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Start Over Collection Williamsburg (Va.) Area Ephemera Collection Date range 1998
College of William and Mary

Williamsburg (Va.) Area Ephemera Collection

14.60 Linear Feet

This collection covers the Greater Williamsburg Area, including Williamsburg, Yorktown, Jamestown, James City County, York County and other nearby communities. It includes gifts and purchases whose contents are ephemeral in nature and not well-suited as stand-alone collections. The items are usually transient documents of everyday life and can include menus, flyers, advertisements, and programs but can also be postcards, games, ticket stubs, and the like.

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Album and CD's Box 14, Folder 4

Scope and Contents A Colonial Williamsburg Album "The Williamsburg Quintet," a two album recording of a black vocal group who sang at the Williamsburg Inn every Sunday Evening, circa 1940's. Two CD's. One CD labeled "Williamsburg Postcard Files" which is, per the donor, a "backup" with many images, scans and documents found or received over the years, including on eBay. It also contains a complete record of all the Williamsburg postcards known to exist as of 2011 and notes if they appear in this collection. It is organized by publisher, then type of card and serial number if there is one. The donor's note with the CD's further explains how to determine the importance of postcards and the special types of postcards. The second CD contains a scan of Carolyn Sparks Whittenburg's 2004 dissertation, "President J.A.C. Chandler and the First Women Faculty at the College of William and Mary."

  1. Series 1: Postcard, Ephemera, and Research Collection
  2. Artifacts and Audio-Visual Material

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