Portsmouth (Va.)--History

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A souvenir program of an event hosted by the African American Historical Society of Portsmouth in rememberance of George Washington Jackson and other musical giants.

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Correspondence within the African American Historical Society Portsmouth about the Key Road Rosenwald School in the City of Portmsouth, Virginia.

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A souvenir journal pertaining to the gala grand opening of the Portsmouth (Colored) Community Library Museum in 2013 by the African American Historical Society Portsmouth. Included are three newspaper clippings that document the Portsmouth (Colored) Community Library Museum.

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...

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...

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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