Norfolk (Va.)

One 1956-1960 scrapbook relating to events and activities of the Tidewater District PTA in Hampton Roads, Virginia. Specific geographic areas mentioned in the scrapbook include Norfolk, Norfolk County, Portsmouth, and Suffolk. The scrapbook includes clippings, correspondence, photographs, programs, and other materials. Subject matter includes federal school funding, massive resistance, educational workshops, and PTA meetings.

Two 1959-1961 scrapbooks from the Tidewater District Virginia Federation of Garden Clubs. Also known as The Federation of Garden Clubs of Norfolk & Vicinity, Inc., the scrapbooks include an alphabetical collection of pages from local garden clubs in the Hampton Roads region. Each page is unique, consisting of paintings, drawings, magazine clippings, newspaper clippings, poems, yearly summation of activities, lists of officers and members, mottos, and poems.

One 1977 merger agreement of the Tidewater Transportation District Commission's acquisition of Tidewater Metro Transit System in Norfolk, Virginia. The agreement includes an index.

One 1959 booklet titled Tidewater Virginia In Years Gone By, A Pictorial History in commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of Mutal Federal Savings and Loan Association of Norfolk.

Correspondence relating to the 61st and final reunion of United Confederate Veterans in Norfolk, Virginia. The collection includes financial, publicity, and organizational documents in relation to planning the 1951 reunion, particularly from the Convention Bureau of the Norfolk Association of Commerce. There is also a clippings scrapbook of the 1951 United Confederate Veterans reunion accompanying the collection.

One 1918 souvenir ribbon celebrating the 50th Anniversary and Golden Jubilee of the United Order of Tents in Norfolk, Virginia.

Minutes, correspondence, booklets, official programs, maps, and miscellaneous materials relating to the Yorktown Sesquicentennial Celebration in 1931 in Yorktown, Virginia. Organizations represented in the collection include Trustees of the Yorktown Sesquicentennial Association, Assembly of Tidewater Virginia Women, and Norfolk Area Yorktown Committee. Several items appear to have belonged to Mrs. Frantz Naylor of Norfolk, Virginia.

One circa 1907 oversized photograph of a large group of people identified as United Traveller's Association standing outside the Inside Inn at the Jamestown Exposition in Norfolk, Virginia.

One 1843 monthly diet bill for the USS Pennsylvania at Norfolk, Virginia.

Five 1955-1964 scrapbooks relating to the Lafayette Yacht Club in Norfolk, Virginia. The scrapbooks include newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence, brochures, newsletters, and other materials. Scrapbook 1 includes signatures and addresses of founding members of the Lafayette Yacht Club. Most of the subject matter of the scrapbooks focus on events and social activities engaged in by club members.