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Guy Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary
Gifts via the Williamsburg Historic Records Association and Joan Eastman Bennett.
Processed by Anne Johnson. Acc. 2011.645 added by Benjamin Bromley in October 2011.
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Papers of the William George and Gladys Bennett Guy family of Williamsburg, Virginia with additions from Joan Eastman Bennett. Includes correspondence, invitations, minutes, clippings, oral histories, notebooks, reports, photographs, written memories, essays and printed materials. Papers include items about water and gas, Williamsburg Landing, American Red Cross, Williamsburg United Service Organization, Williamsburg Female Academy, College of William and Mary and zoning regulations. Includes ephemera of Williamsburg, Virginia and personal material and correspondence of the Bennett Family and Guy Family of Williamsburg, Virginia. The original accession was received in 1985 with additions added through 2011.
Arranged by accession number.
UA 6.037 William George and Gladys Bennett Guy Papers
Mss. Acc. 1998.18 Joan Eastman Bennett Williamsburg, Virginia Collection
Publication: Collection of Woody Species, published by William and Mary.
Book: Old Virginia Houses Along the James by Emmie Ferguson Farrar. 1957.
Book: The Life of Handel by Victor Schoelcher, 1857. Formerly belonged to L.B. Wharton and the Holt Library, Williamsburg Female Institute.
These publications transferred to Swem Library Stacks or Rare Books.
1985.42 Papers relating to miscellaneous Williamsburg civic groups in the early years of the 20th Century. Papers relating to the Williamsburg Community Council in the early years of the 20th Century. Papers relating to the Williamsburg Public Library in the early years of the 20th Century. Papers relating to the Williamsburg Red Cross in the early years of the 20th Century. Acc. 1987.24 Brief typescript reminiscence of the town of Norge. Brief typescript reminiscence of Cameron Hall.
Adopted in 1947.
Correspondence with Gladys Guy, Bulletins of the Red Cross, News Releases and Annual Reports of the James City County American Red Cross Chapter.
Scope and Contents Postcard (United Service Organization Club Formal Dedication, May 6, 1943); newspaper articles on USO, American Red Cross, 1930 Williamsburg Reunion, Williamsburg Rotary Club, 1937-38 with photographs of members, Parke Rouse articles, article on Perry, Shaw and Hepburn the architects for Colonial Williamsburg and article, "Negro Admitted to Bruton Parish" about the Dr. J. Baline Blayton family; card with emergency contacts of the James City County Chapter of the American Red Cross; house numbers with residents' names on Newport Avenue; pamphlet "A Brief History of the Virginia Gazette" 1976; photograph of Bennett's Bible Class at Bruton Parish circa 1915 with some members identified; invitation to Dr. and Mrs. W. G. Guy to the reception for Queen Elizabeth II at the Governor's Palace on October 16, 1957; pamphlet "Tucker House Christmas" with inscription; program of the United Service Organization Club, Williamsburg, Virginia, formal opening on May 6, 1943; printed copy of a poem written by Mrs. George P. Coleman on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Williamsburg Garden Club on March 15, 1954; 1933-34 Yearbook of the Williamsburg Branch of the A.A.U.W. and small notebook with dates (no years) and names of people participating in the Evening Circle and the U.S.O.
Scope and Contents Receipt from Old Town Canoe Company for items sold to R.G. Robb of the College of William and Mary, dated April, 1931; Constitution of the Yacht Club, undated; copy of typed talk by James W. Miller to the new students of th College, "The Origin, History, and Purpose of the College of William and Mary" dated September 24, 1952; letter from Gladys B. Guy to "All Friends Who Contributed to the Fund to Present to the College a Portrait of John Edwin Pomfret" dated July 6, 1959 and other correspondence concerning the portrait, 1960; newspaper articles on the Wren Building (1968), Admiral John Lesslie Hall, Jr. (1981) and Common Glory (1977); and copy of typed transcript of oral history interview of Gladys Guy by Emily Williams on January 9, 1976.
Postcard of Phi Kappa Tau house (USO headquarters); Souvenir Booklet of the USO Residence Club operated by National Catholic Community Service, Women's Division, 1946; advertisement handouts, press releases, reports and minutes for the U.S.O. Residence Club in Williamsburg; Certificate of Cooperation for Mrs. W.G. Guy ..."making fur-lined vests to be distributed to the Merchant Marine ..." 1944; War Ration Books issued to Gladys and William Guy; deposit slips for the Service Men's Campaign Fund; and Gladys Guy's notes on her talk about the U.S.O. (undated).
