Hampton (Va.)

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One book titled Art Work of Norfolk and Vicinity (Virginia), Portsmouth, Newport News, Berkley, Hampton, Old Point Comfort, published in 1895 by H. W. Kennicott & Co. The book has been disassembled and several sheets are missing. The content includes "A Sketch of Norfolk and Vicinity," and primarily includes circa 1895 prints of notable local places.

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Personal letters of the Digges, Calvert, and Hill families, mostly in the areas of Petersburg, Newport News, and Hampton, Virginia.

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Circa 1980 slides featuring historic postcards primarily from early 20th century Norfolk, Virginia. Subjects include businesses, churches, hospitals, hotels, Jamestown Exposition, neighborhoods, and schools. There are also a few images of Portsmouth, Hampton, Newport News, and Virginia Beach, Virginia.

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...

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Clippings and other published materials primarily relating to Native Americans in Virginia (especially Nansemond), the settlement at Jamestown, Colonial Williamsburg, and the 400th anniversary of Jamestown. The collection also includes a circa 1980s map of Lone Star Lakes in Suffolk, Virginia.

Scope and Contents Poems by Mary Eldredge Howell from approximately 1907 to 1946. The collection contains both handwritten and typescript copies of her poems, with typescript materials frequently cross-referenced to the four handwritten composition books. Also, one September 1936 - May 1941 minute book from the Writers' Club of Norfolk and one 1899-1907 photograph album. The album contains photographs of Margery Eldredge Howell, family and friends, and various scenes in Norfolk, Virginia; Virginia Beach,...

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One 1817-1818 register recording individuals purchasing shares in the Norfolk and Hampton Steam Boat Company, along with meeting minutes.

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One circa 1900 book titled Norfolk, Va., illustrated in photo-gravure, copyright by A. Wittemann, The Albertype Co., Brooklyn, New York. The book features photographs of local landmarks in Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Portsmouth, and Hampton, Virginia.

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One 1994-1995 book of 16 mid-Atlantic lighthouse prints created by Stephan Harrington and Casey Holtzinger. The prints also include historic information published by Imperial Publishing and Gallery in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

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Print photographs that document the history and cultural heritage of Norfolk and Hampton Roads, Virginia.