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Yellow fever--Virginia--Norfolk--History--19th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Donna Bluemink 1855 Yellow Fever Research Files

 Collection — 3 boxes
Identifier: MSS-0000-006
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of records, newspaper articles, and other materials relating to the 1855 Yellow Fever epidemic in Norfolk, Virginia.

Dates: created: 1795-1856, 1918, 1933, 2001, undated; Other: Date acquired: 03/01/2005

Howard Association Records

 Collection — 2 boxes
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-192
Scope and Contents

One 1872-1896 handbook and two minute books dating from 1901-1986 of the Howard Association in Norfolk, Virginia. The records include historical and financial accounts of the Association.

Dates: created: 1872-2004; Other: Date acquired: 01/00/1990

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

Norfolk History Clippings Scrapbooks

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-101
Scope and Contents

Three circa 1940s-1960s history scrapbooks of clippings featuring prominent events, houses, developments, storms, and people in Norfolk, Norfolk County, Princess Anne, Chesapeake, and Virginia Beach, Virginia. Topics include individual biographies, distinguished visitors, formation of the cities of Chesapeake and Virginia Beach, United States Navy, buildings, ferries, tunnels, yellow fever, the Civil War, churches, and the Adam Thoroughgood House.

Dates: created: 1910, 1945-1963; Other: Majority of material found in 1962-1963; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014

Yellow Fever Letters

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-662
Scope and Contents

Two 19th century letters concerning the yellow fever in Norfolk, Virginia.

Dates: created: 1821, 1855; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/0000