Morecock Collection Guide to the Morecock Collection Mss. 65 M81

Guide to the Morecock Collection Mss. 65 M81


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Williamsburg, Virginia
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Finding Aid Authors: Cynthia B. Brown.

Repository
Special Collections Research Center
Identification
Mss. 65 M81
Title
Morecock Collection 1881-1937
Quantity
0.50 Linear Feet
Quantity
Language
English

Administrative Information

Conditions Governing Use:

Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Conditions Governing Access:

Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.

Preferred Citation:

Morecock Collection, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Acquisition Information:

Gift

Processing Information:

Processed by Cynthia B. Brown in 1983.


Scope and Contents

Papers, 1881-1937 and n.d., relating to the history of Williamsburg, Jamestown, and Yorktown, Va. collected by members of the Morecock family of Williamsburg, Va. Includes photographs, pamphlets, Christmas cards, postcards, and wood-cut prints depicting the Powder Magazine, Bruton Parish Church, the Courthouse of 1770, the Yorktown Monument, the church tower at Jamestown as well as souvenirs of the Yorktown Centennial, 1881 and the Jamestown Exposition, 1907.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

  • Bruton Parish Church (Williamsburg, Va.)
  • Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
  • Engravings (Prints)
  • Fliers (printed matter)
  • Jamestown (Va.)--History--19th century
  • Jamestown (Va.)--History--20th century
  • Jamestown Ter-centennial Exposition (1907)
  • Pamphlets
  • Photographs
  • Powder Magazine (Williamsburg, Va.)
  • Williamsburg (Va.)--History--19th century
  • Williamsburg (Va.)--History--20th century
  • Williamsburg (Va.)--Photographs
  • Yorktown (Va.)--History--19th century
  • Yorktown (Va.)--History--20th century
  • Yorktown (Va.)--History--Siege, 1781--Centennial celebrations, etc
  • Yorktown Monument (Yorktown, Va.)

General

Other Information:

A PDF document of this inventory is available online.

Additional information may be found at http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/findingaids/65_M81_Morecock.pdf

Significant Places Associated With the Collection

  • Jamestown (Va.)--History--19th century
  • Jamestown (Va.)--History--20th century
  • Powder Magazine (Williamsburg, Va.)
  • Williamsburg (Va.)--History--19th century
  • Williamsburg (Va.)--History--20th century
  • Williamsburg (Va.)--Photographs
  • Yorktown (Va.)--History--19th century
  • Yorktown (Va.)--History--20th century
  • Yorktown (Va.)--History--Siege, 1781--Centennial celebrations, etc

Container List

Mixed Materials Box: 1 id143558
Box 1
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id143559
    Jamestown material
    circa 1907, and undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id143566
      6-fold color postcard depicting the American Battleship Squadron stationed at "Hampton Roads, Jamestown, Va."
      circa 1907
      Scope and Contents

      1 item. C. Incomplete.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id143567
      Souvenir color postcard, 6" x 9", depicting various scenes connected with the Jamestown Exposition "commemorating the First Permanant English Settlement in America," and on verso, an advertisement for the National Bank of Commerce, Norfolk, Va.
      circa 1907
      Scope and Contents

      2 pp. CS.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id143568
      Pen and ink sketches of the Sarah Constant [sic], the Goodspeed [sic], and the Discovery, with the subtitle "Jamestown, 1607," and drawn by K. Cannon.
      undated
      Scope and Contents

      2 items.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id143569
      Sepia mounted photograph, 6.25" x 7.75" of the ruins of the (P1) tower of the Church at Jamestown, Va.
      undated
      Scope and Contents

      1 item. Ph.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id143570
      "Description of The Marriage of Pocahontas at Jamestown, Va.," being a pamphlet describing the original painting.
      Scope and Contents

      9 pp. PM.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 id143560
    Williamsburg material
    1900-1927, undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 id143571
      Booklet entitled "Facts about Williamsburg and Vicinity,"
      1900
      Scope and Contents

      Published by the Business Men's Association of the City of Williamsburg, containing lists and pictures of the organization's officers, various scenes around Williamsburg, and advertisements in the back, including one for the College of William and Mary, giving dates of upcoming session and tuition, room, and board prices. 53 pp. PM.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 id143572
      Black and white mounted photograph, 8" x 10", of the Banking Co. building on the Duke of Gloucester St., Williamsburg, Va.
      post 1900-ante 1926
      Scope and Contents

      1 item. Ph.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 id143573
      Black and white postcard/photograph, 3.5" x 11", showing a wide-angle lens view of the Duke of Gloucester St., Williamsburg, Va.
      post 1900- ante 1926
      Scope and Contents

      1 item. PM.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 id143574
      Sepia mounted photograph, 4.5" x 7", of the Powder Magazine, showing one wall removed, revealing its interior.
      ante 1926
      Scope and Contents

      1 item. Ph.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 id143575
      Sepia mounted photograph, 14" x 17", of a home [in Williamsburg, Va.?] with unidentified women and children in foreground.
      ante 1926
      Scope and Contents

      1 item. Ph. See Medium Oversize File.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 id143576
      Various wood-cut prints, black and white of different homes in Colonial Williamsburg, by [J.J.] Lankes.
      circa 1927
      Scope and Contents

      5 items. PM.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 id143577
      Black and white photograph, 8"x 10", of the Powell-Waller House, Williamsburg, Va.
      undated
      Scope and Contents

      1 item. Ph.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 id143561
    Bruton Parish Church material
    1907-ante 1926, undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 id143578
      "Programme of Special Services to be held in Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, Virginia."
      1907 October 5
      Scope and Contents

