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College of William and Mary--History--20th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 281 Collections and/or Records:

Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Studies Records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 108
Scope and Contents Acc. 1992.034: Correspondence; reports of the Academic Status Committee (1982) and Educational Policy Committee (1988-1989). Acc. 2000.013 and 2002.040: Records of the Educational Policy Committee, material for the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV), and other material. Acc. 2008.057: Records of the International Studies Committee.  Includes minutes and agendas of meetings, correspondence, and reports from 1979-2001. Acc. 2008.060:...
Dates: 1970-2013
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Office of the Dean of Women Records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 24
Scope and Contents Acc. 1983.074: Student Activity Notebooks, 1936-1948. This accession contains loose-leaf notebooks with the names of female students and the activities they took part in. It also contains newspaper clippings, letters, and programs about women's activities, arranged by year.Acc. 1983.094: Office Records, 1928-1936. This accession includes correspondence and reports. An inventory is available in the Special Collections Research Center.The collection also includes memos,...
Dates: 1928-1974
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Delta Omicron (Delta Tau Chapter) records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 7.073
Scope and Contents

The Delta Omicron (Delta Tau Chapter) collection includes composite photographs of fraternity members, as well as general papers documenting the activities of the fraternity including constitution and by-laws, songbooks, "The Wheel" periodical, devotionals, notebooks, and awards.

Dates: 1950-2018
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Catherine Dennis Papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA 5.004
Scope and Contents The papers of Catherine Dennis include pages from the scrapbook she kept at the College of William and Mary. Dennis was part of the first class of women to attend William and Mary beginning in 1918. Photographs feature Dennis and other students, including Martha Barksdale, around campus. The collection also includes an invitation to the Students' Army Training Corps Ball, a letter from William and Mary President Lyon G. Tyler to Catherine Dennis, and a copy of the September 1974 Alumni...
Dates: 1918-1974; Majority of material found in 1918-1921
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Dennis Denenberg papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA 5.329
Scope and Contents

The Dennis Denenberg papers contains papers, photographs, and artifacts documenting Dr. Dennis Denenberg's (class of 1969) time as a student at William & Mary. Materials include correspondence, class notebooks and notes, publications, and photographs. Artifacts include a William & Mary cap, silver cup and medal.

Dates: Circa 1960-1970
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Department of Athletics records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 181
Scope and Contents

The Department of Athletics records includes files of the Athletic Association, publicity, printed material, publications, statistics, schedules and ephemera.

Dates: 1915-2013
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Department of English records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 205
Scope and Contents

This collection includes administrative records, publications, and other material from the Department of English at the College of William and Mary.

Dates: 1922-2013
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Department of Music records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 212
Scope and Contents

The collection includes fliers, announcements, programs, newsletters, and audio-visual material generated by the Department of Music at William and Mary. Topics document departmental business, visiting performers, recitals and performances by college students and faculty, choir, ensembles, Ewell Concert Series, Jazz Combo, and the Gallery Players.

Dates: 1920-2019
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Carl R. Dolmetsch Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 00/06/UA 6.111
Scope and Contents This collection contains correspondence, publications, and other material kept by Carl R. Dolmetsch, a professor in the Department of English at the College of William and Mary. Included in the collection are publications, a drawing, and a poster related to author H.L. Mencken; correspondence concerning potential visiting lecturers to events in the Department of Engllish; and letters written to Carl R. Dolmetsch by persons who had contributed material to Smart...
Dates: 1751-1990
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Douglas E. Brown Commencement collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA 5.299
Scope and Contents This collection consists of two programs, two digitized slide photographs, and a newspaper article related to William & Mary Commencement ceremonies in 1971 and 1974. The donor supplied this description for the photographs: "The picture is from our June, 1971, commencement ceremony in front of the Wren Building. I believe President Paschall is at the microphone with various dignitaries on the stage behind him. Backstory: While digging through an old basement box full of "stuff", I came...
Dates: 1971, 1974
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

James Glenn Driver Papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA 5.268
Scope and Contents The collection includes three items: Driver's Certificate of Distinction from William & Mzry, dated June 14, 1906, for having passed the required examinations for his American and Virginia History class, a pamphlet for "University of the Air," an invitational track and field meet under the auspices of the U. S. Naval Air Station, dated June 27, 1942, and an example of an order acknowledgement card for Driver's business of selling "Fine Virginia Foods" at a store on Duke of Gloucester...
Dates: 1906, 1942
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Charles J. Duke, Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 00/06/UA 6.065
Scope and Contents This collection includes memorabilia, resolutions, early William and Mary campus photographs, clippings, and correspondence of Charles J. Duke, Jr. Correspondence, reports and photographs relate to Charles Duke's position as the Bursar of the College of William and Mary. Of particular importance is the material on the Norfolk and Richmond Divisions which later became Old Dominion University and Virginia Commonwealth University, especially the correspondence of Director William T. Hodges....
Dates: 1919-1958
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

E. M. Terry Scholarship and Attendance Report

 Collection
Identifier: UA 5.275
Scope and Contents

The collection contains the scholarship and attendance report for E. M. Terry. It provides his class grade (ex. fair, good) for different classes as well as a remark by and signature of faculty member Charles Edward Bishop.

