Collections : [College of William and Mary]

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
Primary Collecting Areas:
Williamsburg and surrounding area Virginia; Southern United States; African American life and culture; Hip Hop History; Movies and film studies; Travel, exploration, and adventure; Veterans papers; Distinguished alumni papers; College of William & Mary; Dogs
Description:
The Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) houses one of the largest and most significant collections of rare and unique materials of any educational institution of comparable size in the United States. Focused on Virginia history but with nationally and internationally important collections, the Manuscripts Collection includes letters, diaries, journals, scrapbooks, business records, organizational minutes, and other items that provide evidence of events great and small and the daily lives of Americans of all backgrounds. The Rare Books Collection, with volumes dating from the 15th century to the present, is strong in dogs, Virginia-related items, early Virginia family libraries, gardening and natural history, religion, book arts, printing history, travel, science, and medicine. The University Archives documents the history of William & Mary from 1693 to the present, including a wide range of materials from administrative records, student organization records, and alumni papers to photographs, audio-visual materials, and artifacts.
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440

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Title:: Alice Combs Scrapbook 1946-1948

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Scrapbook, 1946-1948 kept by Alice Comb of Baltimore, Maryland, started at the occasion of her marriage to William Combs, Jr. in 1946. Included are wedding greeting cards and hand written congratulation tags, and telegrams relating to the wedding and honeymoon New York City. Also included are postcards, programs, anniversary and birthday cards.

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Title:: Alice Combs Scrapbook 1946-1948 0.20

Title:: Colgate Dorr Papers 1912-1915, 19441944

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Included are 4 letters of then 2nd Lt. Colgate Dorr (1920-2006) written to his parents between September and November 1944, while stationed in San Francisco, California and then Hawaii during the last year of WW II; and a poem "'We Graduate to War, A Poem for the Class of '41' by Colgate Dorr, '41."Also included are two 1915 stock certificates and a 1912 postcard sent from Germany and addressed to Jessy (?) Colgate, Utica.

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Title:: Colgate Dorr Papers 1912-1915, 19441944 0.01

Title:: Donald C. Kidder Scrapbooks 1933-1935

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Two scrapbooks, 1933 and 1935, kept by Donald C. Kidder, a teenage Boy Scout with Troop 13, and later Troop 33, of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The scrapbooks contain many labeled photographs that document camp activities, postcards written by Donald addressed to his mother, miscellaneous pamphlets and clippings, a Star Scout certificate and a First Class Buckskin book, badge awards, newsletters, etc. Also includes some detailed essays by Kidder, relating to his projects.
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Title:: Donald C. Kidder Scrapbooks 1933-1935 0.20

Title:: Harlan H. Ballard, Jr. Papers 1921-19461921-1946

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Set of 5 journals and a few single letters, poems, postcards and photographs.The journals document vacations and visits to Harlan H. Ballard, Jr.'s cabin, referred to in one of the journals as 'Arbutus Lodge.' Arbutus Lodge was located in Nichewaug, near Barr, both Worcester County, Massachusetts. The entries were written both by the host and guests and detail their visits and activities. Several of the volumes contain photographs.Some of the names mentioned are: Spencer S. Dodd, A. D. Quimby, Billy Kim, Billy Dort, Chris Sheldon, Helen, Donald, and Eugene Rust, Harry J. Kane, Bert D. Comry, Howard L. Hillman, Robert Whitehill, Glady’s H., George H., Bobby, Eleanor and Pricilla Tracey, George W., Alice, and Malcolm Todd, James E. McAlpine, Alfred P., and Helen B. Whitehill, Fred W. Notman, Blanch and Bernard Farr, Shenfelder, Ed Inman, Almon McManus, Sadie Holem, Tristane Tupper, Nelson G. Cooley.One volume is a diary kept by Elizabeth A. Ferguson for parts of 1942-1943. She seems to have been a family friend. It does not relate to vacations at Arbutus Lodge.

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Title:: Harlan H. Ballard, Jr. Papers 1921-19461921-1946 0.30

Title:: Jefferson H. Clark Collection 1914-2000

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This collection consists of the papers of Jefferson H. Clark, a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania physician, who was a field surgeon in France during World War I, and of the research papers of his daughter Mary Clark Shade (1928-2009), who was working on a book documenting her father's WWI duty. Mary Clark Shade's research papers include index cards, notes, photographs, postcards, photocopies of articles, and related material. Jefferson H. Clark's papers include diaries, an officer's record book, correspondence, military orders and records, maps (one of which is labeled 'trench map'), photographs, dictionary, his helmet and embroidered helmet bag, a ration tin and a surgical kit. Images of Mr. Clark's helmet: http://www.flickr.com/photos/scrc/3513839526/ and http://www.flickr.com/photos/scrc/3513031099/ Embroidered helmet handbag: http://www.flickr.com/photos/scrc/3513839718/ and http://www.flickr.com/photos/scrc/3513030861/ Surgical instruments: http://www.flickr.com/photos/scrc/3513839304/ Diary http://www.flickr.com/photos/scrc/3513031319/ can be found on the SCRC's Flickr page.

