W. H. T. Squires "Norfolk in By-Gone Days" Scrapbooks, 1935-1948 | Sargeant Memorial Collection

By Sarah Osorio

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Box 1: Scrapbooks, Volumes 2-3, 1936-1938

Item 1: Scrapbook, Volume 2, 1936 March - 1937 February

Captain Stephen Decatur, Susan Wheeler Decatur, The Mace, Ski-co-ak Indian Norfolk, The Battle of Craney Island, Robert Barraud Taylor, Norfolk's Heroes of 1813, Cape Henry, Norfolk's First Centennial, A Day of Disaster: May 10, 1862, The First Day at Jamestown, Captain Thomas Willoughby, Memorial Day 1885, The Hero of Currituck, The State Park at Cape Henry, Alexander Galt, The Navy of Virginia, The Norfolk Navy Yard, President Fillmore's Visit, The Confederate Monument, Holt's Print Shop, The First Proclamation of Emancipation, The Battle of Great Bridge, Christmas Day 1775, New Year's Day 1776, Goodchild's Good Luck, Who Burned Norfolk?, Robert Howe, William Woodford, Richard Dale, William Maxwell, The Barrons: Virginia's Vikings, The Battle-Scarred Barrons, Commodore James Barron, James Barron Hope, The Earl of Dunmore's Visit, Norfolk Celebrates the Constitution, Mahone's Brigade, The First American Thanksgiving, The Dismal Swamp, Lake Drummond, Norfolk Borough, The Borough in 1800, Littleton Waller Tazewell, Hampton Roads, Francis Henney Smith, Francis Williamson Smith, Fort Story, The Light Houses, Princess Anne County, Rear Admiral Henry Walke.

Item 2: Scrapbook, Volume 3, 1937 March - 1938 February

Princess Anne in the Revolution, Princess Anne in War Time, "The Daily Times," Norfolk's Seal, The Council Chamber, How Norfolk Secured the Jamestown Exposition, The Jamestown Exposition, The Exposition Opens, Georgia Day, Virginia Day, The Closing Day, The Dismal Swamp, The Merrimac-Virginia, The USS Monitor, A Contemporaneous Account of the Battle, Heroes of the Battle, How Colonial Norfolk Developed, How Norfolk was Rebuilt, Modern Norfolk Develops, French Refugees, The Struggle for Water, Norfolk in 1860, Portsmouth, Colonial Portsmouth, Portsmouth in the Revolution, The Navy Yard, The Navy Yard Grows, Perry's Expedition to Japan, The Norfolk Navy Yard, The Confederate Navy Yard, The Year 1883, The Rip Raps, The Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal, The City in 1866, The Changing City, The Milkado Homestead, The Naval Operating Base Secured, The Naval Base Developed, Hampton Roads, Dr. David Minton Wright, The Pestilence, After the Pestilence, The Elizabeth River, Queen Anne, Old Point Comfort, John Hancock's Chair, Storms That Made History, The Great Frost of '57, Henry Huttleston Rogers.

Box 2: Scrapbooks, Volumes 4-5, 1938-1940

Item 1: Scrapbook, Volume 4, 1938 February - 1939 January

President Taft in Norfolk, President Taft at Cape Henry, Thomas Moore in Norfolk, The Borough, Norfolk's First Alderman, Some Norfolk Street Names, Some Other Streets, Captain John J. Burroughs, The Banquet for Governor Jarvis, The Dreary Year 1867, The Cleveland Celebration, Ballentine Place, The Critical Election of 1869, Hugh Blair Grigsby, William Maxwell, Memorial Day 1885, Nansemond County, Suffolk, Suffolk Destroyed, 1807, June 22, 1813, Richard Bennett: Hero of Nansemond, President Jackson's Visit, After the Revolution, America's Oldest Lodge, Josiah Parker: First Congressman, Thomas Newton: Our Second Congressman, George Loyall: Third Congressman, Dr. Francis Mallory: Sixth Congressman, Archibald Atkinson: Ninth Congressman, John Singleton Millson: Tenth Congressman, Joseph E. Seger: Eleventh Congressman, James Henry Platt, Jr.: Twelfth Congressman, John Goode, Jr.: Thirteenth Congressman, John Fred: Descendant of Fourteenth Congressman, George Edwin Bowden: Sixteenth Congressman, John William Lawson: Seventeenth Congressman, David Gardiner Tyler: Eighteenth Congressman, The Young-Wise Contests, Harry Lee Maynard: Twenty-first Congressman, Our Later Congressmen, The Bell Church, Dr. George D. Armstrong, The Confederate Veterans, The Pickett-Buchanan Camp, George Fitzhugh Lee, The Lee Equestrian Statue, Memorial Sacrum, President James Monroe's Visit, First at Bethel, William Booth Taliaferro.

