{"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Bdate_range%5D%5B%5D=1909\u0026f%5Blevel%5D%5B%5D=Collection\u0026page=6","prev":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Bdate_range%5D%5B%5D=1909\u0026f%5Blevel%5D%5B%5D=Collection\u0026page=5","next":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Bdate_range%5D%5B%5D=1909\u0026f%5Blevel%5D%5B%5D=Collection\u0026page=7","last":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Bdate_range%5D%5B%5D=1909\u0026f%5Blevel%5D%5B%5D=Collection\u0026page=300"},"meta":{"pages":{"current_page":6,"next_page":7,"prev_page":5,"total_pages":300,"limit_value":10,"offset_value":50,"total_count":2992,"first_page?":false,"last_page?":false}},"data":[{"id":"vaallhs_repositories_2_resources_128","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"Alexandria Library Company Records (MS002)","creator":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vaallhs_repositories_2_resources_128#creator","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"Alexandria Library Company","label":"Creator"}},"abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vaallhs_repositories_2_resources_128#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c/p\u003e","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vaallhs_repositories_2_resources_128#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"vaallhs_repositories_2_resources_128","ead_ssi":"vaallhs_repositories_2_resources_128","_root_":"vaallhs_repositories_2_resources_128","_nest_parent_":"vaallhs_repositories_2_resources_128","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/ALEX/repositories_2_resources_128.xml","aspace_url_ssi":"https://alexlibraryva.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/resources/128","title_ssm":["Alexandria Library Company Records (MS002)"],"title_tesim":["Alexandria Library Company Records (MS002)"],"unitdate_ssm":["1794-2007"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1794-2007"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["MS002","/repositories/2/resources/128"],"text":["MS002","/repositories/2/resources/128","Alexandria Library Company Records (MS002)","Libraries -- Subscription Libraries","Lectures and Lecturing","Associations, institutions, etc","Public libraries.","Reel 00037, beginning of the reel.","Reel 00037, filmed after 1911-1930 volume but before the Executive minutes of 1938-1947.","Reel 00037 after 1794-1861 volume.","Reel 00037, following 1897-1911 volume.","Reel 00037 filmed after 1868-1879 minutes but before the 1938-1947 executive board minutes.","In 1967, Marjorie Darnell Evans completed a multi-year thesis project for Catholic University of America publishing a reorganized 1815 catalog in alphabetical order by author, and a typed copy of the original as an appendix, of which photocopies also exist.","On Archive.org \nhttps://archive.org/details/catalogueofalexa00alex/page/n5","Reel 00039","The accounting records in the subscription books shifted back and forth between two systems, one listing transactions chronologically and the other listing them under the names of individuals.","\nWith the exception of the 1826-1854 book, all entries are characterized by double-entry bookkeeping, with the left side page documenting money going out (\"to\"), and the right hand page documenting money coming in (\"by\"), this can be confusing as bills for subscriptions seem at times to have been listed in the outgoing section.","\nMost of the books begin with indexes of numbered names in no clear order. The same numbers appear in columns toward the right of the accounts pages, just before the amounts, apparently signifying people and groups with which the transactions were undertaken. These numbers should not be confused with the columns on the left indicating the calendar day. They were dropped around 1826.","\nPayments under the names of individuals appear in the first part of the 1794-1799 volume, the latter parts of the 1799-1809 and 1809-1819 volumes, and throughout the bulk of the two volumes covering 1820-1828.","Arrangement is by year of lecture under its title and orator apart from the seat plan and correspondence on administrative issues. Those are arranged chronologically. Lectures in the modern series were assigned numbers by the Library Company until 1980.","The printed 1801 and 1815 catalogs were arranged by subject and size, with the 1815 supplement seemingly arranged in accession order. ","\nThe 1856 printed catalog was arranged alphabetically by author or title. ","\nWorking catalogs are arranged by number, except that the 1830-1848 switched to a subject system sometime after 1834 and the 1876 is arranged alphabetically. ","\nCatalogs from 1898 on use a version of the Dewey Decimal System. \nThe old magazines are arranged by title. ","\nSee individual arrangement notes for details. ","Civil