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Roberts United Methodist Church Records (MS048)

 Collection
Identifier: MS048
Content Description The original collection consisted of a variety of record books and other loose materials. The books recorded the attendance at the Sunday School as well as more general church events, such as a list of contributors or the events of the quarterly conferences on the condition of the church. Of particular interest to historians of the church may be the notes of the pastors in the front of the Comprehensive Church Record (folder 6) which record some of the financial and congregational struggles...
Dates: 1877 - 1913

Relief Truck and Engine Co. #1 Collection (MS130)

 Collection
Identifier: MS130
Content Description

The collection consists of 4 minute books for the Relief Truck and Engine Co. #1, and a memorial for R. McKim Barley.

Dates: 1788-1924

Building Specifications Collection (MS280)

 Collection
Identifier: MS280
Content Description

The collection contains building specifications for Alexandria buildings and businesses.

Dates: 1929-1959

Vaughan Kester Collection (MS273)

 Collection
Identifier: MS273
Content Description

The collection consists of the original handwritten manuscript of John O’ Jamestown (1907).

Dates: 1907

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

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

ALIVE (ALexandrians InVolved Ecumenically) Records (MS300)

 Collection
Identifier: MS300
Scope and Contents

The ALIVE! collection contains annual reports, financial records, correspondence, minutes, training materials, flyers, clippings, and newsletters from throughout the history of the organization but with an emphasis on the 1980s and early 1990s. It also contains material from individual committees and programs, and particularly the Family Emergency Committee. For additional detail see the descriptions of the individual series.

Dates: 1969 - 1995

Helen Norris Cummings Papers (MS072)

 Collection
Identifier: MS072
Content Description This collection consists of the research materials of Helen Norris Cummings, founder of the Cameron Club, member of the Federation of Women's Club, and local historian.The correspondence spans the period from 1870 to 1943. Most of the pre-1905 letters deal with genealogy, and the majority of these are addressed to Emma, Helen's mother. Approximately half of the 1905 to 1920 letters are also Emma's. Many of Helen's letters deal with political issues, such as immigration and...
Dates: 1865 - 1949

Alexandria Scrapbook Collection (MS003)

 Collection
Identifier: MS003
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of 2 books that have been converted to scrapbooks by gluing playbills, poems, articles, drawings, and religious materials onto the pages. The scrapbook in folder 1 contains religious articles, poetry, and images pasted into a book on agricultural reports. The scrapbook in folder 2 contains playbills and concert programs from the National Theater, Ford’s Opera House, the Alexandria Musical Association, the Vocal Society of the Assembly Presbyterian Church, etc.

Dates: 1830-1893

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American Defense Society. 1
Americanization. 1
Anti-communist movements -- United States. 1
Antisemitism -- United States. 1
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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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Movement Against Socialism in the Church 1
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Spanish-American War, 1898 1
St. Mary's Academy (Alexandria, Virginia) 1
Swann-Daingerfield House (Alexandria, Va.) 1
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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
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Woodlawn Farmers' Club 1
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Kester, Vaughan, 1869-1911 2
O'Sullivan, Daniel, 1828-1904 2
Alexandria Canal Company 1
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