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Norfolk (Va.)--Social life and customs--20th century

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Found in 70 Collections and/or Records:

Hathaway Family Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2017-044
Scope and Contents

Three pre-Civil War newspapers from The Day Book, photographs, booklets, and a cookbook collected by the Hathaway family of Norfolk and Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Dates: created: 1859-1918; Other: Date acquired: 07/25/2017
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Helen Louise Borrowdale Smith Scrapbook

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-072
Scope and Contents

One 1940-1941 scrapbook containing photographs, postcards, greeting cards, invitations, programs, a map, and other memorabilia belonging to Helen Louise Borrowdale Smith of Norfolk, Virginia. The scrapbook includes materials relating to Smith's travels in Charleston, West Virginia and Huntington, West Virginia, along with her honeymoon travels to Boston, Massachusetts and New York.

Dates: created: circa 1940-1944; Other: Date acquired: 05/06/2014
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Henry Clay Hofheimer II Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-024
Scope and Contents The Henry Clay Hofheimer II Papers include correspondence, invitations, event programs, speeches, newsletters, periodicals, reports, conference materials, Future of Hampton Roads, Inc. records, documents relating to the economic development of Hampton Roads, certificates and resolutions, photographs, scrapbooks, clippings, family mementos, and other ephemera. Most of the materials date from the 1940s through the 1980s and relate to Henry Clay Hofheimer II's involvement in Norfolk and the...
Dates: created: 1793-2002, undated; Other: Majority of material found in 1940s-1980s; Other: Date acquired: 04/00/1996
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Inez Jiggetts Autograph Albums

 Collection — 2 folders
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-086
Scope and Contents

Two autograph albums belonging to Inez Jiggetts of Norfolk, Virginia. The first album is dated February 1944 and features autographs of Jiggetts's classmates at Booker T. Washington High School. The second album is dated circa 1960 and features handwritten best wishes and good luck from various individuals.

Dates: created: 1944, circa 1960; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Inez Jiggetts Scrapbook

 Collection — 8 folders
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-407
Scope and Contents

One circa 1910s-1980s scrapbook primarily containing photographs of African American individuals in Hampton Roads, Virginia.

Dates: created: 1910s-1980s, undated; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Ingram Family Papers

 Collection — 3 folders
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-373
Scope and Contents

Two World War II ration books, Ingram family obituaries, and circa 1920s photocopied photographs of the Ingram family in Norfolk, Virginia.

Dates: created: 1906-1947; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Jane M. Ruffin Scrapbook

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-071
Scope and Contents

One circa 1909-1920 scrapbook of cards, invitations, correspondence, telegrams, photographs, score cards, sketches, programs, ticket stubs, receipts, business cards, clippings, napkins, ribbons, menus, and other ephemera of Jane M. Ruffin. The scrapbook contains programs for Maury High School in the 1910s, theater programs for plays, musicals, and movies, and ephemera relating to trips to New York, Kentucky, Vermont, China, and Japan.

Dates: created: 1894-1942, undated; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/0000
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Jean Curry Cooke Scrapbook

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-250
Scope and Contents

One book listing 327 individuals' names and gifts received from each for an engagement party or wedding shower of Jean Curry Cooke and Charles James Andrews of Norfolk, Virginia. Includes photographs, possibly from a honeymoon, used checks, newspaper clippings, and correspondence. Also included is a Christmas greeting card from Virginia McKnew in 1970.

Dates: created: 1903-1970; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Jim Bradshaw Norfolk Memorabilia Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2015-019
Scope and Contents Maps, books, booklets, pamphlets, photographs, postcards, souvenir artifacts, newspapers, and other printed ephemera relating to Norfolk, Hampton Roads, and Virginia from the mid-nineteenth to early twenty-first centuries. Most of the materials date from the 1920s to 1970s, although a significant number of items relate to the Jamestown Exposition of 1907. Maps of the southside section of Hampton Roads and memorabilia of Norfolk and the Tidewater area make up a majority of items in the...
Dates: created: 1851-2000; Other: Date acquired: 12/17/2015
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Jones Family Photographs

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 007-MSS 0000-596
Scope and Contents

Three late 1800s to early 1900s photographs of Jones male family members: Jesse Jones Charles Edward Jones, and Jesse Jones.

Dates: created: undated; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

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