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Preferred Citation:

S. Louise Seymour Scrapbooks, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Acquisition Information:

Acc. 1983.028 gift of Louise Seymour,  07/12/1983. Acc. 1994.079 gift of Louise Seymour,  05/26/1993.

Biographical Information:

William and Mary student (1939-1943). Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: .

Scope and Contents

Acc. 1983.028: Loose pages of an unbound scrapbook that include newspaper clippings, theater programs and tickets, convocation programs, a ticket to a lecture given at Phi Beta Kappa Hall by Robert Frost, a handbook of the Women Students' Cooperative Government Association, a registration card for spring 1940 classes, a program from the 1943 inauguration of John E. Pomfret as President of the College, and other materials.

Acc. 1994.079: Scrapbook containing news clippings, a graduation program, and photographs. The photographs depict campus, Williamsburg, the movie set for The Howards of Virginia, Seymour, her friends and roommates, and other students. This accession also includes a collar from a 1943 graduation gown.

Separated Material

Two copies of the Flat Hat and two copies of the Alumni Gazettes were removed to Publications.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Buildings and Grounds
• Buildings and Grounds--Barrett Hall
• Buildings and Grounds--Old Dominion Hall
• Buildings and Grounds--Old Library (1908)
• Buildings and Grounds--Sunken Garden
• College of William and Mary--Students
• College of William and Mary. William and Mary Theatre
• Cowen, Ruth
• Darst, Virginia
• Maldeis, Helen
• Photographs
• Playbills
• Pomfret, John Edwin, 1898-
• President's House (Williamsburg, Va.)
• Programs
• Registration instructions and schedules
• Reveley, Sally
• Scrapbooks
• Sheffield, Mildred
• Student Government--Women Students' Cooperative Government Association
• Student Life--1940's
• Student Organizations--Backdrop Club
• Women college students
• Wren Building (Williamsburg, Va.)