Collections

This collection includes manuscripts, correspondence, research notes, photographs, artifacts, and publications of author Jayne Anne Phillips.

This collection includes the papers of Jeanne Bryner, an Appalachian poet. It features drafts and manuscripts of her written work, materials developed as part of her and others' adaptations of her poetry, journals that she kept from roughly 1990-2020, and newspaper stories and other acclaim for her work. There are also materials relating to Bryner's education in creative writing at Kent State University and her work as an educator to undergraduate students at Kent State and in amateur writing workshops. Lastly, the collection also includes Bryner's personal and professional correspondence and some prints of artwork and family photographs. The most common types of materials are notebooks, event programs, letters, and booklets, but there is a small quantity of digital and audiovisual material related to Bryner's published work and adaptations of her poetry.

Publications and other material by poet Jeffrey Cyphers Wright.

Papers of John Alden Williams, William R. Kenan Professor of Humanities in the William and Mary Religious Studies Department. Williams specialized in Middle Eastern Civilization and Islamic Studies. Collection includes his curriculum vita, early papers, correspondence, course materials, lectures, talks, transcriptions of manuscripts, and research notes. Some of the material is written in arabic.

The John D. Haskell papers contains general professional and personal papers documenting the life of John D. Haskell from 1941-2022. Papers primarily contain post-retirement personal correspondence from 2006-2022, as well as correspondence from his years as Librarian of the University of Maryland Baltimore County (1965-1969) as well as compiler of the Massachusetts, Maine, and New Hampshire bibliographies documenting New England History. The bibliographies were accumulated as a part of the Committee for a New England Bibliography (1972-1978). The collection also contains documentation of staff members at Swem Library (1978-2006), and memberships in library and bibliographical associations. Correspondence to and from his wife, Mary Haskell, and items from Haskell's childhood are also included.

This collection includes papers, articles, audiovisual materials, and published works relating to horror writer John Russo. John Russo helped to pioneer the popularization of the "zombie" subgenre of horror into popular culture alongside the late George Romero through writing Night of the Living Dead in 1968. Russo is a graduate of West Virginia University and was born in Clarion, Pennsylvania. This collection details his 50+ year career, as well as the impact of Night of the Living Dead upon not just Appalachian filmmaking and art made in the Pittsburgh area, but horror filmmaking. Alongside his content relating to Night of the Living Dead, the collection also includes some of his published and unpublished works, novels, and various films that he has taken part in. Some notable pieces of this collection are a facsimile of the original screenplay of Night of the Living Dead, Russo's very first typed novel manuscript for Beer and Apathy, which was written during Russo's time at WVU, and several articles bearing the signature of film director and co-creator of Night of the Living Dead, George Romero.

This collection contains two notebooks and two sketchbooks kept by Julie Baugnet, a book artist and painter from St. Paul, Minnesota. The notebooks contain Baugnet's observations of epidemiologists and other experts as well as other information on COVID-19 that was being publicly disseminated and notes for her COVID-19 projects. "Covid Notes #1" is dated February 21, and features Baugnet's notes on Dr. Michael Osterholm's podcast on the pandemic. On the cover of the notebook is "info for my journals and sketchbooks" and on its interior end page are descriptions of her "Covid Journals # 1-33" projects. The notes date from 2021 and appear to be ideas for journals 3 and 4. The second notebook is titled "Covid Notes #2, 2020-2021" and is a continuation of Baugnet's notes on the same Osterholm podcast. The notebook entries are dated from 2021 to 2022. The content of the two notebooks, aside from notetaking on Osterholm's outlook, discusses themes of sheltering, isolation, spread of COVID-19, vaccinations, schools, maintaining relationships during the lockdowns, alterations to holiday traditions, and ideas and notes for her COVID-19 related book projects.

Papers of Katherine G. Johnson. Includes assorted artifacts, family photographs, awards, honorary degrees, correspondence, and other material regarding the career and life of Katherine G. Johnson. The bulk of the collection is focused on material relating to the release of the 2016 film Hidden Figures while other material details Katherine Johnson's early life and her family history. Such material includes news clippings, magazine articles, and fan mail to Katherine G. Johnson.

A six-inch souvenir miniature reproduction of a bust of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette produced by the Lafayette Shoppe, LLC of Williamsburg, Virginia.