Item 2: Scrapbook, Volume 5, 1939 January - 1940 January

Ghent, Building the Monument, Our Confederate Soldier, Appomattox, The Surrender, Richard Lucien Page, The Fort Nelson Chapter, Colonel Stewart's Address, Black Hawk Visits Norfolk, Taylor-Randolph-Tazewell, John Randolph in Norfolk, Our Confederate Martyr, The Great Fire of 1804, General Lee: A New Story, The Borough in 1834, Memorial Day Orators, Memorial Days, Other Memorial Days, Edward Mack, Stonewall Jackson: Two Incidents, Tidewater Virginia A Century Since, The Lower Norfolk County Antiquary, Rev. Benjamin Porter Grigsby, Norfolk Surrenders, The Decemviri, Tragedy at Lynnhaven, The Glorious Fourth, 143 Years Ago, A Boy Sees Old Norfolk, Norfolk a Pivot in History, Six, The First Visitors, Master George Percy, Locating Jamestown, Colonial Terrors, Powhatan, The Fatal Year 1618, Christopher Newport, The Borough in 1806, The Flourishing Borough, The Lanes of 1806, Along the Waterfront in 1806, Highways and By-Ways, The Road Unto the Water, Newton's Lane, Boush's Lane, Loyall's Lane, The Calverts' Lanes, Dr. Taylor's Lane, Hutchings' Lane, Norfolk in 1850.

Box 3: Scrapbooks, Volumes 6-7, 1940-1941

Item 1: Scrapbook, Volume 6, 1940 January - December

The City in 1850 Continued, The Three Chambers, Northampton Patriots, April 20, 1861, Taliaferro and Mahone, The Seaboard Rifles, The Atlantic Guards, General Benjamin Huger, Confederate Folly, The Norfolk and Petersburg Railway, The Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal, Memories 1875-1880, At Home in Old Norfolk, Pirates!, Colonial Portsmouth, Portsmouth in the Revolution, Ante-Bellum Portsmouth, Michael Glennan, The First Memorial Day, Memorial Day 1900, The Seaman's Friend Society, Tar-and-Feather Town, William Lamb, Mother, Home and ....1900, The Light Artillery Blues, The Fourth of July 1788, The Glorious Fourth 1831, A Confederate Register, Lynnhaven Bay, At the Turn of the Century, Coal, William B. Rogers, Yorktown 1881, Laying the Cornerstone, The Second Day October 19, 1881, Yorktown at Norfolk, The Kemper-Hughes Campaign, The Second Rally 1873, Mosby's Men, The Tilden-Hayes Campaign, The Revolution of 1870, How Norfolk Grows, Revolution 1776 and 1777, William E. Cameron, The Cameron-Daniel Campaign, Norfolk Votes for James G. Blaine, Thomas Savage, The Great Fleet of 1823, Meet Governor Fitzhugh Lee, The Chesapeake Indians.

