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By Sarah Osorio
Collection Overview
Title: Jim Bradshaw Norfolk Memorabilia Collection, 1851-2000
ID: 001/01/MSS 2015-019
Primary Creator: Bradshaw, Jim
Extent: 8.0 Boxes
Arrangement: Arranged by series: Series 1: Maps, Series 2: Printed Ephemera, Series 3: Visual Works, Series 4: Postcards, Series 5: Artifacts, and Series 6: Newspapers (6A: Stencils, 6B: Papers).
Date Acquired: 12/17/2015. More info below under Accruals.
Subjects: Buildings, Cape Henry Memorial (Virginia Beach, Va.), Chesapeake (Va.), Hampton (Va.), Hampton Roads (Va. : Region), Historic buildings--Virginia--Norfolk, Hotels, Jamestown Ter-centennial Exposition (1907), Jamestown Ter-centennial Exposition (1907)--Virginia--Norfolk, Newport News (Va.), Norfolk (Va.), Norfolk (Va.)--Guidebooks, Norfolk (Va.)--History, Norfolk (Va.)--Maps, Norfolk (Va.)--Newspapers, Norfolk (Va.)--Social life and customs--20th century, Ocean View (Norfolk, Va.), Old Point Comfort (Hampton, Va.), Portsmouth (Va.), Portsmouth (Va.)--Maps, Postcards--Virginia, Princess Anne County (Va.), Streets--Virginia--Norfolk, Suffolk (Va.), Tourism--Virginia, United States. Navy, Virginia--Description and travel, Virginia Beach (Va.), Virginia Beach (Va.)--Maps, Williamsburg (Va.)
Forms of Material: Booklets, Books, Brochures, Commemoratives, Guidebooks, Maps (documents), Newspapers, Pamphlets, Postcards, Souvenir programs, Souvenirs, Stencils (image-making tools), Topographic maps, Tourist maps
Languages: English
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Maps, books, booklets, pamphlets, photographs, postcards, souvenir artifacts, newspapers, and other printed ephemera relating to Norfolk, Hampton Roads, and Virginia from the mid-nineteenth to early twenty-first centuries. Most of the materials date from the 1920s to 1970s, although a significant number of items relate to the Jamestown Exposition of 1907. Maps of the southside section of Hampton Roads and memorabilia of Norfolk and the Tidewater area make up a majority of items in the collection.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
Sargeant Memorial Collection
Accruals:
05/10/2018; 12/07/2020.
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:
Jim Bradshaw by donation
Preferred Citation:
Jim Bradshaw Norfolk Memorabilia Collection, MSS 2015-019, Sargeant Memorial Collection, Norfolk Public Library, Norfolk, Virginia.
Processing Information:
Processed September 1, 2017; November 21, 2019.
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Box:
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Box 1: Maps, circa 1930-1998],
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Box 2: Maps, circa 1921-2000],
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Box 3: Maps and Printed Ephemera, 1851-1970],
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Box 4: Printed Ephemera and Visual Works, 1876-1977],
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Box 5: Postcards, circa 1905-1970],
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Box 6: Artifacts, circa 1890s-1990s],
[Box 7: Oversized Materials, 1858-1994],
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Box 8: Oversized Materials, 1858-1994],
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All]
- Box 7: Oversized Materials, 1858-1994
- Includes 48 maps and pages from 27 newspaper issues. Folders 1-3 (Topographic Maps) are located in Map Drawer 15.
- Series 1: Maps
- Folder 1: Topographic Maps, Bacons Castle - Kempsville, 1954-1977
- 15 maps. Bacons Castle, Benns Church, Bowers Hill, Buckhorn, Cape Henry, Chesapeake Channel, Chuckatuck, Corapeake, Creeds, Deep Creek, Elliotts Creek, Fishermans Island, Hampton, Hog Island, and Kempsville, Virginia.
- Folder 2: Topographic Maps, Kempsville - Norfolk, 1954-1980, 1994
- 15 maps. Kempsville, Knotts Island, Lake Drummond, Little Creek, Moyock, Mulberry Island, Newport News, and Norfolk, Virginia.
- Folder 3: Topographic Maps, North Bay - Yorktown, 1953-1973
- 12 maps. North Bay, Pleasant Ridge, and Poquoson West, Princess Anne, Ship Shoal Inlet, Smithfield, Suffolk, Townsend, Virginia Beach, Whaleyville, Windsor, and Yorktown, Virginia.
- Folder 4: Road and Transportation Maps, 1858-1951
- Item 1: Map, Map of the Middle States and Part of the Southern, 1858
- Number 11. Engraved by J. H. Young.
- Item 2: Map, Railroads in Vicinity of Newport News and Norfolk, Virginia, 1948 June
- Shows route of Chesapeake & Ohio Railway and Norfolk & Petersburg belt.
- Item 3: Map, Road Map of Historic Hampton Roads Section, 1924
- Map made by Morrie Company, Norfolk, Virginia. Copyright by Elsie A. Stegman.
- Item 4: Map, Map of Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia, 1916
- The Kenyon Company, Map Makers, Des Moines, Iowa.
- Item 5: Map, Norfolk County, Virginia, Showing Primary and Secondary Highways, 1951 January 1
- Prepared by the Department of Highways, Richmond, Virginia.
- Item 6: Map, Transportation Map of Norfolk, 1944 July 15
- Shows Norfolk car and bus routes.
- Series 6: Newspapers
- Sub-Series A: Stencils, 1938-1939
- Approximately 18x23" stiff sheets of newspaper with text and image indentations from The Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch and Norfolk Virginian-Pilot.
- Folder 5: Stencils, The Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch, 1938 March 23
- Pages 5, 7, 11, and 15.
- Folder 6: Stencils, The Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch, Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, 1938 March 24, April 4
- Page 19; Pages 5 and 7.
- Folder 7: Stencils, The Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch, 1938 April 15
- Pages 3, 6, 7, and 12.
- Folder 8: Stencils, Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, 1938 April 17
- Part 1, page 4; Part 3, page 4; Part 5, pages 1, 5, and 7.
- Folder 9: Stencils, Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, 1938 April 19
- Page 15.
- Folder 10: Stencils, The Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch, 1939 July 18
- Pages 1 of Final Edition and Mail Edition, pages 8 and 17.
- Folder 11: Stencils, The Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch, 1939 July 18
- Two sheets, no page numbers.
Browse by Box:
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Box 1: Maps, circa 1930-1998],
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Box 2: Maps, circa 1921-2000],
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Box 3: Maps and Printed Ephemera, 1851-1970],
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Box 4: Printed Ephemera and Visual Works, 1876-1977],
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Box 5: Postcards, circa 1905-1970],
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Box 6: Artifacts, circa 1890s-1990s],
[Box 7: Oversized Materials, 1858-1994],
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Box 8: Oversized Materials, 1858-1994],
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All]
