Negatives (photographs)

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Eleven circa 1941-1943 negatives featuring aerial views that appear to have been taken on a rooftop showing areas near Freemason, Ghent, and Atlantic City in Norfolk, Virginia.

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One 1940s photograph of an unidentified man pointing to streetcar 2150 in Norfolk, Virginia. The collection also consists of five negatives, including an image of more than twenty men standing outside a building, streetcar 2150 bound for Ocean View parked in front of a body shop, streetcar 503 bound for South Norfolk, and several streetcars, including streetcar 628 bound for Granby-18 parked inside a building.

Scope and Contents Thirty-five black-and-white photographs and four negatives featuring art created by A. B. Jackson, an African American painter who lived in Norfolk, Virginia. Each photograph is labeled on the back with information on the artist, title and date, media and size, credit line, and Chrysler Museum inventory number if applicable. The original artwork was created using a variety of media including woodcut, charcoal, oil, acrylic, chalk, watercolor, and ink, and most of the artwork features...

Scope and Contents This collection contains genealogical research gathered by Alice Granbery Walter. The material includes photocopied documents, newspaper clippings, pedigree charts, notes, manuscripts, photographs, negatives, and maps spanning from the 1600s to the 1970s. Prominent surnames include Boush, Nimmo, Cornick, Herbert, Hoggard, Hogwood, Haggard, Ivy, Argent, Langley, Thelaball, Nash, Powell, Robins, Shepherd, Tatem, Thurmer, Mackentosh, Mallicote, Ransha, Woodhouse, Moseley, Thorowgood, and...

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Primarily nineteenth century correspondence, legal documents, memorandums, photographs, and miscellaneous papers from the Allmand Family of Norfolk, Virginia. Also includes three 1828-1843 ledger books of John Allmand, one 1837-1840 letter book of John Allmand, and one book of religious interpretation, likely written by Reverend John Singer Wallace. This collection also includes legal documents from the Estate of William Keeling and the Stone family.

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Thirteen photographs taken at the Oceanfront in Virginia Beach, Virginia following the Ash Wednesday Storm in March 1962. Photographs show damage to buildings and other structures.

Scope and Contents Correspondence and clippings documenting Baron Jean de Lustrac's attempt to erect a monument in downtown Norfolk, Virginia in honor of French Admiral Francois Joseph Paul Comte de Grasse, whose success in the Battle of the Chesapeake in 1781 led to the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia. The collection also includes correspondence and clippings relating to de Lustrac's acquiring of 10 replica cannons for Yorktown, suggesting to name the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel after de Grasse, and...

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Primarily negatives from the summer of 1994 featuring tombstones in graveyards in the Norfolk and Virginia Beach areas of Virginia. Featured cemeteries include the Land Family Cemetery, St. Paul's Episcopal Churchyard, Hebrew Cemetery, Cedar Grove Cemetery, and West Point Cemetery. The developed photographs from Folder 1 show gravestones and people cleaning the graveyard of the Land Family Cemetery.

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Five circa 1900 negatives featuring animal enclosures, a lake of waterfowl, and a line of trees at Lafayette Park in Norfolk, Virginia.

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Circa 1920s-1940s negatives featuring scenes from an unidentified family's vacation at Washington, D. C., New York, Niagara Falls, Thousand Islands, and Soulanges Canal in Quebec, Canada. One photograph shows a ship named Prins Willem Van Oranje. There is a photograph of individuals standing in front of a monument of Brig. General Pulaski, 1747-1779. Another photograph shows an automobile with a Norfolk, Virginia license plate.