Cards (information artifacts)

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One circa 1873 Bible titled "The Complete Domestic Bible." The text includes illustrations and a dictionary of religious terms.

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One 1918-1923 scrapbook created by Annie Lee Wade in Norfolk, Virginia. Items pasted onto scrapbook pages include photographs, correspondence, cards, clippings, and other ephemeral materials. Several pages feature items relating to Annie Lee Wade and her lover, Lloyd Barnard.

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Autographs collected of various individuals between 1803 and 1935. Many of the autographs are from writers, poets, novelists, actors, and other historical figures.

Scope and Contents One 1947-1992 scrapbook containing clippings, photographs, correspondence, programs, certificates, and awards from the Ballentine Place Garden Club in Norfolk, Virginia. The scrapbook documents the organization's activities and includes materials that show the club's involvement with the Norfolk Botanical Garden, participation in the International Azalea Festival, and certifies its membership in the Virginia Federation of Garden Clubs. Additionally, the scrapbook shows the Garden Club's...

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Twenty-five love letters between Jesse V. Bassett and Elizabeth Daisy Cross. The letters begin in the early days of the couple's courtship in 1886; two letters were written after the couple married. Most of the love letters are from Jesse V. Bassett.

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Six 1930s-1960s scrapbooks featuring social events including engagements, weddings, parties, graduation commencements, debutant debuts, funerals, and other activities in and around Norfolk, Virginia. Most of the materials date between 1951 and 1955.

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Circa 1959-1963 programs and other souvenirs belonging to Gayle Ferebee at Granby High School in Norfolk, Virginia. This collection also includes a 50th reunion booklet and a CD.

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One 1920s scrapbook containing calling cards, clippings, correspondence, and other memorabilia of Gladys Whitehead Roberts from Norfolk, Virginia.

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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.

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...