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Anne T. Chapman Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Gift of 13 boxes of the estate of Anne T. Chapman during 1954-1955; Acc. 1995.21 gift of 4 items by Nancy Griesenauer on 05/08/1995; and Acc. 1997.23 gift of 2 items by Nancy Griesenauer on 05/08/1997.
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Papers, 1884-1954, of Anne T. Chapman of Madison, Wisconsin and Williamsburg, Virginia. She was a civic and social leader in the community of Williamsburg who served as librarian of the Williamsburg Public Library from 1910-1942. Papers include correspondence, diaries, photographs, and newspaper clippings and concern Gamma Phi Beta, the Williamsburg Civic League, the Williamsburg Public Library, the Williamsburg Garden Club, Bruton Parish Church, and public health.
Additions (1995.21 and 1997.23) to the collection include photographs as well as two cookbooks which belonged to her. The first cookbook has manuscript recipes; the second is a twentieth-century multilithed cookbook done by a committee of Williamsburg women.
Panoramic photograph of William and Mary costumed participants in Colonial Pageant July 4, 1921.
Personal diaries of Anne Chapman.
Mainly personal correspondence of Anne Chapman, in loose alphabetical order. Some notes included.
Correspondence of Anne T. Chapman, her mother Mrs. Sarah Chapman, and her brother Chandler B. (Burney) Chapman. The letters are arranged in alphabetical order by correspondents.
Letters from correspondents, A-B, to Anne T. Chapman, including letters from Alex E. Anderson, Helen Bickelhaupt, and Kitty Bruton.
Letters from correspondents, C, including letters from Giacinta Caprano, J.A.C. Chandler, and G. Crocini.
Letters from members of the Chapman family to Anne T. Chapman, including letters from Chandler B. Chapman, I.B. C(hapman) (in French), and Sarah Chapman.
Letters from Anne T. Chapman to Edin (Smith?)
Letters from Anne T. Chapman to members of Gamma Phi Beta.
Letters from Anne T. Smith to "Mama" (Sarah Chapman).
Letters from Anne T. Smith to "Kinfolks" and "My dear people."
Notes by Anne T. Chapman.
Letters from Sarah Chapman to various correspondents including Ella (Pierce), Jesse (?), and "My dear family."
Letters from correspondents, E-G, including letters from Cynthia A. Eakley, Eve Fitzgerald, Floy Van Dusen Gali, and W.A.R. Goodwin.
Letters from correspondents, H, including letters from Maud (Hamilton), Teresa Hulton, and Samuel H. Hubbard, Jr.
Letters from correspondents, P, including Bessie Pierce, Ella Pierce, and Augusta Pratt.
Letters from correspondents, R, including Melvin Ray, A.M. Roby, and Margaret Rowland.
Letters from correspondents, S, including Charles Scott, Georgiana (R.) Sheldon, Gertrude Slaughter, Pierce Smith, T.J. Stuvvs and E.G. Swem.
Letters from correspondents, T, W, and Y, including J.S. Timmons, H.W. Trullis (?), Ruth Kreutzer WIlson, and Mrs. Yearwood.
Letters from unknown correspondents to Anne T. Chapman.
Letters from unknown correspondents to Sarah Chapman.
Letters from Nell (?) to Chandler B. Chapman.
Notes, correspondence, flyers, minutes for local organizations such as Bruton Parish Church, Garden Club, Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg Library, Civic League and others. Clippings, pamphlets, writings, books and other written material on Williamsburg Area organizations, historic area sites, history, speakers plus other areas of interest to Anne Chapman. Includes poems, war ration book, sketches, student notes, books from William White, Madeleine Ruthven poems and political cartoons.
Papers relating to the Williamsburg Community Civic League and the Williamsburg Public Library.
Typescript of "The Civic League's first few years: 1907- 1922" and the news clipping from The Virginian Garette, Jan. 29, 1932.
Correspondence regarding the need for a public health nurse in Williamsburg.
Correspondence regarding the Music Memory Contest sponsored by the Educational and Civic Association and list of prize winners of the Bird Composition Contest.
Minutes and the constitution of the Educational and Civic Associaton.
Minutes and notes concerning the activities of the Educational and Civic Associaton and the reorganization of the Girl Scout Committee.
Civic League and the women's clubs publications.
Civic League and women's clubs news clippings.
