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Norfolk (Va.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Lcnaf

Found in 664 Collections and/or Records:

Norfolk Community Chest Scrapbook

 Collection — 1 box
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-093
Scope and Contents

One October 8, 1955 to September 1957 scrapbook of newspaper clippings relating to the Community Chest in Norfolk, Virginia.

Dates: created: 1955-1957; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/0000

Norfolk Cosmopolitan Club Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-151
Scope and Contents

Administrative documents from the Norfolk Cosmopolitan Club, a civic service oriented social club chartered in Norfolk in 1924, affiliated with Cosmopolitan International.

Dates: created: 1924-2004, undated; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/0000

Norfolk County, Its History and Development: The Leading County of Virginia Booklet

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-464
Scope and Contents

One April 16, 1907 booklet containing 23 pages of historical narrative and economic development in Norfolk County, Virginia. The collection also includes a 1935 letter from Virginia Senator John A. Lesner to Fay Martin Slover, identifying her as the author of the booklet and inquiring if she wanted his copy.

Dates: created: 1907, 1935; Other: Date acquired: 11/04/2009

Norfolk Documents and Ephemera Collection

 Collection — 15 folders
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2017-027-h
Scope and Contents

Fifteen 18th century through 20th century documents and ephemera relating to the city of Norfolk, Norfolk County, and Portsmouth in Virginia.

Dates: created: 1760-1924; Other: Date acquired: 04/20/2017

Norfolk: Historic Southern Port Manuscript

 Collection — 3 boxes
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-397
Scope and Contents

One typed manuscript for Thomas J. Wertenbaker's 1931 classic book on the history of Norfolk. The manuscript places emphasis on the first two centuries of Norfolk's history and outlines the time period from 1880 to 1930. Each page is stamped with a date of returned proof.

Dates: created: 1931; 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

Norfolk Hotels Collection

 Collection — 7 folders
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-544
Scope and Contents

Brochures, correspondence, and other items relating to hotels in Norfolk, Virginia, including the Atlantic Hotel, Monticello Hotel, and Nansemond Hotel.

Dates: created: 1870, 1899, undated; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/2008

"Norfolk in By-Gone Days" Scrapbooks

 Collection — 1 box
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-106-a
Scope and Contents

Two circa 1930s-1940s scrapbooks with pasted newspaper clippings from "Norfolk in By-Gone Days" by W. H. T. Squires, written for the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch in Norfolk, Virginia.

Dates: created: 1930s-1940s; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014

"Norfolk in By-Gone Days" Van Wyck Library Scrapbook

 Collection — 1 box
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-106-b
Scope and Contents

One circa 1930s scrapbook of newspaper clippings from W. H. T. Squires's column "Norfolk in By-Gone Days," published in the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch in Norfolk, Virginia.

Dates: created: 1930s; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014

Norfolk Light Artillery Blues Minute Books

 Collection — 2 boxes
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-196
Scope and Contents

Three 1875-1907 handwritten minute books containing meeting minutes of the Company, Executive Committee, and special meetings held by the Norfolk Light Artillery Blues in Norfolk, Virginia. The volumes also contain treasurer's reports, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and lists of members.

Dates: created: 1875-1907; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014