Essays

Scope and Contents Twenty-four scrapbooks compiled by Fireman William F. Barrett of the City of Norfolk Fire Department in Norfolk, Virginia. The first two scrapbooks include information focusing on the Norfolk Fire Division Band from 1936-1944 and 1947-1949. The third scrapbook consists of information on the Norfolk Fire Department's Fire Prevention Program held in 1948. The remaining scrapbooks primarily consist of newspaper clippings that cover fires, firemen (particularly their deaths), new fire equipment,...

Scope and Contents Primarily 1960s-1970s reports, correspondence, minutes, memorandums, and other materials belonging to John S. Thiemeyer, Jr. relating to the formation of Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia. The collection includes administrative records of the Mayor's Advisory Committee On the Establishment of a Medical College in the Tidewater Area and the Committee on Academic Policies and Procedures. It also includes materials related to the Joint Committee on House Staff Procurement and...

Scope and Contents Essays, poems, notes, correspondence, and other personal papers and manuscripts of Julia Johnson Davis of Norfolk, Virginia. Many of her essays appear to be recollections of Davis's childhood, early life, and later international trips to Europe. Some correspondents include fellow writers Mary Sinton Leitch, John Richard Moreland, William Stanley Braithwaite, and Idella Purnell. Prominent categories for Davis's poetry include ballads, sonnets, lyrics, and "Negro dialect." The collection also...

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One monograph compiled by Lawrence Herbert Coleman, President of the Church Street Business and Professional Association, and published by the Church Street Business and Profressional Association.  This ambition was an effort to encourage City Council to act on the historic preservation of Church Street in Norfolk, Virginia through photograph and imagery, newspaper articles, historic presentations and reports.

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Four-page essay by Lily Baird Leigh on historic Holt Street.

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Essay written by Mary A. Smith Chelborg concerning the siege of Norfolk in May 1862.

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Two circa 1940 scrapbooks, one on Venetian art and the other on furniture, created by Miriam J. Claud. Includes prints taken from The University Prints, Boston, Massachusetts and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Also includes a 23-page handwritten paper titled "Venetian Art" and a 19-page handwritten paper titled "The Development of Furniture."

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Circa 1901-1962 essays and writings of Olive Vincent Marsh of Long Beach, California.

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Correspondence, writings, poems, speeches, publications, and clippings written by or about Robert M. Hughes.