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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

Delos H. Smith Collection (MS307)

 Collection
Identifier: MS307
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of some of Delos Smith's personal papers. They range from notes on the local history of Alexandria to drawings and bills from the construction of his house at 735 S. Lee Street. It also includes some tourist guides to Glasgow, Scotland and various articles he had collected in regard to religion and history. There are also two boxes of mostly glass plate negatives of various churches and architecture.

Dates: 1900-1950

Whitton Collection (MS027)

 Collection
Identifier: MS027
Scope and Contents

This collection contains printed matter such as brochures of George Washington's birthday, the Washington Board of Trade, the Suburban Spectator and others. Additionally, there are limited correspondence, reports of the Historic Alexandria Foundation, annual reports of the Alexandria Library, several booklets, photographs, and postcards.

Dates: 1843-1989

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

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

Daniel O’Sullivan Collection (MS141)

 Collection
Identifier: MS141
Content Description

The Daniel O'Sullivan collection consists of business records and correspondence related to Daniel Sullivan and his son Michael R. Sullivan who owned and operated a rooming house, and wholesale grocery and liquor store in the 1850s-1940s. Items also include a letter from Jeremiah O'Brien who fought for the 26th Regiment of the New York Volunteer Infantry and writes concerning battles fought during 1861-1862.

Dates: 1850-1912

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

Sangster Papers (MS294)

 Collection
Identifier: MS294
Content Description The letters in this collection center around the children and family of Edward Ford Sangster (1802-1883) an Alexandria resident, and his wife Mary Kendall Lee of the Ditchly Lees. Their children; John ( Jack ), Tom, James ( Jim ), Virginia Lee ( sister ) and Mary Edward ( "Puss" ) are all represented in the correspondence. William Wallace Bennett was the fiance, and later, husband of Virginia Lee. Many of Bennett's earlier letters deal with church matters and his impending marriage to...
Dates: 1853-1891

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

Stearns Family Papers (MS161)

 Collection
Identifier: MS161
Content Description

The letters in this collection were written to John Lloyd Stearns by various family members and friends between 1864 and 1888. They span his lifetime from age 13 to age 36, and primarily reflect the family's day-to-day economic concerns, their relationships with each other and with extended family members, their travels, their living conditions and their work situations. Also included in the collection are miscellaneous papers of Robert Lawrence Stearns, John's younger brother.

Dates: 1864 - 1888

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American Defense Society. 1
Americanization. 1
Anti-communist movements -- United States. 1
Antisemitism -- United States. 1
Architecture -- Virginia -- Alexandria. 1
Athenaeum (Alexandria, Va.) 1
Auxiliary National Patriotic Council 1
Basilica of St. Mary (Alexandria, Virginia) 1
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Benham, Mary Louise Slacum, 1802-1884 1
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Churchwoman's Patriotic League 1
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Council of the Original Thirteen States 1
Daughters of the American Revolution -- Alexandria (Va.) 1
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Fires -- Virginia -- Alexandria 1
Ford's Opera House (Washington, D. C.) 1
Groverton Elementary School (Fairfax County, Va.) 1
Gum Springs (Va.) 1
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Historic districts -- Virginia -- Alexandria 1
Historical novels 1
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Industrial Defense Association 1
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Lee-Jackson High School (Alexandria, Va.) 1
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Mount Vernon High School (Fairfax County, Va.) 1
Movement Against Socialism in the Church 1
National Patriotic Council 1
Old Presbyterian Meeting House (Alexandria, Va.) 1
Oregon -- History -- To 1859 1
Plays. 1
Poetry. 1
Public schools 1
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Reminiscences 1
School integration -- Virginia 1
Schools -- Virginia -- Alexandria. 1
Scrapbooks. 1
Ship registers -- Alexandria (Va.) 1
Slacum family 1
Spanish-American War, 1898 1
St. Mary's Academy (Alexandria, Virginia) 1
Swann-Daingerfield House (Alexandria, Va.) 1
Theater and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century. 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 26th (1861-1863) 1
United States. Army. Volunteer Cavalry, 1st. 1
Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. 1
Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs 1
Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century 1
Women civic leaders. 1
Woodlawn Farmers' Club 1
World War -- 1939-1945 1
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Kester, Vaughan, 1869-1911 2
O'Sullivan, Daniel, 1828-1904 2
Alexandria Canal Company 1
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Beverly Hills Women's Club 1