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Preferred Citation:

Courtney Sharpe Ward Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary

Acquisition Information:

Gifts.

Processing Information:

An addition to the collection (Mss. Acc. 2008.106) was incorporated into the collection as Box 6 in 2009.

Biographical Information:

Courtney Sharpe Ward was a writer for the Richmond News-Leader in Richmond, Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, notes, papers, newspaper clippings, drafts and published articles belonging to Courtney Sharpe Ward, a writer for the Richmond News Leader in Richmond, Virginia. Many of her articles had a historical connection. The addition mostly consists of material on the 1957 350th Anniversary of Jamestown. Includes photograph and 1957 Press Card of Courtney Sharpe Ward.

Arrangement of Materials:

Series one is original 2007.25 accession and series two is 2008.106 addition.  Original order of folders maintained.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Clippings (information artifacts)
• College of William and Mary--History--20th century
• Colonial Williamsburg Foundation--History
• Correspondence
• Jamestown 350th Anniversary
• Jamestown Festival (1957)
• Photographs
• Press releases
• Richmond (Va.) News Leader
• Richmond (Va.)--Newspapers
• Virginia--History--20th century
• Williamsburg (Va.)--History--20th century