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Princess Anne County (Va.)

 Subject

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Subject Source: Lcnaf

Found in 37 Collections and/or Records:

James M. Jordan IV Photographs

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 007-MSS 0000-306
Scope and Contents

Seven late 19th century to early 20th century photographs and one scrapbook page featuring hotels, buildings, a railway passenger car, and other subjects in and around Princess Anne County, Virginia.

Dates: created: 1893-1920, undated; Other: Date acquired: 12/09/2013
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Jim Bradshaw Norfolk Memorabilia Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2015-019
Scope and Contents Maps, books, booklets, pamphlets, photographs, postcards, souvenir artifacts, newspapers, and other printed ephemera relating to Norfolk, Hampton Roads, and Virginia from the mid-nineteenth to early twenty-first centuries. Most of the materials date from the 1920s to 1970s, although a significant number of items relate to the Jamestown Exposition of 1907. Maps of the southside section of Hampton Roads and memorabilia of Norfolk and the Tidewater area make up a majority of items in the...
Dates: created: 1851-2000; Other: Date acquired: 12/17/2015
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

John Ackiss Collection

 Collection — 21 folders
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2018-018
Scope and Contents

Fourteen deeds dating from 1763-1769 concerning John Ackiss and his purchase of land, primarily in the Pungo area of Virginia Beach, Virginia. Also includes a letter of attorney, list of Revolutionary War militia officers, two letters of correspondence with their accompanying envelopes, and the circa 1900 envelope of attorney A. Johnston Ackiss that at one time housed these eighteenth- and nineteenth-century documents.

Dates: created: 1704-1900; Other: Majority of material found in 1763-1769; Other: Date acquired: 04/30/2018
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Lewis D. Crenshaw Correspondence

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-469
Scope and Contents

One March 22, 1855 letter from Lewis D. Crenshaw of Richmond, Virginia, written in Norfolk, to John J. Burroughs of Princess Anne County Court House regarding fees associated with the renting of slaves.

Dates: created: 1855; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/0000
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Lida Casper Letters

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-534
Scope and Contents

Three letters from governors of Virginia to Mrs. Foy C. Casper, thanking her for sending each of them a poppy for Memorial Day.

Dates: created: 1942, 1952, 1955; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Louisa Venable Kyle Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-223
Scope and Contents

Two 1950s clipping scrapbooks of articles written by Louisa Venable Kyle of Virginia Beach, Virginia. The collection also includes a Kyle-Venable Family book of origins featuring genealogical research and photographs of ancestral homes and plantation houses, compiled by Louisa Venable Kyle in Summer 1968. There are also writings of and about Louisa Venable Kyle dating from 1950-1990 in the collection.

Dates: created: 1905-1990; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/0000
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Mary Arthur Billups Scrapbooks

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-056
Scope and Contents Three 1927-1944 scrapbooks containing photographs, newspaper clippings, postcards, correspondence, and other ephemera relating to Maury High School, Virginia State Teachers College, high school and college football, social engagements, sororities, wedding announcements, and the United States Navy during World War II. The first two scrapbooks dating from 1927 to 1935 and from 1935 to 1942 are personal to Mary Arthur Billups (Prince), whereas the third scrapbook dating from 1941 to 1944...
Dates: created: 1927-1944, undated; Other: Date acquired: 09/11/1991
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Norfolk and Virginia Beach Local History Scrapbook

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-103
Scope and Contents

One 1924-1928 scrapbook of newspaper clippings covering the local history of Norfolk and Virginia Beach, Virginia from the 18th century to early 20th century. The subject matter includes local notables and families, prominent buildings and homes, and important events. While primarily clippings, the scrapbook also includes some issues of the newsletter The Tidewater Trail and programs for mid-1920s local events.

Dates: created: 1924-1928; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

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
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Norfolk, Virginia Beach and Southern Railroad Records

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-609
Scope and Contents

Two estimates of cost and payments for the Southern extension of the Norfolk, Virginia Beach and Southern Railroad from Kempsville to Munden's Point.

Dates: created: 1897-1898; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

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