Hamilton Family Papers, 1892/2003, bulk 1930/2003

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Restrictions:

Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.

Terms of access:

Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred citation:

Hamilton Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Summary

Extent:
13.00 Linear Feet
Creator:
Hamilton, Frances H., 1928-2008 and Bowers, Rosina
Language:
English Norwegian
Preferred citation:

Hamilton Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Background

Scope and content:

Papers pertaining to the Hamilton Family of Norge, James City County, Virginia and related families. Among the formats included are diaries, scrapbooks, correspondence, Norge High School records, church records, photographs, slides, CD-Roms, certificates, financial records, a Langley Air Force base photo album, and news clippings and ephemera. Mss. Acc. 2009.139 and 2011.520.

This series includes correspondence, diaries, cards, newspaper clippings and other personal items of Frances H. Hamilton.

Family wedding, birth and death announcements.

This series includes papers, pictures, histories relating to the town of Norge, Virginia, the civic league, Our Saviour's Lutheran Church, and Norge Hall.

The Toano High School yearbooks were removed from the Hamilton Family Papers in 9/2012 and transferred to the Rare Books Collection.

The Toano High School yearbooks were removed from the Hamilton Family Papers in 9/2012 and transferred to the Rare Books Collection.

The Toano High School yearbooks were removed from the Hamilton Family Papers in 9/2012 and transferred to the Rare Books Collection.

Norwegian university thesis (in Norwegian) on immigration to America

150 anniversary of Battle of Yorktown

Photos, clippings, books relating to James Anderson's life and career at NASA. Includes some WWII material relating to his father's service in the Pacific.

Black and white photograph on a metal plate, mounted on a wooden block. 2 in. x 3 in.

This series contains materials relating to Rosina Bowers. Includes a scrapbook from her time as a student at the College of William Mary, commencement programs, student handbooks, handbooks for final exams, photographs of unknown people, and other materials.

All photographs arranged in chronological order except for oversized portraits and framed photographs, which are housed in box 1. Most photographs are unidentified and many have only an approximate date.

Oversized and framed photographs.

Three cabinet card photographs.

Three tintype photographs and two mounted photographs.

One portrait photograph.

Four cabinet card photographs and one loose photograph.

Three enclosed tintype photographs.

Two cabinet card photographs and two other mounted photographs.

One tintype photograph, two cabinet card photographs, and three other mounted photographs.

One cabinet card photograph, two mounted photographs, and one loose photograph.

Four cabinet card photographs.

Four mounted photographs, one cabinet card photograph, and one loose photograph.

One tintype photograph and one negative.

Three mounted photographs and one cabinet card photograph.

Six mounted photographs.

Three portrait photographs of a child, identified as Chri[s?] Dillard.

Two portrait photographs and one mounted photograph.

Five post card photographs and one portrait of an infant, identified as Roscoe [Hidue?] Bowers.

Two portrait photographs.

Four post card photographs.

Seven photographs.

One portrait photographs, two postcard photographs, and four other photographs.

Six mounted photographs.

One mounted photograph and nine loose photographs.

Two portrait photographs.

One mounted photograph, two cabinet card photographs, and five loose photographs.

Three cabinet card photographs dated 1902 (one mutilated) and one portrait dated 1906.

Four mounted photographs and one cabinet card photograph.

Two portrait photographs and one cabinet card photograph.

One mounted photograph and six loose photographs.

One photograph with the following people identified: Sergeants [Able?], Jenson, Sowers, Galway, Hable, Murray, Moulton, Sheridan, McGee, [Mapes?], Johnston, and [Aue?]; four photographs with "125" written on the back in pencil; seven other photographs.

Four post card photographs and three other photographs.

One photograph with children identified as Harry, Alvin and Zachry; eight photographs with a G. L. Hall Optical Co. stamp on the back, and one other photograph.

One photograph of two children identified as Christine and Hubbart Powell and six other photographs.

Two cabinet card photographs, two mounted photographs, and one portrait photograph.

One mounted photograph and three portrait photographs.

One mounted photograph.

One post card photograph of a woman identified as Mrs. Lacy, three other post card photographs, and two mounted photographs.

Four mounted photographs and two post card photographs (one cut in half).

One portrait photograph dated 1911, one post card photograph of a woman dated June 1913 and identified as Miss Bell, and one photograph of a man dated November 4, 1918 and identified as Paris [?].

Two post card photographs and four mounted photographs.

One portrait of a child identified as Robert Auderam Perkins and three mounted photographs.

Two post card photographs (one cut in half) and seven other photographs.

Seven photographs.

One loose photograph and four portrait photographs.

One mounted photograph, two photographs with Wells and Young Kodak Finishing Service printed on the back, and six other photographs.

One photograph of a man and a woman identified as "Elizabeth + Husband, Uncle Eddie['s] Daughter," three photographs with 2114 stamped on the back, three photographs with 95 written on the back in pencil, two other loose photographs, and one mounted photograph.

One photograph of two boys identified as Willie and James Dunken and seven other photographs.

Two photographs with 13 written on the back in pencil, two photographs with 70 written on the back in pencil, and eight other photographs.

One photograph of a man identified as Uncle Louise and dated 1923 and two photographs in an envelope labeled "1923 MAKING OF MOVIE 'AMERICA' ON CAMPUS."

