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American Canal Society Records (MS284)

 Collection — Assorted Box: AB04
Identifier: MS284
Scope and Contents

The collection includes Hahn's early correspondence as society president, records of advocacy with the National Park Service, flyers advertising canal publications, brochures for different canals, and documents relating to canal research as well as selected news clippings. A few whole and partial issues of the newsletter "Along the Towpath" are also included. There is also some graphical material depicting canals, canal boats, and structures, primarily in the form of prints.

Dates: 1969 - 1977

Anne Lewis Jones Collection (MS010)

 Collection — Assorted Box: AB01
Identifier: MS010
Content Description

This collection includes travel records, embarkation orders, pay voucher, letters written to her mother and Aunt Cora, and her own remembrances of her time spent in France.

Dates: July 1918 - June 1919

Armistead Boothe Papers (MS164)

 Collection
Identifier: MS164
Content Description These are the collected papers of Alexandria politician Armistead Lloyd Boothe (1907-1990). Papers created or collected by Boothe in the course of his career include campaign materials, correspondence with colleagues, and extensive newspaper clippings in addition to other research on political issues such as segregation, education, and transportation.The collection also includes scrapbooks, journals, albums, memorabilia and other forms of personal papers from various family...
Dates: 1803-1990

Ashton McKenney Photo Collection (MS327)

 Collection
Identifier: MS327
Scope and Contents

This collection contains several photos arranged by subject, some original and some copy prints. There are photos of ships, various Alexandria streets, people, and the Alexandria waterfront.

Dates: 1910-2005

Beverly Hills Women's Club Collection (MS298)

 Collection
Identifier: MS298
Content Description

The collection consists of account books, yearbooks, organizational laws, correspondence, news clippings, history, scrapbooks, financial reports, meeting minutes, and photos. It has been organized into the following series: financial material, yearbooks, club communications, press, meeting minutes, and photographs.

Dates: 1946-1999

Boush/Asher Family Collection (MS234)

 Collection
Identifier: MS234
Content Description Nathaniel’s papers related to business and to the New York Life Insurance Company. There are also letters from Nathaniel to Samuel during the Civil War years. Letters to Samuel from relatives, including his sisters Effie and Fannie and his mother Jane, contain commentary on the Civil War. At different times during the war Samuel was in New Orleans, Manassas and Petersburg. There are Confederate passes among his papers. There is also an 1865 letter from Samuel to his mother about his return...
Dates: 1856-1949

Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Robert Andrews Dist. 417 (MS204)

 Collection
Identifier: MS204
Content Description The collection contains loose pages and one ledger. There are missing pages and some existing pages are difficult to read due to damage. The loose pages appear to have been part of a ledger in which minutes were kept for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Robert Andrews Dist. 417 . Entries found in the minutes indicate the organization was one that assisted retired and/or injured railroad workers financially. Within the ledger, members names and dues amounts paid each month are listed....
Dates: 1886-1904

Building Specifications Collection (MS280)

 Collection
Identifier: MS280
Content Description

The collection contains building specifications for Alexandria buildings and businesses.

Dates: 1929-1959

Captain Rufus D. Pettit Papers (MS093)

 Collection
Identifier: MS093
Scope and Contents This collection consists of hand-written letters to and from Captain Pettit regarding the prisons and prisoners in Alexandria, military orders, supply lists and ration orders, receipts, and prison reports Pettit drafted for his superiors. The five prisons in Alexandria were Alexandria Jail, Odd Fellow's Hall Prison, Slave Pen Guard House, Washington Street Military Prison, and Prince Street Military Prison. These prisons were used primarily to confine deserters from Union armies. ...
Dates: 1863-1865

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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
Alexandria (Va.). Department of Planning and Urban Renewal 1
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