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Loeb Photography Collection (MS363)
Collection
Identifier: MS363
Content Description
The collection contains photographs and negatives predominantly of historic Alexandria buildings and civic life from the 1910’s to the 1940’s. A small number of prints are from the late 19th century. The collection is made up of black and white prints and acetate negatives, with a small number of glass plate negatives and glass lantern slides. The collection has been split into two series.
Dates:
1888 - 1941
Lyceum Construction Records (MS245)
Collection
Identifier: MS245
Dates:
1790-1859, (bulk, 1839-1840)
Marguerite More Collection (MS246)
Collection
Identifier: MS246
Content Description
This collection contains school papers, clippings, and memorabilia beginning with the Leonardo Grade and Grammar School (location unknown) and the Groveton Elementary School of Fairfax County, Virginia.
Other series include a publication called the "Virginia 4-H Club Letter" and newspapers of Lee-Jackson High School and Mount Vernon High School from 1937-1971. There is a 1938 Lee-Jackson yearbook as well as miscellaneous materials ranging from school cheers and football tickets to school...
Dates:
1931-1971
Mary Crawford Powell Collection (MS236)
Collection
Identifier: MS236
Content Description
Collection documents the ancestral lines of Dr. Robert Conrad Powell and his wife, Mary Crawford Gregory, also the ancestral lines of Ruth Ashton the wife of Dr. Lewellyn Powell. Done for the benefit of the children by their Grandmother.
Dates:
1987
Mary Louisa Slacum Benham Papers (MS062)
Collection — Assorted Box: 02
Identifier: MS062
Content Description
Notes and reminiscences of Mrs. Benham's life from her childhood and youth in Alexandria to her adult travels along the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. Also covers the settlement of Oregon (through her brother William's experiences there), the careers of her siblings and her elderly musings.
Alexandria sections include materials on Mrs. Benham's family life, the Potomac River, Monsieur Generis' dancing school, the Woods and Warren Play Actors (the summer theater), Parson Muir, Bishop Meade,...
Dates:
1802-1884
Mary Powell Scott Papers (MS411)
Collection — Assorted Box: 04
Identifier: MS411
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of records relating to the operation of the library society during the period of Scott's presidency. These include copies of by-laws and the contract for the site of library itself, as well as a resolution taken toward the end of her tenure. There is also a notebook containing lists and financial information from the period of her leadership. For minutes, see the official society records and those of the library.
Another document of note is a letter of...
Dates:
1937 - 1939
May Family Papers (MS233)
Collection
Identifier: MS233
Content Description
This collection includes records and correspondence relating to the William H. May & Son Company, including an undated four page list of supplies available from the company. There are also flyers with information and pictures relating to nineteenth century farm equipment from other companies. Other correspondence shows William H. May's involvement with the International Silver Company and the Alexandria Home Insurance Company. There is also a letter to William H. May from a Russian...
Dates:
1846-1949 (Bulk, 1876-1913)
Mollie Somerville Collection (MS156)
Collection
Identifier: MS156
Content Description
This collection contains the manuscripts and source notes for A Guide to Alexandria: Alexandria, Virginia, George Washington's Home Town (1966) and Washington Walked Here (1970). The collection also holds several boxes of photographs.
Dates:
1966-1970
North Old Town Independent Citizens Civic Association (MS136)
Collection
Identifier: MS136
Content Description
The collection includes organizational papers, minutes, correspondence, and other materials documenting NOTICe’s formation, relationships to other organizations and various projects and concerns. The Minutes series is the biggest. The set of minutes is fairly complete; however there are occasional gaps where we have only the agenda for a meeting.
