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ILLUSTRATIONS.
Harbor
Scenes, Buildings,
Street
Scenes, Maps,
People,
Old
Documents, Medal.
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CEMETERY
PHOTO FILES.
Index
(small file with links)
Photos (large photo files):
Cedar
Grove Cemetery, Norfolk, VA
Cedar
Grove Cemetery, Portsmouth, VA
Elmwood
Cemetery, Norfolk, VA
Forest
Lawn Cemetery, Norfolk, VA
Hebrew
Cemetery, Norfolk, VA
Naval
Hospital Cemetery, Portsmouth, VA
Oak
Grove (Portlock) Cemetery , Portsmouth, VA
Saint
Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Norfolk, VA
Saint Paul's Catholic Church, Portsmouth, VA,
Fr.
Devlin Memorial
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CHURCH
REGISTERS.
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REGISTERS
OF DEATH.
Norfolk, Princess Anne County, and Norfolk County.
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REPORT
OF THE PORTSMOUTH RELIEF ASSOCIATION.
To
the Contributors of the Fund For the Relief of Portsmouth, Virginia,
During the Prevalence of the Yellow Fever in that Town in 1855;
the Exhibit of the Treasurer of the Receipts and Disbursements of the Fund,
and Statements of other Members of the Association; together with a
Sketch of the Fever, Etc., Etc.,
Richmond: H. K. Ellyson's Steam Power Presses, 147 Main Street, 1856.
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REPORT
OF THE HOWARD ASSOCIATION OF NORFOLK, VIRGINIA.
To All Contributors Who Gave Their Valuable
Aid in Behalf of the
Sufferers From Epidemic Yellow Fever During the Summer of 1855.
Philadelphia: Inquirer Printing Office, 121 South Third Street, 1857.
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REPORT
OF THE PHILADELPHIA RELIEF COMMITTEE,
Appointed to
Collect Funds For The Sufferers by Yellow Fever,
At Norfolk & Portsmouth, Va., 1855.
Philadelphia, Inquirer Printing Office, 1856.
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THE
GREAT PESTILENCE IN VIRGINIA;
Being
An Historical Account of the Origin, General Character, and Ravages
of the Yellow Fever in Norfolk and Portsmouth in 1855;
Together with Sketches of Some of the Victims, Incidents of the Scourge,
Etc.
By William S. Forrest,
New York: Derby & Jackson.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1856.
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THE
SUMMER OF THE PESTILENCE:
A
History of the Ravages of the Yellow Fever in Norfolk, Virginia, A. D.,
1855.
By George D. Armstrong, D. D.
Pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Norfolk.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1856.
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MEMOIR
OF REV. JAMES CHISHOLM, A. M.
Late
Rector of St. John's Church, Portsmouth, VA., With
Memoranda of the Pestilence
Which Raged in That City During The Summer and Autumn of 1855,
By David Holmes Conrad.
New York: Protestant Episcopal Society
for the Promotion of Evangelical Knowledge, 1856.
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"SADNESS
IN OUR CIRCLE":
Grace Whittle's Account of the 1855 Norfolk Yellow Fever
Epidemic
Edited by Jennifer Davis McDaid, 1997,
Archives Research Coordinator, The Library of Virginia
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"THE
TERRIBLE DOINGS OF GOD"
A Sermon Delivered in the Court St. Baptist Church, Portsmouth,
VA,
Commemorative of Twenty-eight Members of Old Dominion Lodge, No. V,
Who Died During the Late Epidemic.
By Isaac W. K. Handy
This information has been made available by local Portsmouth
historian
Margaret Windley who xeroxed this from an original in the Library of Virginia
Historical Society in Richmond, VA.
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DISEASE
AND URBAN IMAGE:
Yellow Fever in Norfolk, 1855.
Reproduced with the permission of David R. Goldfield and
the Library of Virginia.
Originally published in VIRGINIA CAVALCADE, vol. 23, no. 2, (Autumn
1973): 34-41.
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SOUTHERN
CHURCHMAN
Episcopalian
newspaper published in Alexandria, VA.
Yellow Fever Articles Pertaining to Norfolk & Portsmouth from August
1855 to February 1856.
Indexed.
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In 1900 Walter Reed and the Yellow Fever
Commission
unmasked the mosquito as the carrier of yellow fever.
"HE ROBBED THE PESTILENCE OF ITS TERRORS AND
CAUSED THE CITIES
OF THE SOUTHLAND TO SIT IN PEACE
WITHIN THEIR GATES."
from memorial plaque at Kings County Hospital,
NYC.
