Box 2

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.

This folder contains football programs and tickets along with a program for a play called Crew Follies.

This folder contains a ticket for a play called Out of the Stillness, a football schedule for the 1928 season, programs for a play called A Dweller in the Darkness and a play called When the Clock Strikes Twelve, and several issues of The Last Lap Alexandria High School newsletter dating frmo October 12, 1928 to April 16, 1930.

Folder contains two operator's manuals and a small booklet on the history of America-LaFrance.

This folder contains 3 convention booklets. One is for the 41st Annual Convention and Tournament of the Virginia State Firemen's Association from August, 1927. Another is for the Annual Convention of Virginia State and Cumberland Valley Firemen's Associations, the Lady's Auxiliary to Virginia State Firemen's Assocation, and the State Fire Chiefs' Assocation of Virgina from 1932. The third is one for the same 3 conventions in 1958.

This folder contains several programs from past ceremonies of the Friendship Veterans Fire Association, often signed by the guest speaker of each ceremony. Signatures included are Gov. Mills E. Goodwin, Senator and astronaut John Glenn, Jeff Bostic, Bobby Beathard, and one signed by some of the people released in the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1981.

Folder contains several copies of A History of the Relief Truck and Engine Company No. 1 of the Alexandria Fire Department, written by Ashton "Mike" McKenney.

This folder contains a Bible donated by the Alexandria Ku Klux Klan No. 47 to the No 1. Relief Engine Company.