B. Floyd Flickinger Papers

Access and use

Location of collection:
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Restrictions:

User Access Restricted.

Terms of access:

Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred citation:

B. Floyd Flickinger Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William & Mary.

Collection context

Summary

Extent:
3.00 Linear Feet
Creator:
Flickinger, B. Floyd, 1905-1992
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

B. Floyd Flickinger Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William & Mary.

Background

Scope and content:

Papers of B. Floyd Flickinger, Superintendent of the Colonial National Historic Park. Letters, memos, reports, speeches, documents, photographs, and other material related to the creation and operation of the Colonial National Historic Park in Yorktown, Virginia. Material on archaeology at Jamestown and the expansion of the National Park Service. Personal papers which include Flickinger's position at the Technical Training Service at the Quartermaster School during World War II, his position as a teacher of American History and news clippings about his interest in the theater and history.

Processing information:

Accessioned and minimally processed by Benjamin Bromley in October 2012.

Arrangement:

Arranged in series and subseries by the focus of the material and alphabetically by subject within each series and subseries.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard