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The Princess Anne Woman's Club of Virginia Beach, Virginia, 1986-1987, scrapbook.

The Princess Anne Woman's Club of Virginia Beach, Virginia, 1997-1998, scrapbook.

Members of the Emmanuel Episcopal Church gathered around a bus for a church school outing in the World War I era. The bus was equipped with roll-down curtains in case of inclement weather.

Arnold E. Ewell, who was elected to his first term in the House of Delegates in 1899, is photographed with his sisters Mary (left), Nora, and Alexina. Ewell operated a large farm on the western shore of the Lynnhaven River and maintained an active…

Three unidentified African American men who appear to be working on a farm as evidenced by the plow behind them.

Five men and several dead, hanging hogs on the John E. Smith farm in rural Princess Anne County, Virginia in the early twentieth century.

Two unidentified men operating an Irish potato planter at Whitehurst on March 20, 1917.

Two buildings on the Virginia Tech ornamental/truck research extension center land on Diamond Springs Road in Princess Anne County, Virginia when acquired in 1907.

Photographs of the last building from the Walke family estate, "Fairfield." While it long was thought to have been a kitchen, now there is a feeling that it might have served as residence for an overseer, tenant, etc. It was demolished several…

Waiting to load potatoes onto trains at Diamond Springs, Princess Anne County in 1912

Children, likely club members, standing around a welcome sign for the Princess Anne County 4-H clubs.

Dick Cockrell, Princess Anne County Agent, kneeling on a lawn looking down at a box of Princess Anne sweet potatoes, Porto Rico variety, that he is holding. Cockrell was helping to publicize the Princess Anne sweet potato.

Unidentified man in the Frost family soybean field in Blackwater sometime in the 1950s.

Turkeys in front of a wagon on the William Simpson farm located on the Knott's Island end of Princess Anne County, Virginia. The Princess Anne turkey was highly prized in Norfolk and beyond at holiday time.

Pictures from the 1987 summer dig conducted by Colonial Williamsburg archaeologists at the Ferry Farm. Archaeologists had hoped to locate the 1735 Princess Anne Courthouse, but instead found the well-preserved English basement on which Anthony…

The house located at the Ferry Farm on a peninsula jutting into the western branch of the Lynnhaven River.

The photograph was taken at the Hotel Jefferson in Richmond in September 1952. Herbert W. Ozlin, the county (agriculture) demonstration agent for Princess Anne County had taken two 4-H students to the event and the girl, Pat Lupton Reader, had…

President Clarke shows a drawing of the proposed library to Trustee Helen C. Ballard (left), Mrs. Robert Koolage, and Mrs. Robert Cathey. The Virginia Methodist Advocate used this photograph on the cover of its May 18, 1967 issue to highlight the…

The 1970 Women of Wesleyan officers Carolyn Miles (second from left rear), Ruth Bray (second from right rear), Rebecca Rogers (right rear), and Sara Boyd (front), president.

An outdoor Women of Wesleyan gathering sometime between 1971-1972.