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This collection is composed of the personal papers of College of William and Mary Faculty member William Warner Moss, Jr. It contains correspondence, notes, photographs, recordings, and other material. Featured in the papers are Moss' personal research notes about Ireland, court cases, and other political issues; class lecture notes; clippings about the 1952 football scandal; and subject files related to various Virginia elections.

This collection includes miscellaneous articles on a variety of literary topics. It also includes approximately 25 items from Pusey's wartime duty in Germany in 1945, including eight photographs of Admiral Dönitz's surrender. Additionally, there is a typescript by Pusey entitled Theater in Staunton, Va, 1875-1912.Also contains a signed typescript of his book History of the theater in Staunton, Virginia, known as Grange Hall, the Opera House (1879) and the Beverly Theatre (1905-), from 1875-1912. Chronicles performances (ca. 700) of drama, musical comedy, minstrel shows, vaudeville, and melodrama. Includes names of major actors and playwrights of the shows, such as Warren L. Olivier, Lillie Langtry, Fanny Janauschek, Emma Abbott, Thomas W. Keene, Sol S. Russell, Frank Chanfrau, Otis Skinner, Helena Modjeska, Julia Marlowe, and De Wolf Hopper, and the critical reaction to the performances by Staunton newspapers.

The papers of William Welling document his career as a photographic historian. Welling worked as a journalist for the Hamden Chronicle from 1949-1950 and several of his articles are included in the collection. Series 2 holds correspondence between Welling and prominent photographic historians Helmut Gernsheim (1913-1995) of Lugano, Switzerland and George R. Rinhart. Series 3 includes Welling's extensive collection of photographic history research primarily on the 19th century for his books A Collector's Guide to Nineteenth Century Photographs (1976) and Photography in America: The Formative Years, 1839-1900 (1978). Series 4 and 5 are papers related to the production, promotion, and sale of these two works, while series 6 includes copies of photographs and negatives used for the books. Series 7 includes several years worth of photographic history journals the majority of which are "Photographica" and "In Focus." Series 8 and 9 include research related to other book projects that Welling aspired to write, but did not complete.

The papers of West Virginia's State Superintendent of Free Schools from 1933-1957 includes three boxes of newspaper clipping scrapbooks, 1934-1941, a file of mimeograph bulletins, news releases, reports and circular letters, 1937-1954. There is one box of Trent's college essays.

Correspondence, reports, bulletins, and reports of the Board of Public Works, Utility Assessment Hearing of the State Superintendent of Free Schools from 1933 to 1956. Papers cover such subjects as the foundation program, teachers' salaries, and certification.

Papers of Willy and Aenne Schutze. Most of the collection consists of letters written by Willy to Aenne Schutze in Arnstadt, Thuringia during the First World War (WWI) in the period 1915-1916. Willy was a member of the 4th Landwehr Division, a type of unit consisting primarily of older soldiers performing occupation and security services. There are also postcards from the 1880s, letters from circa 1909-1910, picture postcards, and photographs of Willy and Aenne Schutze. A calling card in the collection for Willy Schutze shows that he was a "Braumeister" for the "Frankenhausen Aktienbrauerei". There is also what appears to be a poem about World War I.

Family papers include Winborne Jr.'s school papers and notebooks from his years at Washington and Lee University, as well as information about his fraternity, Delta Tau Delta. Three folders contain printed matter about his father, Roger M. Winborne, a Class of 1911 graduate of Washington and Lee University Law School.