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Armistead Boothe Papers (MS164)
Collection
Identifier: MS164
Content Description
These papers reflect Armistead Boothe's advocacy of civil rights legislation, and his political activity with such issues as public schools, transportation, segregation and other political issues in Virginia, especially during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Personal papers in this collection relate to family matters such as Gardner Boothe's courtship of Eleanor Carr and to Armistead Boothe's school and military experiences. The collection includes scrapbooks, journals, albums, memorabilia...
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
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
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