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College of William and Mary--Students

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 380 Collections and/or Records:

University Archives Oral History Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA 43
Scope and Contents The bulk of the University Archives Oral History Collection consists of transcripts and recordings of oral history interviews conducted as a part of various projects at the College of William and Mary with administrators, faculty, students, and alumni. The specific projects include the College's oral history program from the 1970s, an oral history program sponsored by the University Archives beginning in the 2000s, "Stony the Road We Trod," and the Stephens Project.  The...
Dates: 1959-2018 and undated

University Archives Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA 8
Scope and Contents The collection includes print and some digital photographs of campus buildings, events, activities, subjects, and individuals, including alumni, faculty and staff, administrators, and visitors to campus. It is important to note that if looking for a specific person, such as Margaret Thatcher, to look not only for that person's name but to also look at photographs from events that person likely attended, such as Charter Day and Commencement. The same should be said for subjects,...
Dates: 1856-2015

University Archives Photographic Negatives Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA 8.005
Scope and Contents

This collection is largely unprocessed, however, it aligns very closely with prints found within the University Archives Photograph Collection.

Subjects include faculty, staff, alumni, campus buildings, students, activities, and events.

Dates: circa 1950-2005

University Archives Scrapbook Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA 335
Scope and Contents This collection contains scrapbooks related to faculty, students, and various programs and events at the College of William and Mary. Acc. 1983.075: twenty-seven scrapbooks, 1934-1943, of newspaper clippings about the College, events, and programs. Acc. 1983.081: scrapbooks, 1919-1938, with clippings about the College, students, and faculty. Acc. 1983.083: two scrapbooks, 1934-1942, with invitations to programs, concerts, plays, parties, and other events...
Dates: 1915-1989; Majority of material found in 1919-1943

University Archives Slides Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA 8.004
Scope and Contents

This collection includes slides created by University Relations as well as slides accumulated via a series of transfers. Subjects mainly include campus buildings, faculty and staff, and events. Many of the images can also be found as prints in the University Archives Photograph Collection.

Dates: circa 1971-2008

University Center records (University Center Activities Board, UCAB)

 Collection
Identifier: UA 298
Scope and Contents

This collection contains announcements and fliers from the University Center Activities Board (UCAB) and the Student's X-change store at the College of William and Mary.  Included in the collection is information about Homebrew, which supports and promotes the performance of campus talent in art, poetry, dance, drama, and is known for its music. Homebrew is located in Lodge One of the University Center.

Dates: 1994-2008

University Communications Records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 61
Scope and Contents

This collection contains correspondence, publications, newsletters, reports, and other material pertaining to the Office of University Communications at the College of William and Mary. The bulk of the records consist of press releases and newspaper clippings related to faculty, staff, students, and alumni at the College from the 1940s to the 1980s. Please see the Finding Aid/Box List section below to learn more about each series.

Dates: 1938-2005; Majority of material found in 1969-1983

University Events records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 389
Scope and Contents

The collection includes materials such as audio-visual files and artifacts documenting the activities of the University Events at William & Mary.

Dates: 2018-2023

University Firsts: Diversity and Inclusion at William & Mary Oral History Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA 418
Content Description

As William & Mary's population of students, faculty and staff grows, so does its diversity. These are the voices of students, faculty and staff that have contributed to the diversity of the university and have been the first in their respective positions at William & Mary.

Dates: 2022

Upsilon Delta Beta Memory Book and Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: UA 7.094
Content Description Folder one holds a program for the Fisk Jubilee Singers at McIntire Amphitheatre, a program for the Wofford College Glee Club 1926-27 season, and thirty-one 2 x 3 1/4 inch photos that were removed from an album. Four of these photos have identifying text written on them. Folder two holds items taken from where they were sandwiched between the July 19 and August 19 pages of the Upsilon Delta Beta Memory Book. Five issues of the Flat Hat from 1922 and 1923, as well a a couple...
Dates: 1922 - 1923; 1926

Eleanor Ramsdell Van Scherpe Papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA 5.050
Scope and Contents

The papers of Eleanor Ramsdell Van Scherpe are primarily a scrapbook compiled during her first academic year at the College of William & Mary. It includes correspondence from her potential sorority Big Sisters and her roommate Viola "Vicki" Woodward; various programs; news clippings; sorority invitations; and other items.

The student's freshmen duc cap is housed in the University Archives Artifact Collection (UA 13).

