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Preferred Citation:

Elizabeth Archer Barnard Nickels Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Acquisition Information:

Acc. 2010.246 was received on 4/21/2010. Acquisition information for material received after 7/13/2009 is available by consulting a Special Collections Research Center staff member.

Processing Information:

Acc. 2010.246 and Acc. 2010.249 accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in April 2010. Acc. 2011.361 accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in May 2011. Fully processed by Emma Tainter, student volunteer, May 2017.

Biographical Information:

Elizabeth Archer Barnard Nickels graduated from William & Mary in 1939. She was a member of Euclid, the J. Leslie Hall Literary Society, and the YWCA.

Scope and Contents

The papers of Elizabeth Archer Barnard Nickels include scrapbooks, correspondence, invitations, publications, course work, and other material from her student life. Much of the material is from her time as a student at the College of William and Mary from 1937 through 1939. This covers the range of typical student activities from classes to football games to student government and other organizations. There is also some earlier material from Hopewell High School and the State Teacher's College. Some of the ephemera details Nickel's social life as a student and includes a card giving her future husband "social privileges at the College of William and Mary."

The collection also includes correspondence received by her mother, Judith Fenner Barnard.

Related Material

Margaret Mitchell Scrapbook (UA 5.070); Virginia Wilson Halliday Papers (UA 5.066); Women Students' Cooperative Government Association Records (UA 7.044).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Barnard, Judith Fenner
• College of William and Mary--Alumni and alumnae
• College of William and Mary--Students
• Scrapbooks