Checks (bank checks)

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Records of Richard Stearns Dodson, Baltimore proprietor of the second Atlantic Hotel in Norfolk, Virginia. The collection includes business records in ledgers and cashbooks, including account information, bills, licenses, bonds, checks, ledgers, and notes associated with the operation of the Atlantic Hotel from 1872-1901.

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Records, mostly invoices, from various businesses in the Hampton Roads region.

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Personal and business correspondence, notes, financial records, wills and deeds from his clients, booklets and pamphlets, newspaper clippings about the Civil War, and photographs. Also included in the collection are the personal papers of the Saunders family.

Scope and Contents Correspondence, diaries, and manuscripts of Eleanor Shipp Johnson from circa 1900s-1940s. The correspondence includes letters written by Anna Cogswell Wood in Florence and Montreux during the 1920s and letters from various publishers either accepting or rejecting Johnson's manuscripts for publication, roughly from 1900-1935. Johnson's notebooks and loose manuscripts contain materials that appear to be primarily written by her; many of these literary works portray racial stereotypes of...

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Miscellaneous correspondence, receipts, and checks relating to James A. Rives.

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One book listing 327 individuals' names and gifts received from each for an engagement party or wedding shower of Jean Curry Cooke and Charles James Andrews of Norfolk, Virginia. Includes photographs, possibly from a honeymoon, used checks, newspaper clippings, and correspondence. Also included is a Christmas greeting card from Virginia McKnew in 1970.

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1913-1914 correspondence between Robert E. Steed and The White House, and one 1901 check from The Norfolk Bank For Savings and Trusts, signed by Robert E. Steed. Also includes one 1928 Lindbergh commemorative coin and one 1959 Public Porter pin.

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Receipts, statements, correspondence, report cards, and photographs primarily relating to the Wilson family of Staunton and Norfolk, Virginia. Prominent individuals' materials include Sarah Jane Phillips, Pamelia Bolling West Wilson, Louisa M. West, Charles Bolling Wilson, Frances Wilson, Louisa Wilson, Bettie S. West, Cary R. Wilson, and Sarah "Sally" K. West.