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Portsmouth (Va.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Lcnaf

Found in 50 Collections and/or Records:

Donna Dail Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2016-090
Scope and Contents

Three 1958 Norview High School commemorative items and two mid-1980s Chesapeake Bay Neptunes football souvenir programs. This collection also includes one 1921 panorama of the Allen Baraca Class of the Fourth Street Baptist Church in Portsmouth, Virginia.

Dates: created: 1921-1986; Other: Date acquired: 12/14/2016

Dorothy Broughton Telegram

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-680
Scope and Contents

One 1933 telegram from Dorothy Broughton wishing her mother a happy birthday from New York.

Dates: created: 1933; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014

E. E. Harrell Scrapbooks

 Collection — 2 boxes
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2014-004
Scope and Contents

Two scrapbooks from the 1930s-1940s containing family photographs, newspaper clippings, certificates, membership cards, business cards, correspondence, invitations, and other memorabilia relating to E. E. Harrell of Portsmouth, Virginia.

Dates: created: 1930s-1940s; Other: Date acquired: 11/01/2014

Edward Malm, Jr. Scrapbook

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2018-017
Scope and Contents

Three scrapbook pages consisting of 18 photographs of the Norfolk Ferry, Little Creek-Cape Charles Ferry, and Malm and Scott families taken in April 1940 in Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia.

Dates: created: 1940; Other: Date acquired: 04/24/2018

Father Thomas J. Quinlan, Jr. Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-229
Scope and Contents The Father Thomas J. Quinlan, Jr. Papers include personal and official correspondence, church-related documents and publications, scrapbooks (mostly newspaper clippings), photographs, DVDs and videotapes, and several pieces of memorabilia. Father Thomas J. Quinlan, Jr., also known as "TQ", was a Roman Catholic priest at several Virginia churches from 1958 to 2005. These included St. Mary's in Norfolk, Blessed Sacrament in Alexandria, Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha in Tabb, and Holy Family in...
Dates: created: 1943-2009; Other: Majority of material found in 2005; Other: Date acquired: 03/22/2009

Frances Jane Wallace's Slides of Norfolk, Virginia Postcards

 Collection — 1 slide box
Identifier: 007-MSS 0000-476
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: created: 1980; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/0000

Francis Benson Papers

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-506
Scope and Contents

Indenture document and receipt concerning Francis Benson and his debt of $700 to Bernard Magnien.

Dates: created: 1818-1819; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014

German Village Postcards

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-531
Scope and Contents

Six blank postcards of the German Village at Norfolk Navy Yard in Portsmouth, Virginia.

Dates: created: circa 1916; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014

Grace O. Cornick Scrapbooks

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-212
Scope and Contents Five circa 1960s-1970s scrapbooks compiled by Grace O. Cornick of Norfolk, Virginia. Scrapbooks 1-4 contain articles written by Cornick on various Norfolk history topics, including churches, hospitals, city government, schools, and historic houses and buildings. Scrapbook 5 contains clippings, ephemera, and photographs relating to Epworth United Methodist Church in Norfolk, Virginia. There are also "notes," both handwritten and typed articles, written by Cornick that appear in Scrapbooks...
Dates: created: 1930-1931, 1949, 1953-1983, 2002; Other: Majority of material found in 1960s-1970s; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/0000

Grice Family Bible

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-405
Scope and Contents

One 1873 family Bible that appears to have been owned by Mrs. George W. Grice (Henrietta Harding Grice) of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia.

Dates: created: circa 1873-1890s; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014