Vacations

This collection includes 2.25" color photographic slides and associated notes identifying subjects and locations. These materials appear to be vacation photographs from around 1960. Most of the slides are mounted in cardboard frames; some are mounted between glass plates.

Circa 1920s-1940s negatives featuring scenes from an unidentified family's vacation at Washington, D. C., New York, Niagara Falls, Thousand Islands, and Soulanges Canal in Quebec, Canada. One photograph shows a ship named Prins Willem Van Oranje. There is a photograph of individuals standing in front of a monument of Brig. General Pulaski, 1747-1779. Another photograph shows an automobile with a Norfolk, Virginia license plate.

One circa 1970s photograph scrapbook of the Norfolk Weather Service Office in Norfolk, Virginia, weather-related correspondence from Frederic Heutte to Terry Ritter in preparation for Heutte's book Gardening in the Temperate Zone, miscellaneous technical booklets and notes belonging to Terry Ritter relating to weather in Norfolk, one official program of the Yorktown sesquicentennial in 1931, and one vacation pamphlet for Tidewater Virginia in 1932.

Sixteen circa 1940s photographs of groups at the Oceanfront in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Two photographs identify Helen, Alease, and Lillian/Lilly Marlene in front of The Atwater. The Boardwalk is visible in most of the other photographs, and some photographs were taken on the beach in front of The Pocahontas. One circa 1950s-1960s photograph was taken of two women wearing dresses and heels standing in front of The Tides.