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Northern Virginia Hotel Corporation Records (MS178)

 Collection
Identifier: MS178
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of: correspondence, minutes, bylaws, deeds, financial reports and records, business contracts, building reports, and newspaper clippings. Materials date from 1921 to 1947. The records document the initial planning, construction, and management of the George Mason Hotel.

Dates: 1921 - 1947
Found in: Local History and Special Collections Branch, Alexandria Library

Old Town Civic Association (MS291)

 Collection — Assorted Oversize Box: AM01
Identifier: MS291
Content Description This collection contains the records of the Old Town Civic Association (OTCA), documenting the administration and activities of the organization. Materials in this collection date from the founding of the organization in 1951 through the early 1990s, though the bulk of materials are from the 1980s and 1990s. Included are administrative records, outreach and publicity materials, correspondence, memos, notes, meeting minutes, newsclippings, legal documents, legislative reports, ephemera,...
Dates: 1951-1992
Found in: Local History and Special Collections Branch, Alexandria Library

Parker-Gray Historic District Papers, 1983-1985 (MS268)

 Collection
Identifier: MS268
Content Description

This collection contains papers dating from May 1983 to July 1985 and relating to the process of evaluating the Parker-Gray Historic District under the City of Alexandria's historic preservation ordinance. Included are dockets and minutes from Planning Commission and City Council meetings and hearings, correspondence, petitions, news clippings, and meeting agendas/minutes from the Northwest Old Town Civic Association.

Dates: 1983-1985
Found in: Local History and Special Collections Branch, Alexandria Library

Penny C. Morrill Collection (MS104)

 Collection
Identifier: MS104
Content Description

The collection consists of correspondence, notes, working papers, copies of primary and secondary source materials, clippings, photographs, and minutes relating to Ms. Morrill's research concerning 18th and 19th century architecture in Alexandria.

Dates: 1970 - 1980
Found in: Local History and Special Collections Branch, Alexandria Library

Periclean Society Records (MS006)

 Collection
Identifier: MS006
Content Description

The Periclean Society constitution and bylaws are found in the front of the book. Membership lists and meeting minutes follow. The minutes list the topics debated, the participants, and the absentees. Members included E. J. Lee, Philip R. Fendall, J. T. Ramsay, John and William Herbert, Charles C. Lee, A. G. Bonner, John Swann, Gustavus Alexander, Francis Peyton, and Samuel Fitzhugh.

Dates: 1821-1824
Found in: Local History and Special Collections Branch, Alexandria Library

Phillip Fendall Papers (MS190)

 Collection — Assorted Box: AB03
Identifier: MS190
Scope and Contents

This collection is comprised of letters written to Phillip Fendall concerning legal and business matters. Topics mentioned include E. J. Lee, John Gadsby, book seller ads, and the Literary Institution of Princeton.

Dates: 1817 - 1857
Found in: Local History and Special Collections Branch, Alexandria Library

Polly Hulfish Collection (MS408)

 Collection
Identifier: MS408
Scope and Contents Records kept by Polly Hulfish from the operations of the Old Alexandria Restoration, Inc. (1961-1974). These records consist of documents pertaining to almost 100 houses in Alexandria purchased, renovated, and restored by the organization. Documents include those covering the purchase and sale of each property, receipts from the businesses that provided services and materials, tax records, employment records, blueprints and drawings, photographs, news clippings, all Corporation records, and...
Dates: 1961-1972
Found in: Local History and Special Collections Branch, Alexandria Library

Potomac Yard Collection (MS050)

 Collection
Identifier: MS050
Content Description

Records, correspondences, authorizations for expenditure (AFEs), notebooks, ephemera, and blueprints, all documenting the Potomac Yard rail yard in Alexandria, Virginia.

Dates: 1927-2000
Found in: Local History and Special Collections Branch, Alexandria Library

Potomac Yard Stadium Records (MS283)

 Collection
Identifier: MS283
Scope and Contents This collection consists of economic and traffic reports and how the stadium would benefit the community by pro-stadium analyst groups. There are also reports presented to the Finance and Appropriations Committee of the Virginia Assembly. One folder consists of materials created by the Citizens Against the Stadium group. Other opposition studies and opinions include those from the National Airport and United Airlines who opposed the stadium location under existing flightpaths, one by...
Dates: 1992
Found in: Local History and Special Collections Branch, Alexandria Library

R. H. Lancaster Lodge No. 1370, Grand United Order of Odd Fellows of the State of Virginia Records (MS076)

 Collection
Identifier: MS076
Content Description

This collection consists of correspondence and financial records of the Lancaster Lodge, an Alexandria black fraternal organization. Among the contents are reports, minutes of meetings, dues records and records of elected officers.

Dates: 1890 - 1910
Found in: Local History and Special Collections Branch, Alexandria Library

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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
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
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Alexandria (Va.). Office of City Auditor 1
Alexandria Antique Arts Association 1
Alexandria Canal Company 1
Alexandria Hospital (Va.) 1
Alexandria Library (Alexandria, Va.). Board 1
Alexandria Sheriff's Department 1
Alexandria Water Company 1
Alfred Street Baptist Church (Alexandria, Va.) 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
Baylor Family 1
Beatley, Charles E., Jr., 1916-2003 1
Bennett, Willis W. (Willis Wirt), 1937-2010 1
Bernard Family 1
Beverly Hills Women's Club 1
Bonner, A. G. 1
Boothe Family 1
Boothe, Armistead L. (Armistead Lloyd), 1907-1990 1
Boothe, Eleanor Harrison Carr, 1881-1968 1
Boothe, Elizabeth "Betty" Ravenel Peele, b. 1912 1
Boothe, Gardner L. (Gardner Lloyd), 1872-1964 1
Boothe, Mary Grace Stabler-Leadbeater, 1839-1914 1
Boothe, William J. (William Jeremiah), 1816-1894 1
Boush, Mollie May 1
Boush, Nathaniel, 1809-1873 1
Boush, Samuel Coleman, 1842-1918 1
Bowles Family 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
Carr Family 1
Carr, Francis "Fanny" Smith Harrison 1
Carr, Joseph Armistead, 1867-1901 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
Christ Church, Alexandria 1
Churchill, Winston (Winston Leonard Spencer), 1874-1965 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

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