Dates:
1999-ongoing
Old Town Civic Association (MS291)
Collection
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
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- Alexandria Library Association (1897-1937) 2
- Alexandria Library Society (1937-1953) 2
- Burke, Ellen Coolidge 2
- Cazenove, William Gardner, 1819-1877 2
- Cox, Ethelyn, 1908-1988 2
- Cummings, Helen Norris, 1865-1949 2
- Lee, Cassius F., 1808-1890 2
- The Alexandria Gazette 2
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- Alexandria Canal Company 1
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- Bah, Char McCargo 1
- Barrett, Kate Waller, Dr., 1958-1925 1
- Beatley, Charles E., Jr., 1916-2003 1
- Beverly Hills Women's Club 1
- Boothe Family 1
- Boothe, Armistead L. (Armistead Lloyd), 1907-1990 1
- Boothe, Eleanor Harrison Carr, 1881-1968 1
- Boothe, Gardner L. (Gardner Lloyd), 1872-1964 1
- Boothe, William J. (William Jeremiah), 1816-1894 1
- Bryant, J. C. Herbert ((John Carlyle Herbert)), 1909-1983 1
- Carne, Cecilia Catherine Latruite (Shakes), 1804-1891 1
- Carne, Richard L., 1797-1867 1
- Carne, William F., 1832-1909 1
- Carr Family 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
- Citizens Against the Stadium (1992) 1
- Cummings, Norris Stanley, 1834-1904 1
- Davidson, Florence English, 1882-1942 1
- DeVaughn, James H. , 1816-1899 1
- DeVaughn, Mary 1
- Doré, Gustave (Paul Gustave Louis Christophe), 1832-1883 1
- Duncan, James M., Jr. (James Morton), 1897-1967 1
- Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William), 1831-1903 1
- Ficklin, Cecelia M., 1876-1951 1
- Ficklin, M. J. Kroes, 1872-1962 1
- Ficklin, Theodore H., 1846-1919 1
- Gaines Family (Alexandria, Va.) 1
- Gardner, Anne Eliza, 1819-1885 1
- Gardner, Eulalie, 1893-1984 1
- Green Mansion House Hotel 1
- Green and Bros. Furniture Company 1
- Green family 1
- Green, Esther Holiday, 1889-1981 1
- Green, Richard Mayger, 1860-1941 1
- Harmon, Aaron Davis, 1799-1869 1
- Harrison Family 1
- Hodge Family (Alexandria, Va.) 1
- Joynt, John Howard 1
- Kabler, Dorothy, 1918-2017 1
- Kabler, William 1
- Kaye, Ruth Lincoln, 1918-2014 1
- Kirby, Mary Eleanor (Shakes), 1818-1863 1
- Lee Family 1
- Loeb, Morris, 1878-1969 1
- Maclear, G. F. (George Frederick), 1833-1902 1
- Mary Louisa Slacum Benham, 1802-1884 1
- May Family 1
- May, Carroll Hackney, 1882-1950 1
- May, Effie H. (DeVaughn), 1859-1903 1
- May, Emily 1
- May, John W., 1855-1930 1
- May, William H., 1822-1910 1
- Mayger family 1
- McCrae, Carolyn Phillips, Mrs. 1
- McKenney, Ashton N. (Mike), 1921-2005 1
- More, Marguerite Ellen, 1925-1990 1
- Mourot, Arthur J., Dr. (Arthur James), 1904-1998 1
- Muir family 1
- Myers, Jacob Christian 1
- Nevin, Alfred, 1816-1890 1
- Norris, Hannon E. (Hannon Edwards), 1898-1962 1
- North Old Town Independent Citizens Association. NOTICe 1
- Pettit, Janice A. 1
- Pettit, Rufus D. , 1825-1891 1
- Potomac, Piedmont and Valley Agricultural Society (Alexandria, Va.) 1
- Powell, Mary Crawford (Gregory), 1847-1928 1
- Ricketts, John Thomas, 1805-1863 1
- Rodgers, Joseph F., 1853-1937 1
- Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carow, 1861-1948. 1
- Rowe, DeAnn 1
- Ruscak, Richard R. 1
- Rutledge, Richard 1
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