Virginia--Social life and customs

One 1800s handwritten cookbook filled with recipes for breads, cakes, puddings, pies, cookies, and pickles. The cookbook also contains a remedy for the summer complaint and a clipping on poisons and antidotes.

This collection includes 2.25" color photographic slides and associated notes identifying subjects and locations. These materials appear to be vacation photographs from around 1960. Most of the slides are mounted in cardboard frames; some are mounted between glass plates.

One circa 1935-1952 scrapbook of Albert Preston Breeden's travels to conferences for the Shriners and the Municipal Finance Officers' Association and one 1962 scrapbook featuring A. Preston Breeden's retirement from service as City Auditor for the City of Norfolk, Virginia. Scrapbook items include newspaper clippings, photographs, postcards, correspondence, theater programs, and other mementos.

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.

Booklets, brochures, guidebooks, postcards, reports, commemorative coins and plates, official publications, and other miscellaneous printed ephemera relating to the celebration of America's 400th anniversary in Jamestown, Virginia. The collection also includes materials relating to other events in the Hampton Roads region in 2007.

Four circa 1900 photographs of the Bellamy house at 712 Westover Avenue, T. Marshall Bellamy, Sr., and the Bellamy family in Norfolk, Virginia.

Twenty-two 1873-1890 invitations to Belle Tunstall for dances, balls, social club meetings, and the unveiling of the Robert E. Lee monument. Also includes one newspaper clipping, three envelopes addressed to Belle Tunstall, and an 1878 note from the Norfolk Treasurer's office for H. Proescher to attend a meeting of the Common Council.

Ten handwritten diaries from 1858 to 1914. Entries typically include observations on the weather, reports and commentary on current events, descriptions of Walker's medical and agricultural work, and Walker's personal thoughts.

Letters, photographs, publications, newspaper clippngs, and other materials relating to the Blow and Cook families of Norfolk, Virginia.