Name/Title
Mary Louise Milton Simmons Folder #21 (19 - 25) (1933-1949)Entry/Object ID
ARC60uScope and Content
Collection of items belonging to Mary Louise Milton Simmons:
May 4, 1933 program for Grand Feature Parade (Apple Blossom Festival)
May 4, 1934 program for Grand Feature Parade (Apple Blossom Festival)
Empty envelope postmarked Berryville, 1936
1937 invitation to the inauguration of the president of Wilson College, addressed to Miss Martha Phillips (M.L.M.S. may have gotten this document at an estate auction of Miss Phillips' personal property)
September 25, 1938 letter addressed to Charles (M.L.M.S.'s older brother who was away attending W.V.U.)
1939-40 school photo
May 28, 1943 edition of The Ricochet (CHS newspaper) (2 copies)
May, 1943 program of Sermon to Graduating Class of Charles Town High School
November, 1943 program of Charles Town High School's C.H.S. Revue
Several World War II ration books
2 photos of M.L.M.S., dated July 1, 1945, may have been taken at her parents' home on Summit Point Road
1945 photo of CHS Ricochet staff
1944-45 photo of CHS Rambler staff
Photo of 1944-45 junior class
6 photos of CHS prom, undated but would have been 1945 or 1946
1945 or 1946 photo of C.H.S. Ricochet staff
Photo of 1946 C.H.S. graduating class
May 1946 program of Sermon to Graduating Class of Charles Town High School
2 copies - May 23, 1946 Charles Town High School graduation program
1946 photo of M.L.M.S. in white cap and gown, taken in front of her parents' home on Summit Point Road
1946 announcement of C.H.S. commencement exercises with card of Mary Louise Milton, envelope addressed to Mrs. J.B. Cornwell (M.L.M.S.'s grandmother)
Diploma awarded to M.L.M.S. on May 23, 1946 from Charles Town High School
October 9, 1946 Ricochet
2 copies of April, 1947 program of May Day Musical, Wright Denny School's Annual Spring Production
2 copies April, 1948 program of Wright Denny School Circus, Wright Denny School's Annual Spring Production
Undated typewritten sheet entitled "HOW IT'S DONE.", penciled across upper left corner: "Mary M."
Undated program for "My Cousin From Texas", presented by the Senior Class of Charles Town High School
3 identical photos of M.L.M.S. wearing dark sweater and strand of pearls; written on reverse of one: "Mary L. Milton / Box 48 Terrace Hall / West Virginia University / Morgantown / West Virginia"; "1946" is penciled on reverse of another
3 corsage ribbons from West Virginia University functions
June 13, 1947 - 7 photos of Capital Airlines plane crash on Blue Ridge, 6 miles from Charles Town
1947 - 3 photos of Oakland Methodist Church Sunday School picnic (don't know where picnic was held)
November 9, 1947 letter from M.L.M.S. to her parents, Mr. & Mrs. James W. Milton
March 1, 1948 letter to M.L.M.S. from L.D. Frazier
March, 1949 playbill of WVU University Players' production of Hedda Gabler (M.L.M.S. is listed under Scenery and an arrow was drawn in the margin)
Undated playbill of the University Players, West Virginia University Speech Department presentation of All My Sons (M.L.M.S. is listed under Make-Up)
3 cardboard 3-hole binder covers from West Virginia University, The College of Engineering
1949-1950 West Virginia University Student Directory
4 additional photos of M.L.M.S. in cap and gown from her high school graduation; May, 1946
undated photo of M.L.M.S.Acquisition
Accession
311Source or Donor
Milton, Jeral A.Acquisition Method
GiftArchive Details
Date(s) of Creation
1933 - 1949Archive Size/Extent
folder is approximately 1 & 1/2" thickArchive Notes
Date(s) Created: 1933-1949
Date(s) Assembled: 1933-1949
Appraisal: To be held permanently in the Jefferson County Museum.
Associated Material: Old Charles Town Library's Perry Room has copy of The Milton Family (genealogy) by Ethel Milton Hughes. Call # LR929.2H.
Level of Description: Series