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Marjorie Glover Collection

Stewart Bell Jr. Archives
Handley Regional Library
Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society
P.O. Box 58, Winchester, VA 22604
(540) 662-9041 ext. 17
archives@handleyregional.org
www.handleyregional.org

1652 WFCHS

SCOPE AND CONTENT: The collection contains several items relating to Winchester in the first 15 years after World War Two including four minstrel show programs, two of which chronicle performances by Patsy Cline before her rise to stardom, and a Place Mat for a local diner. (1 box) Last updated 06/2008

BIOGRPAHICAL/HISTORICAL: Marjorie Glover is a resident of Winchester, VA

CITE AS: Marjorie Glover Collection # 1652, Stewart Bell Jr. Archives, Handley Regional Library, Winchester, VA, USA.

BOX 1

Variety – Minstrel Show, Auspices of Winchester Softball League, Tuesday, April 5, 1949, booklet, eight pages, printed

Second Annual Variety/Minstrel Show, Monday, November 21, and Tuesday November 22, 1949 (Virginia Hensley aka Patsy Cline was one of the performers), booklet, 12 pages, printed

Third Annual Variety/Minstrel Show, Tuesday, October 3, 1950, (Virginia Hensley aka Patsy Cline was one of the performers), booklet, 10 pages, printed

Winchester Junior Chamber of Commerce Minstrel Review, Thursday, April 10, and Friday, April 11, 1958, booklet, 14 pages, printed

Place Mat for Foxhall Kitchen "One of the Winchester’s Better Places to Eat", 25, N. Braddock Street, 1963, one item, printed