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Printed ephemera

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 61 Collections and/or Records:

City of Norfolk Department of Fire-Rescue Scrapbooks

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 10-0000-001
Scope and Contents Twenty-four scrapbooks compiled by Fireman William F. Barrett of the City of Norfolk Fire Department in Norfolk, Virginia. The first two scrapbooks include information focusing on the Norfolk Fire Division Band from 1936-1944 and 1947-1949. The third scrapbook consists of information on the Norfolk Fire Department's Fire Prevention Program held in 1948. The remaining scrapbooks primarily consist of newspaper clippings that cover fires, firemen (particularly their deaths), new fire equipment,...
Dates: created: 1936-1972; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014

Department of City Planning, Norfolk, Virginia, Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 08-0000-002
Scope and Contents

Records of the Department of City Planning, Norfolk, Virginia. The records include Department documents, surveys and reports; aerial photographs (prints) over Norfolk and the surrounding areas; ground photographs (slides, negatives, and prints) of local areas; miscellaneous ephemeral materials; and planning-related documents and materials from other city departments and commercial entities (such as reports, surveys, and contractual documents).

Dates: created: 1909-2008; Other: Majority of material found in 1950s-1990s; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014

Donna Dail Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2016-090
Scope and Contents

Three 1958 Norview High School commemorative items and two mid-1980s Chesapeake Bay Neptunes football souvenir programs. This collection also includes one 1921 panorama of the Allen Baraca Class of the Fourth Street Baptist Church in Portsmouth, Virginia.

Dates: created: 1921-1986; Other: Date acquired: 12/14/2016

E. E. Harrell Scrapbooks

 Collection — 2 boxes
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2014-004
Scope and Contents

Two scrapbooks from the 1930s-1940s containing family photographs, newspaper clippings, certificates, membership cards, business cards, correspondence, invitations, and other memorabilia relating to E. E. Harrell of Portsmouth, Virginia.

Dates: created: 1930s-1940s; Other: Date acquired: 11/01/2014

Eleanor Shipp Johnson Papers

 Collection — 4 boxes
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-451
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...
Dates: created: 1873-1954; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/0000

Ernest P. Gretes Papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2018-041
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: created: circa 1930s-1980s; Other: Date acquired: 09/07/2018

Eula Thomas Scrapbooks

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2019-021
Scope and Contents

Four 1933-1951 personal scrapbooks created by Eula Thomas of Norfolk, Virginia. The scrapbooks include clippings on local, state, and international news as well as personal ephemera such as birthday cards, invitations, and correspondence.

Dates: created: 1933-1951; Other: Date acquired: 05/15/2019

Gerard Beasley's Boy Scouts Troop 6 Park Place Scrapbook

 Collection — 1 box
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-055
Scope and Contents

One circa 1940-1943 scrapbook includes photographs, patches, drawings, and other memorabilia pertaining to Jerry Beasley of Boy Scout Troop 6 at Park Place in Norfolk, Virginia.

Dates: created: 1925, 1940-1945; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014

Gertrude E. Ward Scrapbook

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2015-061
Scope and Contents One circa 1941-1945 scrapbook of personal mementos relating to Betty Ward and her husband, Fred Ward. The scrapbook includes photographs, telegrams, playbills, birthday cards, poems, and other materials relating to the couple's relationship during Fred's service in the United States Navy in World War II. Prominent geographic locations in the scrapbook include New York; Jersey City, New Jersey; and San Diego, California. The scrapbook also includes several late 1990s to early 2000s...
Dates: created: 1918-2002, undated; Other: Majority of material found in 1941-1945; Other: Date acquired: 07/02/2015

Ghent Neighborhood League Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2015-038
Scope and Contents

Circa 1990s-2000s newsletters of Ghent and other neighborhoods/civic leagues in Norfolk, Virginia. The collection also includes booklets, clippings, and other papers from 1968 to 2009 collected by members of the Ghent Neighborhood League regarding businesses, homes, schools, and other subjects relating primarily to Ghent. Minutes include volumes 14-16 (1974-1976), 41-43 (2001-2003), 45 (2005), and an index for volumes covering the years 1962-2005.

Dates: created: 1968-2010; Other: Majority of material found in 1990s-2000s; Other: Date acquired: 09/17/2015