Virginia Beach (Va.)

One circa 1984-2014 album containing clippings, photographs, programs, flyers, and related ephemera of the British Isles Dancers of Norfolk. The album is organized thus: Introduction; Dance Demonstrations; Parties, Celebrations, and Balls; Honoring Our Members from the Military; The Torch is Passed; and An Assortment of Dance "Flyers." The dances and celebrations were held at various locations in Norfolk, Virginia Beach, and Portsmouth, Virginia.

Primarily negatives from the summer of 1994 featuring tombstones in graveyards in the Norfolk and Virginia Beach areas of Virginia. Featured cemeteries include the Land Family Cemetery, St. Paul's Episcopal Churchyard, Hebrew Cemetery, Cedar Grove Cemetery, and West Point Cemetery. The developed photographs from Folder 1 show gravestones and people cleaning the graveyard of the Land Family Cemetery.

Two front-and-back scrapbook pages featuring 24 circa 1916-1917 photographs of an unidentified family or families visiting Norfolk, Hampton, and Virginia Beach, Virginia. Photographs include people at the beaches in Virginia Beach and Ocean View, exterior shots of buildings Hotel Chamberlain at Old Point Comfort and Coast Guard School Building at Fortress Monroe, and individual shots of a man and woman on a nature walk. At least six photographs are missing from the pages.

Mid-1940s correspondence, largely from secretary Don C. Harrison regarding memberships and annual dues to the Charles H. Consolvo Tent of the Circus Saints and Sinners Club of America in Norfolk, Virginia. The collection includes a few ephemeral items from 1940 to 1951 including a menu, booklet, and newspaper clipping.

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.

Approximately 350 negatives featuring aerial photographs of downtown Norfolk, Virginia between 1963 and 1975. The negatives include shots of City Hall, coal piers, merchandise piers, Ghent, Old Dominion University, and Foreman Field. There are also a few scenes of rural Virginia Beach, Virginia.

One circa 1965-1970 realtor listings notebook, business cards, and ephemera from Ernest P. Gretes of Norfolk, Virginia. The notebook includes detailed listings for individual properties with an accompanying black-and-white photograph of the property on the reverse side. The collection also includes family photographs and one 1964 yearbook The Acorn from Carolton Oaks School in Norfolk, Virginia.