Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to all researchers.

Use Restrictions

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.

Preferred Citation

Doris Ann McFarland Papers, Accession #Acc. 2010.222, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Acquisition Information

This collection was purchased in April 2010.

Processing Information

Accessioned and minimally processed in April 2010 by Ute Schechter, Warren E. Burger Archivist.

Scope and Content

Papers, circa 1933-1943 of Doris Ann McFarland of Reedville, Virginia and later Washington, D.C. and possibly Philadelphia, Pa. Included are a diary, 1933-1934, kept while Doris McFarland was a 4th and 5th grader in the Reedville School in Reedville, Virginia; a report card for the 1933/34 school year; a photograph, circa 1940s of McFarland in Uniform, greeting cards, postcards, concert programs, ticket stubs, church fliers and news clippings. Many of the concert programs and tickets (1940s) relate to Philadelphia and an undated postcard was sent to her to an address in Washington, D.C.

Index Terms

Subjects:

• Girls--United States--Diaries
• Virginia--Social life and customs--20th century

Genre and Form Terms:

• Admission tickets
• Diaries
• Photographs
• Postcards
• Programs