Poems

One 1863-1897 scrapbook of newspaper clippings containing obituaries, poetry, and prose. There is an index titled "Walters' Scrapbook Index to Marriage Notices and Obituaries" included with the scrapbook.

One circa 1960s-1970s scrapbook of poems, correspondence, greeting cards, and newspaper clippings relating to Edna Reed Hainsworth of Norfolk, Virginia. Letters and greeting cards were addressed from Edna Reed Hainsworth and sent to Mary Hall Whitehurst, who presumably compiled the scrapbook.

Circa 1950s poems and one letter written by Mary Sinton Leitch. Several poems are dated after 1952 and place the poet at "Wycherley" on the Lynnhaven, Bayside, Virginia.

Administrative documents from the Norfolk Cosmopolitan Club, a civic service oriented social club chartered in Norfolk in 1924, affiliated with Cosmopolitan International.

Correspondence, writings, poems, speeches, publications, and clippings written by or about Robert M. Hughes.

Primarily 1940s-1950s photographs, clippings, and other materials relating to Walter Carl Spencer and his wife Maud Vick Spencer of 1936 East Ocean View Avenue in Norfolk, Virginia. Some of the photographs are identified from San Francisco, California and Crandon Park in Miami, Florida.

World War I and World War II personal military-related records, papers, photographs, and objects of the Tarrall brothers: Elmer Tarrall, Henry Alberti Tarrall, and Melvin Orr Tarrall of Norfolk, Virginia.

Two 1959-1961 scrapbooks from the Tidewater District Virginia Federation of Garden Clubs. Also known as The Federation of Garden Clubs of Norfolk & Vicinity, Inc., the scrapbooks include an alphabetical collection of pages from local garden clubs in the Hampton Roads region. Each page is unique, consisting of paintings, drawings, magazine clippings, newspaper clippings, poems, yearly summation of activities, lists of officers and members, mottos, and poems.