Administrative Information

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open to all researchers.

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.

Preferred Citation

Lizzie Ellis Bernard Copybook, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Acquisition Information

The materials were acquired by Special Collections Research Center on 01/11/2010.

Processing Information

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

Biographical Note

Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki:<a href="http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Lizzie_Ellis_Bernard">http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Lizzie_Ellis_Bernard</a>.

Scope and Contents

Copybook of Lizzie Ellis Bernard of Rockwood, Orange Coounty and Petersburg, Virginia.  The following description was provided by the seller: "There are several numbered pages where the writer has copied poems, lengthy essays, German language exercises, lists for home remedies, word puzzles, etc.  She has also cut pages, cartoons and articles from newspapers and broadsides and glued them over existing hand-written work....  There is a newspaper piece with an image of a New Year's clock from 1887, and a broadside for the "Old Folks' Concert" dated 1886.  There are also several entries with Lizzie Bernard's address as Petersburg, Virginia."

Index Terms

Genre/Form of Material:

• Clippings (information artifacts)

Topical Term:

• Copybooks.

Additional Information