New York (N.Y.)

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This collection includes 2.25" color photographic slides and associated notes identifying subjects and locations. These materials appear to be vacation photographs from around 1960. Most of the slides are mounted in cardboard frames; some are mounted between glass plates.

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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.

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Mid-1940s correspondence, largely from secretary Don C. Harrison regarding memberships and annual dues to the Charles H. Consolvo Tent of the Circus Saints and Sinners Club of America in Norfolk, Virginia. The collection includes a few ephemeral items from 1940 to 1951 including a menu, booklet, and newspaper clipping.

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One 1898-1908 log book from an unknown lumber company detailing the loading and transportation of lumber and coal to various cities via schooners, lighters, canal boats, oil boats, barges, and other vessels.

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One 1933 telegram from Dorothy Broughton wishing her mother a happy birthday from New York.

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Fifty-three letters written between the Page and Jones families. Frequent correspondents include Edmonia Lee Page Neilson, Mary Ann Mason Jones, Hall Neilson, and Jane Byrd Page. Most of the correspondence was sent between Richmond, Virginia and Washington, D. C.

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Six letters from various sources collected by Elizabeth Graves Plack.

Scope and Contents One circa 1941-1945 scrapbook of personal mementos relating to Betty Ward and her husband, Fred Ward. The scrapbook includes photographs, telegrams, playbills, birthday cards, poems, and other materials relating to the couple's relationship during Fred's service in the United States Navy in World War II. Prominent geographic locations in the scrapbook include New York; Jersey City, New Jersey; and San Diego, California. The scrapbook also includes several late 1990s to early 2000s...

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One 1940-1941 scrapbook containing photographs, postcards, greeting cards, invitations, programs, a map, and other memorabilia belonging to Helen Louise Borrowdale Smith of Norfolk, Virginia. The scrapbook includes materials relating to Smith's travels in Charleston, West Virginia and Huntington, West Virginia, along with her honeymoon travels to Boston, Massachusetts and New York.

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One circa 1909-1920 scrapbook of cards, invitations, correspondence, telegrams, photographs, score cards, sketches, programs, ticket stubs, receipts, business cards, clippings, napkins, ribbons, menus, and other ephemera of Jane M. Ruffin. The scrapbook contains programs for Maury High School in the 1910s, theater programs for plays, musicals, and movies, and ephemera relating to trips to New York, Kentucky, Vermont, China, and Japan.