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Robert Clinton Rutledge Collection (MS406)
Collection
Identifier: MS406
Content Description
The bulk of these papers are correspondence between Robert Rutledge and Harriet Hulfish. Besides information about their relationship, this correspondence refers to Army camp life where Rutledge was stationed in Camp Lee, Virginia; San Francisco, California; Tennessee; Kentucky; and Texas. The papers also contain an illustrated catalog of Staunton Military Academy, and a play and short stories authored by Rutledge.
Dates:
1939-1945
Robert H. McNulty Papers (MS282)
Collection
Identifier: MS282
Content Description
This collection consists of Mr. McNulty’s Alexandria research notes and related documentation. Materials include photocopies of his notes from Alexandria Gazette; photocopied and hand-drawn maps of the areas under consideration; photocopies of deeds and other legal records; correspondence; and other research materials.
Dates:
1970 - 1991
Robert Hume Bashaw Papers (MS320)
Collection — Assorted Box: AB04
Identifier: MS320
Content Description
Bills of sale, letters, promissory notes, and receipts.
Dates:
1833 - 1870
Roberts United Methodist Church Records (MS048)
Collection
Identifier: MS048
Content Description
The original collection consisted of a variety of record books and other loose materials. The books recorded the attendance at the Sunday School as well as more general church events, such as a list of contributors or the events of the quarterly conferences on the condition of the church. Of particular interest to historians of the church may be the notes of the pastors in the front of the Comprehensive Church Record (folder 6) which record some of the financial and congregational struggles...
Dates:
1877 - 1913
Robinson Terminal Warehouse Records (MS321)
Collection
Identifier: MS321
Scope and Contents
This collection contains titles, deeds, correspondences, and tax documents from the Robinson Terminal Warehouse Corporation, Alexandria, VA.
Dates:
1940-1963
Royd R. Sayers Collection (MS094)
Collection
Identifier: MS094
Content Description
This collection pertains to the house on 607 Oronoco Street. The Sayers opened the house for Garden Week in Virginia, the Tour of Interiors and the Alexandria Garden Club Tour of Five Estates. Included are the pamphlets for the Tour of Interiors of Historic Homes in Alexandria and Garden Week in Virginia and the registers from the Tour of Historic Homes for the 1934 to 1941 period.
Dates:
1932-1968
Ruth Kaye Collection (MS029)
Collection
Identifier: MS029
Content Description
The collection consists of four series: house histories, genealogy, publications, and miscellaneous. The collection contains reports, bound volumes, photos, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and correspondences. The first and largest series is the complete research on various house histories in the Alexandria, Virginia area, most notably in Old Town. The second series of the collection is genealogical research on various families who have roots in Northern Virginia and Alexandria. The two...
Dates:
1970 - 2010
Sangster Papers (MS294)
Collection
Identifier: MS294
Content Description
The letters in this collection center around the children and family of Edward Ford Sangster (1802-1883) an Alexandria resident, and his wife Mary Kendall Lee of the Ditchly Lees. Their children; John ( Jack ), Tom, James ( Jim ), Virginia Lee ( sister ) and Mary Edward ( "Puss" ) are all represented in the correspondence. William Wallace Bennett was the fiance, and later, husband of Virginia Lee. Many of Bennett's earlier letters deal with church matters and his impending marriage to...
Dates:
1853-1891
Sarah G. Smith vs. Richmond and Danville Railroad Company and the Virginia Midland Railway Company Transcripts (MS239)
Collection
Identifier: MS239
Content Description
This collection consists of two bound transcripts of the court case filed by Sarah G. Smith against the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company and the Virginia Midland Railway Company.Testimony describes the setting in Alexandria through which the trains pass. The area around the block of Saint Asaph, Wolfe, Pitt and Wilkes Streets are particularly detailed. References are made to the Wilkes Street tunnel and to local businesses including a dairy, and J. C. Herbert Bryant's...
Dates:
1892
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