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This collection includes minutes, scrapbooks, histories, photographs, recipie booklets, and other items of twenty home demonstration clubs in the Rockbridge County, Virginia area.

This collection consists of correspondence, clippings, photographs, programs, playbooks and other material collected by William and Mary Theatre professor Howard Scammon. The bulk of the material is correspondence between Scammon and his former students, but the papers also include documentation related to the William and Mary Theatre, The Common Glory, the Jamestown Festival of 1957, other Williamsburg theatre groups and famous William and Mary alumni such as Glenn Close and Linda Lavin. Some personal papers are also included.

This is an artificial collection of material related to visits to the College of William and Mary by HRH Charles The Prince of Wales and greetings sent to William and Mary by him. The first item is a volume presented to the university by HRH The Prince of Wales on February 13, 1993. The volume is composed of reproductions of selected portrait engravings of King William III and Queen Mary II from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle. Acc. 1987.80 is a framed copy of the Honorary Fellowship certificate awarded to Prince Charles in 1981 signed by President Thomas A. Graves and Edward E. Brickell. The certificate was made by Ames and Rollinson, NY.

The collection includes three binders tracing the high school reunions of the James Blair High School class of 1956. The collection contains newspaper clippings, graduation programs an invitation from 1956, schedules of the reunions, photographs of the reunions and the class of 1956, as well as obituaries.

This collection contains many materials relating to the South African mission. Dr. Leyburn saved a number of newspaper articles concerning South Africa which are contained herein. Reports on various industries and other aspects of South Africa are included. Also within this collection are an assortment of Dr. Leyburn's speeches, some of which address South Africa. The remainder of the speeches concern the future of Washington and Lee University.

Scrapbooks, photo albums, correspondence, travel diary, home movies of the Wilson and Davison families. 28 scrapbooks and loose correspondence related to three generations of the family of James Southall Wilson, with much material on the University of Virginia. Persons represented significantly include James Southall Wilson (1880-1963) and Julia Tyler Wilson (1881-1965);Charles Marshall Davison, Jr. (1914-1995) and Alida Wilson Davison (1913-1995); and Katharine "Kit" Stonestreet Davison (1943-).

This collection contains a scrapbook, diary, and correspondence belonging to Jane Isabella Watt White.

Jean Cynthia Cheatham family papers (1852-2012; 1 cubic foot) contains genealogy information, military papers, photographs, and scrapbooks.

Fifty-eight diaries of Joseph Buchanan Bernardin, Episcopal clergyman, dated 1913-1987, and thirteen scrapbooks of clippings, invitations, programs, and other memorabilia.