Julia Woodbridge Oxrieder is a folklorist and author residing in Williamsburg, Virginia. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki:
Julia Woodbridge Oxrieder is a folklorist and author residing in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Gifts of Mrs. Julia Oxrieder via the Williamsburg Historic Records Association. Acc. 2009.393: Gift of Julia Oxrieder, received 9/16/2009.
Collection intellectually combined in 2009 by Anne Johnson, Special Collections Assistant.
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Julia W. Oxrieder Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary
Arranged by accession.
The personal papers of Julia W. Oxrieder include materials related to Williamsburg, Virginia, documents of interest she collected related to her many interests, and personal material about her life and work in Williamsburg. Many items are copies of biographies, newspaper articles, and ephemera documenting local history including folklore, education, Williamsburg people and organizations, African Americans, and other topics.
Typescripts of accolades to Dr. Baxter Bell upon his retirement in 1957. 9 pp.
Scrapbook of Matthew Whaley seventh grade, 1950-1951.
Booklets of "History of Toano High School" and Union Baptist Church (Highland Park)(1976), articles on Niccole Ringgold and Thelma Pedersen and copy of "Tall Tales and True of James City County" excerpts from oral histories (1976) and rededication program for The Williamsburg Presbyterian Church on May 10, 1981.
Clippings, programs and certificates about Matthew Whaley School, program for "Community Service in Memory of John D. Rockefeller, Jr." on June 9, 1960, "Program of Christmas Celebration in Williamsburg" for 1942, photographs of Williamsburg children and activities, photographs of the Bell twins, dated 1931, 1935, 1938 and 1953, Girl Scout card of Julia B. Woodbridge, Red Cross card of Ruby Belle Woodbridge from 1930, 1942 commencement program of Matthew Whaley School, program for Matthew Whaley play "The High School Mystery" dated 1942, certificates for school activities for Julia Woodbridge and a tribute to Baxter Bell, M.D., May 27, 1957. 1972 Telephone Directory for Williamsburg/Toano transferred to Rare Books.
Copy of essay "Women in the Business World" by Julia Oxrieder, dated 1995, about women in Williamsburg and copies of three issues of the Peninsula News: March 19, 1904; September 7, 1901; September 21, 1901.
Julia Oxrieder's essays "Woman's Suffrage Movement" which includes material on the movement in Williamsburg and "Woman's Christian Temperance Union" which includes material on the movement in Williamsburg. Article "Female Institute much-heralded, but short-lived" by Julia Oxrieder.
Two biographical sketches of teacher Clara Baker from Williamsburg and extracts from the Virginia Gazette, 1905-1916, concerning the Williamsburg Female Institute, copies of bulletins from the Williamsburg Female Institute, originals in the Virginia State Library. and other Williamsburg news.
Copies of biographical, historical and genealogical material relating to the Hofheimer family of Norfolk and Williamsburg.
Copies of statistics from Tidewater Virginia Counties extracted from late nineteenth-century Gazetteers.
Copies of articles relating to the Harris Family, an African American family in Williamsburg, Virginia. Collection includes letters to Dr. Samuel Harris, an eye doctor in Boston and Elizabeth Harris Moton, wife of Major Moton of Hampton Institute.
Copies of legal material relating to the estate of Marie Marshall, resident of Williamsburg and patient at Eastern State Hospital. Can't locate, 7/2021.
Notes from the Virginia Gazette about the Catholic Church in Williamsburg in 1908.
List of "Williamsburg and James City County Women who Registered to Vote Between September 4 and October 2, 1920 after the Passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. Most of the women are identified by occupation, memberships or relatives.
September 16, 2000 program for York County Historical Society, "Remembering the 19th Amendment" by Julia Oxrieder and an undated copy of her 8 page talk, "Williamsburg Women Work to Attain Suffrage." Includes chart, "Number of Registered Voters by Race and Sex in 1921" for James City County, Williamsburg and York County plus list of York County Women who registered to vote between September 1 and October 25, 1920. Letter from Julia Willis to Julia Oxrieder about Jeannette Sage Kelly, who lived with Elizabeth B. Coleman in the Tayloe House beginning in 1911.
Photocopies of articles reviewing Julia Oxrieder's book "Rich, Black and Southern: The Harris Family of Williamsburg (and Boston)."
Correspondence with Ida Markova of Russia. She was a penpal of Julia Oxrieder through the Letters for Peace Penpal program. They wrote each other during the period of the breakup of the Soviet Union. Includes letters, postcards, newspaper clippings and photographs. Also includes a 1984 Christmas card from Elizabeth who is getting her masters in law.