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
Start Over Repository College of William and Mary Date range 1928

Ursula Fairfax Harrison Baird Gardening Notebook, 1925/1935 0.05 Linear Feet

Gardening notebook of Ursula Fairfax Harrison Baird, wife of Charles L. Baird. Notes are mostly a record of the names (often specific varieties), amount ordered, prices and vendors of the flowers and seeds ordered. A few letters from gardening supply outlets are inserted in the notebook, along with loose handwritten notes by Ursula Baird.

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U.S. Navy Mine Depot, 1928/1932 Box 7, Folder 8

Report entitled "Copy of U.S. Navy Mine Depot File, containing Commander Miles' History of the Depot." Typed notation on title page, " The file was loaned, in January, 1932, to Mr. William M. Robinson, Jr., Superintentent, Colonial National Monument, by Captain B. H. Green, U.S. N., Inspector of Ordnance in Charge, U.S. Navy Mine Depot, Yorktown, Virginia." Report begins with a 2 page report, "Information obtained from John A. Roberts (colored), October 16, 1928 by A.J. Forman" about the Tinsley Family, Landsdowne and the removal of the Nathaniel Bacon Stone to Bruton Parish by the Tyler Family.

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  2. B. Floyd Flickinger papers, 1927/1950
  3. Historic Sites and Buildings
  4. Yorktown

Vaiden Family Papers, 1799/1982 0.25 Linear Feet

Genealogical material on the Vaiden family starting with Henry Micajah Vaiden (b. 1824) of Brunswick County, Va. who married Adelia Laverne Rose (1825-1903) in 1846 and including papers relating to the membership of Penelope Bryan Vaiden in the Daughters of the American Revolution, photographs, and receipts and account books. Includes Henry M. Vaiden's journal of horse pedigrees, crop records and accounts and a book of recipes. 49 items.

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