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Title:: Jefferson H. Clark Collection 1914-2000 1.00

Title:: Mina Barnhouse Diary 19451945

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Diary titled "Covered Wagon Days, As Written by Mina Barnhouse," documenting a family's 1895 move from Kansas to Flathead Valley near Kalispell, Flathead County, Montana as part of a larger wagon train. The diary was written in 1945 and it is not clear whether it is a transcription of a 1895 document or whether it was composed 50 years after the event based on memory or oral histories. Several clippings from newspapers, magazines and also postcards are glued into the diary.For a more detailed description and excerpts provided by the seller see box list link below.

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Title:: Mina Barnhouse Diary 19451945 0.01

Title:: Reed Family Papers 1899-19461910-1946

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This collection contains the papers and biographic material, 1899-1946, of the Reed family of Floyd County, Virgina and Warren, Ohio. Included are personal letters and photographs, as well as records relating to service of family members in WWI and WWII. The correspondence series consists largely of personal letters written by Asa Daniel Reed to his future wife, Clarence Elizabeth Mangus (later Clarence Elizabeth Reed), during Reed's service in the U.S. Army. Reed's assignments included posts in the Philippines during the U.S. occupation thereof, in Texas along the border with Mexico, and in Germany and France during World War I. Interwar correspondences focus more on Clarence Reed's domestic life in Warren, Ohio. During the World War II period, Asa and Clarence Reed received correspondences from their son, Eugene Mangus Reed, serving in the U.S. Army. The biographic material series includes publications from the late nineteenth century on health remedies, as well as brief histories of the Ohio and Erie Railroads. The series also contains Asa D. Reed's discharge papers from the U.S. Army, the baby book of Eugene Mangus Reed, and a photograph of Clarence Mangus.
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Title:: Reed Family Papers 1899-19461910-1946 0.66

Title:: Rev. Samuel Huntting Sayre, Jr. Papers 1874-19891920-1960

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Personal, family and ministerial correspondence of Rev. Samuel H. Sayre. His personal diaries from 1918 to 1963, his sermons and notes are included in this collection. There are family and other personal photographs and many postcard and tourist packet photographs from his trips to Europe and his automobile trips from California to Virginia. Publication material includes church bulletins, news clippings, tourist pamphlets, magazines and others. His family correspondence possibly has more personal information than his diaries. His diaries are often a day by day recap of what he did, sometimes about how he felt about people, places or things and rarely about any personal struggles. The family files contain genealogical information of the Sayre, Renison, Carmalt and Morris Families. His ministry work is detailed in his letters, diaries and other materials.
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Title:: Rev. Samuel Huntting Sayre, Jr. Papers 1874-19891920-1960 6.00

Title:: Sarah M. Severance Scrapbook 1915

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Scrapbook of Sarah M. Severance (b. 1835) documenting her visit to the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, California through postcards and detailed description.
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Title:: Sarah M. Severance Scrapbook 1915 0.01

Title:: Stan Skalski Papers 1966-1968

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This collection consists of letters, 1966-1968, written by U.S. Army Private First Class Stan Skalski to his fiancee Caren Brereton in Philadelphia, as well as biographic material. Earlier letters concern Skalski's basic training at Fort Jackson, Georgia and Fort Gordon, Georgia, and later his airborne training at Fort Benning, Georgia and Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Skalski describes various training exercises and his overall acclimation to army life, but also writes at length about personal matters. He frequently mentions family members and mutual acquaintances in Philadelphia, as well as wedding plans. Letters written during Skalski's service in Vietnam describe the activities of his patrol near the Phan Rang Air Base, located in then South Vietnam. Skalski discusses guard duty on base and encounters with the Viet Cong in the surrounding area. In addition to these written correspondences, the collection also includes biographic material, such as two postcards from Saigon and a boarding pass for the 8346th Air Division, tactical airlift to Phan Rang. A scrapbook maintained by Skalski contains photographs of his military training, including what appears to be a mock Vietnamese village, as well as service related ephemera and artifacts. The collection also includes a newspaper clipping from the Screaming Eagle, a publication of the 101st Airborne Division, which mentions the activity of Skalski's patrol.
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Title:: Stan Skalski Papers 1966-1968 1.00

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