Stock for 2 shares of Peninsula Co-operative Association, (Inc.) for Mrs. H.E. Bennett, March 1, 1915; Stock for one share in Virginia Peninsula Fair Association, Incorporated for H.E. Bennett, February 3, 1922; 1919 newspaper articles and correspondence on building a school on Palace Green; financial figures; certificate from Commonwealth of Virginia appointing H.E. Bennett the Division Superintendant of Schools in City of Williamsburg, July 1, 1917; correspondence between H.E. Bennett and others about education in Williamsburg; brochure on the opening of the Matthew Whaley School on September 15, 1930 and newspaper articles on schools and educational activities in Williamsburg and James City County.
Folder originally titled "H.E. Bennett Items"
Program for Community Christmas Tree and Caroling Service, 1946; article written by Gladys Guy about Christmas Tree and attached note from Mrs. George Preston Coleman; program for Community Night, November 13, 1947 and November 9, 1949 and related material; by-laws of the Williamsburg Community Council, March 17, 1948; minutes of Williamsburg Community Council; correspondence with Gladys Guy about Committee on Continuing Studies and a Mental ygiene Society; program for Spring Music Festival in May 1949; correspondence with Gladys Guy about Williamsburg Community Council and Community Fund; flyer on United World Federalists, William and Mary Branch; by-laws of the Citizens Association of Williamsburg and Vicinity (undated) and election information (undated).
Volume 1, No. 11 issue of the Williamsburg Landing newspaper, "Landing Tattler." Typed carbon copy of article on early Williamsburg memories of Gladys Guy. Topics include Cameron Hall and Toano, Virginia. Accession 1987.24 is included in folder 9.
Material concerning 20th century Williamsburg, Virginia: water and sewage system meetings in 1915, schools, visitors to Williamsburg, Women's Club and more. Pasted in and loose in a bound volume entitled "Gems of Life."
20th Century Williamsburg topics pasted and loose in bound volume entitled "Gems of Life."
Nine (9) lack and white photographs of Colonial Williamsburg's Historic Area and the Brafferton. Presumably, the interior shots are of one of the rented Historic Area homes. Photographs are stamped: Thomas L. Williams, Photographer.
President's House brochure, President's House postcard, and two newspaper clippings about the President's House renovations (21 June 1973 and 11 October 1974).
Broadside of Memorial Exercises, March 1919, for the boys of James City County and Williamsburg who gave their lives for liberty. Sponsored by the Woman's Club. Verso shows trees planted in memory of boys on Palace Green, with surnames noted: Jennings, Hazelwood, Cox, Menzell, Witchley, Hicks, Lewis, Lewis, Clapton, Thomas and Hooper.From the collection of Mrs. Henry Eastman Bennett (Daisy), the mother of Gladys Guy.
Copy of a file of "Landing Tattler," 1986-1987, full of memories of early 20th century Williamsburg.
Letters of the College of William and Mary President Thomas A. Graves, Jr. to Gladys Guy of Williamsburg, Virginia. Includes news articles about Dr. Thomas Graves and Paul Verkuil plus a 1964 map of the City of Williamsburg. 22 items.WHRA
Scope and Contents Joan Eastman Bennett Collection. Ten items relating to Williamsburg, Virginia: AAUW (American Association of University Women), Yearbook, Williamsburg Chapter 1934-1935; Pamphlet "Higher Education and History" a speech by John R. Thelin for the College of William and Mary School of Education Alumni and Friends Distinquished Lecture Series, September 29, 1987.Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board (ABC Board) coupon book for William George Guy, dated May 11, 1944.Copy of part of a book of poetry and stories with signatures of members of the Williamsburg Garden Club, "To Mary Haldane Coleman...in grateful appreciation of her great contribution to this volume."Three copies of "Literary Sketches" a monthly broadside discussing authors and their works, published in Williamsburg, Virginia , Mary Lewis B. Chapman, editor. November 1963, February, 1964, March 1964;Photograph of the seventh grade class at Jamestown school, undated.
Items which belonged to the donor's aunt, Gladys Guy of Williamsburg. Includes programs of I-Day in Williamsburg, and V-J Day, 1945 plus lists with names and telephone numbers for members of local churches, dated September -November 1943. Kappa Sigma Fraternity certification for Loren Eastman Bennett.
Joan Eastman Bennett Collection. Photographs of women at a function, dated 1985, photograph of a christmas tree in a victorian room (undated, black and white), 1921 William and Mary Commencement Day program, 1909 correspondence regarding an illness of Gladys Guy, a niece of Joan Bennett, Gladys Guy's paper on Edward Nott, a Colonial Governor of Virginia, certificate to Mrs. Gladys Guy from Williamsburg Landing dated 1983, letters to William and Gladys Guy, brochure for Casey's of Williamsburg, 1960 photograph of the Wren Building, and a 1952 Virginia Gazette article on Ike and Adlai Sciuridae.
Joan Eastman Bennett Collection. Includes photographs, receipts, letters, grade reports, church bulletins, and material from the Williamsburg Female Institute.
Includes Christmas cards received by members of the Guy family as well as photographs of the Guy family and others.