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John Toole Collection (MS067)

 Collection — Assorted Box: 02
Identifier: MS067
Content Description The collection contains handwritten abstracts/summaries of letters dated 1838-1857 held in the University of Virginia. These are mainly written by John Toole to his wife, Mary Jane Suddarth Toole, but also other including his children, George and Jennie Toole, and a friend, Tom Moore. The letters concern Toole's experiences and accomplishments as a traveling portraitist, his children's education, John and Jennie's letters to their mother from the Virginia Military Institute and Petersburg...
Dates: 1838-1959

Margaret M. MacGill Genealogy Collection (MS254)

 Collection
Identifier: MS254
Content Description

The collection consists of information on the O’Meara, Lynch, Beach, Gossom, and Voorhees families including many collateral lines. Included is correspondence, notes, copies of documents (birth, death, marriage, deeds, wills, military, etc), articles, obituaries, and other miscellaneous items. All pertaining to the history and genealogy of the aforementioned names.

Dates: 2018-01-01 - 2018-04-01

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

McKnight, Piercy, and Jacobs Collection (MS051)

 Collection
Identifier: MS051
Content Description

This collection consists of three series related to the McKnight, Piercy, and Jacobs families. In each series there are sub-series of letters, legal documents, and genealogical materials. Contents also include military records, harbor and ballast master papers, an 1849 inaugural ball invitation, and miniature portraits of William P. McKnight and Margaret Jacobs. McKnight correspondence relates to the Civil War.

Dates: 1792-1973 (bulk, 1800-1865).

Ramsay Family Papers Collection (MS012)

 Collection
Identifier: MS012
Content Description

This Collection contains a number of items all from the original Ramsay Family papers which were donated to the Smithsonian Institute: an account book from Andrew and William Ramsay dated 1798-1801, photocopies of Ramsay letters, history of Ramsay house, genealogical notes on the Ramsay family, Rebecca Ramsay Reese papers and diaries.

Dates: 1742-1960

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

Shakes Letter Collection (MS005)

 Collection
Identifier: MS005
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of letters, notes, business documents, and genealogical research from and on the Shakes, Carne, and Ficklin families. The materials were donated by various uknown donors from 1983-2015 and compiled into a collection created by Alexandria Library's Lloyd House and later Local History/Special Collections branch.

Dates: 1778-2015

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Alexandria Canal Company 1
Alexandria Water Company 1
Andrews family 1
Bah, Char McCargo 1
Boothe Family 1
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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
Carne, Cecilia Catherine Latruite (Shakes), 1804-1891 1
Carne, Richard L., 1797-1867 1
Carr Family 1
Carr, Joseph Armistead, 1867-1901 1
Chapman Family 1
Cummings, Helen Norris, 1865-1949 1
Cummings, Norris Stanley, 1834-1904 1
Curtin, Bertha A. 1
Custis family 1
Doré, Gustave (Paul Gustave Louis Christophe), 1832-1883 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
Funk family 1
Gaines Family (Alexandria, Va.) 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
Harrison Family 1
Hodge Family (Alexandria, Va.) 1
Kaye, Ruth Lincoln, 1918-2014 1
Kirby, Mary Eleanor (Shakes), 1818-1863 1
Lee family 1
Lynch, James B., Jr., Dr., 1919-2008 1
MacGill, Margaert M. O'Meara, 1919-2008 1
Maclear, G. F. (George Frederick), 1833-1902 1
Mayger family 1
McCrae, Carolyn Phillips, Mrs. 1
McKnight family 1
Moon family 1
Muir family 1
Nevin, Alfred, 1816-1890 1
Parke family 1
Pickens, John K., 1918-1976 1
Potomac, Piedmont and Valley Agricultural Society (Alexandria, Va.) 1
Powell, Mary Crawford (Gregory), 1847-1928 1
Ramsay House 1
Ramsay family 1
Reese, Rebecca (Ramsay), 1870-1955 1
Ricketts, John Thomas, 1805-1863 1
Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carow, 1861-1948. 1
Ruebush family 1
Rutledge, Richard 1
Shakes, Amanda, 1805-1861 1
Shakes, John, 1775-1860 1
Shakes, Sarah (LaTruite), 1786-1845 1
Templeman, Eleanor Lee ((Reading)), 1906-1990 1
Toole, John, 1815-1860 1
Toole, Mary Jane Suddarth, 1817-1902 1
Washington family 1
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