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Printed ephemera

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 61 Collections and/or Records:

Sargeant Memorial Collection Virginia Ephemera Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-0000-VEC
Scope and Contents The Virginia Ephemera Collection includes a broad range of informational publications, media reports, government documents, maps, and historical records, all relating to Virginia topics and localities outside the City of Norfolk. There are three major sections: general subjects (such as the arts, education, and transportation); counties (including economic and demographic data, places of interest, histories, and other information); and cities, towns and places (including histories,...
Dates: created: 1890-2015; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/0000

Sean C. Bilby Regional Ephemera and Publications Collection

 Collection — 2 boxes
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2024-002
Scope and Contents This collection is comprised of material relative to local history of the Tidewater region of Virginia, to include Jamestown, Suffolk, and the general Hampton Roads area, as well as the greater Virginia and West Virginia regions. Primary collection materials are ephemera from the 400th Anniversay Celebration event honoring Jamestown, Virginia, which includes brochures, guides, commemorative pins, a fan, admission tickets and bracelets, cachets, maps, and program guides. Additional...
Dates: created: 1851, 2004, 2007, 2017, 2022-2024; Other: Majority of material found in 2007; Other: Date acquired: 02/01/2024

Seawell, Edwards, and Wilson Families Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-117
Scope and Contents One volume originally used as a ledger between 1815 and 1817 listing names of individuals followed by account information of sundries. It appears the volume was then used by several individuals, primarily in 1842, and includes autographs, poetry, and various miscellaneous lines, many of which are written upside down in the ledger. Prominent surnames listed inside the volume include Seawell, Edwards, Wilson, Tyler, Page, Hogg, Carter, Howard, Jones, Hairston, and Claiborne. Geographic areas...
Dates: created: 1815-1817, 1833-1874; Other: Date acquired: 04/06/2004

Steve Mansfield Collection

 Collection — 7 folders
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2019-008
Scope and Contents

Various booklets and ephemera collected by Steve Mansfield dating from the late 1890s to early 1980s relating to Norfolk, Virginia.

Dates: created: 1897-1982; Other: Date acquired: 01/00/2019

Talbot Park Garden Club Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-157
Scope and Contents

Minutes, scrapbooks, and yearbooks of the Talbot Park Garden Club in Norfolk, Virginia. The minutes range in date from 1941-1956 and yearbooks from 1951-1968. The eight scrapbooks cover 1954-1958, 1964-1966, 1970-1971, 1974-1975, 1977-1979, and 1981-1983 and include clippings, photographs, and ephemera.

Dates: created: 1941-1983; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/0000

Vance Grover Collection

 Collection — 4 folders
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2015-049
Scope and Contents

Booklets and miscellaneous materials relating to Vance Grover, a 1932 alumnus of The College of William and Mary, Norfolk Division in Norfolk, Virginia. Also includes positive prints of negative strips depicting various individuals and scenes.

Dates: created: 1926-1982; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/2015

Walter Carl Spencer Norfolk Police Department Book and Clippings

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSS-0000-697
Scope and Contents

One circa 1910 incomplete copy of History of Norfolk Police Department and circa 1925-1930 clippings primarily relating to Walter Carl Spencer's career as a detective on the police force in Norfolk, Virginia. A few clippings are pasted directly to the pages of the book.

Dates: created: circa 1910-1930; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/2016

William Benjamin Beauchamp Family Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2017-019
Scope and Contents

The William Benjamin Beauchamp Family Papers primarily include circa 1918-1931 correspondence from William Benjamin Beauchamp's daughter, Dorothy Murden, to her husband, Virginius B. Murden, Jr. The collection also includes newspaper clippings, various ephemera relating to finances, travel, and education, and family photographs.

Dates: created: 1907-1991; Other: Majority of material found in 1920-1924; Other: Date acquired: 03/24/2017

William Conway Whittle, Jr. Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-241
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, diaries, clippings, military service records, and an 1864 register of Confederate officers in the Civil War. Most of the materials date between 1863 and 1865 and concern the Conderate Navy's operations in England and France.

Dates: created: 1855-1910; Other: Majority of material found in 1864; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1964

Wilson Family Papers

 Collection — B9F10I11
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-659
Scope and Contents

Receipts, statements, correspondence, report cards, and photographs primarily relating to the Wilson family of Staunton and Norfolk, Virginia. Prominent individuals' materials include Sarah Jane Phillips, Pamelia Bolling West Wilson, Louisa M. West, Charles Bolling Wilson, Frances Wilson, Louisa Wilson, Bettie S. West, Cary R. Wilson, and Sarah "Sally" K. West.

Dates: created: 1859-1920, undated; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/0000