Grandy and Selden Families Papers, 1807-1983 | Sargeant Memorial Collection

By Will Hopkins

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Collection Overview

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Subject/Index Terms

Administrative Information

Box and Folder Listing

Box 1

Folder 1: C.W. Grandy military-related correspondence, circa 1942

Includes records relating to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS).

Folder 2: Correspondence, 1817-1894

Folder 3: Correspondence, 1902-1949

Folder 4: Correspondence, 1950-1983

Folder 5: Correspondence, undated

Folder 6: Business-related documents, 1917-1980

Folder 7: Estate of Mary C.R. Grandy documents, circa 1953-1954

Folder 8: Estate of C.W. Grandy documents, circa 1953-1957

Box 2

Folder 1: Business-related documents, 420 Granby Street, circa 1979

Folder 2: Business-related documents, 222 East Plume Street, circa 1977

Folder 3: Business-related documents, 351 Botetourt Street, circa 1975

Folder 4: Grandy properties on Freemason and Botetourt Streets, 1975

Folder 5: Property records and accounts, Grandy Associates, circa 1957

Folder 6: Insurance information for various properties, circa 1938

Folder 7: Property appraisals for Grandy and Selden estates, 1972

Box 3

Folder 1: Ephemera, miscellaneous dates

Includes magazines, marriage records, election of C.W. Grandy to Board of Virginia National Bank, photograph and note about old family home, and etching by Kenneth Harris of Norfolk Academy.

Folder 2: Ephemera, miscellaneous dates

Includes old ad for Grandy and Sons Company, commemorative booklet on life of C.W. Grandy, list of gifts to C.W. Grandy scholarship fund, brochures, and annual reports from various organizations.

Folder 3: Ephemera, miscellaneous dates

Includes brochures, booklet commemorating Grandy gift of colored ward at Protestant Hospital, and trip itinerary to Europe in 1962.

Folder 4: Ephemera, wallet contents, circa 1945

Wallet possibly belonging to C.W. Grandy. Includes notes, photographs, and plane and rail tickets.

Folder 5: Scrapbook contents, Investment Corporation of Virginia, circa 1940-1980

Includes various publications, promotional materials, and employee and building photographs.

Box 4

Folder 1: "New Norfolk" publications, circa 1960-1965

Includes articles and publications on urban renewal projects in Norfolk and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel.

Folder 2: Small photographs of unidentified people, undated

Folder 3: Large photographs of unidentified people, undated

Folder 4: Large photographs of unidentified people, undated

Folder 5: Large photographs of unidentified people, undated

Box 5

Folder 1: Photographs of named people, undated

Includes mostly members of the Selden, Grandy, and Sterrett families.

Item 1: Charlotte Burchell

Item 2: Mary Grandy

Item 3: Cyrus Wiley Grandy

Item 4: C.W. Grandy Jr.

Item 5: C.W. Grandy III

Item 6: William Boswell Selden Grandy

Item 7: Carter Randolph Grandy

Item 8: Ann Landers

Item 9: William Randolph, B. Heron, William Marbury, Captain Phelan

Item 10: William Selden

Item 11: Helen Black Sterrett

Item 12: Ann Sterrett

Item 13: Henry Selden

Folder 2: Photographs of C.W. Grandy IV, undated

Folder 3: Photographic print of John Selden, undated

Folder 4: Color negatives of unidentified subjects, undated

Includes 16 negatives.

Folder 5: Printing plate for William Selden photograph, undated

Corresponds to photo in Folder 1.

Folder 6: Book "Who Am I" and related notes, circa 1926

The book and handwritten notes are genealogy-related. Each note is numbered, corresponding to a page in the book.

Folder 7: Funeral guest book, undated

Folder 8: Framed photograph, unidentified, undated

Folder 9: Framed photograph of Mrs. William Selden, undated

Folder 10: Framed photograph of William B. Selden as VMI cadet, undated

Folder 11: Framed photographs of unidentified couple, undated

Folder 12: Genealogical records, undated

Item 1: O'Fallon family

Item 2: Corbit (Corbitt) family of Scotland

Box 6

Item 1: Photograph album, undated

Box 7

Item 1: Photograph album, undated

Item 2: Pages from photograph album, undated

Item 3: Pages from photograph album, undated

Item 4: Oversized photographs, undated

Box 8

Item 1: Photograph album, undated

Item 2: Photograph album, undated

Box 9

Item 1: Photograph album, circa 1865

Various civil war figures and unidentified people.

Item 2: Diary, circa 1892

Author unidentified.

Item 3: Diary of C.W. Grandy, Jr., 1907

Box 10

Item 1: Photograph of William Selden

Item 2: Diary of C.W. Grandy, Jr., 1902

Item 3: Diary of C.W. Grandy, Jr., 1907

Item 4: Diary of C.W. Grandy, Jr., 1910

Item 5: Address and notebooks, undated

Five books.

Box 11

Item 1: Bible of Cyrus Wiley Grandy, undated

Item 2: Ovid's Metamorphoses in Latin, undated

Wm. Selden and March 15, 1819 written on cover.

Box 12

Item 1: Patient records of Drs. William and Henry Selden, 1854-1862

Includes records of deaths.

Box 13

Item 1: Ledger, 1855-1881

Possibly patient records and payments.

Box 14

Item 1: Copper printing plate for wedding invitation, undated

For the wedding of Ann Sterrett and C.W. Grandy IV.

Item 2: Copper printing plate for wedding reception, undated

Item 3: Wallet with several notes and cards, circa 1942

Includes Norfolk Yacht and Country Club membership card and draft card for C.W. Grandy.

Item 4: Ticket book for NCO mess at the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk, undated

Item 5: Matchbook and pen for the Investment Corporation of Virginia, undated

Item 6: Empty wallet, undated

Item 7: Tropical Park ticket, 1938-1939

Item 8: Commemorative coin for Civil War Centennial, circa 1965

Item 9: Steel plate from the CSS Virginia (Merrimac), undated

Inscription reads: Strip rolled from armor of the Confederate ship Virginia (Merrimac).

Item 10: Key from Spanish Navy cruiser captured in Spanish-American War, undated

Note indicates the ship was the Infanta Maria Teresa.

Item 11: Cosmopolitan Club medal, 1932

Also includes two Virginia Electric Power Company tokens.

Item 12: Robert E. Lee artifacts, undated

Includes a Confederate brass button with a note "Button from the waistcoat of General Robert E. Lee, given by Mr. Lee to Miss Mary Selden." Also includes a wrapped cigar with a note "Cigar given to Mary Selden by General Lee."

Drawer x

Item 1: Genealogy chart, Randolph family, undated

Rolled charts.

Item 2: Floorplan, Monticello Arcade, 1962 April 6

Includes tennant businesses.