Manuscripts
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:
Alice Granbery Walter Genealogy Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-049
Scope and Contents
This collection contains genealogical research gathered by Alice Granbery Walter. The material includes photocopied documents, newspaper clippings, pedigree charts, notes, manuscripts, photographs, negatives, and maps spanning from the 1600s to the 1970s. Prominent surnames include Boush, Nimmo, Cornick, Herbert, Hoggard, Hogwood, Haggard, Ivy, Argent, Langley, Thelaball, Nash, Powell, Robins, Shepherd, Tatem, Thurmer, Mackentosh, Mallicote, Ransha, Woodhouse, Moseley, Thorowgood, and...
Dates:
created: 1600-1975; Other: Date acquired: 04/11/1991
Found in:
Sargeant Memorial Collection
Bertha Fanning Taylor Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-043
Scope and Contents
Includes 1970s drafts of Bertha Fanning Taylor's unpublished manuscript "Building Anew at Sixty Years in a Southern City," journals/diaries from 1968-1970, clippings and biographical materials relating to Bertha Fanning Taylor, artwork, and various miscellaneous materials.
Dates:
created: 1935-1990, undated; Other: Majority of material found in 1960s-1970s; Other: Date acquired: 09/20/1979
Found in:
Sargeant Memorial Collection
Connie Sage Research Files on Frank Batten
Collection — 25 boxes
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-205
Scope and Contents
Research files and other materials compiled by Connie Sage relating to her book Frank Batten, The Untold Story of the Founder of the Weather Channel, published in 2011 by University of Virginia Press. This collection includes biographical materials, interview notes and transcripts, business and personal records, and documents relating to the book's publication. There are also video and audio tapes, photographs, and electronic storage media. These files...
Dates:
created: 1998-2010; Other: Date acquired: 06/26/2012
Found in:
Sargeant Memorial Collection
Daily Memorandum of Arrival and Departure of Lighters and Vessels Manuscript
Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-666
Scope and Contents
One 1898-1908 log book from an unknown lumber company detailing the loading and transportation of lumber and coal to various cities via schooners, lighters, canal boats, oil boats, barges, and other vessels.
Dates:
created: 1898-1908; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014
Found in:
Sargeant Memorial Collection
Eleanor Shipp Johnson Papers
Collection — 4 boxes
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-451
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, diaries, and manuscripts of Eleanor Shipp Johnson from circa 1900s-1940s. The correspondence includes letters written by Anna Cogswell Wood in Florence and Montreux during the 1920s and letters from various publishers either accepting or rejecting Johnson's manuscripts for publication, roughly from 1900-1935. Johnson's notebooks and loose manuscripts contain materials that appear to be primarily written by her; many of these literary works portray racial stereotypes of...
Dates:
created: 1873-1954; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/0000
Found in:
Sargeant Memorial Collection
First and Last, or Battles in Virginia Typescript
Collection — 25 folders
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-663
Scope and Contents
Twenty-three chapters, an introduction, and an appendix for William W. Blackford's memoir First and Last, or Battles in Virginia. The typescript details Blackford's experience as a cavalry officer under Jeb Stuart and as a Lieutenant Colonel of the Engineer Corps. All typescript pages were typed on the back of letterhead for the Richmond, Virginia office of The Prudential Insurance Company of America. The pages include handwritten edits in both pencil and...
Dates:
created: undated; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/0000
Found in:
Sargeant Memorial Collection
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
Found in:
Sargeant Memorial Collection
John Parker Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2014-002
Scope and Contents
Personal papers, photographs, and manuscripts of John Albert Parker, Jr. of 539 Warren Crescent in Ghent, Norfolk, Virginia. Items include birth and marriage announcements, school diplomas, and miscellaneous mementos. Photographs include family members, especially his wife Rose Marie Norwood Parker and his parents. The photographs also include the Parkers' wedding, John Parker's service in Vietnam from 1967-1968, circa 1990s holiday parties at Kirn Memorial Library, houses and scenes of...
Dates:
created: circa 1850-2008; Other: Date acquired: 11/12/2014
Found in:
Sargeant Memorial Collection
Julia Johnson Davis Papers
Collection — 8 boxes
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-214
Scope and Contents
Essays, poems, notes, correspondence, and other personal papers and manuscripts of Julia Johnson Davis of Norfolk, Virginia. Many of her essays appear to be recollections of Davis's childhood, early life, and later international trips to Europe. Some correspondents include fellow writers Mary Sinton Leitch, John Richard Moreland, William Stanley Braithwaite, and Idella Purnell. Prominent categories for Davis's poetry include ballads, sonnets, lyrics, and "Negro dialect." The collection also...
Dates:
created: 1909-1961; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/0000
Found in:
Sargeant Memorial Collection
Lenoir Chambers Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-0000-009
Scope and Contents
The unabridged circa 1967 manuscript Salt Water and Printer's Ink, along with speeches, writings, and other materials written or compiled by Lenoir Chambers of Norfolk, Virginia. Subject matter of the writings include the South, Stonewall Jackson, local newspaper history, and desegregation of Norfolk's public schools. There are also separate files of materials on Norfolk Academy and Norfolk Public Library. The collection also includes clippings about Lenoir...
Dates:
created: 1862, 1940-1969; Other: Majority of material found in 1950s-1960s; Other: Date acquired: 02/01/1965
Found in:
Sargeant Memorial Collection