Posters

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Booklets, brochures, guidebooks, postcards, reports, commemorative coins and plates, official publications, and other miscellaneous printed ephemera relating to the celebration of America's 400th anniversary in Jamestown, Virginia. The collection also includes materials relating to other events in the Hampton Roads region in 2007.

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Two circa 1990s photographs of Barbara Upton Wilson and one circa 1960s-1970s poster of Barbara Wilson, World's Fair expert.

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Two aerial photographs of Fort Norfolk, one circa 1950 aerial photograph of the Hermitage Museum and Gardens, one circa 1950 poster featuring burlesque star Rose La Rose, one bird's-eye view of Hampton Roads featuring the original James River Bridge, and one print of the Hampton Roads Rowing Club. Also includes one book: The Melvin Gutman Collection of Antique Jewelry.

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Personal papers, photographs, awards, certificates, and newspaper clippings belonging to Celestyne Diggs Porter of Norfolk, Virginia. The collection spans Porter's life, particularly her career as a schoolteacher for the public school system in Norfolk and a celebration of her life and accomplishments. Photographs include Porter as a young woman at Hampton University, school groups and local organizations associated with Porter, and family photographs.

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One 1953-1958 scrapbook containing Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia newspaper clippings and advertisements relating to the Building, Savings & Loan Associations of Norfolk, particularly the Commonwealth Building and Loan Association, Inc. The scrapbook includes articles on Edward E. Edgar and his column Fins, Furs & Feathers, and one page dedicated to Minnie Mangum.

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Three 1958 Norview High School commemorative items and two mid-1980s Chesapeake Bay Neptunes football souvenir programs. This collection also includes one 1921 panorama of the Allen Baraca Class of the Fourth Street Baptist Church in Portsmouth, Virginia.

Scope and Contents The Henry Clay Hofheimer II Papers include correspondence, invitations, event programs, speeches, newsletters, periodicals, reports, conference materials, Future of Hampton Roads, Inc. records, documents relating to the economic development of Hampton Roads, certificates and resolutions, photographs, scrapbooks, clippings, family mementos, and other ephemera. Most of the materials date from the 1940s through the 1980s and relate to Henry Clay Hofheimer II's involvement in Norfolk and the...

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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This collection contains Virginia Symphony programs (1974-2005), Virginia Symphony playbills (1908-2001), periodicals (1982-2001), newspaper articles (1977-2010), posters and flyers (1980-2001), and undated photographs.

Scope and Contents Nine June 1968 to April 1977 scrapbooks covering each season of plays and other productions at the Norfolk Theatre Center in Norfolk, Virginia. The scrapbooks include clippings, theater programs and playbills, advertisements, calendars, booklets, budgets, meeting minutes, photographs, correspondence, and other materials collected by Hugh Bergeron during his time as an actor and active Board member. The 1976-1977 season materials reflect the name change from Norfolk Theatre Center to Stage...