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Eleanor Walden Papers, 1935-1994, undated | Sargeant Memorial Collection

By Nichole Delasalas

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Collection Overview

Title: Eleanor Walden Papers, 1935-1994, undatedAdd to your cart.

ID: 001/01/MSS 0000-047

Primary Creator: Walden, Eleanor (1909-1998)

Extent: 2.0 Boxes

Arrangement: Arranged by series. Series 1: The Nonuette, Series 2: The Virginia Belles, Series 3: Mediterranean Adventure, Series 4: Personal Papers, Series 5: Photographs, Series 6: Miscellaneous, Series 7: Postcards, and Series 8: Scrapbooks.

Date Acquired: 11/24/2014

Subjects: Berlin (Germany), Guantánamo Bay (Cuba), International travel, Music--Instruction and study--Virginia, Music educator, Norfolk (Va.), Puerto Rico

Forms of Material: Booklets, Brochures, Clippings (information artifacts), Contracts, Correspondence, Fliers (printed matter), Identity cards, Invitations, Itineraries, Lists (document genres), Maps (documents), Menus, Pamphlets, Photographs, Poems, Postcards, Publications (document genre), Receipts, Scrapbooks

Languages: English

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Personal papers, photographs, correspondence, and scrapbooks from Eleanor Walden. Much of the material relates to Walden's international trips abroad for music tours with the Nonuettes in 1965 and Virginia Belles in 1967.

Biographical Note

Eleanor Sloan Eichhorn Walden was born on July 26, 1909 in Lonaconing, Maryland. She married Murray H. Walden on April 21, 1935. In 1940, Walden organized a choir for Norfolk Naval Base Chapel and served as choir director for 28 years. She taught music for various schools in Norfolk, including Granby High School. Her major accomplishments included accompanying her choral groups, The Nonuettes and the Virginia Belles, on overseas tours in 1965 and 1967. Walden died on January 24, 1998 in Norfolk, Virginia and was buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Norfolk, Virginia.

Subject/Index Terms

Berlin (Germany)
Guantánamo Bay (Cuba)
International travel
Music--Instruction and study--Virginia
Music educator
Norfolk (Va.)
Puerto Rico

Administrative Information

Repository: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Access Restrictions: This collection is open to all researchers.

Use Restrictions: The status of copyright for these materials is governed by Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U. S. C.). Copyright restrictions may apply.

Acquisition Source: Unknown

Separated Materials: The Sargeant Memorial Collection Main Photograph Collection (MSS 0000-MPC) includes 44 photographs in a folder titled "Murray and Eleanor Walden." Other photographs relating to Eleanor Walden are also in the "Schools" folders and "1950s"/"1960s" folders of this collection. Additionally, some papers belonging to Murray H. Walden are located in the Norfolk Ephemera Collection (MSS 0000-NEC).

Preferred Citation: Eleanor Walden Collection, MSS 0000-047, Sargeant Memorial Collection, Norfolk Public Library, Norfolk, Virginia.

Processing Information: Processed April 20, 2016.