Item 2: Scrapbook, Volume 7, 1940 December - 1941 December

The Harrison-Cleveland Campaign, President Fillmore's Visit, Major James Faulkner, The Colonial Charter, From Borough to City, William Henry Harrison, Our Virginia Cities, The Earliest Pioneers, The Republican Convention 1889, The McKinney-Mahone Campaign, The Wilkes Expedition, The Bank of the United States, Commodore Jesse Wilkinson, John Wilkinson Confederate Hero, Norfolk in 1796, The Eastern Shore, The Municipal Boundary, The McKinley-Bryan Campaign, The Wise-Young Contests, Norfolk Evacuated 1862, The Wise Family, Commander Adam Thoroughgood, Memorial Day, The Origin of Norfolk Methodism, The City Guards in Washington, The Colonial Borough, Lower Norfolk County, Elizabeth River Parish, The Battle of Sewell's Point, Lower Norfolk County Courts, Thomas Savage, The Rip Raps, The First Hospital, The Great Naval Hospital, The Distinguished Hospital Committee, The Light Artillery Blues, Cove Street, Moody and Sankey, Moody and Sankey Report, Who Were Moody and Sankey?, The Wedding, Norfolk in 1824, The Glorious Fourth 1824, Lewis Warrington, Commander Warrington in Norfolk, The Fleet at Anchor, The Fleet Departs, Farewell to the Fleet, Meet Rear Admiral Evans, The Chesapeake Tribe, Our Early Judges, Our Federal Bench.

Box 4: Scrapbooks, Volumes 8-9, 1942-1943

Item 1: Scrapbook, Volume 8, 1942 January - December

Ante-bellum Judges, Later Federal Judges, D. Lawrence Groner, Pirates, Black Beard, Blackbeard's Head, Colonel William Crawford, William Crawford II and III, The Dividing Line, Laying the Line Between Virginia and North Carolina, The Beginning of the Dividing Line, The Battle of Lynnhaven, Old Donation Church, The MacArthurs, Camp Hamilton 1862, The Court House, The Courthouse Steps, Major General Littleton Waller Tazewell Waller, The Billy Sunday Campaign, General Pershing's Visit, Three Custom Houses, Dr. Burnley Lankford, Election Day 1824, General George Edward Pickett, The Second Christ Church, Washington in Dismal Swamp, Washington's Five Exporations into Dismal Swamp, Our Royal Visitor, The Great Fire of 1881, Norfolk in 1876, Main Street in 1876, The Waterfront in 1876, Freemason Street in 1876, The West End in 1876, Walking in from Ghent 1876, Norfolk's Grandfathers, The Fathers of Norfolk, The Leaders of 1888, Other Leaders of Yesterday, President Theodore Roosevelt, Meet Mayor Kelsick, The Hero of Great Bridge, The Battle of Great Bridge, After Great Bridge, Fanny Murdaugh Downing, Early Schools in Norfolk County, William Henry Stewart, The Cavaliers, Berkley.

Item 2: Scrapbook, Volume 9, 1943 January - December

The Spanish War, Thomas Willoughby, Three Mayors Lamb, Colonel William Lamb C. S. A., The Third Mayor Lamb, Washington and Norfolk, Colonel Edward Hack Moseley, Colonel Edward Hack Moseley, Jr., Hope and Galt, Norfolk and Patrick Henry, Norfolk's Postmasters, Where is the Post Office? (omitted), Who Burned Norfolk?, Tazewell as a Youth, Norfolk's Grand Old Man, Tazewell's Last Days, Meet Governor Walker, Governor Walker Inaugurated, Exit Governor Walker, General Robert E. Lee, Abram F. Leonard, The Misses Marchant, Norfolk in 1802, General Thomas Mathews, General Robert Barraud Taylor, James Nimmo, The Committee of Safety 1807, The End of an Incident 1807, The First Directory, Norfolk's Centenarian, George Henry Thomas, Early Physicians, Norfolk's Railways 1900, Sir John Randolph, Knight, Rev. Sam Small, The Presbyterians, Norfolk in 1831, The Southern Branch, Launching the USS Powhatan, The Columbian Rendezvous, The War of 1812, The Battle of Craney Island, The Norfolk Navy Yard, Opening Japan 1853, The Valient Perrys, The Reina Mercedes, The Birth of Naval Aviation.

