Annegrete “Grete” Franke Dollitz Correspondence
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Accession Number: 51288
Genre: Correspondence
Date: 1941-1950
Dimensions: 1.125 cubic feet
Description: Grete Dollitz (1924–2013) was a Virginia public radio personality, musician, teacher, and the host of WCVE FM’s The Hour With the Guitar, which ran for more than thirty years. Her husband, Hans J. Dollitz (1921–2003) was a photographer and piano technician. The collection contains letters by Dollitz and her husband detailing their lives in Bluefield and Richmond, Virginia. Processing this collection, which fills two and a half storage boxes (or 1.125 cubic feet), is estimated to take 30 hours.
Restoration Needs: Materials in archival collections are unique and irreplaceable, but archivists must process them before the public can find them and use them for research. The Library has many collections that are currently unknown to the public because they need processing. This work includes arranging and organizing the materials, as well as creating a finding aid (a document that places the materials in context by consolidating information about them), a catalog record, and biographical notes.
Estimated Restoration Cost: $900
Genre: Correspondence
Date: 1941-1950
Dimensions: 1.125 cubic feet
Description: Grete Dollitz (1924–2013) was a Virginia public radio personality, musician, teacher, and the host of WCVE FM’s The Hour With the Guitar, which ran for more than thirty years. Her husband, Hans J. Dollitz (1921–2003) was a photographer and piano technician. The collection contains letters by Dollitz and her husband detailing their lives in Bluefield and Richmond, Virginia. Processing this collection, which fills two and a half storage boxes (or 1.125 cubic feet), is estimated to take 30 hours.
Restoration Needs: Materials in archival collections are unique and irreplaceable, but archivists must process them before the public can find them and use them for research. The Library has many collections that are currently unknown to the public because they need processing. This work includes arranging and organizing the materials, as well as creating a finding aid (a document that places the materials in context by consolidating information about them), a catalog record, and biographical notes.
Estimated Restoration Cost: $900
