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17. College of Arts and Letters

 University Record
Identifier: 17

Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:

Arthur George Williams Papers

 Collection
Collection ID: RG 17-4B3
Scope and Contents

The collection contains a black and white photograph of Arthur George Williams, Professor of Modern Languages at the Norfolk Division of the College of William and Mary, in his study as well as a letter written during World War II about giving guns from the war to a friend in the United States. It is unclear if the letter relates to Professor Williams.

Dates: 1936-1945; Other: Date acquired: 12/13/2018

Anita Fellman Collection

 Collection
Collection ID: RG 17-28B3
Scope and Contents

This collection contains t-shirts collected by Dr. Anita Fellman, professor of Women's Studies at Old Dominion University, related to women's history, LGBTQ history, and African American history. Also included in the collection are political buttons concerning elections and women's rights.

Dates: circa 1987-2014; Other: Date acquired: 03/21/2019

Charles Sibley Photographs and Slides

 Collection
Collection ID: RG 17-2B7
Scope and Contents

This collection contains photographs and slides of both Charles Sibley's artwork, of Sibley himself, as well as trips around the world, including Greece and Turkey. The bulk of the photographs and slides are in color.

Dates: circa 1980-1986, undated; Other: Date acquired: 01/28/2020

Dean of the College of Arts and Letters Records

 Collection
Collection ID: RG 17-1A
Abstract

The College of Arts and Letters of the Dean’s Office Records, includes the College of Arts and Letters faculty and committee members, meetings, and minutes; programs and activities; and files from the Advisory Council, Academic Council and Council of Deans.

Dates: 1963-2022, undated

Wallace Dreyer Papers

 Collection
Collection ID: RG 17-2B4
Abstract Wallace Dreyer, an artist, was an adjunct assistant professor and director of the photography program from 1966-1980. The collection contains professional as well as personal photographs, a sketchbook, professional and personal correspondence, a high school year book, newspaper clippings, newspaper advertisements for his art gallery business, certificates pertaining to his elementary school education and x-ray technician certification, x-ray technician employment, and his capture of enemy...
Dates: 1907-1993, undated; Other: Date acquired: 09/15/2009

Alexander Brooks "A.B." Jackson Papers

 Collection
Collection ID: RG 17-2B5
Abstract

Alexander Brooks “A.B.” Jackson began teaching in the Art department in 1967 as the school's first black faculty member. The contents of this collection include photographs taken and collected by Jackson of miscellaneous subjects, as well as photographs of his artwork and excerpts from his poetry.

Dates: circa 1965-1981; Other: Date acquired: 01/28/2011

Willard C. Frank, Jr. Papers

 Collection
Collection ID: RG 17-5B4
Scope and Contents This colleciton contains research and teaching material, notes, and fliers related to the professional career of Willard C. Frank, Jr., a professor of naval history at Old Dominion University. The bulk of the collection contains material related to Frank's involvement in professional and Old Dominion organizations, as well as Frank's personal research and papers on the navy during the Spanish Civil War. An oral history interview with Willard C. Frank, Jr. can be found on the ...
Dates: circa 1958-2004, undated; Other: Date acquired: 05/20/2008

Department of English Records

 Collection
Collection ID: RG 17-3A
Abstract

Old Dominion University Department of English Records contains reports, memos, newsletters, and dialect research and survey forms, dated circa 1934-1990.

Dates: circa 1934-1990, undated; Other: Date acquired: 11/17/2005

Caroline Heath Tunstall Papers

 Collection
Collection ID: RG 17-3B2
Abstract This collection contains materials pertinent to the life and career of Caroline Heath Tunstall, an English professor at Old Dominion College. Included in this collection are high school yearbooks, negatives of photographs, various certificates,  newspaper clippings of  book reviews as well as a scrapbook, correspondence, awards, graduate work, syllabi and other papers used by Ms. Tunstall as a professor. Particularly notable are the 1925 and 1926 photographs and yearbooks from the Norfolk...
Dates: 1925-1975, undated; Other: Date acquired: 06/27/1979

Elizabeth Ann Burton Papers

 Collection
Collection ID: RG 17-3B4
Scope and Contents

This collection includes letters as well as typed and handwritten drafts of poetry written by Elizabeth Ann Burton, a faculty member at Old Dominion University. Included are the original manuscripts for Burton’s published book of poetry, Waiting for the Messiah, as well as the draft of a second book, which was never published.

