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Women--Socialization

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:

1936-1940 Norfolk Scrapbook

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-327
Scope and Contents One 1936-1940 scrapbook containing newspaper clippings relating to the history of Norfolk, Virginia Beach, and the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Popular topics include plays, engagements, weddings, deaths, notable visitors, Norfolk Botanical Garden, and the First Citizen award. The scrapbook contains one playbill from the 1937 theatrical production of The Lost Colony. Non-local topics in the scrapbook include news on the movie Gone With the Wind and the...
Dates: created: 1936-1940; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014

Adams Family Photographs

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 007-MSS 0000-598
Scope and Contents

Four circa 1900-1910 photographs of the Adams family in Norfolk, Virginia.

Dates: created: circa 1900-1910; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014

Alleene C. Jones Scrapbooks

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-221
Scope and Contents Clipping scrapbooks compiled by Alleene C. Jones of Norfolk, Virginia. Scrapbook 1 (1912-1936) primarily chronicles conventions and annual meetings of the Business and Professional Women's Club of Norfolk from 1923-1936, although there are also clippings relating to local history and theater. Ephemera from Scrapbook 1 includes convention programs, ribbons, a pin, an invitation, and a photograph. Scrapbooks 2-4 include obituaries and deaths of primarily local notable figures from 1922-1947...
Dates: created: 1912-1977; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1968

Ballentine Place Garden Club Scrapbook

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-087
Scope and Contents One 1947-1992 scrapbook containing clippings, photographs, correspondence, programs, certificates, and awards from the Ballentine Place Garden Club in Norfolk, Virginia. The scrapbook documents the organization's activities and includes materials that show the club's involvement with the Norfolk Botanical Garden, participation in the International Azalea Festival, and certifies its membership in the Virginia Federation of Garden Clubs. Additionally, the scrapbook shows the Garden Club's...
Dates: created: 1947-1992; Other: Date acquired: 07/20/2010

Belle Tunstall Invitations

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-649
Scope and Contents

Twenty-two 1873-1890 invitations to Belle Tunstall for dances, balls, social club meetings, and the unveiling of the Robert E. Lee monument. Also includes one newspaper clipping, three envelopes addressed to Belle Tunstall, and an 1878 note from the Norfolk Treasurer's office for H. Proescher to attend a meeting of the Common Council.

Dates: created: 1873-1890; Other: Date acquired: 08/01/1955

Bertha Fanning Taylor Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-043
Scope and Contents

Includes 1970s drafts of Bertha Fanning Taylor's unpublished manuscript "Building Anew at Sixty Years in a Southern City," journals/diaries from 1968-1970, clippings and biographical materials relating to Bertha Fanning Taylor, artwork, and various miscellaneous materials.

Dates: created: 1935-1990, undated; Other: Majority of material found in 1960s-1970s; Other: Date acquired: 09/20/1979

Capeview Garden Club Scrapbooks

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2016-054-a
Scope and Contents

Two 1990s-2010s scrapbooks of the Capeview Garden Club in Norfolk, Virginia. The scrapbooks include photographs, correspondence, and memorabilia of the club's activities, including volunteer work for Lake Taylor Transitional Care Hospital in Norfolk, Virginia.

Dates: created: 1992-2012, 2016; Other: Date acquired: 07/05/2016

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Norfolk Alumnae Chapter Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2017-023
Scope and Contents This collection consists of the organizational records of the Norfolk Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and documents the chapter's outreach efforts, activities, and achievements. Committees include: Arts and Letters, Delta Academy, Habitat for Humanity, Hospitality, Life Development, May Week, Pan Hellenic, Policies and Procedures, Program, Project, Scholarship, Social, and Social Action. The collection includes committee reports, meeting minutes, correspondence, constitution...
Dates: created: 1940-2021; Other: Majority of material found in 1993-2014; Other: Date acquired: 04/10/2017

Edmonia Lee Whittle Scrapbook

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-082
Scope and Contents One mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century scrapbook containing clippings, genealogical information, and other materials related to the Whittle family, Christ Church, and Christ and Saint Luke's Church in Norfolk, Virginia. Handwritten genealogies trace the ancestry of several prominent connected Norfolk families, including Calvert, Dabney, Neilson, Page, and Walke. The scrapbook traces the Whittle family genealogy to Pocahontas. Much of the loose materials from the scrapbook relate to the...
Dates: created: 1860-1965, undated; Other: Date acquired: 11/18/1997

Eleanor Baker Diaries

 Collection — 1 box
Identifier: MSS-0000-002
Scope and Contents

Three handwritten diaries from 1918 to 1926, chronicling Eleanor Baker's experiences, attitudes, and observations. Popular subjects discussed in her personal accounts include: travel, boys, dances, plays, and "tea parties." A majority of her diary entries take place in Paris, France and Saint Thomas in the United States Virgin Islands.

Dates: created: 1918-1926; Other: Date acquired: 01/04/1964