Club of Middletown, Pa., also including constitution, by-laws, rules and regulations. The constitution states that the object of the club "shall be to have a room or suit of rooms to be open at all times, Sunday excepted, and furnished with books and newspapers of the day, also for the discussion of all questions, except those of a political and religious character, and for the social enjoyment of the members." 67 of the 426 pages are filled...
Dates: 1877-1879
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Bagby Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00175
Scope and Contents Three undated flyers publicizing the fifth edition of "The Old Virginia Gentleman and Other Sketches" by Dr. George W. Bagby.  Flyer announcing lecture by Dr. George W. Bagby -- "Movis Addams" in the Town Hall, Salem, undated.  Newspaper article about the "Miscellaneous Writings" of the late Dr. George W. Bagby, undated. July 7, 1901 issue of the Farmer and Mechanic newspaper from Raleigh, N.C., Volume XVI, Number 35 with an article on "Ensign Worth Bagley."  Financial papers, including a...
Dates: 1854-1901
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

George William Bagby Certificate of Distinction

 Collection
Identifier: UA 5.111
Scope and Contents

Certificate of Distinction presented by William & Mary to George William Bagby, dated June 28, 1894 for having passed his Greek examinations. It is signed by John Lesslie Hall.

Dates: 1894 June 28
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Bagley Woodcut Prints

 Collection
Identifier: MS 00089
Scope and Contents 8 woodcut, charcoal, and etching prints. #1 Etching: Leuvehaven En Zeevischarmarkt, "Rotterdam", measures 7.25 x 5.5 inches. Boats in a port with buildings in the background. Inscriptions, "L. Rohbock delt." "Exec. bij G.G. Land Darmstadt" "J. M. Kolb sculpt." #2 Charcoal: Sallie Leigh Cole, "Summer 4/25", measures 7.25 x 5.25. Ship on water with landscape in fore and background. Inscription on rear, "Dear Gwen, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Love, Wyc, 1984."...
Dates: 2017-05-12
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

James Henry Bailey II Essay

 Collection
Identifier: UA 5.118
Scope and Contents

This collections consists of an essay by James Henry Bailey II titled "Peter Francisco: Washington's One-Man Regiment." A note  handwrittien on the title page states:  "This essay won the Cincinnati Prize in 1939."

Dates: 1939
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

George M. Bain Letter

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00177
Scope and Contents

Letter from George M. Bain, Portsmouth, Virginia, asking "Doctor" to send him a receipt for the "two dollars enclosed."  1849 March 30.

Dates: 1849 March 30
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

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State Male Normal College of Virginia 15
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Phi Beta Kappa. Virginia Alpha (College of William and Mary) 14
United States Congress 14
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Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture 13
University of Virginia 13
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Virginia House of Delegates 12
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