Plans (reports)

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Publications created or used by the Department of City Planning in the City of Norfolk, Virginia. The collection includes planning booklets, maps, and reports for downtown, highways, housing, and cultural conservation.

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Annual reports, survey reports, and other published materials from the Department of Recreation, Parks, and Open Space in the City of Norfolk, Virginia. This 1913-1997 collection primarily includes materials from the Bureau of Recreation and Norfolk Botanical Garden.

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Records relating to the planning, design, and construction of a new downtown civic center (including a city hall, courts, a city jail, and administrative offices and buildings) and new cultural center (including various public buildings and spaces) in the area near the current Chrysler Museum. Included are planning reports, City Planning Commission records, city correspondence, and internal city memorandums and documents.

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Records of the Department of City Planning, Norfolk, Virginia. The records include Department documents, surveys and reports; aerial photographs (prints) over Norfolk and the surrounding areas; ground photographs (slides, negatives, and prints) of local areas; miscellaneous ephemeral materials; and planning-related documents and materials from other city departments and commercial entities (such as reports, surveys, and contractual documents).

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Backup files of reports and plans contained on CD-ROM and USB storage.

Scope and Contents Papers relating to the Fred Heutte Center in Ghent Square, Fred Heutte Foundation, Garden Clubs of Greater Hampton Roads, and Norfolk Botanical Gardens. The papers include gardening articles and transcripts of radio broadcasts, along with correspondence relating to the publication of Fred Heutte's 1977 book Gardening in the Temperate Zone. Organizational records include agendas, minutes, budget statements, correspondence, and notes. These papers were...

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Printed promotional materials for the MacArthur Memorial, one 2014 research paper written by Jim Zobel, photographs, and funeral-related documents of General Douglas MacArthur.

Scope and Contents Records from Van Wyck Branch Library, a branch library of Norfolk Public Library located in the Ghent section of Norfolk, Virginia. The collection includes borrower's registers, library usage statistics, correspondence, documents relating to the closing and reopening of the library for renovations in the late 1980s, clippings, photographs, and two VHS tapes. The photographs date from 1988-2006; subjects include Summer Reading Club, Azalea Queen visits, Readers Theater plays, children's...

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Plans for police, traffic, military, and special ceremony of the 1964 funeral of General Douglas MacArthur.

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Photographs, scrapbooks, policies, and minutes of The Dwelling Place in Norfolk, Virginia. Many of the photographs depict events from the first two years of operation, including house dedication ceremonies and Christmas party reunions. The minutes from 2005-2015 include records from the Board of Directors, Executive Committee, and financial reports. The collection also includes newsletters from 2005-2013, correspondence, reports, proposals, and plans.