Restaurants

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1970s cardboard panels with pasted photographs featuring houses and buildings in the neighborhoods of Ghent and Freemason in Norfolk, Virginia. Some panels also include small maps highlighting the buildings photographed. Panels include overlapping 3.5 x 5" photographs, generally providing a "street view" of that particular street. Panels typically include the name of the primary street next to the panel number.

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Fourteen 1940s photographs primarily featuring Victoria Drummond, first woman marine engineer in Britain; Alderman Lockyer, Mayor of Lambeth; and the inside of British American Restaurant. Several photographs taken inside the restaurant feature a sign honoring Miss Victoria A. Drummond by the residents of Norfolk, Virginia for the Lambeth Communal Kitchens Committee.

Scope and Contents One circa 1940s-1950s business card for the Red Rooster Tavern at 702 E. Main Street (Topside) in Norfolk, Virginia. The card advertises the tavern as the "Coziest Tavern In Town" and "Just The Place To Meet Your Shipmates." The reverse side of the business card features an illustration of a figure with a mouse's head and voluptuous female body staring at a piece of cheese on a mousetrap. The caption reads, "I don't want even a little piece cause you go off so quick and I get caught so...