Dates: 1984-1997, undated; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/2000

Thomas Blossom Papers

 Collection
Collection ID: RG 17-5B1
Scope and Contents

The collection contains material related to the professional life of Thomas Blossom, a professor in the Department of History at Old Dominion University. The collection also contains some genealogy information on Blossom's family. An oral history with Thomas Blossom is available on the Old Dominion University Libraries Digital Collections website.

Dates: 1925-1977, undated; Other: Date acquired: 10/12/1976

Harold S. Wilson Papers

 Collection
Collection ID: RG 17-5B2
Scope and Contents

This collection includes material related to personal experiences and tributes of Confederate soldiers in Virginia Companies collected by Harold S. Wilson, a professor in the Department of History. Topics include primary accounts of Virginia battles, daily soldier life, military morale, and southern ideologies,

Dates: 1813-1978; Other: Date acquired: 03/25/1977

Robert Crawford McClelland Papers

 Collection
Collection ID: RG 17-5B3
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of material written by or about Dr. Robert C. McClelland. Materials include a publication on the William T. Hodges scandal at the Norfolk Division of the College of William and Mary in 1941, Masontown Pennsylvania, poetry, newspaper clippings, and the NATO Symposium directed by Dr. McClelland from 1955 to 1956.

Dates: 1941-1962, undated

Carolyn Rhodes Papers

 Collection
Collection ID: RG 17-28B1
Abstract

Dr. Rhodes was an English and Women's Studies professor at Old Dominion University. The collection includes course descriptions, grant reports, meeting minutes from various women's groups, information pertaining to the Title IX hearings, books, journal articles, newspaper clippings, newsletters and photographs.

Dates: 1924-2019, undated; Other: Date acquired: 10/30/2003

Department of Music Records

 Collection
Collection ID: RG 17-6A
Scope and Contents

The collection contains programs, annual reports, handbooks and other material related to the Old Dominion University Department of Music. The department became the F. Ludwig Diehn School of Music in 2019, but the bulk of the records are from when they were a department.

Dates: 1949-2019

Charles E. Vogan Papers

 Collection
Collection ID: RG 17-6B2
Scope and Contents

The collection contains material related to the Music Club at the Norfolk Division of the College of William and Mary and Old Dominion University collected by music professor Dr. Charles E. Vogan. Included in the collection are music programs, invitations, sponsors, meeting minutes, budgets, correspondence and new clippings concerning the arts.

Dates: 1948-1975, undated; Other: Date acquired: 03/03/1976

Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies Records

 Collection
Collection ID: RG 17-7A
Scope and Contents

This collection contains material relating to the Old Dominion University Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies. Included in the collection is information on Computer Based Logic Instruction and the Institute of Applied Ethics.

Dates: 1976-1984, undated

Department of Communication and Theatre Arts Records

 Collection
Collection ID: RG 17-15A
Scope and Contents

This collection contains programs, flyers, calendars, and other material related to the Department of Communication and Theatre Arts at Old Dominion University..

Dates: 1955-2000, undated

Rogers Dey Whichard Collection of Printer's Blocks

 Collection
Collection ID: RG 17-4B2
Scope and Contents

The collection contains approximately 100 printer's blocks of images that were used in the book "The History of Lower Tidewater Virginia" written by Rogers Dey Whichard, a foreign languages instructor at the Norfolk Division of the College of William and Mary. The book was published by Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc. in 1959. Each printer's block is wrapped in newspaper with a photograph of the corresponding image from the book taped to the outside.

Dates: 1959; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1959

Norfolk Women's Oral History Project

 Collection
Collection ID: RG 17-28B2
Abstract

The Norfolk Women’s Oral History Project was conducted between 1971 and 1974 as a project of the newly formed ODU Women’s Studies program.  The project was headed by Jean E. Friedman, instructor in the History Department at ODU.  The project was initiated to explore women’s sexual attitudes in the 1930s.

Dates: circa 1971-1974