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Preferred Citation:

John Earl Taliaferro Photograph Albums & Letters, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Acquisition Information:

Gift

Processing Information:

Processed by Ellen Strong in 1993.

Scope and Contents

Two photograph albums and marriage service booklet of John E. Taliaferro (1896-1982) and his wife Elizabeth Farinholt Taliaferro (1910-1983) of Gloucester, Virginia.  Includes photos of "Hockley"  in Ware Neck, Gloucester County, home of Richard Philip Taliaferro"

Also letters and accounts, 1832, 1869, and undated, of the Warner Throckmorton Taliaferro family and a history of "Dunham Massie" by Spotswood H. Jones.

Related Material

Mss. Acc. 2009.609 Taliaferro Family Papers

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Correspondence
• Financial records
• Gloucester County (Va.)--History--20th century
• Gloucester County (Va.)--Merchants
• Gloucester County (Va.)--Social life and customs
• Photographs