History, Voyages and Travels, Biography, Antiquities, Geography, and Maps etc. (p.13)  Folios (1-9)  Quartos (10-24)  Octavos (25-109)  Duodecima and Infra (110-151)  Ecclesiastical History, Theology, Didactic Pieces, Moral Philosophy, and Metaphysics (p.29)  Folios (152-154)  Quartos (155-156)  Octavos (157-188)  Duodecima and Infra (189-218)  Arts and Sciences, Natural History, Natural Philosophy, and Miscellaneous Literature (p. 35)  Folios (219-222)  Quartos (223-225)  Octavos (226-266)  Duodecima and Infra (267-293)  Law, Politics, Political Economy, Agriculture, Commerce, etc. (p.42)  Folios (294-295)  Quartos (296)  Octavos (297-326)  Duodecima and Infra (327-338)  Poetry, Plays, Belles Lettres, and Criticism etc. (p.47)  Octavos (339-353)  Duodecima and Infra (354-385)  Novels and Romances (p.52)  Octavos (386)  Duodecimas and Infra (387-427)  Appendix and Supplementary (428-452) (p.54) ","The 1,027 titles were assigned numbers according to the following classification system based on size and subject. The title counts are taken from Evans, 1967.","Miscellaneous Folios (21 titles)  Miscellaneous Quarto (33 titles)  Civil History, Voyages and Travels, Geography, Antiquities, Biography, etc.  Octavos (223 titles)  Duodecima and Infra (95 titles)  Ecclesiastical History, Theology, Essays Moral and Religious, Moral Philosophy and Metaphysics etc.  Octavos (54 titles)  Duodecima and Infra (47 titles)  Miscellaneous _______ General Science, The Arts, Domestic Economy, Natural Philosophy, Periodical Essays, Magazines and Reviews, etc.  Octavo (72 titles)  Duodecima and Infra (43 titles)  Law, Politics, Political Economy, Agriculture, Commerce, etc.  Octavo (60 titles)  Duodecima and Infra (13 titles)  Poetry, the Drama, Belles Lettres, and Criticism Octavo (39 titles)  Duodecima and Infra (13 titles)  Novels and Romances etc. (130 titles)  Appendix-Supplementary and Miscellaneous (30 titles) ","The catalog uses a numbering system in which the full number is given only every hundred and but which otherwise provides only the last two digits, hence the sequence: 98, 99, 1100, 01, 02. ","\nThe main portion of the catalog appears to be in accession order. At the end of the numbers #1,028-#1,728, a cross-listing of about 20 periodical works appears.","History #1-122 -Ecclesiastical History Biography #1-145 Voyages and Travels #1-213 Theology #1-113 Lexicography [crossed out] #1-6 Periodicals #1-31 Novels and Romances #1-350","As well as the unnumbered subjects: ","Poetry, Belles Letters and the Drama Lexicography, Statistics and Encyclopedia Chemistry, Minerology, Surgery, and Materia Medica Periodicals, Philosophy, and Miscellaneous and General Science Law, Oratory of the Bar, and Military and Political Journals","The catalog is arranged alphabetically, usually by author, but otherwise by title. Different volumes bear different numbers. A certain amount of cross-listing is also evident, most obviously through the appendix of Tours, Voyages, and Travels, containing works listed by country that also appear in the main catalog by author. Multi-volume works have the number of volumes indicated following their titles, their numbers end with hyphens to indicate an ascending number for each successive volume.","\nThere are some variations in how titles are counted. The \"Edinburg Encyclopedia\" for example is listed as #1- with 21 volumes but under \"Encyclopedia, Domestic\" it is listed as \"Edinburg\" with 18 volumes and a separate 3 volume supplement at #19-.","The catalog is arranged numerically from 1 to 5,063 following the model of the 1815 Supplement, with numbers greater than 100 being listed in full only every 100 numbers and at the top of each page, but otherwise by their last two digits (e.g. 98, 99, 3900, 1, 2).","\nEntries include the number, title, and volume of the work. The last three pages have volume numbers and titles. Their sequence is unclear and some are periodicals.","The arrangement of the catalog is alphabetical by title with a few additional sections by subject.  The alphabetical portion includes the letters A-N and Q-Y with the letters O and P missing. The subject headings are \"History\" after \"H,\" \"Letters\" after \"L,\" \"Memoirs\" after \"M,\" and \"British Prose Writers\" after \"P.\" A similar practice was used for the \"Pamphlets\" section of Drinker's catalog of the 1830-1848.  Books are numbered up to 4,314.","The main listing of titles is alphabetical by titles beginning with the letters \"R\" and \"S.