Correspondence of Anne T. Chapman concerning the Williamsburg Public Library including letters from E.G. Swem, Bela W. Norton, and Lyon G. Tyler. Resolutions passed by the Williamsburg Regional Library Association on the retirement of Miss Chapman from the position of Librarian, which she had held for 32 years, on March 23, 1942.
Notes made by Anne T. Chapman and undated correspondence relating to the Williamsburg Library.
History, constitution, and publications of the Williamsburg Public Library.
Annual and monthly reports about the Williamsburg Public Library and statistical reports.
Papers relating to the Williamsburg Garden Club and Bruton Parish Church.
Correspondence and minutes of the Williamsburg Garden Club.
Lists and correspondence regarding Garden Club books.
Garden club miscellaneous papers including a poem by R. Goodwin about the hostesses at Garden week.
Garden Club news clippings
Garden Club Publications
Typescript of a sermon preached at Bruton and Colonial Grace Church in Yorktown.
Bruton Parish Church printed material.
Bruton Parish Church news clippings.
Bruton Parish Church-- Historical Pilgrimage sponsored by the women of the church.
News clippings relating to Bishop John B. Bentley.
Minutes of the Parish Aid Society, 1922-1924, and reports, 1925 and 1927.
Minutes of the Parish Aid Society, and Auxilary of Bruton Parish Church.
Papers relating to the Williamsburg community-- chiefly news clippings collected by Anne T. Smith
Correspondence, notes, and reports concerning the Public Health Service in Jamestown City County.
Wiliamsburg Public Health Service news clippings.
Williamsburg local politics papers including correspondence and notes.
News clippings about Williamsburg (John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and Abbie A. Rochefeller).
News clippings regarding Williamsburg.
News clippings regarding Williamsburg.
News clippings and notes concerning the deaths of Lt. W.A.R. Goodwin, Jr. and Mrs. Elizabeth Lowndes Scott Scrawford.
Papers concerning the Williamsburg Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
News clippings concerning Williamsburg local politics.
News clippings and memebership list of the Williamsburg Little Theatre League.
News clippings and program concerning the Williamsburg Fourth of July celebration.
News clippings and program of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
News clippings concerning the U.S.O. and Camp Peary.
News clippings concerning The Common Glory.
News clippings, pageant, and commencement programs of schools.
Papers concerning the Virginia Tuberculosis Association, state and local materials, news clippings, reports, publications, etc.
Miscellaneous publications.
Papers including leaflets and pamphlets relating to the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation-- all collected by Miss Anne T. Chapman.
Official leaflets issued by Colonial Williamsburg.
News clippings relating to Frank Lloyd Wright's talk at the College of William and Mary about colonial architecture.
Information bulletins of Colonial Williamsburg.
Acknowledgement by Kenneth Chorley, President of Colonial Williamsburg, of a gift of eleven Mother of Pearl counters given by Anne T. Chapman.
Notes about books relating to Colonial Williamsburg,
Typescript of a letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr. to Mrs. Coleman.
Mimeographed letter from President Chorley to servicemen and a press release.
Magazine article about "The Rockefeller Boys."
Ladies Home Journal article on "The New-Old Charm of Williamsburg."
Daily Press article about the Bodleian copperplate.
Miscellaneous printed material about Williamsburg and Virginia.
Printed material relating to Carter's Grove.
Guide book of Colonial Williamsburg; booklet about the American Folk Art collection of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Junior; and 2 booklets about The Raleigh Tavern and America's Williamsburg.
The National Geographic Magazine containing an article on Colonial Williamsburg.
House and Garden containing an article on Colonial Williamsburg.
The Restoration of Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia.
News clippings about Colonial Williamsburg and about other topics, and miscellaneous papers collected by Anne T. Chapman.
Silver anniversary edition of Colonial Williamsburg News.
News clippings relating to Colonial Williamsburg.
News clippings relating to Colonial Williamsburg.
News clippings relating to Colonial Williamsburg,
News clippings relating to Colonial Williamsburg.
News clippings relating to Colonial Williamsburg.
News clippings on various topics collected by Anne T. Chapman.
News clippings about Albert Schweitzer.
News clippings about Dorothy Thompson.
News clippings about religion (not Bruton Parish Church).
Political cartoons by Fred O. Seibel, Richmond, Va. and news clippings.
