Autograph albums

Scope and Contents Correspondence, diaries, and manuscripts of Eleanor Shipp Johnson from circa 1900s-1940s. The correspondence includes letters written by Anna Cogswell Wood in Florence and Montreux during the 1920s and letters from various publishers either accepting or rejecting Johnson's manuscripts for publication, roughly from 1900-1935. Johnson's notebooks and loose manuscripts contain materials that appear to be primarily written by her; many of these literary works portray racial stereotypes of...

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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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Two autograph albums belonging to Inez Jiggetts of Norfolk, Virginia. The first album is dated February 1944 and features autographs of Jiggetts's classmates at Booker T. Washington High School. The second album is dated circa 1960 and features handwritten best wishes and good luck from various individuals.

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Autographs and comments from classmates of Lena Rosa Knecht, who graduated in 1934 from Maury High School in Norfolk, Virginia.

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Correspondence, books, poems, and writings by Margaret Haley Carpenter of Norfolk, Virginia along with other materials that appear to have been collected by her, including correspondence belonging to William Stanley Braithwaite and Sara Teasdale. The collection also includes membership lists for various literary organizations and miscellaneous ephemera (itemized) that does not seem related to this collection.

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One autograph book belonging to Sarah Evelyn Perry of 916 Smith Street, Norfolk, Virginia. The book contains messages from the Norfolk Mission College Class of 1916.

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One 1901 autograph album containing signatures of 112 members of the Virginia Constitutional Convention, along with the geographic places each member represented. The first page of autographs list the officers of the 1901 Virginia Constitutional Convention: President John Goode, Secretary Joseph Button, and Vice President William A. Anderson.