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Mayflower Apartments under construction, Virginia Beach Oceanfront, 1950. Tallest apartment building in Virginia when it opened in 1951.

Picture postcard featuring activity on the Virginia Beach boardwalk, 1909.

Vacationers at the beach in Virginia Beach on an unspecified date.

Cottage line, Virginia Beach, ca 1920, Twenty-Fifth and Twenty-Fourth Streets. House on right is the cottage built by Norfolk businessman J. C. Tait in 1906. Beyond is the Breakers Hotel, with the 1903 Life-Saving Station.

Rendering of the new Princess Anne Hotel in the local newspaper in 1915, to replace the hotel destroyed by fire in 1907. This hotel was never built.

The Pocahontas Pavilion at the Virginia Beach oceanfront, shown in 1924.

A sign advertising the Raleigh Hotel and Bar in Virginia Beach, 1911.

Alvah Clark, Emmett and Mary Hogan, and Helen Anderson pose with the Hogan's car at the Virginia Beach oceanfront in the 1920s.

Vacationers sitting along the boardwalk at the Virginia Beach oceanfront sometime in the early 1900s.

An aerial photo on a winter's day of the Virginia Beach oceanfront looking north showing modern hotels sometime in the 1980s.

Sam Griggs, visitor to the oceanfront, poses for a photograph ca. 1910, before a photographer's backdrop.

Couples lounging on the cottage line on March 7, 1896, during the Virginia Beach "winter season."

Logging using an ox team.

The flume at Thirteenth Street was constructed in 1890 to convey water to Lake Holly to allow saltwater fishing for guests.

The entry to the Pocahontas hotel, 1924, in Virginia Beach.

The Pocahontas Hotel from the ocean side, 1924, in Virginia Beach.

The image used in the "Virginia Wesleyan students' voice on politics, 1966-1978" exhibit as a thumbnail.

Julia Lucasti and Philip Guzelf perform in Virginia Wesleyan College's Player production of Goldoni's, The Servant of Two Masters. The production was directed by Rick Hite, assistant professor of drama at Virginia Wesleyan College.

Sharon Hankins and Tom Selover rehearse for the upcoming production of Electra (Elektra), performed by the Virginia Wesleyan College players, March 11-14, 1970. The production was directed by Rick Hite.

Virginia Wesleyan College production, Oh, what a lovely war, was presented November 16-21, 1970 under the direction of Rick Hite. Tina Brudzinski and Bruce Snyder, who are featured prominently in these photographs, starred in this production.