Repository: College of William and Mary / Date range: 1918

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.

Email: spcoll@wm.edu

Phone: (757) 221-3090

Fax: (757) 221-5440

Web: swem.wm.edu/scrc

Baird Family Personal Correspondence, 1900/1920 Box 4

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Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, 1911/1956 Box 17, Folder 46

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Ball family correspondence, 1918/1976

Letters in this series are mainly to Mary Ball from relatives and friends regarding family, sickness, death, and spiritual life. Of note are letters from Hugh Ball to Mary Ball during their separation due to her sickness in 1918 and a hand-painted card from Cora Avery to Mary Ball from 1947.

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Ball Family Papers, 1887/1976 0.50 Linear Feet

Ball family

Papers, 1887-1976, of the Ball family, chiefly Hugh Ball and Mary Pierce Ball who operated a dairy farm in Vergennes, Vermont. Dairy farming account books and receipts are included in the collection. Mary Ball (née Mary Lucy Pierce) grew up in Shelbourne, Vermont and her eleven diaries, written between the ages of eighteen and thirty-two, detail the weather, social engagements, sewing projects, books read, school, and in the last diary, baby care.

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Bane (Ragland A.), at Keily Field, Texas, to Mrs. R.W. Crawford, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1918 Box 1, Folder 1, Object 11

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Bank Books, 1917/1928 Box 1, Folder 3

Folder contains three seperate bank books; one belonging to an unidentifed person (1917-1920), another belonging to Woodley Blackwell (1925), and a third belonging to John Webb (1928).

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Bank documents, 1909/1948 Box 4, Folder 32

These include promissory notes, other bank statements, and five small account books. Many of the documents involve V. M. Geddy as executor of the estate of M. L. Slater. The account books belonged to Francis Jerdone, for the period 1909-1930; John A. Barnes, 1919-1936; H. D. Cole, 1931-1936; Mary Lola Barnes, 1933-1936; and T. F. Rogers and B. D. Peachy, executors of Virginia Peachy Rogers, 1946.

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Bank Statements, Canceled Checks and Stock, 1895/1933 Box 1, Folder 6

Bank Statements, Canceled Checks and stock Silica Stone Company.

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Barnes Family Papers, 1797/1926, bulk 1818/1875 247.00 Linear Feet

Collection contains correspondence, chiefly 1820-1875, of Newman Williamson Barnes and his wife Margaret W.(Tomlin) Barnes of Richmond, Virginia and "Greenfield," Culpeper County, Virginia and to their daughter, Margaret W. Barnes. Letters concern life in Falmouth, Virginia and also concern Fredericksburg, Virginia. Correspondents are members of the Braxton, Coalter, Tomlin and Oliver families. Letters contain social and family news.

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Barrett, Janie (Porter), 1865/1948 Box 1, Folder 3

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