Dates: 1940-1941

Richard A. Velz Photographs and Flat Hat Event Menu

 Collection
Identifier: 5.290
Scope and Contents

The collection includes a dinner menu from a Flat Hat banquet on May 30, 1933. (Issue Vol. XXII, No. 28. It also includes several photographs of groups of men. Velz was a member of Phi Kappa Tau, Alpha Kappa Psi, and Pi Delta Epislon. There is also a photograph from a W&M event, probably Commencement.

Dates: 1932-1933

Virginia Cities Collection

 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

Virginia Nittoli Matish photographs

 Collection
Identifier: UA 5.344
Content Description

The Virginia Nittoli Matish photographs contains photographs of Virginia Nittoli Matish and members of the Pi Beta Phi sorority. Images include the Pi Phi house, as well as scenes of Virginia Beach and a William & Mary graduation taken place during the late 1960s and early 1970s. A description of names and locations have been provided by Matish and is included in the collection.

Dates: 1968-1970

Von Dubell Studio Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA 354
Scope and Contents

This collection is housed off-site. A minimum of 72 hours advanced notice is required for retrieval.

This collection contains both print photographs and negatives from the Williamsburg, Virginia photography studio Von Dubell Studio. The photographs cover a variety of subjects, including William & Mary students and sororities, local churches and people, and car collisions for insurance purposes.

Dates: 1950-1979

Wade E. D. MacDonald Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: UA 5.177
Scope and Contents

The collection contains three photographs: the 1902 William & Mary football team (with players identified), Wade MacDonald and W.N. Shackleford in football uniforms (1902), and MacDonald's senior portrait (1905).

Dates: 1902, 1905

Walter Darnell Vinyard Papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA 5.237
Scope and Contents

This collection includes Vinyard's report cards from the Roanoke County, Virginia school system, Big Lick District, a 1929 letter to his parents from Dean of Men, W. T. Hodges stating Vinyard made the Dean's List (1929), William & Mary grade reports, and the 1932 commencement program.

Dates: 1918-1932

Walter S. Eanes Freshman English Manual

 Collection
Identifier: UA 5.284
Scope and Contents

Printed "Freshman English Manual of Instructions and Exercises for 1924-1925," owned by William & Mary student Walter S. Eanes. The manual is an example of what was being used for Freshman English classes and the curriculum at William & Mary and includes notes and exercises written by Eanes.

Dates: 1924-1925

Thomas D. Warren Permission Slip

 Collection
Identifier: UA 5.180
Scope and Contents

Permission slip written by M. L. Warren, father of William & Mary student Thomas D. Warren, giving his permission for Thomas to board out of the College if he so desires and to make his own selection of classes.

Dates: 1834 November 15

Mollie Waters Poem

 Collection
Identifier: UA 5.181
Scope and Contents

"Poem Upon the Graduation of the Class of 1938" written by Mollie Waters.

Dates: 1938

Robert Edward Lee Watkins Papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA 5.054
Scope and Contents

This collection includes items related to the Phoenix and Philomathean Literary Societies, debates Watkins participated in, class notes, artifacts, a certificate, and a letter written to his mother while he was stationed in Cuba during the Spanish American War.

Dates: 1889-1891

WCWM Records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 7.043
Scope and Contents The WCWM collection includes copies of the station publication i>, station logs maintained by DJs, news clippings about the station, playlists, correspondence, photographs, and related material. Recordings include shows, the presidential debate between Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter held at the College of William and Mary in 1976, station promos by performers, related broadcasts, and public service announcements from the 1980s to 2008. WCWM...
Dates: 1938-2008; Majority of material found in 1970-2008

Walter Duval Webb Certificates

 Collection
Identifier: UA 5.132
Scope and Contents

The collection contains three certificates: a Certificate of Distinction at the College of William and Mary for Physics, July 4, 1891; a Certificate of Distinction at the College of William and Mary for Chemistry, July 4, 1891; and a certificate from the University of Virginia for intermediate examination in general chemistry for the session 1891-1892, June 29, 1892.

Dates: 1891-1892

Webster Thompson Stone's Football Helmet

 Collection
Identifier: UA 5.203
Scope and Contents

Leather football helmet used by Webster Thompson Stone, while he was a student at the W&M Academy, circa 1911-1914.

Dates: 1913

Margaret C. Weirick Papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: UA 5.162
Scope and Contents

This collection contains programs, publications, and other material collected by Margaret C. Weirick while a student at the College of William and Mary from 1958-1962. Her last name while she attended school was Murph. Included in the collection is a set of "duc" rules for freshman in 1958; programs and sheet music for the William and Mary Choir and Chorus; the History of the Class of 1962; and issues of The Alumni Gazette, Royalist, and the 1958-1959 student handbook.

Dates: 1958-1962