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Box 1

 Container

Contains 6 Results:

Plans, Receipts, and Correspondence, 1936-1942

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

This folder contains plans, sketches, correspondence, receipts, and itemized lists from the remodeling of the Delos H. Smith home at 735 S. Lee Street, Alexandria, VA.

Dates: 1936-1942

Blueprints, 1936-1942

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

This folder contains 5 blueprints, one of which is for a table. The other 4 are of the Delos H. Smith house at 735 S. Lee Street, Alexandria, VA.

Dates: 1936-1942

Field Notebooks, 1940

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

This folder contains 5 field notebooks from Delos Smith's time with the Historic American Buildings Survey. Books cover places such as Gloucester County (Virginia), North Carolina, South Carolina, Ohio, Louisville (Kentucky), and Maryland. Photos from the locations noted and sketched are in the Library of Congress.

Dates: 1940

Alexandria History

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

This folder contains materials Delos Smith used to research and study Alexandria, Virginia history. Included are several correspondences about the Woodlawn Plantaion.

Dates: 1900-1950

Alexandria Note

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

This folder contains several pages of hand-written notes and notecards by Delos Smith, mostly on the subject of Alexandria history.

Dates: 1900-1950

Miscellaneous Articles, 1918-1989

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

This folder contains miscellaneous periodicals and articles which Delos Smith found useful. Included are titles such as the North American Review, Tobacco Hogsheads and Rolling Roads in Northern Virginia, The American Mercury, Ups and Downs (poems by Irene Flory), and the Tuileries Brochures.

Dates: 1918-1989