Old Point Comfort (Hampton, Va.)

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One book titled Art Work of Norfolk and Vicinity (Virginia), Portsmouth, Newport News, Berkley, Hampton, Old Point Comfort, published in 1895 by H. W. Kennicott & Co. The book has been disassembled and several sheets are missing. The content includes "A Sketch of Norfolk and Vicinity," and primarily includes circa 1895 prints of notable local places.

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Two front-and-back scrapbook pages featuring 24 circa 1916-1917 photographs of an unidentified family or families visiting Norfolk, Hampton, and Virginia Beach, Virginia. Photographs include people at the beaches in Virginia Beach and Ocean View, exterior shots of buildings Hotel Chamberlain at Old Point Comfort and Coast Guard School Building at Fortress Monroe, and individual shots of a man and woman on a nature walk. At least six photographs are missing from the pages.

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Seven 1914-1967 photographs of homes and other buildings in Norfolk, Virginia and Hampton, Virginia.

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One 1907 booklet featuring Hotel Chamberlin at Old Point Comfort, Virginia. A map inside the booklet shows the location of Hotel Chamberlin, ferry and steamboat routes, railroads, and Civil War battlefields. A 1906 map in the middle of the booklet by George F. Adams shows the hotel across from the Jamestown Exposition in Norfolk, Virginia. The booklet advertises the historic area surrounding Hampton Roads, the luxurious features of the hotel, and the Jamestown Exposition.

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...

Scope and Contents Poems by Mary Eldredge Howell from approximately 1907 to 1946. The collection contains both handwritten and typescript copies of her poems, with typescript materials frequently cross-referenced to the four handwritten composition books. Also, one September 1936 - May 1941 minute book from the Writers' Club of Norfolk and one 1899-1907 photograph album. The album contains photographs of Margery Eldredge Howell, family and friends, and various scenes in Norfolk, Virginia; Virginia Beach,...

Scope and Contents Eighteenth-century through 20th-century documents relating to the Parker family of Isle of Wight County, Virginia. The collection includes original indentures, wills, bills of sale, correspondence, and other legal documents, particularly relating to Copeland Parker and Nicholas Wilson Parker. Other content includes genealogical information on the Parker family and related families, including Sinclair, Boush, and Nash. Folder 2 includes documents that were compiled into a three-ring binder by...

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One 1994-1995 book of 16 mid-Atlantic lighthouse prints created by Stephan Harrington and Casey Holtzinger. The prints also include historic information published by Imperial Publishing and Gallery in Virginia Beach, Virginia.