Memorandums

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Fourteen deeds dating from 1763-1769 concerning John Ackiss and his purchase of land, primarily in the Pungo area of Virginia Beach, Virginia. Also includes a letter of attorney, list of Revolutionary War militia officers, two letters of correspondence with their accompanying envelopes, and the circa 1900 envelope of attorney A. Johnston Ackiss that at one time housed these eighteenth- and nineteenth-century documents.

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 The unabridged circa 1967 manuscript Salt Water and Printer's Ink, along with speeches, writings, and other materials written or compiled by Lenoir Chambers of Norfolk, Virginia. Subject matter of the writings include the South, Stonewall Jackson, local newspaper history, and desegregation of Norfolk's public schools. There are also separate files of materials on Norfolk Academy and Norfolk Public Library. The collection also includes clippings about Lenoir...

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Memorandums listing warehouse losses and cotton claims for fires in Norfolk, Virginia between November 14, 1883 and August 6, 1884.

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...

Scope and Contents One January 6-16, 1951 scrapbook featuring pages relating to a Holland-America Line cruise of the SS Nieuw Amsterdam to South America by the 21st Street Business Men's Cruise, Inc. The trip was advertised as the first South American cruise originating in and returning to Norfolk, Virginia. The scrapbook primarily includes booklets featuring guests' names and brochures advertising goods or services in port. Places visited included Curacao; La Guaira,...

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Membership records, rosters, constitutions and bylaws, meeting minutes, secretary records, correspondence, newsletters, and awards from the Norview Lions Club. This collection also contains fliers from club fundraising events and records about the club’s involvement with national organizations for the disabled. Other records detail George T. Byrd, Jr.’s presidency of the Norview Lions Club and the Youth Exchange Program.

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Correspondence, organizational minutes, yearly pilgrimage ephemera, photographs, and scrapbooks related to the Order of Cape Henry from 1924 to 1986.

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Minute books, bylaws, administrative records, yearbooks, correspondence, histories, speeches, poems, clippings, and memorabilia from the Woman's Reading Club in Norfolk, Virginia. The records date from 1905-1972, with gaps in the meeting minutes from 1916-1923 and 1928-1944.