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Portsmouth (Va.)--History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Grace O. Cornick Scrapbooks

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-212
Scope and Contents Five circa 1960s-1970s scrapbooks compiled by Grace O. Cornick of Norfolk, Virginia. Scrapbooks 1-4 contain articles written by Cornick on various Norfolk history topics, including churches, hospitals, city government, schools, and historic houses and buildings. Scrapbook 5 contains clippings, ephemera, and photographs relating to Epworth United Methodist Church in Norfolk, Virginia. There are also "notes," both handwritten and typed articles, written by Cornick that appear in Scrapbooks...
Dates: created: 1930-1931, 1949, 1953-1983, 2002; Other: Majority of material found in 1960s-1970s; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/0000

James Carlyle Stephens Scrapbooks

 Collection — 23 boxes
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-074
Scope and Contents Twenty-one scrapbooks of Norfolk and Virginia Beach-related genealogy, the history of Norfolk and the Hampton Roads region, and the construction of tunnels and highways in the 1950s-1960s in the Tidewater area of Virginia. Five scrapbooks cover genealogy, five scrapbooks cover general history (international, national, state, and local), and the remaining 11 scrapbooks cover Norfolk and Hampton Roads history. Four of the genealogy scrapbooks primarily focus on the Thoroughgood family, while...
Dates: created: 1947-1976; Other: Majority of material found in 1950-1969; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/0000

Louisa Emmerson Papers

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-522
Scope and Contents

Typed manuscript with pasted photographs and handwritten annotations. Topics include the Emmerson family, local families and houses, the Portsmouth fire of 1821, Trinity Church, the Eastern Shore, and the mountains of Virginia.

Dates: created: 1946; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014

Mabel Chamberlaine Burroughs Scrapbook

 Collection — 2 folders
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-079
Scope and Contents

One 14-page circa 1920s-1940s scrapbook of clippings relating to Norfolk, Virginia. Several articles relate to Fergus Reid and Rev. Henry St. George Tucker. Loose materials detached from the scrapbrook primarily consist of clippings from the 1920s to 1960s relating to buildings in Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia, Christ Church, obituaries, weddings and engagements, and general local history of Norfolk, Virginia.

Dates: created: 1900-1964, undated; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/0000

Mildred M. Holladay's History of Portsmouth Scrapbooks

 Collection — 1 box
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-061
Scope and Contents

Two 1934-1935 scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings on the history of Portsmouth, Virginia, written by Mildred M. Holladay and published in the Portsmouth Star. The second scrapbook contains some clippings relating to history in Norfolk, Virginia.

Dates: created: 1934-1935; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014

Provost Marshal John L. Cunningham Ledger and C. W. Murdaugh Legal Documents

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2017-027-e
Scope and Contents

One ledger split between 1865 records of Portsmouth, Virginia Provost Marshal John L. Cunningham and 1830-1867 legal documents and writings of Portsmouth, Virginia lawyer Claudius Walke Murdaugh.

Dates: created: circa 1830-1867; Other: Date acquired: 04/20/2017

"Reminiscences of Portsmouth 70 Years Ago" Typescript

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-623
Scope and Contents

Two typescript documents recalling people and places in Portsmouth, Virginia in 1820.

Dates: created: circa 1890; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014

Robert A. Cutchins, Jr. Collection on Cradock Section of Portsmouth, Virginia

 Collection — 2 folders
Identifier: MSS-0000-011
Scope and Contents

Bob and Ruth Cutchins's newsletters about "the good old days" of the 1930s to 1940s, and advertisements, photographs, and maps relating to Cradock in Portsmouth, Virginia.

Dates: created: 2005-2012; Other: Date acquired: 08/11/2012