Dates: 1900 June 28
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Department of Economics Records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 147
Scope and Contents

This collection includes memos, curriculum concentration, fliers, and Adam Smith's Newsletter from the Department of Economics at the College of William and Mary.

Dates: 1939, 1962-1986
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Edgar M. Terrell Pledge to Teach Fulfillment Form

 Collection
Identifier: UA 5.273
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of one form, completed by Edgar M. Terrell, reporting how he fulfilled his pledge to the State Male Normal College and William & Mary to teach.

Pledges such as this were required of Virginia students who attended William and Mary receiving financial assistance with the understanding they would teach in Virginia upon graduation.

Dates: 1905 April 17
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Nina Pruett Edmunds Scrapbooks and Papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA 5.175
Scope and Contents Contains two scrapbooks belonging to Nina Pruett Edmunds while a student at the College of William and Mary from 1931-1933. Included in one scrapbook are programs from plays and special events, news articles related to student life on campus, photographs of students, and material related to the sesquicentennial of the battle of Yorktown. The second scrapbook is in a binder labeled "House or Home?",created for a home economics class, with notes and glued in magazine clippings on different...
Dates: 1931-1933
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Edward Francis Report Cards, 1903 February 26th, 1903 June 25th

 File — UA Small Collections Box 12, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Two College of William and Mary report cards for Edward Francis Birckhead.

Dates: 1903 February 26th; 1903 June 25th
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Edward Francis Birckhead Pledge to Teach Fulfillment Form

Elaine Bixiones collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA 5.346
Content Description

The Elaine Bixiones collection contains one navy blue turtleneck t-shirt with gold William & Mary logo owned by Elaine Bixiones. The shirt depicts the former William & Mary logo which consisted of an image of a Native American man.

Dates: Circa 1968-1969
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Elizabeth Edwards Wingate Photograph Album

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Identifier: UA 5.288
Scope and Contents Photograph album of Elizabeth Edwards Wingate of her years as a student at William & Mary from 1983-1987. The end of the album continues after Wingate graduated. Subjects include immediate family, loft construction, freshman move-in day, dormitory life, social life, campus buildings and locations, the senior art show, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and graduation. Post-graduation subjects are specific to family, including Wingate's sibling, James Edwards (Class of 1989) and her...
Dates: 1983-1989, circa 2000, 2014
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Elizabeth Stewart Ewing Papers

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Identifier: UA 5.259
Scope and Contents

The collection includes Ewing's Report card for the second semester of the 1929/1930 academic year (Richmond Division), promotional photographs (printed on magazine-style paper) for the Richmond Division's Social Work Program (one of which features Ewing), and a William & Mary booklet containing the words to three different songs: the Alma Mater, "It's a Long Way to Graduation," and "Work for the Day is Coming."

Dates: circa 1926-1930
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Milton S. Ernstmeyer Papers

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Identifier: UA 5.221
Scope and Contents This collection includes materials received by Ernstmeyer while attending the Naval Chaplain's School at William and Mary in 1943-1944. There are two photographs, one of Chaplain School attendees (unidentified) and another of two men in uniform (unidentified though Ernstmeyer is presumed to be one). The collection also includes the Graduation Exercises program for 1944, a couple of documents from the Navy, Ernstmeyer's dance card for Phi Mu's December 10, 1943 Christmas Formal, his William...
Dates: 1943-1944
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Anthony Esler Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 99 Es4
Scope and Contents

Papers collected by Anthony Esler concerning youth revolts of the 1960s and 1970s. Most of collection pertains to the anti-Vietnam War movement. Includes notes, writings, flyers, radical newspapers (university and national) as well as protest buttons. Some of the material included concerns activities at William and Mary.

Dates: 1962-1980
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Eugene Hedgman Hall Papers

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Identifier: UA 5.270
Scope and Contents

This collection includes two items. One is Hall's degree essay about John Marshall (1903). The other is his pledge to teach fulfillment form, dated April 24, 1905, reporting how he fulfilled his pledge to the State Male Normal College of Virginia and William & Mary to teach. Pledges such as this were required of Virginia students who attended William and Mary receiving financial assistance with the understanding they would teach in Virginia upon graduation.

Dates: 1903, 1905
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Evening College Reference Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA 138
Scope and Contents

Fliers and memos describing evening classes.

Dates: 1919-1962
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Faculty Assembly Records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 133
Scope and Contents This collection consists of records pertaining to the modern Faculty Assembly at the College of William and Mary and earlier faculty bodies and organizations. The records spans from 1729 to the present. The bulk of the collection contains minutes of faculty meetings from 1729 to 1945 and, with only a gap in the minutes from 1784-1817, continue to the present. Other Faculty Assembly records include memos to faculty about various policies at William and Mary, faculty surveys,...
Dates: 1729-2008
Found in: Special Collections Research Center