Biographies (documents)

Scope and Contents Circa 1900s-1930s photographs and a scrapbook featuring the Virginian Railway, primarily in West Virginia. The photographs depict trains, railroad tracks, bridges, tunnels, and housing construction. There are also photographs depicting railroad construction workers as well as family photographs. The collection also includes postcards, correspondence, and clippings of A. M. Traugott, along with a 1947 annual report, 1933 magazine feature, and 1938 organizational chart of the Virginian Railway...

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One 1923-1941 scrapbook containing newspaper clippings on African Americans’ accomplishments and biographies. Includes an index at the back.

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Primarily includes papers from the 1990s collected or written by Amelia E. Hitchings relating to her mother, Ruby Martha Etheridge. The papers relate to Etheridge's life and character, mostly as remembered by her daughter. A majority of materials are photocopies and include handwritten and typed correspondence, certificates, clippings, and published materials.

Scope and Contents One unpublished biography entitled The Unionist about Benjamin Rowson (1850-1927) based on research compiled, organized, and produced by family member, Leah Holden in May 2025. The document describes major life events of Benjamin Rowson, outlined by a table of contents, that focuses on his early life as an immigrant to the United States of America; his career as a printer, newspaperman, and labor leader; and, family life in Norfolk, Virginia at the turn of...

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Includes 1970s drafts of Bertha Fanning Taylor's unpublished manuscript "Building Anew at Sixty Years in a Southern City," journals/diaries from 1968-1970, clippings and biographical materials relating to Bertha Fanning Taylor, artwork, and various miscellaneous materials.

Scope and Contents Research files of the City of Norfolk City Clerk relating to busing, race relations, Jesse Jackson, and biographical information of former City Manager Charles Barney Borland of Norfolk, Virginia. The collection includes correspondence, clippings, court cases, statistics, photographs, and research materials. The biographical materials on City Manager Borland were compiled by City Clerk Breck Daughtrey to create Borland's biography in volume 2 of Dictionary of...

Scope and Contents Research files and other materials compiled by Connie Sage relating to her book Frank Batten, The Untold Story of the Founder of the Weather Channel, published in 2011 by University of Virginia Press. This collection includes biographical materials, interview notes and transcripts, business and personal records, and documents relating to the book's publication. There are also video and audio tapes, photographs, and electronic storage media. These files...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of the organizational records of the Norfolk Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and documents the chapter's outreach efforts, activities, and achievements. Committees include: Arts and Letters, Delta Academy, Habitat for Humanity, Hospitality, Life Development, May Week, Pan Hellenic, Policies and Procedures, Program, Project, Scholarship, Social, and Social Action. The collection includes committee reports, meeting minutes, correspondence, constitution...

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One archive report on Edwin Robeson MacKethan, Jr. (1907-1989) based on a November 1, 2017 family account written by Edwin Robeson MacKethan III. The report includes a list of major life events of Edwin Robeson MacKethan, Jr. and biographical information organized with a table of contents. It also includes photocopies of clippings, photographs, and other documents relating to the life of MacKethan and his banking career at Norfolk Savings & Loan Corporation.

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Photocopied notes comprising excerpts from Norfolk County Deed Books, written in 1930-1931 by Elizabeth French Collins Whitehead of Norfolk, Virginia. The collection also includes a biographical sketch of Whitehead written by Collis Leon Ackiss on August 6, 1973.