Commemoratives

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Two baseball cards of the Naval Training Station Blue Jackets, commemorating the 100th anniversary of Naval Station Norfolk in Norfolk, Virginia.

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Commemorative records primarily from 2008-2009 of the desegregation of Norfolk City Schools in 1959, which marked the end of Virginia's massive resistance campaign against federally-mandated desegregation. Included are histories of massive resistance and the related closures of Norfolk Public Schools during 1958-1959, records of the city commission created to mark these events 50 years later, records of various public events, correspondence, and news clippings.

Scope and Contents Maps, books, booklets, pamphlets, photographs, postcards, souvenir artifacts, newspapers, and other printed ephemera relating to Norfolk, Hampton Roads, and Virginia from the mid-nineteenth to early twenty-first centuries. Most of the materials date from the 1920s to 1970s, although a significant number of items relate to the Jamestown Exposition of 1907. Maps of the southside section of Hampton Roads and memorabilia of Norfolk and the Tidewater area make up a majority of items in the...

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One 1995 newsletter, an invitation, a program of commemoration, an article, and a paper relating to Joseph Jenkins Roberts and the J. J. Roberts Foundation in Liberia, West Africa.

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Personal correspondence sent to William James Baker and Sarah F. Baker. Scrapbook pages include obituary clippings and information about the Chesapeake Boat Club.

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Circa 1935-1958 clippings, programs, diplomas, and photographs relating to the Preston School of Dancing, likely collected by Marguerite May Phelps of Norfolk, Virginia. This collection also includes a few photographs of downtown Norfolk after the March 1962 Ash Wednesday Storm, photographs of Church of the Good Shepherd, and other Norfolk-related printed ephemera.

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One ceremonial ribbon, two commemorative light rail tickets, photographs, and three August 18-20, 2011 CDs featuring photographs of The Tide Ribbon Cutting Ceremony and Reception, Inaugural Ceremony and Trip from Newtown Road Station, and Art Dedication and Station Events in Norfolk, Virginia.