\"","Arrangement is by classification number and title based on a version of the Dewey Decimal System, but differs from the fifth edition (1894) in some respects, such as listing 973 as \"Egypt\" rather than the United States. (see the 1894 at https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007477697)","\nClass headings and numbers are followed by subclass numbers, the first two letters of the author's name, and a number in case there are multiple books by that author. Volumes and publications dates are appended to the end of the title.","\nCase numbers (shelf locations) have been written in by hand as well as additional titles written in the margins.","The classification is identical to the 1898 except for the added subheadings of Cuba, Japan, and Korea.\nThere is an alphabetical index of subjects.","The 1912 supplement to the catalog was arranged according the same version of the Dewey Decimal System used in previous publications, with classification numbers for which no books were added to the collection omitted. The two lists of magazines divided them into bound and unbound collections, each arranged by title and date.","Alphabetical by title. Note that bound and unbound magazines are grouped together, rather than separated as in the 1912 supplement list.","The original circulation book of 1794-1795 contains two different systems for tracking loans and borrowers. The columns of the initial system included, from left-to-right: patron name, the time the book was out, book number, and book size. Each book size had its own column, which from left-to-right were folio, \"4-to\" (quarto), \"8-vo\" (octavio), \"12-mo\" (duodecimo or twelvemo), and \"16-mo\" (sextodecimo or sixteenmo).","\nThis method was abandoned, and subsequently an attempt was made to record circulation by subscriber. Each subscriber was assigned a number and accorded a set of pages bearing that number instead of page numbers. An index of them appears at the back with some names crossed out. They are not in alphabetical order on the whole, and may represent the order in which they become subscribers. The left-hand pages list the books taken out and the right-hand pages represent returns. As such, similar years and dates are repeated on both sides.","\nBy the start of the 1801-1805 records, the library \nhad switched to a chronological format, which was flexible enough to accommodate increases in the number of subscribers and variations in their degree of patronage but at the cost of making an individual's activity more difficult to isolate. Columns consisted of: patron, title number and volume number, date and day of the week, date returned, and the number of days late and fine (if any).","\nThis remained standard through 1834 with minor variations, like the addition of a date at the top of the page in the 1814-1818 volume, which lasted into the 1830s, and a key for marks indicating returns and renewals in the 1822-1824 volume.","\nThe 1841-1848 volume introduced a new system which separated each set of records into daily sections, with a heading for each day. The columns from left-to-right provided: title number, patron name, returned date, and subject section; the latter being a feature of the working catalog in use at the time.","\nAbbreviated titles started to appear near the end of June 1845, with some of them being numbered and others not. By July 1845, a majority of the entries were like that. This method disappeared and reappeared over the years that followed.","\nBetween September 1846 and September 1848 the circulation records were kept in the second part of an account book (see notes for the subscription series). The subject system continued during this period under a new organization of columns, consisting of: subject, number (within subject), patron name (with volume number), and finally a column with either a note saying \"return,\" a date, or often a blank field.","\nThe 1857-1858 volume has alphabetical tabs on which patrons are recorded chronologically under the first letter of their name. The columns are also different. From left-to-right they include:  date, patron name (including institutions), title number, and return date. The year is given at the top. In place of a return note, some fields contain other notes like \"mistake\" or \"transferred to Roxbury,\" which are open to interpretation. Titles resume appearing in place of numbers in mid-1858.","\nThe volume covering 1862-1868 shows considerable variation. Initially it featured columns on the left with headings for each day followed by the patron name, while on the right the columns showed the title number and return date. Starting on September 27, 1859 (page 114), the left-hand column was divided between patron name and title, while the columns for title number and return date on the right remained in place. From March 1860 (page 127) to March 1861 (page 175) it returned to the earlier format.","\nThe 1870-1871 volume introduced the columns that would be standard for most of the remainder of the series ending in 1880. They consisted of checkout date, patron name, book title, title number, and return date. The exception was a period beginning in May 1871 and ending on 1 