Box 5: Scrapbooks, Volumes 10-11, 1944-1945

Item 1: Scrapbook, Volume 10, 1944 January - December

The Flying Squadron, The Appam, Fighting Bob Evans, Virginia A Century Since, Jamestown - 1807, The Kron Prinz Wilhelm, The Last Confederate Flag, Dixie, The Deutschland, John Marshall, The President and The Little Belt, The Village 1680-1690, The South Pole, The Academy Rebuilt, The Last Confederates, John Randolph Visits Us, "Our Monument of Love," The German Prisoners, Adelbert Cronkhite, Poe in Norfolk, How Peace Came, The Treaty of Ghent, Henry Clay's Visit, Walter Reed, The St. Nicholas, Henry Clay in Portsmouth, James Monroe Returns, Our First Railway, The Norfolk & Petersburg Railroad, Richard Dale, Richard Dale Escapes, Richard Strikes His Stride, Dale's Last Days, The Atlantic Hotel, The Founder of the R. & D., William Evelyn Cameron, Meet Governor Cameron, Strictly Personal, The River Elizabeth, The Origin of Norfolk, The Navy of Virginia, Portsmouth in the Revolution, The Two Battles of Cape Henry, President Washington's Funeral, General Vandergrift, William Frederick Halsey, The First Thanksgiving, The Virginia Ship Marquis La Fayette, The Battle of the Barges, Benedict Arnold's Maps, President Harding Comes, and advertisements of the Bank of Commerce.

Item 2: Scrapbook, Volume 11, 1945 January - December

Who Burned Norfolk?, North Carolina Leads, General Lee, Our Aborigines, A Century Since, Naming Ghent, The First Methodist, How Norfolk Secured the Exposition, The Virginia Ship Patriot, Richard Hathaway Edmonds, The British Ship Appam, The Appam Comes to Norfolk, Cleveland Celebrations 1892, The Bryan Campaign, The Kearsarge and Kentucky, Norfolk Academy, Those Marchant Girls, The Democratic Convention 1901, The Washingtons Arrive, Steamboat Powhatan, Cleveland's Letter, Tom Moore Visits Us, Norfolk in 1872, The Public Library, The Norfolk Virginian 1877, John Goode, Jr., The Birth of the N. & W., The Virginia House, Mason and Dixon's Line, The Battle of Craney Island, General Page at Fort Morgan, Ancient Colonial Virginia, The Cruise of the Shenandoah, Captain Hope and Bishop Tucker, Bryan Visits Us 1897, The Confederate Ship Patrick Henry, The Tomb of John Smith, Charles Reid, Beverly Dandridge Tucker, The Battle of the Crater, Arlington, Fort Myer Arlington, "Old Norfolk," Two Ships Herndon, William Couper, After the Revolution, Grover Cleveland, Christmas in Old Virginia.

Box 6: Scrapbooks, Volumes 12-13, 1946-1947

Item 1: Scrapbook, Volume 12, 1946 January - December

Norfolk in 1816, A. M. and O. Railroad, Who Was That Man?, The Commonwealth, General Lee in Norfolk, Norfolk in 1891, Alexander Galt, A Monument Unveiled, The Campaign In The South - 1781, The Merrimac-Virginia Destroyed, John Banister Tabb, The Albemarle Settlements, Cochran Comes, Cape Henry 1921, From Dust and Ashes, The Origin of Norfolk, Virginia at Chicago 1893, As Others See Us, The Borough in 1801, Sir John Randolph, Knight, Memorial Day 1900, Memorial Day 1901, Victory at South Mills, The Earl of Southampton, The Stars and Stripes, Ocean View, Norfolk News 1814, Our Banks and Bankers 1884, Dr. Samuel Selden, Norfolk 1904, Norfolk's Farewell To The Fourth, Wilson and Hughes, Alderman Evaluates Wilson, Custis of Arlington, The Virginian Completed, John Goode, The Hardy Homestead, Norfolk Academy, Armistice Day 1939, Jamestown 1857, Worsley and Lee, "Navy Life," The Fort, The Norfolk & Western, The World's Greatest Coal Port, Westward Ho!, The Pageant of Powhatan, The River Elizabeth, "Newport News," Naming Newport News, Lincoln in Norfolk.