      14 pp. PM.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 id143579
      Black and white photographs, 8" x 10", showing interior and exterior views of the "restored" Bruton Parish Church
      1907
      Scope and Contents

      C.E. Cheyne, Hampton, Va., photographer. 2 items. Phs.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 id143581
      3 sepia mounted photographs, all approximately 6"x8", showing an exterior, rear view of the churchyard of Bruton Parish Church.
      ante 1907
      Scope and Contents

      3 items. Phs.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 id143582
      Pamphlet entitled "Memorials to be placed in Bruton Parish church, Williamsburg, Virginia."
      post 1907
      Scope and Contents

      31 pp. PM.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 id143583
      2 sepia mounted photographs, 4.5"x7.5" and 8"x9", showing different exterior views of Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, Va.
      post 1907- ante 1926
      Scope and Contents

      2 items. Phs.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 id143584
      Color print, 8"x12", from a painting of a scene around Bruton Parish Church during the Colonial Period
      undated
      Scope and Contents

      In the bottom right corner the seal of [Lord] Dunmore is visible. 1 item. PM.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 id143585
      Watercolor, wood-cut print Christmas card showing exterior of Bruton Parish church, and black and white wood-cut print of exterior of Bruton Parish Church, by [J.J.] Lankes.
      undated
      Scope and Contents

      2 items. PM.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 id143562
    Court House of 1770 material
    circa 1900
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 id143586
      Sepia mounted photograph, 5"x7", of the Court House of 1770, on the Duke of Gloucester Street, Williamsburg, Va.
      circa 1900
      Scope and Contents

      shows men on front steps. 1 item. Ph.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 id143587
      Sepia mounted photograph, 6'x8", of the Court House of 1770 on the Duke of Gloucester Street, Williamsburg, Va
      circa 1900
      Scope and Contents

      Photograph shows men on front steps. 1 item. Ph.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 id143589
      Sepia mounted photograph, 4"x5", of the Court House of 1770.
      circa 1900
      Scope and Contents

      1 item. Ph.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5 id143563
    Yorktown material
    circa 1881-1937, undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5 id143590
      Print by William Teiser [?] in honor of the centennial of the Victory at Yorktown, 1781
      circa March 1881
      Scope and Contents

      The print depicts several different places and buildings, including the Nelson and Moore Houses in Yorktown, the Powder Horn in Williamsburg, pictures of George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette, and Cornwallis surrendering to Washington. 1 item. PM.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5 id143592
      Pamphlet giving the purpose and plan of the Yorktown Sesquicentennial Celebration
      1931 January 10
      Scope and Contents

      1 item. PM.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5 id143593
      Postcard showing the U.S.S. Yorktown, addressed to Pattie Morecock, Williamsburg, Va.
      1937 July 14
      Scope and Contents

      1 item. C.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5 id143594
      Color print, 7"x 8.75", of Yorktown Harbor, Va.
      undated
      Scope and Contents

      1 item. PM.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5 id143595
      Sepia mounted photograph, 4.75"x6.75", of the Victory Monument in Yorktown, Va.
      Scope and Contents

      1 item. Ph.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6 id143564
    Miscellaneous photographs, identified
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6 id143596
      Black and white print of a photograph of John Philip Sousa, 4"x9"
      1904
      Scope and Contents

      1 item. PM.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6 id143597
      Postcard/photograph, black and white, of a bon-fire at Camp Winona, Maine, addressed to Patty Morecock
      1936 July 14
      Scope and Contents

      1 item. PM.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6 id143598
      Cabinet card photographs of painting/drawings of the County Court Houses of Huntingdon and Warren Counties, Pa., and Niagara County Court House, Lockport, N.Y.
      undated
      Scope and Contents

      On verso, dimensions and other architectural features are printed; all are similar in that they were designed by M.E. Beebe & Son, Architects, Buffalo, N.Y. 3 items. Phs.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6 id143599
      Cabinet card photographs of Portraits of members of the Tazewell family, including Henry Tazewell, Lyttleton [sic] Waller Tazewell, and Dorothy Eliz[abeth] (Waller) Tazewell, taken by J.H. Faber Studios, Norfolk, Va.
      undated
      Scope and Contents

      3 items. Phs.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6 id143822
      Black and white mounted photographs, 3.5"x4.5", of different views of the White House, Washington, D.C., including a scene of a lawn party on the White House grounds.
      undated
      Scope and Contents

      2 items. Phs.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6 id143826
      Black and white mounted photograph, 3.5"x4.5", of a view of Harper's Ferry, [W.Va.].
      undated
      Scope and Contents

      1 item. Ph

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6 id143831
      Black and white mounted photograph, 6.5"x8.5", of one of the buildings of the Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Va., taken by Cook [Studios], Richmond, Va.
      undated
      Scope and Contents

      1 item. Ph.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7 id143565
    Miscellaneous printed material, photographs, and other
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7 id143837
      Pamphlet of the "Proceedings of the First Council [of] the Order of the Daughters of the King," Manhattan Athletic Club House, N.Y.
      1891 November 5
      Scope and Contents

      23 pp. PM.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7 id143842
      Christmas card addressed to the Morecocks, from W.A.R. Goodwin, containing a poem by Evelyn Goodwin Farr entitled "His Birthday."
      circa 1936 December 25
      Scope and Contents

      1 item. PM.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7 id143845
      Booklet entitled "An Ocean Souvenir," comprised of original pen and ink sketches of various scenes relating to an ocean.
      undated
      Scope and Contents

      1 item.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7 id143849
      Colored prints, "Les Lever" and "Les Confidences" and photographs of three unidentified houses, an unidentified monument, and the interior of an unidentified church, the latter by H. Hesselberg, Williamsburg, Va.
      undated
      Scope and Contents

      8 items.