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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
Cazenove and Co. Ledger (MS293)
Collection — Box: 293-1
Identifier: MS293
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a large ledger book containing account information from Cazenove and Co. for the years leading up to the Civil War. Accounts for partners William Gardner Cazenove and Cassius F. Lee are marked differently.
A typed index of the ledger is available in the accopanying folder, as well was a volume of Alexandria History containing an article on the ledger's identification and historical context. This article is also available online.
Dates:
Record Keeping: 1857 - 1861
Cazenove Family Papers (MS212)
Collection
Identifier: MS212
Scope and Contents
This collection covers the history of the Cazenove Family of Alexandria from the 1790s to the 1970s.
The first part of the collection features records from James O’Hara Cazenove (1880-1971), consisting primarily of correspondence and records relating to his business interests and investments, as well as legal documents and business related litigation. Some of the correspondence and notebooks relate to his role as an inventor including a patent for an improved eggbeater from the 1920s. It...
Dates:
1786 - 1970
Chapman Family Collection (MS274)
Collection
Identifier: MS274
Content Description
Family papers, letters, wills, and deeds of the Chapman Family of Maryland and Virginia.
Dates:
1828-1963
Chapman-Southerland Collection (MS409)
Collection
Identifier: MS409
Content Description
This Collection contains roughly 55 letters. It includes letters written by or to Helen Mary Chapman, Helen Pearson Chapman, Arthur Leigh Southerland, and Robert Mitchell Weir along with other family and business letters.
Dates:
1878-1916
Charles L. Sampson Collection (MS126)
Collection
Identifier: MS126
Content Description
The collection contains the combined research papers of Charles L. Sampson and William F. Hellmuth. Sampson compiled and rewrote much of Hellmuth's research, producing short histories on the individual engine companies of the Alexandria Fire Department. Sampson also typescripted many articles from the Alexandria Gazette as well as primary documents like the Auditor's Annual Statement (1893) and correspondence. In addition to the research papers, the collection also contains correspondence...
Dates:
1836-1986
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- Hulfish, Marianne "Polly" Minnigerode (Maigne), 1908-1981 1
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