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1 Block of S. Fayette Street, April 1954
File — Box: 6, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains research materials, ephemora, and photographs collected by or created by Mike McKenney, Thomas Mills Jr., and Thomas Mills III, that document the Alexandria Fire Department.
Dates:
Event: April 1954
#1 Firehouse, Prince St. between Royal + Fairfax circa 1937
File — Box: 1, Folder: 13A
Content Description
From the Collection:
The collection contains photographs and negatives predominantly of historic Alexandria buildings and civic life from the 1910’s to the 1940’s. A small number of prints are from the late 19th century. The collection is made up of black and white prints and acetate negatives, with a small number of glass plate negatives and glass lantern slides. The collection has been split into two series.
Dates:
1888 - 1941
#1 Harry F. Byrd, Mayor W.A. Smoot, John G. Pollard
File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Content Description
From the Collection:
The collection contains photographs and negatives predominantly of historic Alexandria buildings and civic life from the 1910’s to the 1940’s. A small number of prints are from the late 19th century. The collection is made up of black and white prints and acetate negatives, with a small number of glass plate negatives and glass lantern slides. The collection has been split into two series.
Dates:
1888 - 1941
1st Certificate – United Daughters of the Confederacy to Hattie Vowell Creighton
File — Oversize Box: 3
Content Description
From the Collection:
The collection consists of various objects, writings and ephemera pertaining to the Vowell-Creighton family. Most of the materials are from Hattie Vowell-Creighton. Writings include genealogical information and poetry written by Hattie. One piece of realia: a locket which includes a lock of hair, likely from Mary Vowell. There are a number of unidentified photographs, likely Vowell-Creighton family members. The oversized materials include certificates for the United Daughters of the...
Dates:
1890 - 1970
2 Racor rail-flange lubricators for south-bound hump. (AFE 5879), 1947
File — Box: 3, Folder: 61
Identifier: MS050-003-61
Content Description
From the Collection:
Records, correspondences, authorizations for expenditure (AFEs), notebooks, ephemera, and blueprints, all documenting the Potomac Yard rail yard in Alexandria, Virginia.
Dates:
1947
2 Ractor rail-flange Lubricators, north-bound hump, retirement 2 MECO rail-flange lubricators. (AFE 5867), 1946-1947
File — Box: 3, Folder: 52
Identifier: MS050-003-52
Content Description
From the Collection:
Records, correspondences, authorizations for expenditure (AFEs), notebooks, ephemera, and blueprints, all documenting the Potomac Yard rail yard in Alexandria, Virginia.
Dates:
1946-1947
2nd Certificate – United Daughters of the Confederacy to Hattie Vowell Creighton
File — Oversize Box: 3
Content Description
From the Collection:
The collection consists of various objects, writings and ephemera pertaining to the Vowell-Creighton family. Most of the materials are from Hattie Vowell-Creighton. Writings include genealogical information and poetry written by Hattie. One piece of realia: a locket which includes a lock of hair, likely from Mary Vowell. There are a number of unidentified photographs, likely Vowell-Creighton family members. The oversized materials include certificates for the United Daughters of the...
Dates:
1890 - 1970
2nd Sale, 1875
File — Assorted Box: 02, Folder: 97-2
Content Description
From the Collection:
The collection consists of a deed, purchase proposals, business agreements, foreclosure notices, and fire insurance policies for the Mt. Vernon Cotton Factory.
Dates:
1875
2nd Ward 1858 Engine and Fire Dept. Gauges and Measures of Wood and Lumber - Election book(?)
File — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Content Description
From the Collection:
The papers in this collection cover all of the Alexandria Fire Department's business and legal transactions over a span of one hundred years. The canceled checks show the many expenditures necessary to outfit, maintain, and operate the volunteer fire companies. There are also many receipts from commercial firms who provisioned, repaired, serviced and supplied the volunteer fire companies. The Alexandria Common Council appropriated money each year to cover the entire Fire Department....
Dates:
1794 - 1893
3 bunk houses, 1 combination kitchen/dr for contract labor gangs. (AFE 5813), 1945
File — Box: 3, Folder: 16
Identifier: MS050-003-16
Content Description
From the Collection:
Records, correspondences, authorizations for expenditure (AFEs), notebooks, ephemera, and blueprints, all documenting the Potomac Yard rail yard in Alexandria, Virginia.
Dates:
1945
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