January 1872 of the 1871-1872 volume. During that period, the records provided sections by patron name, with columns for checkout date, title, and return date. There were no title numbers during that period. The arrangement of names was partially alphabetized, possibly reflecting the addition of new names to an originally alphabetical arrangement.","\nIt can be difficult to tell what year it is in some of the later volumes. In the 1872-1874 volume year breaks occur on pages 113 (1873) and 292 (1874). In the 1874-1880 volume they occur on pages 137 (1875), 275 (1876), 345 (1877), 375 (1878), 434 (1879), and 454 (1880).","In the 1780s, a discussion group of Alexandria gentlemen called \"The Society for the Promotion of Useful Knowledge\" was formed. In 1794, many of these same individuals gathered to form the nucleus of the Alexandria Library Company (ALC). The ALC was a subscription library modelled after the Philadelphia Library Company, which had also emerged from such a club. ","Society president Reverend John Muir became president of the ALC, a position he would hold for almost 20 years. Many of the library's founders are known to have been members of local Masonic lodges. Elisha Cullen Dick, who had succeeded George Washington as the leader of Lodge 22, was among the first directors of the ALC as well as the secretary of the earlier Society. The first Librarian was Edward Stabler, the proprietor of an apothecary shop. In 1796, Stabler was replaced by James Kennedy, who served as librarian until 1818. Overlaps and family links between the leadership of the library and other Alexandria institutions remained common over the next century and a half. ","For a time, the Alexandria Lyceum (founded in 1838) and the ALC shared a physical space as well as similar missions. The Alexandria Lyceum was founded as part of a national movement focused on educational lectures. The union between the two organizations was dissolved in 1844, but the library continued to rent space from the Lyceum. The library was later said to have been in a state of \"suspended animation\" from around 1846 to 1852. In 1852, a \"Young Men's\" group took over under the original charter, publishing a new catalog in 1856. The library continued to operate into the Civil War. It remained in the Lyceum but not without acrimony, which is evident in the Alexandria Gazette in 1860. ","In October 1867, an agreement was reached with what was variously referred to as the Alexandria Christian Association and the YMCA for assistance with running the library. The library separated from this organization during the early 1870s. By the second half of the 1870s, the library fell into a decline which the directors blamed on the lack of a published catalog. ","The first library catalog had been prepared by Kennedy in 1796 and published sometime thereafter. The earliest catalog of which there is an extant copy was published in 1801, followed by another in 1808 of which there are few traces. A more enduring catalog was created in 1815. The 1830s saw publication of a supplement to the 1815 catalog and the creation of a working catalog that would be used into the late 1840s. Normal circulation records end in April 1861 when the library was converted into a military hospital. There are stray entries in May and December before operations resumed on a limited basis in May 1862 and continued at least through that year. Over a thousand volumes were lost during the war. Due to the decline in usage in the 1870s, a new catalog was produced by librarian Emma J. Young in 1872 but never published. After two years with Young's catalog, another was commissioned from Dr. Theo West, which also went unpublished. As a stopgap, handwritten copies were used by patrons. In 1898, a new catalog was created which utilized a decimal system for the first time. The last published catalog was a supplement to the 1912 version. ","In the late 1870s, appeals were made to the men of Alexandria for support,. The directors met with another \"Young Men's Library Association\" in 1878 without success, records of operations stop after January 1880.","The Gazette reported in January 1881 that the books were now in the custody of the school board, whose membership included William F. Carne, a former library company director and the son of one its former presidents. In May 1887 it reported that Carne, as leader of the board's library committee, was inviting associations wishing to participate in re-opening the library to a meeting at the Peabody school building where the books were held, and explained that he had always intended a reading room to be opened to the public once space was freed up for that purpose.","In June 1887, the Gazette reported that the \"Reading Circle of Washington and Lee Schools\" organized by teachers two years prior and the YMCA would operate the free library during the summer, in the hope that in September \"an effort will be made, with a very fair prospect of success, to re-organize the Library Company.