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Mildred Jackson Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Transferred from the Music Library through Ruth Harris.
Accessioned and minimally processed by Anne Johnson, SCRC staff, in September 2009.
Resident of Williamsburg, Virginia. Associated with music and the Department of Music at the College of William and Mary.
Papers of Mildred Jackson of Williamsburg, Virginia. She was a private piano instructor in Williamsburg, a performer with the William and Mary Music Department, and the wife of Dr. Jess Jackson, a professor of English at William and Mary. Includes lesson plans, music books, financial records, correspondence, newspaper articles, photographs, programs, and address books.
This collection is not yet fully arranged and described. Researchers may wish to consult with a staff member for further information in advance of using the collection.
Contains material relating to Jackson's musical career: instructional material, programs, records, essay drafts, newspaper clippings, and other ephemera.
Contains lesson books, lesson plans, and other material from her private piano lessons.
Contains lesson books, lesson plans, and other material from her private piano lessons.
Contains programs from her students' annual recitals.
Contains programs and flyers for musical performances by other piano teachers, as well as musical performances in Colonial Williamsburg, Bruton Parish, and William and Mary, including a performance by the Trapp Family Singers in 1947.
Two essay drafts about musical appreciation and instruction, written in the left-over pages of College exam Blue Books. The original student exam answers are still present as well.
Contains financial records, invoices, deposit slips, and other associated material.
Planner with individual students' accounts: lesson schedule, amounts due, payments received.
Planner with individual students' accounts: lesson schedule, amounts due, payments received.
Planner with individual students' accounts: lesson schedule, amounts due, payments received.
Planner with individual students' accounts: lesson schedule, amounts due, payments received. Written on the blank pages of a fundraising manual for a 1962 building project at Virginia Episcopal School in Lynchburg.
Planner with individual students' accounts: lesson schedule, amounts due, payments received.
Handouts with notes from intensive seminars for piano teachers given by Dr. Clarence Burg at William and Mary.
Contains clippings from various papers. Removed for conservation purposes, but available through Swem are The Virginia Gazette, May 28-June 4, 1943; page F-3 of The Richmond Times-Dispatch, October 17, 1954; and page 6 of The Virginia Gazette, October 6, 1972.
Contains advertisements and other materials related to pianos and musical education.
Contains personal effects not directly related to music lessons, including photographs, correspondence, and family papers.
Contains private letters from friends, greeting cards, and Christmas cards.
Includes a photographic portrait of Jackson, her son's 1945-6 report card from the Matthew Whaley School, retirement home paperwork, and other personal effects.