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Hotels

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:

Hotel Chamberlin Booklet

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2021-011
Scope and Contents

One 1907 booklet featuring Hotel Chamberlin at Old Point Comfort, Virginia. A map inside the booklet shows the location of Hotel Chamberlin, ferry and steamboat routes, railroads, and Civil War battlefields. A 1906 map in the middle of the booklet by George F. Adams shows the hotel across from the Jamestown Exposition in Norfolk, Virginia. The booklet advertises the historic area surrounding Hampton Roads, the luxurious features of the hotel, and the Jamestown Exposition.

Dates: created: 1907; Other: Date acquired: 08/00/2021

James Foster Collection

 Collection — 2 folders
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2019-007
Scope and Contents

Ephemera from the Baltimore Mail Line, The Consolvo Hotels, and one Norfolk Album postcard book featuring scenes at Norfolk Municipal Gardens and City Park in Norfolk, Virginia.

Dates: created: circa 1930s-1950s; Other: Date acquired: 01/22/2019

James M. Jordan IV Photographs

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 007-MSS 0000-306
Scope and Contents

Seven late 19th century to early 20th century photographs and one scrapbook page featuring hotels, buildings, a railway passenger car, and other subjects in and around Princess Anne County, Virginia.

Dates: created: 1893-1920, undated; Other: Date acquired: 12/09/2013

Jim Bradshaw Norfolk Memorabilia Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2015-019
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...
Dates: created: 1851-2000; Other: Date acquired: 12/17/2015

Lafayette Motor Hotel and Tanner's Landing Negatives

 Collection — 1 envelope
Identifier: 007-MSS 0000-495
Scope and Contents

Circa 2006 negatives of the Lafayette Motor Hotel and construction site of Tanner's Landing on Llewellyn Avenue at the Granby Street Bridge in the Riverview section of Norfolk, Virginia. There are also images of two individuals each sitting in front of a Christmas tree inside a home.

Dates: created: circa 2006; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/0000

Nicholas John Pope, Jr. Photograph Collection

 Collection — 1 Box
Identifier: 007-MSS 2024-014
Scope and Contents One hundred fifty-two photograph prints and one photograph album contained within this collection compiled by John Nicholas Pope, Jr.  The photographs and album includes images of various scenes throughout the City of Norfolk taken by John Nicholas Pope Jr. while he worked for NRHA, as well as photographs by various other photographers primarily between 1966-1973.  Common images include buildings, city landscapes, boats, aerial photography, and demolition and construction projects, such as...
Dates: created: 1919, 1945, 1958, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1966-1973; Other: Majority of material found in 1964, 1966-1971; Other: Date acquired: 06/13/2024

Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority Miscellaneous Photograph Collection

 Collection — 6 boxes
Identifier: RG 06-2017-005
Scope and Contents

Photographic prints and negatives (mostly black and white) of various sections of the city of Norfolk, Virginia. Includes photographs of slums and redevelopment projects, construction of downtown buildings and roadways, and photographic documentation of buildings, commercial areas, and houses across the city. The collection also includes some aerial photographs.

Dates: created: circa 1860-2003; Other: Majority of material found in 1960; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/2017

Norfolk, Va. Book

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2021-010
Scope and Contents

One circa 1900 book titled Norfolk, Va., illustrated in photo-gravure, copyright by A. Wittemann, The Albertype Co., Brooklyn, New York. The book features photographs of local landmarks in Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Portsmouth, and Hampton, Virginia.

Dates: created: circa 1900; Other: Date acquired: 08/00/2021

Sargeant Memorial Collection Postcard Collection

 Collection — 9 boxes
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-PCC
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: created: circa 1900-1980; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014

United Traveller's Association Photograph

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 007-MSS 0000-484
Scope and Contents

One circa 1907 oversized photograph of a large group of people identified as United Traveller's Association standing outside the Inside Inn at the Jamestown Exposition in Norfolk, Virginia.

Dates: created: circa 1907; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/0000