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Box 2Add to your cart.
Series 4: Personal Papers, 1944-1987, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 1: Biographical information on Eleanor E. Walden, undatedAdd to your cart.
Includes major events and milestones in Eleanor Walden's life.
Folder 2: Printed material, 1954-1965Add to your cart.
Item 1: Clipping, Journal and Guide, 1954Add to your cart.
Item 2: Clipping, The Virginian Pilot, 1960 April 5Add to your cart.
Item 3: Clipping, The Virginian Pilot, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 4: Publication, Norva News, 1962 December 20Add to your cart.
Item 5: Publication, Servlant Static, 1964 AprilAdd to your cart.
Item 6: Publication, The Toastmaster, 1964 AprilAdd to your cart.
Item 7: Publication, V. M. E. A. Notes, 1965 May-JuneAdd to your cart.
Item 8: Publication, The Spectator, 1965 May 14Add to your cart.
Item 9: Clipping with note, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 10: Clipping with note, undatedAdd to your cart.
Series 5: Photographs, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 3: Photographs - Eleanor Walden, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 1: Photograph, Murray Walden as little boy with his dad, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 2: Photograph, Geady Bader, 1956Add to your cart.
Item 3: Photograph, Eleanor Walden on S. S. America, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 4: Photograph, Eleanor Walden on S. S. America with friends, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 5: Photograph, People waiting for Eleanor Walden to return, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 6: Photograph, Eleanor Walden at shipboard party, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 7: Photograph, Eleanor Walden, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 8: Photograph, Murray Walden, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 9: Photograph, Murray and Eleanor Walden, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 10: Photograph, Eleanor Walden returning from a trip, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 11: Photograph, Friend of Eleanor Walden, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 12: Photograph, Eleanor Walden and students, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 13: Photograph, Eleanor Walden and students, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 14: Photograph, Murray and Eleanor Walden, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 15: Photograph, Murray and Eleanor Walden with family, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 16: Photograph, Murray and Eleanor Walden with family, undatedAdd to your cart.
Series 6: Miscellaneous, 1935-1994, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 4: Miscellaneous, 1935-1956, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 1: Patch, Granby High Chorus, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 2: Luggage tag, 1951 January 6Add to your cart.
Item 3: Wedding invitation (photocopy), 1935 April 21Add to your cart.
Item 4: Wrapper, chocolate, undatedAdd to your cart.
Label reads: World's Finest Milk Chocolate filled with Roasted Almonds. Made especially for Mrs. Eleanor Walden. Congratulations - A Job Well Done.
Item 5: Poem, Elegant Eleanor, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 6: Poem, My Devotion, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 7: Biography, Granby High Chorus, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 8: Program introduction, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 9: List, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 10: Summer Tour itinerary, 1956Add to your cart.
Folder 5: Martha Walden, 1985-1994, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 1: Correspondence, Martha Walden to Murray Walden, 1985 January 26Add to your cart.
Item 2: Correspondence, Martha Walden to Eleanor Walden, 1985 February 22Add to your cart.
Item 3: Correspondence, Martha Walden to Murray Walden, 1985 September 4Add to your cart.
Item 4: Brief, 1987 September 28Add to your cart.
Includes multiple copies.
Item 5: Correspondence, Martha Walden to Murray and Eleanor Walden, 1987 October 29Add to your cart.
Item 6: Correspondence, John M. Bareford to Martha Walden, 1988 January 11Add to your cart.
Item 7: Correspondence, Martha Walden to Murray Walden, 1988 January 20Add to your cart.
Item 8: Correspondence, Murray Walden to Tommy Longest, 1988 March 5Add to your cart.
Item 9: Correspondence, George E. Goode to Murray Walden, 1988 September 30Add to your cart.
Item 10: Correspondence, Tommy Longest to Murray Walden, 1988 December 13Add to your cart.
Item 11: Contract, 1989 January 14Add to your cart.
Document of Anatomical Gift.
Item 12: Pamphlet, undatedAdd to your cart.
Answers to your questions about donating your body after death, to medical education and research.
Item 13: Correspondence, Murray Walden to George E. Goode, 1989 May 30Add to your cart.
Item 14: Contract, 1994 July 12Add to your cart.
Item 15: Booklet, "Michie" by Martha Walden, undatedAdd to your cart.
Series 7: Postcards, 1956, 1967, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 6: Postcards, 1956, 1967, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 1: Correspondence, Eleanor Walden to Murray Walden, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 2: Correspondence, Eleanor Walden to Murray Walden, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 3: Correspondence, Eleanor Walden to Murray Walden, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 4: Correspondence, Eleanor Walden to Murray Walden, 1956 July 2Add to your cart.
Item 5: Correspondence, Eleanor Walden to Murray Walden, 1956 July 6Add to your cart.
Item 6: Correspondence, Eleanor Walden to Murray Walden, 1956 JulyAdd to your cart.
Item 7: Correspondence, Eleanor Walden to Murray Walden, 1956 July 8Add to your cart.
Item 8: Correspondence, Eleanor Walden to Murray Walden, 1956 July 13Add to your cart.
Item 9: Correspondence, Eleanor Walden to Murray Walden, 1956 July 16Add to your cart.
Item 10: Correspondence, Eleanor Walden to Murray Walden, 1956 JulyAdd to your cart.
Item 11: Correspondence, Eleanor Walden to Murray Walden, 1956 July 22Add to your cart.
Item 12: Correspondence, Eleanor Walden to Murray Walden, 1967 October 11Add to your cart.
Item 13: Correspondence, Eleanor Walden to Murray Walden, 1967 October 12Add to your cart.
Item 14: Correspondence, Eleanor Walden to Murray Walden, 1967 October 18Add to your cart.
Item 15: Correspondence, Eleanor Walden to Murray Walden, 1967 October 24Add to your cart.
Item 16: Correspondence, "Biscuit" to Murray Walden, 1967 October 26Add to your cart.
Item 17: Correspondence, Eleanor Walden to Murray Walden, 1967 October 29Add to your cart.
Item 18: Correspondence, Eleanor Walden to Murray Walden, 1967 November 2Add to your cart.
Item 19: Correspondence, Eleanor Walden to Murray Walden, 1967 November 8Add to your cart.
Item 20: Correspondence, Eleanor Walden to Murray Walden, 1967 December 13Add to your cart.
Item 21: Correspondence, Eleanor Walden to Murray Walden, 1967 December 14Add to your cart.
Item 22: Postcard, Antigua, undatedAdd to your cart.
Series 8: Scrapbooks, 1938-1974Add to your cart.
Sub-Series 1: Photograph Scrapbook, 1938-1970Add to your cart.
Includes photographs of Murray and Eleanor Walden's family and friends. Dates associated with this scrapbook include 1938, 1954, 1961, 1963, and 1965-1971. People mentioned in this scrapbook include: Jimmie Lu, Linda, Leavenworth, Jennifer, David and Diane Tornhull, Brian Spiegel, Carolyn Bennett, Mark Bennett, Martha Bennett, Jennifer Eskredge, Amy Thomas, Gay, Koennel, Linda and Eddie Koennel, Stephen. Located in MSS 0000-047 Photograph Box 1.
Sub-Series 2: Granby High School Concert Chorus Yearbook, 1970-1971Add to your cart.
Includes newspaper articles, photographs, ticket stubs, and chorus programs of the Granby High School Concert Chorus.
Folder 7: Scrapbook Pages 1-10Add to your cart.
Folder 8: Scrapbook Pages 11-18Add to your cart.
Sub-Series 3: Soroptimist Club Scrapbook, 1972 July 1-1974 June 30Add to your cart.
Includes bulletins, newspaper clippings, committee member information, memorandums, and certificates of the Soroptimist Club. Located in Oversize MSS 0000-047 Box 1.

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