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Norfolk (Va.)--History

 Subject

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 52 Collections and/or Records:

City of Norfolk City Clerk Multimedia Materials

 Collection — 1 box
Identifier: RG 04-2018-001
Scope and Contents

This collection includes three VHS tapes, seven CDs, and nine DVDs from 1989-2008. Topics include sister cities, gangs, state of the city addresses, art, and history of Norfolk, Virginia.

Dates: created: 1989-2008; Other: Date acquired: 03/29/2018
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

"Courier"

 Collection — Box 5 - Periodical Newsletters and Publications
Identifier: MSS-0000-721
Content Description

Five issues of the "Courier" newsletter produced by the Norfolk Historical Society. Issues date range is from 2005-2007 and cover Norfolk Historical Society events, programs, and topics particular to Norfolk, Virginia's historical past. The "Courier" newsletter is available through membership to the Norfolk Historical Society.

Dates: 2005-2007
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Norfolk Alumnae Chapter Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2017-023
Scope and Contents This collection consists of the organizational records of the Norfolk Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and documents the chapter's outreach efforts, activities, and achievements. Committees include: Arts and Letters, Delta Academy, Habitat for Humanity, Hospitality, Life Development, May Week, Pan Hellenic, Policies and Procedures, Program, Project, Scholarship, Social, and Social Action. The collection includes committee reports, meeting minutes, correspondence, constitution...
Dates: created: 1940-2021; Other: Majority of material found in 1993-2014; Other: Date acquired: 04/10/2017
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Frances Calvert Stansbury Scrapbooks

 Collection — 5 boxes
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-073
Scope and Contents

Six 1930s-1960s scrapbooks featuring social events including engagements, weddings, parties, graduation commencements, debutant debuts, funerals, and other activities in and around Norfolk, Virginia. Most of the materials date between 1951 and 1955.

Dates: created: 1927-1962; Other: Date acquired: 06/00/1972
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

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
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

H. W. Burton's History of Norfolk, Virginia Index

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-510
Scope and Contents

One typed index for H. W. Burton's 1877 version of The History of Norfolk, Virginia.

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

Hampton Roads History Clippings Scrapbook

 Collection — 1 box
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-104
Scope and Contents

One scrapbook of late-20th century to early-21st century Virginian-Pilot newspaper clippings featuring photographs from various parts of the Hampton Roads region in Virginia. The photographs usually include brief captions and cover the cities of Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Portsmouth, and Chesapeake. Subject matter includes streets, buildings, transportation, weather, and sports.

Dates: created: circa 2000s; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

James Carlyle Stephens Scrapbooks

 Collection — 23 boxes
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-074
Scope and Contents Twenty-one scrapbooks of Norfolk and Virginia Beach-related genealogy, the history of Norfolk and the Hampton Roads region, and the construction of tunnels and highways in the 1950s-1960s in the Tidewater area of Virginia. Five scrapbooks cover genealogy, five scrapbooks cover general history (international, national, state, and local), and the remaining 11 scrapbooks cover Norfolk and Hampton Roads history. Four of the genealogy scrapbooks primarily focus on the Thoroughgood family, while...
Dates: created: 1947-1976; Other: Majority of material found in 1950-1969; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/0000
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

Jim Melchor "The Chesopiean" Articles collection

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2024-035
Scope and Contents

Select articles from one perodicial publication of The Chesopiean: A Journal of American Archaeology, Volume 30, Numbers 3-4, Summer-Fall 1992, about Fort Norfolk in Norfolk, Virginia entitled "Fort Norfolk Historic Building Report" written by James R. Melchor and "For Norfolk Graffiti, ca. 1864" written  y Marilyn S. Melchor, et al.

Dates: created: 1992; Other: Date acquired: 10/01/2024
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

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