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By Will Hopkins
Collection Overview
Title: Grandy and Selden Families Papers, 1807-1983
ID: 001/01/MSS 2016-040
Primary Creator: Grandy family
Other Creators: Selden family
Extent: 14.0 Boxes
Arrangement: Arranged by record type.
Date Acquired: 04/18/2016
Subjects: Buildings, Businesses, Families--Virginia, Family trees, Grandy family, Norfolk (Va.), Selden family
Forms of Material: Books, Business records, Correspondence, Cultural artifacts, Diaries, Genealogies (histories), Marriage records, Military records, Photographs, Printed ephemera
Languages: English
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Early 19th century to late 20th century correspondence, business and property records, ephemera and artifacts, family photographs, diaries, books, and genealogical materials belonging to the Grandy and Selden families of Norfolk, Virginia.
Subject/Index Terms
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:
Carter Grandy Bernert by donation
Preferred Citation:
Grandy and Selden Families Papers, MSS 2016-040, Sargeant Memorial Collection, Norfolk Public Library, Norfolk, Virginia.
Processing Information:
Processed in January 2020.
Box and Folder Listing
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- 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."
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