Portraits

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Includes 1970s drafts of Bertha Fanning Taylor's unpublished manuscript "Building Anew at Sixty Years in a Southern City," journals/diaries from 1968-1970, clippings and biographical materials relating to Bertha Fanning Taylor, artwork, and various miscellaneous materials.

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One photograph album featuring 52 circa 1870s-1900s photographs of the Canoles family of Norfolk, Virginia. The collection also contains two circa 1900 photographs of the Edward Canoles family, three circa 1940s-1950s photographs of unknown individuals, and the 1978 draft will and 1979 newspaper obituary notice for Irene Gray Parker of Norfolk, Virginia.

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Circa 1930s-1970s portraits of eight City of Norfolk, Virginia mayors, from W. R. L. Taylor through Roy B. Martin, Jr.

Scope and Contents Personal papers, photographs, and manuscripts of John Albert Parker, Jr. of 539 Warren Crescent in Ghent, Norfolk, Virginia. Items include birth and marriage announcements, school diplomas, and miscellaneous mementos. Photographs include family members, especially his wife Rose Marie Norwood Parker and his parents. The photographs also include the Parkers' wedding, John Parker's service in Vietnam from 1967-1968, circa 1990s holiday parties at Kirn Memorial Library, houses and scenes of...

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Official documents, correspondence, promotional materials, newspaper clippings, photographs, and memorabilia collected by the Norfolk NATO Festival in Norfolk, Virginia.

Scope and Contents Includes 246 card photographs, mostly portraits, and also some topical subjects (such as building interiors). About 50 of the cards in this collection are annotated. Also includes cartes de visite, or visiting cards, that visitors would leave at a host's home or business. Each card photograph in this collection is available digitally at: ...

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One 1894 book titled Sketches and Portraits of the Virginia Conference (Volume II) by Rev. John J. Lafferty featuring biographical sketches of pastors belonging to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Two pages in the front of the volume show numbered portraits of each pastor and an index matching the numbers to their names. The order of the names in the index does not correspond to the pages in the volume.

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Two bound copies of the Norfolk, Virginia newspaper The Day Book, published from April 12 to September 6, 1860.

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One portrait of William Scott Forrest (1817-1878), who was one of Norfolk, Virginia's earliest historians. The print was created by Faber in 1918.

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One portrait to Robert Baylor Tunstall and Virginia Hunter Lyne Tunstall from Allen Tate on December 29, 1936. The portrait depicts a man in a suit holding a book.