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Nicholas Colasanto Collection (MS035)

 Collection
Identifier: MS035
Scope and Contents

This collection contains letters, political memorabilia, several programs from various organizations, personal photos, and other miscellaneous ephemera.

Dates: 1947-1980

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

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

Vertical File (Manuscript) (MS240)

 Collection
Identifier: MS240
Scope and Contents The manuscripts vertical file is an open artificial collection containing a wide variety of unique manuscript items relating to Alexandria, Virginia residents, businesses, organizations, and history.The majority of the items are manuscript pages but the collection also includes books and ephemera. It is strong in local business advertisements, stationary, and records as well as correspondence, legal and financial papers, memorabilia, and school-related documents. The majority of...
Dates: 1767 - 2008

Montgomery Dent Corse Papers (MS065)

 Collection
Identifier: MS065
Content Description

The bulk of the collection is related to Montgomery D. Corse's military career, including muster rolls, commission and discharge certificates, and 63 letters written by Corse to his wife, Elizabeth Beverley Corse, during his participation in the Civil War. In addition, the papers of Midshipman William H. Peters and a few letters written by Mrs. Corse are included.

Dates: 1846-1982

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

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

Polly Hulfish Collection (MS408)

 Collection
Identifier: MS408
Scope and Contents Records kept by Polly Hulfish from the operations of the Old Alexandria Restoration, Inc. (1961-1974). These records consist of documents pertaining to almost 100 houses in Alexandria purchased, renovated, and restored by the organization. Documents include those covering the purchase and sale of each property, receipts from the businesses that provided services and materials, tax records, employment records, blueprints and drawings, photographs, news clippings, all Corporation records, and...
Dates: 1961-1972

Robert Clinton Rutledge Collection (MS406)

 Collection
Identifier: MS406
Content Description

The bulk of these papers are correspondence between Robert Rutledge and Harriet Hulfish. Besides information about their relationship, this correspondence refers to Army camp life where Rutledge was stationed in Camp Lee, Virginia; San Francisco, California; Tennessee; Kentucky; and Texas. The papers also contain an illustrated catalog of Staunton Military Academy, and a play and short stories authored by Rutledge.

Dates: 1939-1945

Alexandria Library Company Records (MS002)

 Collection
Identifier: MS002
Content Description

The collection consists of circulation, subscription, and financial ledgers, annual lecture series documents, catalogues, correspondence, and various organizational documents. Topics include: foundation of the Alexandria Library Company, its cycles of growth and decline reflecting the local economy; the formation of the local public library system; and the on-going activities of the Alexandria Library Company, most notably its lecture series.

Dates: 1794-2007

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Local History and Special Collections Branch, Alexandria Library 322
 
