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Scope and Contents Correspondence, newsletters, and other materials collected by Nancy Tatem, a Norfolk schoolteacher of Azalea Gardens Middle School. The materials range in date between 1978 and 1994. The correspondence dates from 1980-1994 and primarily includes words of praise for Tatem as a teacher. The newsletters were published by Azalea Gardens Middle School and include school news, student writings, photographs, and entertainment activities. The collection also includes student lists, school programs,...

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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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Historical and biographical documents generally relating to the Tidewater area of Virginia, genealogy records, correspondence, maps, and photographs. Notably, this collection also contains several original English legal documents (such as deeds and wills) dating back to 1597 and the early 1600s.

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One 1943 yearbook belonging to Winifred Letitia Greene. Includes photographs, programs, and other materials relating to Miss Turnbull's School in Norfolk, Virginia. The beginning of the yearbook includes a note explaining the use of scrapbooks for 1943 due to supplies needed for the war effort.

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Two 1959-1961 scrapbooks from the Tidewater District Virginia Federation of Garden Clubs. Also known as The Federation of Garden Clubs of Norfolk & Vicinity, Inc., the scrapbooks include an alphabetical collection of pages from local garden clubs in the Hampton Roads region. Each page is unique, consisting of paintings, drawings, magazine clippings, newspaper clippings, poems, yearly summation of activities, lists of officers and members, mottos, and poems.