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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:

Ghent Club Records

 Collection — 4 folders
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-109
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and reports from the Ghent Club in Norfolk, Virginia.

Dates: created: 1906-1913, undated; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014

Grace O. Cornick Scrapbooks

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-212
Scope and Contents Five circa 1960s-1970s scrapbooks compiled by Grace O. Cornick of Norfolk, Virginia. Scrapbooks 1-4 contain articles written by Cornick on various Norfolk history topics, including churches, hospitals, city government, schools, and historic houses and buildings. Scrapbook 5 contains clippings, ephemera, and photographs relating to Epworth United Methodist Church in Norfolk, Virginia. There are also "notes," both handwritten and typed articles, written by Cornick that appear in Scrapbooks...
Dates: created: 1930-1931, 1949, 1953-1983, 2002; Other: Majority of material found in 1960s-1970s; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/0000

Hogwood Family Papers

 Collection — 4 folders
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-682
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, report cards and certificates, and genealogical information from 1839 to 1953 relating to the Hogwood family of Norfolk, Virginia.

Dates: created: 1839-1953; Other: Date acquired: 07/20/2012

Index to Norfolk Ordinances, 30,295-30,767

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-458
Scope and Contents

Handwritten records on loose-leaf paper titled "Index to Norfolk Ordinances" featuring ordinances passed from February 13 to August 29, 1980 in Norfolk, Virginia. The information recorded includes ordinance date, number, city department, and subject.

Dates: created: circa 1980; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/0000

Jane Goodsell Genealogy Papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-015
Scope and Contents

Genealogical research, handwritten notes, printed emails, and other photocopied materials relating to the Davis, Ellington, Forrest, Nuttall, Robinson, Sears, and Thomas families in Virginia. Most of the families at one time resided in Gloucester, Mathews, and Middlesex Counties. Most of the collection dates from 1990-2002, though genealogical correspondence dates as far back as 1965. There is also a circa 1900 photograph of an unidentified man standing in front of a building.

Dates: created: 1900-2002; Other: Majority of material found in 1990-2002; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/0000

Julia Johnson Davis Papers

 Collection — 8 boxes
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-214
Scope and Contents Essays, poems, notes, correspondence, and other personal papers and manuscripts of Julia Johnson Davis of Norfolk, Virginia. Many of her essays appear to be recollections of Davis's childhood, early life, and later international trips to Europe. Some correspondents include fellow writers Mary Sinton Leitch, John Richard Moreland, William Stanley Braithwaite, and Idella Purnell. Prominent categories for Davis's poetry include ballads, sonnets, lyrics, and "Negro dialect." The collection also...
Dates: created: 1909-1961; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/0000

Lamb Family Genealogy Research Papers

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-683
Scope and Contents

Genealogy research papers relating to the Lamb family of Norfolk, Virginia.

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

Margaret Haley Carpenter Papers

 Collection — 4 boxes
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-209
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, books, poems, and writings by Margaret Haley Carpenter of Norfolk, Virginia along with other materials that appear to have been collected by her, including correspondence belonging to William Stanley Braithwaite and Sara Teasdale. The collection also includes membership lists for various literary organizations and miscellaneous ephemera (itemized) that does not seem related to this collection.

Dates: created: 1906-1983; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/2006

Miriam J. Claud Scrapbooks

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-059
Scope and Contents

Two circa 1940 scrapbooks, one on Venetian art and the other on furniture, created by Miriam J. Claud. Includes prints taken from The University Prints, Boston, Massachusetts and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Also includes a 23-page handwritten paper titled "Venetian Art" and a 19-page handwritten paper titled "The Development of Furniture."

Dates: created: 1936-1941, undated; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014

Mrs. Peter G. Decker, Jr. Scrapbook

 Collection — 1 book
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2018-008
Scope and Contents One 1926-1946 scrapbook primarily containing newspaper clippings from 1929-1930 from the Norfolk-Ledger Dispatch, Virginian-Pilot, and The Portsmouth Star relating to local politics and government in Norfolk, Virginia. Common topics include the city budget, spending, taxes, voting and elections for City Council, actions taken by City Manager Truxton, and the re-election of Mayor S. Heath Tyler....
Dates: created: 1926-1946; Other: Majority of material found in 1929-1930; Other: Date acquired: 03/15/2018