Chesapeake (Va.)

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One circa 1965-1970 realtor listings notebook, business cards, and ephemera from Ernest P. Gretes of Norfolk, Virginia. The notebook includes detailed listings for individual properties with an accompanying black-and-white photograph of the property on the reverse side. The collection also includes family photographs and one 1964 yearbook The Acorn from Carolton Oaks School in Norfolk, Virginia.

Scope and Contents This collection includes approximately 3,800 paperboard-bound volumes (packets) containing deed and mortgage abstracts for properties in Norfolk, Portsmouth, and the surrounding counties (mostly Norfolk County). The collection also includes approximately 2,800 land plats, mostly for properties associated with the packets. Guaranty Title and Trust created these records in the course of its business verifying property titles, recording land transactions, and issuing mortgage loans during its...

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One scrapbook of late-20th century to early-21st century Virginian-Pilot newspaper clippings featuring photographs from various parts of the Hampton Roads region in Virginia. The photographs usually include brief captions and cover the cities of Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Portsmouth, and Chesapeake. Subject matter includes streets, buildings, transportation, weather, and sports.

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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Three circa 1940s-1960s history scrapbooks of clippings featuring prominent events, houses, developments, storms, and people in Norfolk, Norfolk County, Princess Anne, Chesapeake, and Virginia Beach, Virginia. Topics include individual biographies, distinguished visitors, formation of the cities of Chesapeake and Virginia Beach, United States Navy, buildings, ferries, tunnels, yellow fever, the Civil War, churches, and the Adam Thoroughgood House.

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One 1980-1981 scrapbook featuring photographs, newsletters, booklets, clippings, and programs of the Princess Anne Business and Professional Women's Club of Virginia Beach. The scrapbook also covers the national convention at the Omni Hotel in Norfolk, Virginia.

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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.

Scope and Contents The Virginia Ephemera Collection includes a broad range of informational publications, media reports, government documents, maps, and historical records, all relating to Virginia topics and localities outside the City of Norfolk. There are three major sections: general subjects (such as the arts, education, and transportation); counties (including economic and demographic data, places of interest, histories, and other information); and cities, towns and places (including histories,...

Content Description 47 volumes of "The Historian" newsletter published by the Norfolk County Historical Society of Chesapeake, Virginia between 2006-2020. There may be gaps in dates and volume, making this an incomplete run of the newsletter. The newsletter encompasses events and internal business of the Norfolk County Historical Society of Chesapeake, Virginia. Earlier issues of "The Historian" cover topics similar to meeting minutes, whereas later issues provide in-depth articles of community involvement,...