Express highways

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, photographs, clippings, and other materials originally belonging to Edwin Robeson MacKethan, Jr. of Norfolk, Virginia. Topics are separated by theme: A. history of Norfolk banks, B. tunnels, bridges, and highways, C. other career items, D. banking, especially when MacKethan was President of the Trust Division of the American Bankers Association, and E. MacKethan's campaign for election to the Virginia House of Delegates. Most of the materials date from the 1950s to 1971.

Scope and Contents Twenty-one scrapbooks of Norfolk and Virginia Beach-related genealogy, the history of Norfolk and the Hampton Roads region, and the construction of tunnels and highways in the 1950s-1960s in the Tidewater area of Virginia. Five scrapbooks cover genealogy, five scrapbooks cover general history (international, national, state, and local), and the remaining 11 scrapbooks cover Norfolk and Hampton Roads history. Four of the genealogy scrapbooks primarily focus on the Thoroughgood family, while...

Scope and Contents Photo Craftsmen was a Norfolk commercial photography company that opened in 1946 at 512 West Olney Road. Jim Barry was the proprietor. The company moved to 1043 West 45th Street by 1958, and relocated to 251 West Bute Street by 1961. The company again relocated, to 420 West Bute Street by 1966, and then to its final location at 415 West York Street by 1978. When Barry died in 1976 the company was purchased by employee Len Rothman. Rothman changed the company name to Len Rothman Photography...

Scope and Contents One 1989 map approved by the Southeastern Virginia Metropolitan Planning Organization showing southside Hampton Roads, Virginia and routes with no major recommendations, facility recommendations to be improved, proposed new highway facilities, bridge replacement/rehabilitation, proposed interchange, proposed grade separation, and number of proposed lanes. The map covers Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, and Suffolk and includes two inset maps. The first inset shows areas north...