Pamphlets

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...

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Administrative documents from the Norfolk Cosmopolitan Club, a civic service oriented social club chartered in Norfolk in 1924, affiliated with Cosmopolitan International.

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Primarily 20th century publications produced by Norfolk Public Schools in Norfolk, Virginia. The collection includes promotional materials, newsletters, and photographs.

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Correspondence, blank forms, promotional materials, news releases, public service spot announcements, and clippings related to the Norfolk Voter Registration Council and the Norfolk Committee for Neighborhood Voter Registration. Most documents in this collection are dated 1966, but the Norfolk Committee for Neighborhood Voter Registration covers 1967 and 1968. These materials relate largely to promoting voter registration in Norfolk, Virginia.

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Membership records, rosters, constitutions and bylaws, meeting minutes, secretary records, correspondence, newsletters, and awards from the Norview Lions Club. This collection also contains fliers from club fundraising events and records about the club’s involvement with national organizations for the disabled. Other records detail George T. Byrd, Jr.’s presidency of the Norview Lions Club and the Youth Exchange Program.

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Personal correspondence, newspaper clippings, programs, magazines, conference materials, ephemera, and scrapbooks belonging to Roy B. Martin, Jr. of Norfolk, Virginia. Boxes 2 and 3, and Scrapbook 2 in Box 4 primarily relate to General Douglas MacArthur and the MacArthur Memorial. Scrapbooks 1 and 3 through 8 cover Roy Martin's life, particularly his political career, professional development, and public service for the City of Norfolk.

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Miscellaneous materials related to the S. S. United States luxury passenger liner. Includes materials from a 1984 public auction for items on board the ship, which took place at Norfolk International Terminal in Norfolk, Virginia. Also includes photographs from 1992 when the S. S. United States was towed to Turkey from Newport News, Virginia.

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Contains a variety of ephemeral materials relating to Norfolk history and culture. Prominent subjects in the collection include Biographies, Buildings, Businesses, Churches, Clubs and Organizations, Colleges, Museums (especially the Chrysler Museum), Neighborhoods, and Schools. The bulk of the materials are from the 1950s-1980s, although there is a strong representation of materials dating from the 1920s to 2014.

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One circa 1970s photograph scrapbook of the Norfolk Weather Service Office in Norfolk, Virginia, weather-related correspondence from Frederic Heutte to Terry Ritter in preparation for Heutte's book Gardening in the Temperate Zone, miscellaneous technical booklets and notes belonging to Terry Ritter relating to weather in Norfolk, one official program of the Yorktown sesquicentennial in 1931, and one vacation pamphlet for Tidewater Virginia in 1932.

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Five 1955-1964 scrapbooks relating to the Lafayette Yacht Club in Norfolk, Virginia. The scrapbooks include newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence, brochures, newsletters, and other materials. Scrapbook 1 includes signatures and addresses of founding members of the Lafayette Yacht Club. Most of the subject matter of the scrapbooks focus on events and social activities engaged in by club members.