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Norfolk (Va.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Lcnaf

Found in 664 Collections and/or Records:

Canoles Family Photographs

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 007-MSS 0000-208
Scope and Contents

One photograph album featuring 52 circa 1870s-1900s photographs of the Canoles family of Norfolk, Virginia. The collection also contains two circa 1900 photographs of the Edward Canoles family, three circa 1940s-1950s photographs of unknown individuals, and the 1978 draft will and 1979 newspaper obituary notice for Irene Gray Parker of Norfolk, Virginia.

Dates: created: circa 1870s-1979; Other: Date acquired: 02/03/2002

Capeview Garden Club Scrapbooks

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2016-054-a
Scope and Contents

Two 1990s-2010s scrapbooks of the Capeview Garden Club in Norfolk, Virginia. The scrapbooks include photographs, correspondence, and memorabilia of the club's activities, including volunteer work for Lake Taylor Transitional Care Hospital in Norfolk, Virginia.

Dates: created: 1992-2012, 2016; Other: Date acquired: 07/05/2016

Caroline Doonan's Jamestown Exposition Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-177
Scope and Contents

This collection includes a variety of items and sources relating to the Jamestown Exposition of 1907 including postcards, photographs, publications dedicated to the Jamestown Exposition, and two books: Report by New York on the Jamestown Exposition, and The Story of Captain Smith and Pocahontas.

Dates: created: 1904-1980; Other: Majority of material found in 1907; Other: Date acquired: 06/09/2009

Carter Family Bible

 Collection — 1 Bible
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2017-022
Scope and Contents

One Catholic Bible presented to Rita Madeline Smith Carter by her husband, Josiah George Carter, Sr. on April 19, 1955. The Bible was published by Good Will Publishers, Inc. in 1953.

Dates: created: circa 1953-1991; Other: Date acquired: 04/02/2017

Causey Family Photographs

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 007-MSS 0000-386
Scope and Contents

Three circa 1900 photographs of the Causey family.

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

Celestyne Diggs Porter Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-036
Scope and Contents

Personal papers, photographs, awards, certificates, and newspaper clippings belonging to Celestyne Diggs Porter of Norfolk, Virginia. The collection spans Porter's life, particularly her career as a schoolteacher for the public school system in Norfolk and a celebration of her life and accomplishments. Photographs include Porter as a young woman at Hampton University, school groups and local organizations associated with Porter, and family photographs.

Dates: created: 1880s-2011; Other: Date acquired: 10/27/2010

Charles Burr Todd Letters

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-570
Scope and Contents

Two 1902 letters from Charles Burr Todd to Elizabeth Roberts, professing his love in the first letter and expressing continued friendship in his second letter.

Dates: created: 1902; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014

Charles Hatcher Letter

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-541
Scope and Contents

One 1839 letter regarding the sender's inquiry to hear about the case of Captain Thomas Hubert.

Dates: created: 1839; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014

Cheryl Copper Cemeteries Photographs

 Collection — 6 folders
Identifier: 007-MSS 0000-607
Scope and Contents

Primarily negatives from the summer of 1994 featuring tombstones in graveyards in the Norfolk and Virginia Beach areas of Virginia. Featured cemeteries include the Land Family Cemetery, St. Paul's Episcopal Churchyard, Hebrew Cemetery, Cedar Grove Cemetery, and West Point Cemetery. The developed photographs from Folder 1 show gravestones and people cleaning the graveyard of the Land Family Cemetery.

Dates: created: 1994; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014

Cheryl Copper Research Notes on Norfolk, Virginia Cemeteries

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2022-009
Scope and Contents

Research notes compiled by Cheryl Copper relating to cemeteries in Norfolk, Virginia.

Dates: created: circa 1980-2017; Other: Date acquired: 04/29/2022