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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…

A photograph of three unidentified Women of Wesleyan.

A woman gives another woman directions to the Women of Wesleyan flea market. The outdoor flea market served as a fundraiser for Virginia Wesleyan College and the first one took place in 1969.

Women of Wesleyan officer ,Thelma Brennan (right), looks down at a notebook in a discussion with another woman whose identity unknown.

A woman, who was likely a Woman of Wesleyan officer, points to a stall on a diagram for the Women of Wesleyan Flea Market. Virginia Wesleyan students Sherry McMillan '73 and Jim Simmons '74 are also in the picture and volunteered to assist with the…

In the company of two Women of Wesleyan members, President Clarke shovels soil on a newly planted tree on the Virginia Wesleyan campus.

A woman, likely a member of the Women of Wesleyan (WOW), and two volunteers, likely Virginia Wesleyan College students, engaging in a discussion during the WOW flea market preparations.

Women examine containers and items on the table. The photograph may have been related to the Women of Wesleyan Flea Market.

Two Women of Wesleyan officers working on the stall map for the WOW Flea Market.

Women of Wesleyan seated, some with cups in hand, as a speaker, likely Virginia Wesleyan President Lambuth M. Clarke, gives an address.

An individually run produce stand operated by Jack Fentress on land south of Pungo, Virginia Beach.

A farm laborer leads a mule-drawn cart with a device that is dusting cantaloupes, a crop that Princess Anne farmers found a market for in Norfolk during the 1920s. This July 22 Experimental Station photograph was thematic to the 1920s when farmers…

Mrs. Thelma Brennan and Mrs. Wayne present President Lambuth Clarke with what is believed to be a check from the 1972 Women of Wesleyan Flea Market. The flea market served as a fundraising initiative for the college.

An unidentified woman holding a plant and smiling at a child at the Women of Wesleyan Flea Market in October 1972.

The Botanical Garden Society stand at the October 1972 Women of Wesleyan Flea Market. The WOW Flea Market served as a fundraising initiative for the institution.

Two young women point a driver toward an unspecified direction at the 1972 Women of Wesleyan Flea Market.