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Alexandria Library Company Records (MS002)

 Collection — Assorted Media Box: AM01
Identifier: MS002
Content Description

The collection consists of circulation, subscription, and financial ledgers, annual lecture series documents, catalogues, correspondence, and various organizational documents. Topics include: foundation of the Alexandria Library Company, its cycles of growth and decline reflecting the local economy; the formation of the local public library system; and the on-going activities of the Alexandria Library Company, most notably its lecture series.

Dates: 1794-2007

Alexandria Library Records (MS098)

 Collection
Identifier: MS098
Content Description This collection contains the records of the Alexandria Library, documenting the administration and operation of the Library, dating from the founding of the public library in 1937 through the present. Included are administrative records, annual reports, financial records, circulation records, materials documenting the history of the Library, programming and outreach records, and records of the individual branches of the library system. Formats include textual documents, photographs, and...
Dates: 1937 - 2013

Alexandria National Bank Collection (MS193)

 Collection
Identifier: MS193
Content Description

The collection includes five scrapbooks, covering the years 1904-1976, that contain advertisements, clippings of news articles and photographs of bank employees. These scrapbooks contain information on First National Bank, Mount Vernon Bank and Trust, Citizens National Bank, First Federal Savings and Loans, and the Bank of Alexandria. Additionally, the collection contains Statements of Condition from the Bank of Alexandria that cover the years 1907-1978.

Dates: 1904-1978

Alexandria Office of Sheriff Jail Records (MS054)

 Collection
Identifier: MS054
Abstract

Late 19th and early 20th century records from the Alexandria Sheriff's Department.

Dates: 1891-1948

Alexandria Recital Series Papers (MS312)

 Collection
Identifier: MS312
Content Description

The collection includes scrapbooks and papers of the society containing various materials such as programs from the recitals, promotional materials for the musicians, newspaper articles, photographs, letters, administrative records, and grant applications.

Dates: 1980-2002

Alexandria Scrapbook Collection (MS003)

 Collection
Identifier: MS003
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of 2 books that have been converted to scrapbooks by gluing playbills, poems, articles, drawings, and religious materials onto the pages. The scrapbook in folder 1 contains religious articles, poetry, and images pasted into a book on agricultural reports. The scrapbook in folder 2 contains playbills and concert programs from the National Theater, Ford’s Opera House, the Alexandria Musical Association, the Vocal Society of the Assembly Presbyterian Church, etc.

Dates: 1830-1893

Alexandria, Virginia City Records (MS019)

 Collection
Identifier: MS019
Content Description The collection contains reports, correspondence, account books, minutes, warrants, court orders, vouchers, bills to be paid and to be collected, some printed matter, stocks and bonds, petitions, election returns, and poll books, ranging in date from 1750 to 1983, predominately 1825-1875. Topics include both the city auditor and the city treasurer records of receipts and expenditures for many city functions--the poor house, the police, employee pay records, etc.--, election results, the...
Dates: 1750 - 1983; Majority of material found within 1825 - 1875

Alexandria's Forgotten Legacy (MS301)

 Collection — Assorted Box: AB04
Identifier: MS301
Content Description

"Alexandria's Forgotten Legacy" the Annals of Wm. F. Carne by T. Michael Miller, Typescript, published in 1983.

Dates: Publication: 1983

ALIVE (ALexandrians InVolved Ecumenically) Records (MS300)

 Collection
Identifier: MS300
Scope and Contents

The ALIVE! collection contains annual reports, financial records, correspondence, minutes, training materials, flyers, clippings, and newsletters from throughout the history of the organization but with an emphasis on the 1980s and early 1990s. It also contains material from individual committees and programs, and particularly the Family Emergency Committee. For additional detail see the descriptions of the individual series.

Dates: 1969 - 1995

American Canal Society Records (MS284)

 Collection — Assorted Box: AB04
Identifier: MS284
Scope and Contents

The collection includes Hahn's early correspondence as society president, records of advocacy with the National Park Service, flyers advertising canal publications, brochures for different canals, and documents relating to canal research as well as selected news clippings. A few whole and partial issues of the newsletter "Along the Towpath" are also included. There is also some graphical material depicting canals, canal boats, and structures, primarily in the form of prints.

