Yearbooks

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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.

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Two 1990s-2010s scrapbooks of the Capeview Garden Club in Norfolk, Virginia. The scrapbooks include photographs, correspondence, and memorabilia of the club's activities, including volunteer work for Lake Taylor Transitional Care Hospital in Norfolk, Virginia.

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Yearbooks, correspondence, photographs, certificates, and clippings from the East Ocean View Garden Club in Norfolk, Virginia. The two yearbooks cover 1970-1971 and 1987-1988. Several items in the collection relate to the club's support for the Tidewater Association for Retarded Children, particularly the Pre-School Training Center.

Scope and Contents Correspondence, diaries, and manuscripts of Eleanor Shipp Johnson from circa 1900s-1940s. The correspondence includes letters written by Anna Cogswell Wood in Florence and Montreux during the 1920s and letters from various publishers either accepting or rejecting Johnson's manuscripts for publication, roughly from 1900-1935. Johnson's notebooks and loose manuscripts contain materials that appear to be primarily written by her; many of these literary works portray racial stereotypes of...

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One circa 1965-1970 realtor listings notebook, business cards, and ephemera from Ernest P. Gretes of Norfolk, Virginia. The notebook includes detailed listings for individual properties with an accompanying black-and-white photograph of the property on the reverse side. The collection also includes family photographs and one 1964 yearbook The Acorn from Carolton Oaks School in Norfolk, Virginia.

Scope and Contents The Father Thomas J. Quinlan, Jr. Papers include personal and official correspondence, church-related documents and publications, scrapbooks (mostly newspaper clippings), photographs, DVDs and videotapes, and several pieces of memorabilia. Father Thomas J. Quinlan, Jr., also known as "TQ", was a Roman Catholic priest at several Virginia churches from 1958 to 2005. These included St. Mary's in Norfolk, Blessed Sacrament in Alexandria, Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha in Tabb, and Holy Family in...

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Yearbooks from the Friday Study Club in Norfolk, Virginia for 1938-1939 and 1939-1940. The booklets list club members, officers, and meeting information.

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Photographs, booklets, handbooks, awards, yearbooks, and other materials relating to the Ghent Garden Club in Ghent, Norfolk, Virginia from 1986-2013. The three scrapbooks, consisting primarily of photographs, cover 1986-2002 and include candid shots of group members, business meetings, luncheons, club auctions, floral arrangements, guest speakers, field trips, and holiday celebrations. The remaining records range from 1996-2002 and 2009-2013.

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Two 1950s to early 1960s scrapbooks from the Greenhill Farms Garden Club in Norfolk, Virginia. The scrapbooks contain magazine and newspaper clippings, yearbooks, photographs, exhibitor cards, membership lists, and other materials relating to the club's activities and events.

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Annual reports and newsletters of the Hampton Roads Community Foundation, previously known as The Norfolk Foundation in Norfolk, Virginia. The incomplete set of annual reports range in date from 1963-2019, while the newsletters cover 1992-2019. Additionally, there are two separate reports for The Norfolk Foundation and newsletter issues 33-35 of The Virginia Beach Foundation included in the collection.