Postcards--Virginia

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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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Miscellaneous school projects, postcards, and pictures created and compiled by George Edward Higson, Jr.

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Circa 1900-1930s photographs of the Hobbs and Thomas families in Martinsburg, West Virginia and Norfolk, Virginia. Most of the photographs identify Thomas family members in Martinsburg, and include other individuals with surnames Baker, Beall, Beck, Parker, and Potter. The collection also includes working cards, a baby book, postcard, directory, pair of eyeglasses, and letter written in shorthand.

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One undated scrapbook of pasted photograph postcards of the interior and exterior of Thomas Jefferson's home, Monticello in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Scope and Contents Maps, books, booklets, pamphlets, photographs, postcards, souvenir artifacts, newspapers, and other printed ephemera relating to Norfolk, Hampton Roads, and Virginia from the mid-nineteenth to early twenty-first centuries. Most of the materials date from the 1920s to 1970s, although a significant number of items relate to the Jamestown Exposition of 1907. Maps of the southside section of Hampton Roads and memorabilia of Norfolk and the Tidewater area make up a majority of items in the...

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Thirteen postcards featuring images of Norfolk, Hampton, Newport News, and Virginia Beach, Virginia. Most of the postcards are addressed to Miss Matilda Davis of Mars Bluff, South Carolina. Some of the postcards were sent by Will R. A.

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The Sargeant Memorial Collection Postcard Collection houses postcards from the Norfolk area, Hampton Roads, Richmond, Washington, D.C., the state of Virginia and surrounding states, and the Jamestown Exposition. Some postcards in the collection are postmarked from the early 1900s.

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One circa 1890s-1950s collection of photographs, postcards, and one April 1894 issue of Tidewater Christian, a Norfolk, Virginia publication.

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One nearly-complete set of approximately 195 official souvenir postcards of the Jamestown Exposition of 1907.