Dates: 1969 - 1977

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Alexandria Library (Alexandria, Va.) 5
Alexandria Library Association (1897-1937) 4
Alexandria Library Company 4
Alexandria Library Society (1937-1953) 4
Cummings, Helen Norris, 1865-1949 3
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Green, Esther Holiday, 1889-1981 3
Alexandria (Va.). City Council 2
Alexandria (Va.). Office of City Engineer 2
Burke, Ellen Coolidge 2
Carne, William F., 1832-1909 2
Cazenove, William Gardner, 1819-1877 2
Cox, Ethelyn, 1908-1988 2
Kabler, Dorothy, 1918-2017 2
Lee Family 2
Lee, Cassius F., 1808-1890 2
McKenney, Ashton N. (Mike), 1921-2005 2
O'Sullivan, T. J. (Timothy Joseph), 1855-1887 2
The Alexandria Gazette 2
Adam, William R. (William Robert), 1918-1992 1
Alexander, Gustavus B. (Gustavus Brown), 1793-1860 1
Alexandria (Va.) (1749-) 1
Alexandria (Va.). City Clerk 1
Alexandria (Va.). Department of Housing and Community Development 1
Alexandria (Va.). Department of Planning and Urban Renewal 1
Alexandria (Va.). Office of City Auditor 1
Alexandria Antique Arts Association 1
Alexandria Library (Alexandria, Va.). Board 1
Alexandria Sheriff's Department 1
American Canal Society 1
Andrews family 1
Asher, George Gordon, 1872-1915 1
Bah, Char McCargo 1
Ballinger Family 1
Barrett, Kate Waller, Dr., 1858-1925 1
Barton, Benjamin, 1803-1877 1
Beatley, Charles E., Jr., 1916-2003 1
Bennett, Willis W. (Willis Wirt), 1937-2010 1
Beverly Hills Women's Club 1
Bonner, A. G. 1
Boush, Mollie May 1
Boush, Nathaniel, 1809-1873 1
Boush, Samuel Coleman, 1842-1918 1
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (U.S.) 1
Bryant, J. C. Herbert ((John Carlyle Herbert)), 1909-1983 1
Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850 1
Carne, Cecilia Catherine Latruite (Shakes), 1804-1891 1
Carne, Richard L., 1797-1867 1
Cazenove & Co. (1798-1861) 1
Cazenove Family 1
Cazenove, Anne H., 1776-1843 1
Cazenove, Anthony Charles, 1775-1852 1
Cazenove, Antony, 1849-1897 1
Cazenove, Eliza Frances, 1798-1857 1
Cazenove, James O'Hara, 1880-1971 1
Cazenove, Louis A. (Louis Albert), 1807-1852 1
Cazenove, Louis A., 1851-1925 1
Cazenove, Mary Elizabeth Stanard, 1822-1892 1
Chandler, Lucius Henry, 1812-1876 1
Chapman Family 1
Citizens Against the Stadium (1992) 1
Civitan International 1
Close, James J. 1
Colasanto, Nicholas A. (Nicholas Anthony), 1904-1983 1
Conlyn, Helen P. (Helen Pearson Chapman), 1876-1951 1
Corse, Elizabeth (Beverley), 1823-1894 1
Corse, Montgomery Dent, 1816-1895 1
Cox, Gilbert J., Jr. (Gilbert Jefferson) 1
Cummings, Norris Stanley, 1834-1904 1
Curtin, Bertha A. 1
Custis family 1
Daingerfield, Edward L. (Edward Lonsdale), 1847-1925 1
Davidson, Florence English, 1882-1942 1
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 1
DeVaughn, James H. , 1816-1899 1
DeVaughn, Mary 1
Dickman, William J. (October 13, 1900-October 28, 1987) 1
Doré, Gustave (Paul Gustave Louis Christophe), 1832-1883 1
Duncan, James M., Jr. (James Morton), 1897-1967 1
Farquhar Family 1
Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William), 1831-1903 1
Fendall, Phillip 1
Fendall, Phillip R. 1
Ficklin, Cecelia M., 1876-1951 1
Ficklin, M. J. Kroes, 1872-1962 1
Ficklin, Theodore H., 1846-1919 1
Fitzhugh, Samuel 1
Foley, James E. 1
Freemasons. Alexandria-Washington Lodge, No. 22 (Alexandria, Va.) 1
Funk family 1
Gadsby, John, 1766-1844 1
Gaines Family (Alexandria, Va.) 1
Gardner, Anne Eliza, 1819-1885 1
Gardner, Eulalie, 1893-1984 1
Gird, Sarah (Kennedy), 1782-1834 1
Glasgow, William M., Col., Jr. (William Milton), 1926-1995 1
Green Mansion House Hotel 1
Green and Bros. Furniture Company 1
Green family 1
Green, Richard Mayger, 1860-1941 1
Hallowell, James S., 1821-1886 1
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