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Gloucester County (Va.)--History--20th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Gloucester, Virginia, Newspapers Privately Printed by Douglas P. Smith

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2008.37
Scope and Contents

Original newspapers privately printed in Gloucester, Virginia by Douglas P. Smith on a child’s Swiftset printing press. Most are one page. Issue sizes vary from 3.5 x 5.5 to 7 x 7.5.

Also included are personal papers of Douglas P. Smith and two June 1945 editions of a newsletter, "The Gloucester Pointer.”

Dates: 1903-1951; Majority of material found in 1942-1943