Virginia--Social life and customs

One 1920s scrapbook containing calling cards, clippings, correspondence, and other memorabilia of Gladys Whitehead Roberts from Norfolk, Virginia.

Primarily scanned reproductions of circa 1910s panoramas originally photographed by Harry C. Mann in and around Norfolk, Virginia. The collection also includes 34 original print panoramas and 54 original negative panoramas dated circa 1913-1916.

Primarily 1990s-2003 genealogy research of the Hughes family of Norfolk, Virginia. The research includes correspondence, handwritten notes, birth, death, and marriage certificates, genealogical tables, census records, database records, and various other materials that largely concern John A. Hughes, Mary Cox Hughes, William Hughes, and the Hughes family originating in Wales. The research appears to have been compiled by Robert Harcourt and Mike O'Shea.

Two autograph albums belonging to Inez Jiggetts of Norfolk, Virginia. The first album is dated February 1944 and features autographs of Jiggetts's classmates at Booker T. Washington High School. The second album is dated circa 1960 and features handwritten best wishes and good luck from various individuals.

One circa 1909-1920 scrapbook of cards, invitations, correspondence, telegrams, photographs, score cards, sketches, programs, ticket stubs, receipts, business cards, clippings, napkins, ribbons, menus, and other ephemera of Jane M. Ruffin. The scrapbook contains programs for Maury High School in the 1910s, theater programs for plays, musicals, and movies, and ephemera relating to trips to New York, Kentucky, Vermont, China, and Japan.

One scrapbook consisting of a series of newspaper articles from The Virginian Pilot titled "Three Weeks Through the Heart of Virginia: Journey on the James," by Earl Swift, which ran from September 13, 1998 through October 4, 1998. There are also two articles about the James River from 1994 and a few history-related newspaper clippings from September 1998 to October 1998.

One typescript translated from French: letters written to Henry, Louis, and Emily, describing travel through various eastern cities in Virginia.

Four documents from 1871-1891 relating to Mr. and Mrs. Littleton Waller Tazewell of Norfolk, Virginia. Also include an 1843 oversized document of assurance.