Five photographs.

Three portrait photographs.

One post card photograph of an infant identified as Bobbie, five photographs with A34 stamped on the back, four photographs with 654 written on the back in pencil, one portrait photograph, and two other photographs.

One post card photograph and seven other photographs.

Two loose photographs and two mounted photographs.

Three portrait photographs and one loose photograph.

Three portrait photographs.

Two portrait photographs.

One photograph of an infant identified as Betty Jeanne Hipkins, one photograph of a woman identified as Pat Bristo, and eleven other photographs.

One portrait photograph.

One photograph of two women and a man identified as Helene, Murray, and Gerry dated October 1932.

Four photographs with "Ritz" and the number 591 stamped on the back.

Two portrait photographs.

A black and white photograph with a hand-colored copy of the same photograph, negatives of the same photograph, and the envelope that originally held the negatives.

One photograph of a child identified as Harry Milby [?] and four other photographs.

Three portrait photographs.

Three portrait photographs.

Twelve photographs.

Thirteen photographs.

One photograph identified as Norma Killimayer and twelve other photographs.

One photograph of a child identified as Harry Milby [?] and four other photographs.

One portrait photograph dated 1940; one photograph of a house, with an address in Washington, D.C. written on the back in pencil, dated February 1, 1940; two photographs dated April 18, 1940; one photograph dated July 29, 1943.

One photograph of three women and a boy, identified as Mrs. [McLauhern?], Mrs. Annie Lee Ellis, and Hazel and Walton [McLauhern?]; one photograph of a church identified as "The Chapel at Penney Farms"; three photographs with the number 355 stamped on the back; two photographs with the number 9 written on the back in pencil; five photographs with the number 386 on the back.

Two photographs with "WM. E. LUM, jr./PHOTO/Petersburg, VA" and the number 914 stamped on the back, two photographs with the number 409 stamped on the back, one portrait photograph, and one other photograph.

Three photographs of a wedding with the number 20 on the back and seven other photographs.

Two photographs dated January 5, 1945, one photograph dated January 31, 1945, two photographs dated February 7, 1945, one photograph dated February 16, 1945, one portrait photograph dated February 27, 1945, and two photographs dated April 1, 1945 and stamp that reads "Parlett Studio/Cushing, Okla."

One photograph of two men identified as Red Wallance and S. VA. Budd, taken in Ching Wang Tao, China, dated September 1945; one photograph of a man identified as Bill Stephens, taken in Ching Wang Tao, dated October 1945; one photograph taken in Ching Wang Tao dated November 1945; One photograph dated November 1945; one photograph of a man, identified as "S," with two children identified as "E" and "Sue," taken in Ching Wang Tao, dated January 1946; two photographs dated February 1946; three photographs dated March 24, 1947 with a "McClellan Photo Co." stamp on the back.

Five photographs with the number 916 stamped on the back, one of which identifies three children as Alan and Dickie Stock and Ginny Brugger, one of which identifies two children and Bobby and Judy Stock, one of which identifies three children as Virginia, Norman, and Ginny Brugger, and one photo of a man and a woman identified as Emily and Hurt Stock and two children identified as Alan and Dickie Stock, and one portrait photograph.

One photograph of a child identified as Dave Garwood; three photographs of a child identified as [Bamia?] Adams; one photograph of eight people identified as Betty, Donald, Ken, Budd, Kevin, Dorothy, Martin, and "mother"; one portrait photograph, and five other photographs.

One photograph of an infant identified as Martha Mason and ten other photographs.

Eight photographs dated December 10, 1951.

One photograph dated January 1953, two photographs dated February 1953, one photograph dated June 1959, one photograph of a child identified as Leslie Lerner and dated December 1962, one photograph of and man and a woman identified as Laura and Clopton McGehee and dated December 1965, one photograph of a child identified as Mark Woaster and dated March 10, 1970.

Two photographs.

Nine photographs dated June 1971.

Five photographs dated June 1971, negatives for the photographs in folders 10 and 11, and the Kodak envelope that originally held the negatives.

One post card, one greeting card, and other correspondence.

Christmas cards and other greeting cards.

Letters, Christmas cards, post cards, and invitations.

Advertisement for an "Old-Fashioned Revival" with Beatrice Wells, "Child Evangelist." Paper dated February 14, 1950, Forum Club notes dated March 3 [1950?], post card circa 1950, certificate of a engineering summer conference in 1968, a placecard, and a retirement certificate from the army dated June 29, 1973. Handwritten notes on a trip to Paris and handwritten notes related to real estate.

Notebook containing member lists, meeting minutes, and other notes for the "Forum Club."

Notebook paper with notes from August 1978.

Collection of post cards from Massada.

Blank, unsent greeting cards and post cards, notes, and receipts.

Notebook paper with notes from August 1978.

Collection of post cards from Massada.

Blank, unsent greeting cards and post cards, notes, and receipts.

Biographical / historical:
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Gift.

Arrangement:

Collection has been dividied into four series: Series 1: Personal Papers of Frances H. Hamilton; Series 2: Norge History; Series 3: Personal Papers of James K. Anderson; Series 4: Rosina Bowers Papers.

Arrangement This series is currently unprocessed; please contact SCRC staff for assistance with using these materials.