Political cartoons and news clippings.
News clippings relating to Madison, Wisconsin.
Miscellaneous materials: news clippings, notes, stories.
News clippings of poems.
Review of books.
Papers relating to Gamma Phi Beta.
Poems.
Student notes and exam, "English 442"(apparently from the class of Irving H. White, Cambridge, Massachusetts).
Sketches.
War ration books.
Wedding announcements and banquet menus.
News clippings, brochures, and maps collected by Anne T. Chapman relating to Jamestown, Yorktown, Williamsburg and Richmond.
News clippings and brochures relating to Jamestown.
News clippings relating to Yorktown.
Brochures relating to Yorktown.
Brochures relating to Jamestown, Yorktown, and Williamsburg.
News clippings and brochures relating to the Peninsula and Tidewater.
Pamphlets: The Historic Church Silver on the Diocese of Southern Virginia, the Lyrics and The Flora of the Peninsula of Virginia.
News clippings and brochure relating to Richmond, Virginia.
News clippings relating to Virginia including a New York Times article entitield "The Promise of the New South".
Brochures relating to Virginia.
"Massey's Garden Book for the Southern States" (The Progressive Farmer, 1910) and "Flora of Richmond and Vicinity" (Richmond, Virginia, 1930).
Publications collected by Anne T. Chapman and Miss Frances R. Gillette.
Publications collected by Anne T. Chapman and Miss Frances R. Gillette.
William Allen White, Emporia, Kansas, to Miss Frances R. Gillette, Williamsburg. Typewritten Letter Signed. Also, a printed copy of the commencement address he delivered at the University of Kansas (June 11, 1934).
Books include: "American Garden Books Transplanted and Native, Before 1807" by Sarah Stenson, "Princess Sunshine" by May Begg, "The Comics... Very Funny" by Fredric Wertham, M.D., "What Your Children Think of You" by Frederic Wertham, M.D., "Our Delinquent Children" by C. Logan Landrum, "New England Historical Genealogical, Society Genealogical Directory, 1917," "American Taxatation" by Edmund Burke, and "Algonquin Days" by Sarah Morris.
"The Cow Chace" by Major Andre, "A Wreath of Christmas Poems"(New Directions), "Singers in the Dawn, A Brief Anthology of American Negro Poetry" compiled by Robert B. Eleazer, "The Spirit of Paul Revere-- A Glorious Heritage for American Industry" by C. Donald Dallas, "Historic Mahogany," "Pamphlets: Near East Colleges News Letter, October 1928," "Classified List of Daffodil Names,""Basket Making Fully Illustrated" and a gardening brochure of the Wayside Gardens Company.
Madeleine Ruthven, Culver City, California, to Anne T. Chapman, January 11, 1932, and printed copies of poems written by Madeleine Ruthven. [A copy of Summer Denial and Other Poems by Madeleine Ruthven (Primavera Press, Los Angeles, 1932) was removed from the collection and transferred to the stack collection.]
Miscellaneous material belonging to Anne T. Chapman.
Bank book for Sarah E. and Anne T. Chapman from Madison, Wisconsin; guest book, 1938-1948, of Anne T. Chapman; Engagement calendar; 1944, of Anne T. Chapman; Christmas cards; Christmas cards; Cash book, 1873, 1906-1912, with notes enclosed.
Correspondence, 1901-1908, and undated, Chandler B. Chapman, President, Southern Land Company, Williamsburg, Virginia, about his real estate business including transcripts of letters sent by him.
Business correspondence, 1901, 1903 and 1904, of Chandler B. Chapman.
Business correspondence of Chandler B. Chapman.
Business correspondence of Chandler B. Chapman.
Business correspondence of Chandler B. Chapman.
Business correspondence of Chandler B. Chapman.
Business correspondence of Chandler B. Chapman.
Business correspondence of Chandler B. Chapman.
Business correspondence of Chandler B. Chapman.
Business correspondence of Chandler B. Chapman.
Business correspondence of Chandler B. Chapman.
Business correspondence and miscellaneous papers.
Financial and business papers of Chandler B. Chapman.
Financial and business papers of Chandler B. Chapman.
Financial and business papers of Chandler B. Chapman.
Deeds of Chandler B. Chapman.
Photographs of mostly the Williamsburg, Virginia area. Includes buildings, family members and friends, and general Williamsburg scenes. Also includes an undated photograph scrapbook by Anne Chapman.
