"100 Years of Norfolk" Scrapbook, circa 1900 | Sargeant Memorial Collection

Scope and Contents: One scrapbook of clippings featured in a section of the newspaper titled "One Hundred Years of Norfolk." Each article includes the following description: "A Retrospective Glance Over the Local History of the Century Just Closed. - A Magnificent Record of Steady Advance Despite War and Pestilence - A Pen Picture of Norfolk in 1800 - What it Cost to Live Here a Century Ago - From Less than 8,000 Inhabitants to Our Present Busy City and Its Populous Suburbs."