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Subject
Schools -- Virginia -- Alexandria. 5
Letters. 3
African Americans -- Virginia -- Alexandria. 2
Alexandria (Va.) -- Genealogy. 2
Alexandria (Va.) -- History 2
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Alexandria (Va.). Library 2
Business -- Virginia -- Alexandria 2
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Church records and registers. -- Virginia -- Alexandria 2
Genealogy 2
Groverton Elementary School (Fairfax County, Va.) 2
Historic buildings -- Virginia -- Alexandria -- Conservation and restoration. 2
Historic districts -- Conservation and restoration -- United States. 2
Historic districts -- Virginia -- Alexandria 2
Houses -- Virginia -- Alexandria. 2
Photographs. 2
Public libraries. 2
Public schools 2
World War -- 1939-1945 2
African American neighborhoods -- Virginia -- Alexandria. 1
Alexandria (Va.) 1
Alexandria (Va.) -- Newspapers 1
Alexandria (Va.) -- Social life and customs 1
Alexandria (Va.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. 1
Alexandria Gazette 1
American Legion. Auxiliary 1
Architecture -- Virginia -- Alexandria. 1
Associations, institutions, etc 1
Benham family 1
Benham, Mary Louise Slacum, 1802-1884 1
Churches 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 17th 1
Coolidge, Grace Goodhue, 1879-1957 1
Dairy farms -- Virginia -- Fairfax County 1
Deeds -- Virginia -- Alexandria. 1
Education. 1
George Washington Masonic National Memorial (Alexandria, Va.) 1
Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) 1
Historic Alexandria Foundation 1
Journalists. 1
Law offices -- Alexandria (Va.) 1
Lawyers. 1
Lectures and Lecturing 1
Lee-Jackson High School (Alexandria, Va.) 1
Libraries -- Subscription Libraries 1
Lincoln Memorial (Washington, D.C.) 1
Masonic buildings--Virginia--Alexandria--1910-1920 1
Mexican War -- 1846-1848 1
Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate) 1
Mount Vernon High School (Fairfax County, Va.) 1
National Guard 1
Oregon -- History -- To 1859 1
Parades 1
Parker-Gray Schools (Alexandria, Va.) 1
Politicians -- Virginia -- Alexandria 1
Politicians. 1
Politics and culture -- United States. 1
Potomac River 1
Quakers -- Social life and customs 1
Quakers -- Virginia 1
Quakers -- Virginia -- Fairfax County. 1
Red Cross -- Virginia -- Alexandria 1
Reminiscences 1
School boards. 1
School integration -- Virginia 1
Ship registers -- Alexandria (Va.) 1
Skating 1
Slacum family 1
Spanish-American War, 1898 1
Sports journalism. 1
The Academy Journal 1
Thomas Jefferson Memorial (Washington, D.C.) 1
Tidal Basin (Washington, D.C.) 1
Tulloch family 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
United States. Army. Volunteer Cavalry, 1st. 1
Virginia -- Genealogy. 1
Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century 1
White House (Washington, D.C.) 1
White House Easter Egg Roll 1
Wilkinson family 1
Women -- Societies and clubs. 1
Woodlawn Farmers' Club 1
Woodlawn Horse Company 1
Woodlawn Housekeeping Society 1
Woodlawn Literary Association 1
World War II 1
Yearbooks. 1
schools 1
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Names
Alexandria Library Association (1897-1937) 2
Alexandria Library Company (1794-1881, 1953) 2
Alexandria Library Society (1937-1953) 2
Green, Esther Holiday, 1889-1981 2
Mary Louisa Slacum Benham, 1802-1884 2
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Alexandria Canal Company 1
Alexandria Water Company 1
Ballinger Family 1
Barrett, Kate Waller, Dr., 1958-1925 1
Beatley, Charles E., Jr., 1916-2003 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
Burke, Ellen Coolidge 1
Carr Family 1
Carr, Joseph Armistead, 1867-1901 1
Colasanto, Nicholas A. (Nicholas Anthony), 1904-1983 1
Corse, Elizabeth (Beverley), 1823-1894 1
Corse, Montgomery Dent, 1816-1895 1
Cox, Ethelyn, 1908-1988 1
Cox, Gilbert J., Jr. (Gilbert Jefferson) 1
Duncan, James M., Jr. (James Morton), 1897-1967 1
Gardner, Eulalie, 1893-1984 1
Green Mansion House Hotel 1
Green and Bros. Furniture Company 1
Green family 1
Green, Richard Mayger, 1860-1941 1
Hallowell, James S., 1821-1886 1
Hallowell, Margaret S. (Margaret Stabler), 1824-1900 1
Harrison Family 1
Hastings, Rebecca Lloyd (Stearns), 1856-1872 1
Hernandez, José Mariano, 1788-1857 1
Hoge, Mary Barlow (Stearns), 1850-1925 1
Hulfish, Harriet Virginia, 1922-2003 1
Hulfish, Marianne "Polly" Minnigerode (Maigne), 1908-1981 1
Lee, Mary Randolph Custis, 1807-1873. 1
Lloyd Family 1
Mayger family 1
More, Marguerite Ellen, 1925-1990 1
Muir family 1
Old Alexandria Restoration, Inc. (1960-1971) 1
Potomac, Piedmont and Valley Agricultural Society (Alexandria, Va.) 1
Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carow, 1861-1948. 1
Rutledge, Richard 1
Rutledge, Robert Clinton, 1920-2004 1
St. John's Academy 1
Stearns Family 1
Stearns, Anne Harriotte Lloyd, Anne Harriotte (Lloyd), 1826-1888 1
Stearns, John Lloyd, 1852-1911 1
Stearns, Robert Lawrence, Robert Lawrence, 1858-1888 1
Tulloch, John Walton, 1900-1951 1
Tulloch, Walton B. (Walton Blair), 1929-1995 1
Whitton, Robert Goodacre, 1906-1986 1
Wilkinson family 1
Wilkinson, Francis H. (Frank), 1864-1935 1
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