Item 2: Scrapbook, Volume 13, 1947 January - December

Stonewall Jackson Falls, The Equestrian Statue of Washington, The USS Virginia, Norfolk First, The USS Virginia Dies, The Shore of the Eastern Shore, The Antiquary, Whitelaw Reid Visits Us, Franklin Buchanan, Camp Meadow 1813, Mathews County, Norfolk's First Ward, The War of Jenkins Ear, Dinwiddie and Norfolk, Our Colonial Lords, Ancient Problems, A Tempest in a Teapot, Enter Fauquier and Lawson, Baron De Botetourt, Memorial Day 1887, Memorial Day 1895, Paul Loyall's Pronouncement, Norfolk In the Revolution, Days of Dire Distress, After the Revolution, Enter the Maxwells, Enter the Randolphs, Norfolk Goes Democratic, Bells and Wells, Town Point 1792, French Refugees 1793, The City Hall Centenary, The City Hall Cornerstone Laid, Edward Wilson James, Antiquarian, Norfolk's Problems in 1797, At the Turn of the Century, Now the Nineteenth Century, Fire!, A Frenchman's Visit 1794, As Others See Us, Moreau Visits Portsmouth, Shadows Dark and Forbidding, Norfolk 1811, The Greatest Election, Tippecanoe and Tyler Too 1840, Ominous Shadows 1807, Thanksgiving Day 1898, Petersburg Aflame 1815, The Hump-Back Bridge, Norfolk A Century Since, The Byrds of Virginia.

Box 7: Scrapbook, Volume 14, 1948

Item 1: Scrapbook, Volume 14, 1948 January - April

One Hundred Years Ago, Two Visitors 1837, The Ferries in the Forties, Virginia's Mother Church, Richard Hathaway Edmonds, The President's Visit 1819, We Invite Lafayette 1824, The President Did Not Come, Mayor John E. Holt 1808-1832, Our First Railroad, The Commercial Convention 1838, Ships and Squares and Many Speeches, John Washington, The Old Horsecars, President Andrew Jackson 1829, The Washingtons.

Box 8: Loose Materials from Scrapbooks, 1936-1948

Folder 1: Loose Materials from Scrapbook Volume 2, 1936-1944

Folder 2: Loose Materials from Scrapbook Volume 3, 1937-1939

Folder 3: Loose Materials from Scrapbook Volume 4, 1938-1939

Folder 4: Loose Materials from Scrapbook Volume 5, 1939-1940

Folder 5: Loose Materials from Scrapbook Volume 6, 1940, undated

Folder 6: Loose Materials from Scrapbook Volume 7, 1941, undated

Folder 7: Loose Materials from Scrapbook Volume 8, 1942-1946

Folder 8: Loose Materials from Scrapbook Volume 9, 1943

Folder 9: Loose Materials from Scrapbook Volume 10, undated

Folder 10: Loose Materials from Scrapbook Volume 11, 1944-1945

Folder 11: Loose Materials from Scrapbook Volume 12, 1946, undated

Folder 12: Loose Materials from Scrapbook Volume 13, 1947

Folder 13: Loose Materials from Scrapbook Volume 14, 1948, undated

Folder 14: Loose Materials from Scrapbook Volume 1, 1935-1936

Box 9: Scrapbook, Volume 1, 1935 March - 1936 February

Granby Street, The New City Hall, Meet Mayor Stubbs, Governor Tazewell, The Nation’s Greatest Sailor, Main and Granby, The Bankers of Bank Street, Market Square, [1852 Norfolk City Directory], The Marquis Comes, The Sons of Liberty, The Methodists Cause, East Main Street, Many Merchant Princes, More Merchant Princes, Our First Railway, The Borough Church, Old St. Paul’s, Along Church Street, Days of Civil Strife, Father Ryan, Churches on Church Street, The Old First Church, Cumberland Street, The Baptists of Norfolk, The City in 1801, The First Directory, Christ Church, The “Maple Leaf,” The Borough in 1812, Where Sleep the Fathers, Forgotten Heroes, Freemason Street, Freemason Street Baptist Church, Henry Clay Comes, Hugh Blair Grigsby, The Old Academy, Our Famous Sailors, Along Granby Street, Second Presbyterian Church, The Whittle House; Commodores, Bishops, Colonels, and Captains; Epworth Church, General Lee’s Visit, The Public Library, Fort Norfolk and Fort Nelson, Fort Norfolk, Fort Norfolk Today, The City in 1895; John Cowper, Mayor of Norfolk.