Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation

MSS 6213, Barbara Colquhoun Trigg Brown Fight for Freedom album, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.

Biographical / Historical

Barbara Colquhoun Trigg Brown (1889-1979) was born in Richmond, Virginia to William Robertson Trigg, Sr. and Roberta Nichols Hanewinkel.

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, clippings, handouts and membership lists. The volumes chronicle the formation and activities of the Virginia Fight for Freedom Committee, an organization which combatted isolationism and supported the Allied war effort before the U.S. entry. Correspondents include Richard Evelyn Byrd, Virginius Dabney, Carter Glass, Francis Pickens Miller, Claude Pepper, and Dave Edward Satterfield.

Related Material

This scrapbook is related to MSS 6213-a Papers comprising articles about and by William Robertson Trigg and his daughter, Barbara Colquhoun Trigg "Mrs. David Tucker Brown" and the Trigg family.