Biographies (documents)

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Three circa 1880 and 1920 photographs, one genealogy note, and clippings of General Littleton Waller Tazewell Waller.

Scope and Contents The unabridged circa 1967 manuscript Salt Water and Printer's Ink, along with speeches, writings, and other materials written or compiled by Lenoir Chambers of Norfolk, Virginia. Subject matter of the writings include the South, Stonewall Jackson, local newspaper history, and desegregation of Norfolk's public schools. There are also separate files of materials on Norfolk Academy and Norfolk Public Library. The collection also includes clippings about Lenoir...

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Two 1950s clipping scrapbooks of articles written by Louisa Venable Kyle of Virginia Beach, Virginia. The collection also includes a Kyle-Venable Family book of origins featuring genealogical research and photographs of ancestral homes and plantation houses, compiled by Louisa Venable Kyle in Summer 1968. There are also writings of and about Louisa Venable Kyle dating from 1950-1990 in the collection.

Scope and Contents Personal and family papers and photographs of Lucile Perryman Bybee Portlock of Norfolk, Virginia. The collection includes correspondence to Portlock, photograph albums of her eldest child Lucile "Billie," and genealogy of the Bybee family conducted both personally and professionally by Edgar T. Brown from the mid-1970s to late-1980s. There is also a family Bible that belonged to her parents, Harry Rainey Bybee and Lucile DuVall Perryman, a photo album created by Portlock's mother during her...

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One circa 2019 scrapbook primarily consisting of photocopied photographs, newspaper clippings, and primary and secondary research relating to Charles I. Stengle, former superintendent of the Norfolk Union Mission in Norfolk, Virginia in 1898.

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Three circa 1940s-1960s history scrapbooks of clippings featuring prominent events, houses, developments, storms, and people in Norfolk, Norfolk County, Princess Anne, Chesapeake, and Virginia Beach, Virginia. Topics include individual biographies, distinguished visitors, formation of the cities of Chesapeake and Virginia Beach, United States Navy, buildings, ferries, tunnels, yellow fever, the Civil War, churches, and the Adam Thoroughgood House.

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Circa 2008 photocopied biographical information on Paul Garrett and his children, along with compiled information on Garrett's wine business in the Berkley section of Norfolk, Virginia: Garrett & Company, as well as photocopied information on Medoc Vineyards in North Carolina and other miscellaneous materials.

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1868 maps, an 1855 address, an 1873 "in memorian" booklet, and other materials relating to Matthew Fontaine Maury of Virginia.

Scope and Contents Personal, professional, political, and family papers of Samuel F. Coppage, Sr. of Norfolk, Virginia. The collection includes Coppage's involvement in various local organizations, particularly the Community Democratic Club, NAACP, and Norfolk Community Hospital. The collection also documents his activities with professional dental organizations such as the Old Dominion Dental Society; fraternal groups including the Elks and Frontiers Club; youth groups such as Boy Scouts of America, YMCA, and...

Scope and Contents The Virginia Ephemera Collection includes a broad range of informational publications, media reports, government documents, maps, and historical records, all relating to Virginia topics and localities outside the City of Norfolk. There are three major sections: general subjects (such as the arts, education, and transportation); counties (including economic and demographic data, places of interest, histories, and other information); and cities, towns and places (including histories,...