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Richmond (Va.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Lcnaf

Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:

Page, Neilson, and Jones Families Letters

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2016-070
Scope and Contents

Sixty-three photocopied typed letters from the Page, Neilson, and Jones families written between 1824 and 1845. Also includes photocopied typed obituaries for Edmonia Lee Page Neilson, Ann Elisa Neilson, and Cary Selden Page.

Dates: created: 1824-1826, 1829-1834, 1845, undated; Other: Date acquired: 09/07/2016

Report of the State Corporation Commission, Virginia Books

 Collection — 38 books
Identifier: RG 04-0000-001
Scope and Contents

Annual reports covering the years 1903-1931, with gaps, published by the State Corporation Commission of Virginia in Richmond. Most volumes include stamps on the front and/or back inside pages from the Office City Clerk of Norfolk, Virginia.

Dates: created: 1903-1932; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/0000

Richard C. M. Wingfield Certificate

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-617
Scope and Contents

One 1889 certificate commissioning Richard C. M. Wingfield as First Lieutenant of the Norfolk Light Artillery Blues, Battery "B."

Dates: created: 1889; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014

Richmond and Norfolk Coliseum Scrapbook

 Collection — 2 folders
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-331
Scope and Contents

One 1966 scrapbook of newspaper clippings from The Virginian-Pilot, Ledger-Star, The Richmond News Leader, and Richmond Times Dispatch about planning for the Norfolk Coliseum, or Scope, by Italian engineer Pier Luigi Nervi. There are also many articles about the beginnings of the Richmond Coliseum.

Dates: created: 1966; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014

Sargeant Memorial Collection Postcard Collection

 Collection — 9 boxes
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-PCC
Scope and Contents

The Sargeant Memorial Collection Postcard Collection houses postcards from the Norfolk area, Hampton Roads, Richmond, Washington, D.C., the state of Virginia and surrounding states, and the Jamestown Exposition. Some postcards in the collection are postmarked from the early 1900s.

Dates: created: circa 1900-1980; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014

Seawell, Edwards, and Wilson Families Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-117
Scope and Contents One volume originally used as a ledger between 1815 and 1817 listing names of individuals followed by account information of sundries. It appears the volume was then used by several individuals, primarily in 1842, and includes autographs, poetry, and various miscellaneous lines, many of which are written upside down in the ledger. Prominent surnames listed inside the volume include Seawell, Edwards, Wilson, Tyler, Page, Hogg, Carter, Howard, Jones, Hairston, and Claiborne. Geographic areas...
Dates: created: 1815-1817, 1833-1874; Other: Date acquired: 04/06/2004

Spencer Family Papers

 Collection — 1 box
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-041
Scope and Contents

Primarily 1940s-1950s photographs, clippings, and other materials relating to Walter Carl Spencer and his wife Maud Vick Spencer of 1936 East Ocean View Avenue in Norfolk, Virginia. Some of the photographs are identified from San Francisco, California and Crandon Park in Miami, Florida.

Dates: created: 1929-1970s; Other: Majority of material found in 1940s-1950s; Other: Date acquired: 01/00/2002

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia Collection

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-670
Scope and Contents

Five appeals to the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia.

Dates: created: 1881-1894, undated; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014

Tazewell Taylor Bonds

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-436
Scope and Contents

Two Confederate bonds indebted to Tazewell Taylor, Guardian of W. E. Jackson, issued in Richmond, Virginia in 1861 and 1862.

Dates: created: 1861-1862; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014

The Virginia Settlers Research Project Microfiche

 Collection — 2 folders
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-431
Scope and Contents

Microfiche for the 1982 resources The Biographical Dictionary of Early Virginia, 1607-1660 and The Subject and Source Guide to Early Virginia, 1607-1660, edited by Ransom B. True from The Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities in Richmond, Virginia. The collection also includes paper summaries for each resource.

Dates: created: 1982; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014