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Esther Holliday Green Collection (MS073)

Collection

Identifier: MS073

Content Description This collection consists of six series: Correspondence, Literary Productions, Printed Material, Financial Documents, Women's Auxiliary of the American Legion, and Green Family. The correspondence series holds letters only to and from Esther Green. Included three folders (Box 73 Folders 1-3) with letters from Robert Rutledge, a youth for whom she helped secure a DuPont scholarship to the University of Virginia. While in college he updated her on his progress. Correspondence to and from other...

Dates: 1859-1982

Found in: Local History and Special Collections Branch, Alexandria Library

Ethelyn Cox Collection (MS287)

Collection

Identifier: MS287

Content Description This collection consists of Mrs. Cox's research files and manuscripts, as well as papers from her membership in HAF. Research files contain typed and handwritten notes, news clippings, and correspondence. The main focus of the collection is in support of "Street by Street". Included are the Historic American Building Survey inventories of Worth Baily. Also in the collection are manuscripts and notes of several projects that Mrs. Cox assisted on, and pamphlets related to Alexandria History or...

Dates: 1956 - 1980

Found in: Local History and Special Collections Branch, Alexandria Library

Florence Davidson Collection (MS318)

Collection

Identifier: MS318

Dates: 1856-1983

Found in: Local History and Special Collections Branch, Alexandria Library

Frank Snowden Hopkins Notes (MS270)

Collection

Identifier: MS270

Content Description

This collection contains the family history research notes and manuscripts of Frank Snowden Hopkins. The focus is on his mother’s (Selina Lloyd Hepburn Hopkins) family.

Dates: 1968-1974

Found in: Local History and Special Collections Branch, Alexandria Library

Gaines-Hodge Family Bible (MS414)

Collection — Box: 01

Identifier: MS414

Content Description Family history records and vital statistics documented within a 19th century illustrated Bible, published in 1884 by A.J. Holman and Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Four pages of genealogical family records are included in the volume, located in between the text of the Old and New Testaments. These pages include a marriage certificate as well as records of births, marriages, and deaths in the Gaines-Hodge family. This volume includes several introductory texts preceding the text...

Dates: c.1884

Found in: Local History and Special Collections Branch, Alexandria Library

Gardner Collection (MS348)

Collection

Identifier: MS348

Content Description

The collection contains photos of Eulalie Gardner, her circle of friends, family, and students. The photos date from the 1920’s through he 1930’s, with photos of vacationing in Harpers Ferry and the Easter Egg Roll at the White House. A number of historic buildings are featured (the Washington Monument, The Jefferson Memorial, Mt. Vernon estate, the George Washington Masonic National Memorial) as well as shots of the D.C. and Alexandria area.

Dates: 1922 - 1939

Found in: Local History and Special Collections Branch, Alexandria Library

Gilbert J. Cox (MS261)

Collection — Assorted Box: 03

Identifier: MS261

Content Description

These documents mostly relate to the property at King and Alfred, the location of the Peabody School Building.

Dates: 1838-1879; 1931

Found in: Local History and Special Collections Branch, Alexandria Library

Glasgow Photo Collection (MS349)

Collection

Identifier: MS349

Scope and Contents

This collection contains around 100 photographs featuring Alexandria residents, events, and organizations. The photos feature early Alexandria fire departments and events such as the Smoot Lumberyard fire, as well as colonial re-enactments, the 1st Virginia Infantry, and the American Legion.

Dates: 1900-1979

Found in: Local History and Special Collections Branch, Alexandria Library

Helen Norris Cummings Papers (MS072)

Collection

Identifier: MS072

Content Description This collection consists of the research materials of Helen Norris Cummings, founder of the Cameron Club, member of the Federation of Women's Club, and local historian.The correspondence spans the period from 1870 to 1943. Most of the pre-1905 letters deal with genealogy, and the majority of these are addressed to Emma, Helen's mother. Approximately half of the 1905 to 1920 letters are also Emma's. Many of Helen's letters deal with political issues, such as immigration and...

Dates: 1865 - 1949

Found in: Local History and Special Collections Branch, Alexandria Library

Henry B. Whittington Diary (MS011)

Collection

Identifier: MS011

Content Description The diary begins on the date of Federal occupation of Alexandria by Union troops, May 24, 1861. Entries describe events related to the Civil War, the occupying troops, and attitudes of the local populace. There is rich detail regarding personnel of the ever-changing occupying force, its disruption of local affairs, and response of the citizens. Local and national events such as major battles, skirmishes, and political occurrences are vividly described. References to persons important to the...

Dates: 24 May 1861 - 22 April 1865

Found in: Local History and Special Collections Branch, Alexandria Library

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Esther Holliday Green Collection (MS073)

Ethelyn Cox Collection (MS287)

Florence Davidson Collection (MS318)

Frank Snowden Hopkins Notes (MS270)

Gaines-Hodge Family Bible (MS414)

Gardner Collection (MS348)

Gilbert J. Cox (MS261)

Glasgow Photo Collection (MS349)

Helen Norris Cummings Papers (MS072)

Henry B. Whittington Diary (MS011)

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