Cards (information artifacts)

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.

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.

One 1920-1925 scrapbook containing personal photographs, calling cards, newspaper clippings, letters, and miscellaneous items relating to Julia Irene Gray of Norfolk, Virginia. Loose items from the scrapbook date from 1918 to circa 1950 and include photographs, clippings, and correspondence.

One scrapbook primarily containing 20th century photographs, invitations, and other materials.

Two 1920s-1930s scrapbooks created by Martha Southgate Iredell. The scrapbooks feature newspaper clippings relating to the Norfolk German Club debutantes and Norfolk society, dance invitations, calling cards, wedding invitations, theater programs from Wells Theatre, and exhibit catalogs from the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences in Norfolk, Virginia.

Various documents from 1928-1950 relating to Oliver Cromwell and his family. Included is correspondence (mostly between Oliver and his half-brother Albert A. Cromwell); assorted envelopes; tax and business-related statements; postcards; several snapshots; and miscellaneous newspaper clippings and advertisements. Other family members mentioned in the collection include Annie L. Cromwell (Oliver's stepmother) and Marshall Cromwell, Oliver's half-brother.

Two 1959-1961 scrapbooks from the Tidewater District Virginia Federation of Garden Clubs. Also known as The Federation of Garden Clubs of Norfolk & Vicinity, Inc., the scrapbooks include an alphabetical collection of pages from local garden clubs in the Hampton Roads region. Each page is unique, consisting of paintings, drawings, magazine clippings, newspaper clippings, poems, yearly summation of activities, lists of officers and members, mottos, and poems.