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Virginia Beach (Va.)--Social life and customs

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

1911 and 1924 Virginia Beach Oceanfront Photographs

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 007-MSS 0000-363
Scope and Contents

Twelve 1911 photographs and four 1924 photographs featuring scenes from the Oceanfront at Virginia Beach, Virginia. Subjects include the United States Life Saving Station, the Arlington Hotel, Virginia Beach Public Library, and ship figureheads "Miss Dictator" and the "Norwegian Lady."

Dates: created: 1911, 1924; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014

Hannah Margery Rawls Agelasto Scrapbooks

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2017-072
Scope and Contents Fifteen scrapbooks from 1926-1970 compiled by Hannah Agelasto of Norfolk, Virginia, and later, Alanton, Virginia Beach, Virginia. The scrapbooks primarily include clippings of local engagements, marriages, debutante parties, births, deaths, and other events in and around Norfolk, Virginia. There are also announcements and invitations with original envelopes addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Peter Agelasto, Jr. for births, weddings, ceremonies, and other special events. The collection also includes...
Dates: created: 1926-1992; Other: Date acquired: 12/21/2017

Mary Sinton Leitch Poetry Papers

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-029
Scope and Contents

Circa 1950s poems and one letter written by Mary Sinton Leitch. Several poems are dated after 1952 and place the poet at "Wycherley" on the Lynnhaven, Bayside, Virginia.

Dates: created: circa 1950s; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014