Ferries--Virginia

Photographs of various boats located in the City of Norfolk.

Fifty circa 1900-1960 family photographs featuring the Boren, Felce, and Willingham families, primarily in Ocean View, Norfolk, Virginia. Many of the photographs were taken of or by Anthony Felce in the late 1950s and early 1960s and feature a plane crash on Granby Street and various scenes of Ocean View.

Four circa 1940-1943 Norfolk, Virginia photographs showing the ferry in the Elizabeth River between Portsmouth and Norfolk, Granby Street Bridge, and a scene of Ocean View. There are three negatives in the collection that correspond to the photographs.

Two scrapbooks from the 1930s-1940s containing family photographs, newspaper clippings, certificates, membership cards, business cards, correspondence, invitations, and other memorabilia relating to E. E. Harrell of Portsmouth, Virginia.

Three scrapbook pages consisting of 18 photographs of the Norfolk Ferry, Little Creek-Cape Charles Ferry, and Malm and Scott families taken in April 1940 in Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia.

Circa 1980 slides featuring historic postcards primarily from early 20th century Norfolk, Virginia. Subjects include businesses, churches, hospitals, hotels, Jamestown Exposition, neighborhoods, and schools. There are also a few images of Portsmouth, Hampton, Newport News, and Virginia Beach, Virginia.

One ferry bond of Joseph Calvert and Richard Scott, bound unto John Hutchings for 20 pounds on January 19, 1765 in Norfolk County, Virginia.

One 1736 bond to keep a ferry on the James River in Goochland County, Virginia.

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.

One November 1963 photograph featuring passenger ferries and one circa 1930s photograph showing a city bus on the road next to an automobile.