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Speeches (documents)

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:

United States Yorktown Sesquicentennial Commission Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-134
Scope and Contents

Minutes, correspondence, booklets, official programs, maps, and miscellaneous materials relating to the Yorktown Sesquicentennial Celebration in 1931 in Yorktown, Virginia. Organizations represented in the collection include Trustees of the Yorktown Sesquicentennial Association, Assembly of Tidewater Virginia Women, and Norfolk Area Yorktown Committee. Several items appear to have belonged to Mrs. Frantz Naylor of Norfolk, Virginia.

Dates: created: 1931-1932; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/0000

Virginia Authors Collection

 Collection — 9 boxes
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-158
Scope and Contents

Original manuscripts for previously published materials, copies of newspaper clippings, and letters.

Dates: created: circa 1950s-1970s; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1970

Virginiana Scrapbooks

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-100
Scope and Contents Eighteen scrapbooks compiled by Rev. W. H. T. Squires, primarily consisting of clippings relating to people, places, and events in Virginia. There is a notable emphasis on Virginia during and after the Civil War. Series 1 consists of 15 scrapbooks that cover Virginia history generally, while the remaining 3 scrapbooks that make up Series 2 consist of clippings taken from the 75th anniversary edition of the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot on June 26, 1940. The subject...
Dates: created: 1862-1947; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/0000

William E. Taylor Speech

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-646
Scope and Contents

One April 1860 political speech from William E. Taylor, asking his fellow citizens for re-election to office.

Dates: created: 1860; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014

Wilmer Willis Houston Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-025
Scope and Contents

Speeches, correspondence, poetry, genealogy papers, and miscellaneous items relating to Wilmer Willis Houston.

Dates: created: 1876-1964, undated; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014

Woman's Reading Club Records

 Collection — 4 boxes
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-166
Scope and Contents

Minute books, bylaws, administrative records, yearbooks, correspondence, histories, speeches, poems, clippings, and memorabilia from the Woman's Reading Club in Norfolk, Virginia. The records date from 1905-1972, with gaps in the meeting minutes from 1916-1923 and 1928-1944.

Dates: created: 1905-1972; Other: Date acquired: 07/20/1972

Wright Southgate Whittle Address

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-657
Scope and Contents

One 1871 address delivered at the laying of the cornerstone of the Masonic temple in Norfolk, Virginia.

Dates: created: 1871; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/0000