- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation
- Collector:
- Princeton University. Library. Special Collections
- Title:
- Virginia Colonial Records Project Collection
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/w9505052x
- Dates:
- 1955-1958
- Size:
- 2 boxes and 0.8 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- ReCAP (rcpxm): Box 1-2
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists of survey reports and correspondence of the Virginia Colonial Records Project (1955-1958).
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection consists of survey reports and correspondence of the Virginia Colonial Records Project (1955), which was organized as part of Virginia's 350th Anniversary Celebration (1957) to locate and list manuscript sources for Virginia history, 1580-1780, in British, French and other overseas repositories.
- Arrangement:
Box 1--correspondence, miscellaneous survey reports from primarily France and England, Box 2--survey reports from England.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation
The 350th Anniversary Commission was created by an act of the Viriginia General Assembly passed on April 3, 1954, to develop and coordinate the plans of public and private agencies to commemorate the landing of the first colonists at Jamestown. Seventeen members were appointed to the commission for terms to expire December 31, 1957. In conformity with the act, a non-profit corporation, the Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, was created. One of its goals was to locate and list manuscript sources for Virginia history, 1580-1780, in British, French and other overseas repositories.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
No aquisition information is currently available for this collection.
- Archival Appraisal Information:
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information:
Folder inventory added Kelly Rafey '16 in 2013.
Folder inventory added Kelly Rafey '16 in 2013.
Access & Use
- Access Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
- Conditions for Reproduction and Use:
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Virginia Colonial Records Project Collection; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/w9505052x
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA(609) 258-3184
Find More
- Subject Terms:
- Colonies in America -- 17th century.
Colonies in America -- 18th century.
Libraries -- England -- Special collections -- 20th century.
Libraries -- France -- Special collections -- 20th century. - Genre Terms:
- Correspondence -- 20th century.
Library surveys -- England -- 20th century.
Library surveys -- France -- 20th century. - Places:
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- Research.
Virginia -- Centennial celebrations -- 20th century.
Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Sources.
