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Correspondence

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 283 Collections and/or Records:

Baron Jean de Lustrac Papers on Admiral Comte de Grasse Monument

 Collection — 7 folders
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-224
Scope and Contents Correspondence and clippings documenting Baron Jean de Lustrac's attempt to erect a monument in downtown Norfolk, Virginia in honor of French Admiral Francois Joseph Paul Comte de Grasse, whose success in the Battle of the Chesapeake in 1781 led to the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia. The collection also includes correspondence and clippings relating to de Lustrac's acquiring of 10 replica cannons for Yorktown, suggesting to name the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel after de Grasse, and...
Dates: created: 1964, 1968-1973; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/0000

Barron F. Black Papers

 Collection — 2 boxes
Identifier: MSS-0000-005
Scope and Contents

Personal papers and correspondence. Business papers and correspondence related to the Norfolk Historic Foundation.

Dates: created: 1945-1974, undated; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014

Bassett and Cross Love Letters

 Collection — 2 folders
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-504
Scope and Contents

Twenty-five love letters between Jesse V. Bassett and Elizabeth Daisy Cross. The letters begin in the early days of the couple's courtship in 1886; two letters were written after the couple married. Most of the love letters are from Jesse V. Bassett.

Dates: created: 1886, 1889; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014

Belvedere Garden Club Scrapbooks

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-186
Scope and Contents

Six scrapbooks from 1938-1992 of the Belvedere Garden Club in Norfolk, Virginia. The scrapbooks include clippings, photographs, event programs, awards, yearbooks, and annual club histories.

Dates: created: 1938-2004; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/0000

Bernard M. Stanton Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2016-064
Scope and Contents

Booklets, correspondence, maps, city council records, clippings, and other materials relating to parking in downtown Norfolk, Virginia. Most documents are from 1952-1953 and concern B. M. Stanton's initial refusal to sell off his land to the City of Norfolk for municipal parking.

Dates: created: 1948-1958, undated; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/2016

Bertha Fanning Taylor Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-043
Scope and Contents

Includes 1970s drafts of Bertha Fanning Taylor's unpublished manuscript "Building Anew at Sixty Years in a Southern City," journals/diaries from 1968-1970, clippings and biographical materials relating to Bertha Fanning Taylor, artwork, and various miscellaneous materials.

Dates: created: 1935-1990, undated; Other: Majority of material found in 1960s-1970s; Other: Date acquired: 09/20/1979

Beulah Smith Letters

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-643
Scope and Contents

Two 1914 letters postmarked Norfolk, Virginia from friends and sent to Beulah Smith.

Dates: created: 1914; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014

Blow and Cook Families Papers

 Collection — 5 folders
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-678
Scope and Contents

Letters, photographs, publications, newspaper clippngs, and other materials relating to the Blow and Cook families of Norfolk, Virginia.

Dates: created: 1867-1971, undated; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014

Bosher

 File — Box 2, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents

Original handwritten correspondence between Kate Langley Bosher and Carrie Lee Whitehead Boswell dated 1912, both of Norfolk, Virginia.

Dates: 1600 - 2000

George Edwin Bowden Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 001/01/MSS 0000-206
Scope and Contents

Personal correspondence, business papers, and personal photographs.

Dates: 1862-1938