Photographs, chiefly of Williamsburg, Virginia.
Galt (?) Cottage, Duke of Gloucester Street, Williamsburg.
Courthouse, circa 1930, Williamsburg.
Duke of Gloucester Street (?) Williamsburg, 1906 or 1907.
Christ Church, Alexandria Virginia
Falls Church, Fairfax County, Virginia.
Photographs of Anne T. Chapman.
Photographs of Anne T. Chapman at the Public Library.
Public Library (left to right) Anne T. Chapman, Gladys Guy, and May Coleman.
Dedication of the Public Library (left to right) Gladys Guy, Christine Cocke, Mary Coleman, Anne T. Chapman, and Vernon Geddy.
At the Public Library: Dr. W.A.R. Goodwin and George Heier; George Heier alone.
Public Library (outside) and Interior of Public Library, June 1933: Anne T. Chapman (at desk), Gladys Guy, Christine Cocke, and May Coleman.
Wren Building and statue of Lord Botetourt.
Bruton Parish Church and south door of Bruton Parish Church.
Governor's Palace garden and Old Court House, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Photograph of Carrie Turner (?).
Garden of Mrs. R.B. Watts.
Tucker House garden.
Mrs. Stetson's garden.
Garden of K.J. Hoke.
Garden of Mrs. L.W. Lane, "Shady Lawn."
Miss Anne T. Chapman in the garden of Mrs. L.W. Lane.
Miss Chapman's home at Francis and Boundary streets.
George Coleman in Tucker House garden.
Back of Miss Chapman's house showing garden of Miss Frances R. Gillette, her cousin who lived with her.
Garden of K.J. Hoke.
Cynthia Coleman in garden at Tucker House.
The Christian house at eastern end of Duke of Gloucester street.
Williamsburg ladies in colonial dress approximately late 1920's or early 1930's.
Photographs of Sarah Chapman.
Photograph of Dr. Joseph Cochran, Helen Scudder Cochran, and Gerald Cochran, 1898 (?), Madison, Wisconsin.
Photograph of a young girl (not Miss Chapman).
Yorktown (in color).
Photographs of Italian gardens.
Waller Street, Williamsburg.
Garden of St. George Tucker House, Williamsburg.
Photographs of monuments at Yorktown and Jamestown.
Photographs of Carters Grove (?).
Photographs of Bruton Parish Church.
Photographs of Governor's Palace.
Photographs of the capital.
Photographs of the courthouse.
Photographs of Williamsburg.
Winter scene (?).
Photographs of childen.
Photograph scrapbook of York County and Williamsburg including photographs of her brother Chandler B. (Burney) Chapman.
Photograph of Shakespearean pageant before 1920 on the campus of the College of William and Mary.
Two photographs of the back of the Wren Building pageant in the 1920's.
Two rolled up photographs of "Historical Pageant at Williamsburg, Virginia, July 4, 1921."
Four photographs: Anne Chapman House Anne Chapman and Miss Frances Gillette at the Daffodil Show in Gloucester, Virginia Frances Gillette and her twin sister, cousins of Anne Chapman. Mss. acc. 1995.21 and 1997.23 Additions.
Black and white photograph 2-1/2 x 3-1/2", of the house of Miss Anne Chapman, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Black and white photograph, 2-3/4" x 4-1/2", of Miss Anne Chapman and Miss Frances Gillette, at the Daffodil show, Gloucester Court House. April 1951,
Black and white photograph, 3-1/4 x 3-3/4, of Miss Frances Gillette and her twin sister, Williamsburg, Va., cousins of Miss Anne Chapman. (P3)
Black and white photograph, 3-1/2 x 4-1/2 , of Miss France Gillete of Williamsburg, Va, cousin of Miss Anne Chapman.
Two cookbooks which belonged to Anne Chapman of Williamsburg. One is manuscript recipes of Anne Chapman and the other is an early twentieth-century multilithed cookbook done by nine ladies of Wiliamsburg. Mss. Acc. 1997.23 Addition.
Two cookbooks which belonged to Anne Chapman of Williamsburg: (1) manuscript recipes of Anne Chapman and (2) early twentieth century multilithed cookbook done by a committee of nine ladies of Williamsburg. 1995.21 and 1997.23 Additions.