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Portsmouth (Va.)

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Found in 50 Collections and/or Records:

Guaranty Title and Trust Corporation Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-052
Scope and Contents This collection includes approximately 3,800 paperboard-bound volumes (packets) containing deed and mortgage abstracts for properties in Norfolk, Portsmouth, and the surrounding counties (mostly Norfolk County). The collection also includes approximately 2,800 land plats, mostly for properties associated with the packets. Guaranty Title and Trust created these records in the course of its business verifying property titles, recording land transactions, and issuing mortgage loans during its...
Dates: created: 1883-1919; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1963
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Hampton Roads History Clippings Scrapbook

 Collection — 1 box
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-104
Scope and Contents

One scrapbook of late-20th century to early-21st century Virginian-Pilot newspaper clippings featuring photographs from various parts of the Hampton Roads region in Virginia. The photographs usually include brief captions and cover the cities of Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Portsmouth, and Chesapeake. Subject matter includes streets, buildings, transportation, weather, and sports.

Dates: created: circa 2000s; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

International Molders' and Foundry Workers' Union of North America, Union No. 278 Minute Book

 Collection — 2 folders
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2017-027-c
Scope and Contents

One 1944-1956 minute book of the Portsmouth, Virginia chapter of the International Molders' and Foundry Workers' Union of North America, local union number 278. The minutes are usually recorded monthly, although meetings from 1944 and 1945 were usually held bi-monthly. Special meetings held are also recorded throughout the minute book.

Dates: created: 1944-1956; Other: Date acquired: 04/20/2017
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

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

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

Letters from Virginia Typescript

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-576
Scope and Contents

One typescript translated from French: letters written to Henry, Louis, and Emily, describing travel through various eastern cities in Virginia.

Dates: created: 1816; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Lilleston & Fletcher Business Ledger

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2017-027-a
Scope and Contents

One 1888-1889 business ledger of Lilleston & Fletcher, a business specializing in roofing, guttering, tin, and sheet iron in Portsmouth, Virginia.

Dates: created: 1888-1889; Other: Date acquired: 04/20/2017
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Major William Baker Papers

 Collection — 3 folders
Identifier: MSS-0000-003
Scope and Contents

Personal correspondence sent to William James Baker and Sarah F. Baker. Scrapbook pages include obituary clippings and information about the Chesapeake Boat Club.

Dates: created: 1847-1918; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/0000
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Marshall W. Butt Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2022-001
Scope and Contents

Photocopied photographs of circa 20th century historic Norfolk, Virginia Beach, and western Tidewater, Virginia scenes, one June 11, 1751 legal document naming keepers of the peace in Norfolk County, and one March 1980 map showing Portsmouth, Virginia in 1823.

Dates: created: circa 1751-2000; Other: Date acquired: 01/15/2022
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

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