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Norfolk County (Va.)

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Subject Source: Lcnaf

Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:

Hassell Family Photographs

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 007-MSS 0000-539
Scope and Contents

Four tintype photographs of Hassell family members.

Dates: created: undated; Other: Date acquired: 04/02/2006
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Historical Review of Churchland Baptist Church

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-514
Scope and Contents

Historical review of Churchland Baptist Church, formerly Shoulder Hill Baptist Church or Shoulder's Hill Baptist Church, from 1783 to 1935.

Dates: created: 1935; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

James Carlyle Stephens Scrapbooks

 Collection — 23 boxes
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-074
Scope and Contents Twenty-one scrapbooks of Norfolk and Virginia Beach-related genealogy, the history of Norfolk and the Hampton Roads region, and the construction of tunnels and highways in the 1950s-1960s in the Tidewater area of Virginia. Five scrapbooks cover genealogy, five scrapbooks cover general history (international, national, state, and local), and the remaining 11 scrapbooks cover Norfolk and Hampton Roads history. Four of the genealogy scrapbooks primarily focus on the Thoroughgood family, while...
Dates: created: 1947-1976; Other: Majority of material found in 1950-1969; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/0000
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Joseph Calvert's Ferry Bond

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2018-060
Scope and Contents

One ferry bond of Joseph Calvert and Richard Scott, bound unto John Hutchings for 20 pounds on January 19, 1765 in Norfolk County, Virginia.

Dates: created: 1765; Other: Date acquired: 11/07/2018
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Louisa Emmerson Papers

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-522
Scope and Contents

Typed manuscript with pasted photographs and handwritten annotations. Topics include the Emmerson family, local families and houses, the Portsmouth fire of 1821, Trinity Church, the Eastern Shore, and the mountains of Virginia.

Dates: created: 1946; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014
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 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
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

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
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

Photo Craftsmen Photograph Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 007-MSS 2016-033
Scope and Contents Photo Craftsmen was a Norfolk commercial photography company that opened in 1946 at 512 West Olney Road. Jim Barry was the proprietor. The company moved to 1043 West 45th Street by 1958, and relocated to 251 West Bute Street by 1961. The company again relocated, to 420 West Bute Street by 1966, and then to its final location at 415 West York Street by 1978. When Barry died in 1976 the company was purchased by employee Len Rothman. Rothman changed the company name to Len Rothman Photography...
Dates: created: 1946-1999; Other: Majority of material found in 1946-1972; Other: Date acquired: 03/25/2016
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

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