City of Norfolk City Council Records, 1880-2016

By Sarah Osorio

Collection Overview

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Administrative Information

Box and Folder Listing

Box 1

Folder 1: Booklet, Report of Special Commission on Improvement and Development of the City of Norfolk to the Honorable Select Common Councils, 1880 May

Folder 2: Correspondence, To The Board of Control, 1908-1909

Folder 3: Book, Norfolk, Virginia: Commercial, Industrial, Historical, Geographical, Social, 1909

Folder 4: Book, Norfolk, Virginia: Commercial, Industrial, Historical, Geographical, Social, 1910

Folder 5: Book, Norfolk, Virginia, 1912

Folder 6: Petition to have certain streets declared public property, Lafayette Residence Park, 1913

Folder 7: Booklet, Report of the Dock and Belt Line Commission, 1914 August

Folder 8: Book, A Light On Norfolk, Virginia, circa 1915

Folder 9: Report of the Committee on Charities and Corrections to the City Council, Upon Inspection of the Norfolk City Jail, 1915 November 26

Folder 10: Report of the Joint Charter Revision Committee to the City Council, 1916 January 31

Two copies.

Folder 11: Booklet, A Statement of the Dock and Terminal Situation At Norfolk, Virginia, 1919

Folder 12: Resolutions, 1919

Folder 13: Ordinance, Changing Street Names, 1923

Folder 14: Book, City of Norfolk, Virginia, 1924

Two copies.

Folder 15: Booklets, Proposed Zoning Ordinance for the City of Norfolk, 1924

Folder 16: Report of the Special Committee on Public Transportation and Ordinance to Regulate Passenger Transportation, 1925 April 6

Folder 17: Ordinances, Zone Elimination, Fare and Street Car and Bus Re-Routing, 1926 October

Folder 18: Memorandum on Sewell's Point Road, circa 1929

Folder 19: Ordinance, Providing a Seal for the City of Norfolk, Virginia, circa 1929

Folder 20: Ordinance, Amend and Reordain Registration Precincts, 1929

Folder 21: Public Hearing For Discussion of Proposed Sites for Municipal Airport, 1930 May 1

Box 2

Folder 1: Report of the Charter Commission of the City of Norfolk, 1933 October 31

Copy 1.

Folder 2: Report of the Charter Commission of the City of Norfolk, 1933 October 31

Copy 2.

Folder 3: Ordinance, For Grant of Franchise For Street Railway System in the City of Norfolk, Virginia, circa 1934

Folder 4: List, Persons Naturalized from March 21, 1940 to January 31, 1941, Inclusive, 1941

Folder 5: Minutes, New Citizens Association of Norfolk, Virginia, 1941 March-May

Folder 6: Correspondence, J. D. Wood, New Citizens Day, 1941 March-June

Folder 7: Ordinance, Creating a City Planning Commission, 1946

Folder 8: Ordinance, To Provide Regulations for the Subdivision of Lands, 1948

Folder 9: Report, Does Norfolk Want Municipal Operation of Parking Lots?, circa 1950

Folder 10: Ordinance, Imposing Penalties for Vehicle Operators Driving without Paying a License Tax, 1950

Folder 11: Ordinance, Permits for Parking in Emergencies, 1951

Folder 12: Ordinance, License Taxes on Barber Shops and Barbering or Beauty Culture Schools, 1951

Folder 13: Brochure, Rules for Improved Garbage and Trash Collection As Ordained By the Council of the City of Norfolk, 1952 November

Folder 14: Reports, Annexation of Princess Anne County, 1955

Folder 15: Booklet, Proposed Plan For Covering General Employees of the City of Norfolk Under the Social Security Act, 1958 May 14

Folder 16: Resolutions, Deaths of Joseph Downing Wood and John Eugene Diggs, 1959

Folder 17: Ordinance, Provisions Concerning Employee Rights, circa 1960s

Draft.

Folder 18: Ordinance, Construction of Sidewalks Along Hyde Circle Between Chesapeake Boulevard and Norview Avenue, 1961

Folder 19: Deed of Gift, Douglas MacArthur to the City of Norfolk, 1961 February 8

Photocopy.

Folder 20: Ordinance, Easement for Sewer Lines on both sides of St. Paul's Boulevard South of Water Street, 1963

Folder 21: Ordinance, Authorizing the Purchase of Lake Bradford and Lake Joyce from the City of Norfolk (to the City of Virginia Beach), 1966

Box 3

Folder 1: Manuals, Norfolk City Government, circa 1970s-1980s

Folder 2: Final Report, Norfolk Review, 1980 June 1

Folder 3: State of the City Message, Joseph A. Leafe, 1989 March 8

Folder 4: Proclamations, Paul D. Fraim, 1994, 1998, 2001

Folder 5: Report, Neighbors All: A Report to Our Citizens, 1996 September

Folder 6: Booklet, The City of Norfolk and You: Doing What Comes Naturally, circa 2000

Folder 7: Programs, Legends of Music Awards, 2003, 2007

Folder 8: Speech, Paul Fraim, City Council Oath of Office Ceremony, 2006 June 30

Folder 9: Mayor's State of the City Speech, Paul Fraim, 2008 February 1

Folder 10: Program, Norfolk State of the City, 2016 March 18

Folder 11: Copy of The Charter of Norfolk Borough, Typescript, undated