Virginia--History

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Booklets, brochures, guidebooks, postcards, reports, commemorative coins and plates, official publications, and other miscellaneous printed ephemera relating to the celebration of America's 400th anniversary in Jamestown, Virginia. The collection also includes materials relating to other events in the Hampton Roads region in 2007.

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One February 7, 1902 to November 23, 1958 minute book from the Norfolk Branch of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. The 235-page book includes meeting minutes, 1952 and 1956 membership lists, annual meeting summaries from the 1950s, a booklet for the preservation of the Adam Thoroughgood house, and a clipping about the unveiling of a historical marker in 1934 at the old lighthouse at Cape Henry.

Scope and Contents Correspondence and clippings documenting Baron Jean de Lustrac's attempt to erect a monument in downtown Norfolk, Virginia in honor of French Admiral Francois Joseph Paul Comte de Grasse, whose success in the Battle of the Chesapeake in 1781 led to the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia. The collection also includes correspondence and clippings relating to de Lustrac's acquiring of 10 replica cannons for Yorktown, suggesting to name the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel after de Grasse, and...

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Two 2017 planning calendars distributed by BayPort Credit Union featuring local historic photographs of greater Hampton Roads, Virginia.

Scope and Contents One index to seven books originally written between 1955 and 1978 by Emmie Ferguson Farrar about old houses in Virginia. The books indexed are: Old Virginia Houses: Along the Fall Line, Old Virginia Houses: The Heart of Virginia, Old Virginia Houses: Along the James, Old Virginia Houses: The Mountain Empire, Old Virginia Houses: The...

Scope and Contents Twenty-one scrapbooks of Norfolk and Virginia Beach-related genealogy, the history of Norfolk and the Hampton Roads region, and the construction of tunnels and highways in the 1950s-1960s in the Tidewater area of Virginia. Five scrapbooks cover genealogy, five scrapbooks cover general history (international, national, state, and local), and the remaining 11 scrapbooks cover Norfolk and Hampton Roads history. Four of the genealogy scrapbooks primarily focus on the Thoroughgood family, while...

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One August 2, 1937 prolamation by Richmond, Virginia mayor John Fulmer Bright, announcing the observance of Home-Coming Fortnight beginning September 12 in celebration of the history of the City of Richmond.

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One scrapbook consisting of a series of newspaper articles from The Virginian Pilot titled "Three Weeks Through the Heart of Virginia: Journey on the James," by Earl Swift, which ran from September 13, 1998 through October 4, 1998. There are also two articles about the James River from 1994 and a few history-related newspaper clippings from September 1998 to October 1998.

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Photocopied photographs of circa 20th century historic Norfolk, Virginia Beach, and western Tidewater, Virginia scenes, one June 11, 1751 legal document naming keepers of the peace in Norfolk County, and one March 1980 map showing Portsmouth, Virginia in 1823.

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Indexes created by Sargeant Memorial Collection staff and other individuals in order to aid in searching source materials more efficiently.