\" Gazette reports in 1890 and 1891 refer to continued efforts by Carne and others to \"re-open\" the library, and in 1892 being part of a \"committee on the project for a free public library,\" but they did not succeed.","In the decades after 1870s librarianship not only professionalized but underwent a rapid gender shift, and apart from the periods in which there was no librarian for financial reasons, no male librarians seem to have been employed until well into the 20th century. Women's library organizations had become common nationally, and along with the philanthropy of Andrew Carnegie played a major role in the growth of public libraries in America starting in the late 19th century.","In September 1897, the Alexandria Library Association led by Virginia Corse received custody of the books then in possession of the school board. With a modest donation from Carnegie, by 1898 the library was back in business, but as a subscription library, it would not become a free public library for almost 40 years. The new library needed a new librarian, and after one or two initial hires, the association found Alice Green (1865-1956), who would serve from 1902-1937 and in a lesser capacity into the mid-1940s. During this period, space for the library was rented from the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC).","The Depression brought financial hardship. As the crisis worsened in early 1931, the association had obtained $1,000 from the city council to form \"a nucleus for the establishment of a public library.\" Discussion of becoming a public library had been common since the 1920s, as the efforts of Carnegie and others had made them the norm nationally. Attempts were made to sell older books and hold fundraisers as subscription fees dried up. There was also a dispute with the UDC over a rent increase in 1933. The library was aided by the wealth of its members, including a $5,000 bequest in 1935 from its long-time treasurer, Margaret L. Smoot.","Members built political support both on the council and among the public in the mid-1930s and in 1937 it was agreed that a building would be constructed on the site of the old cemetery of the Society of Friends and that the city government would cover annual expenses of no more than $5,000 for the association to operate a free library. One member of the board would be appointed by the city. The new governing organization was rebranded the Alexandria Library Society.  Agreements were signed in January, and the library opened at the Kate Waller Barrett Branch's current location, 717 Queen Street.","Another change after 1937 was the gender composition of the leadership. Men served on the board of the new Society and played prominent roles after 1937. After 1948 they typically occupied the presidency of the organization. Most elections were unanimous, often with women casting most of the votes, but it ceased to be a women's organization. ","In 1945 a technicality in the Society's contract with the city was brought to the attention of the board. Namely that the $5,000 the city was obligated to provide each year was not the minimum but rather the maximum contribution, and that the higher appropriations it had been making were illegal. The city took this as an opportunity to demand a contract change beyond the funding formula. Although the men of the city council had representation on the board, the women of the Society were still ultimately running the library, and the Society was asked to allow a majority of the executive board to be appointed by the city, and a minority by the Society. That the city legally \"owned the building and all its contents\" so long as it paid $5,000 per year was also pointed out. The Alexandria Library Society signed the new contract, surrendering control of the library in November 1947. In its reduced role, the Society still elected members to the board and received reports from the librarian. It also retained independent funds that could be used for the benefit of the library. With the library now fully the city's responsibility, the membership was also able to more openly advocate for additional funding.","Another longstanding issue at the library was race. The president's 1928 annual report had endorsed becoming a \"free city library,\" but feared that becoming a Carnegie library \"would bring in some elements hitherto unknown and I think undesirable in our Library.\" In the 1930s the library association favored providing segregated facilities, but, after repeated meetings with the city council, failed to achieve even that modest goal. In the 13 March, 1939, minutes, the issue was revisited yet again, but without result. ","Four days later on 17 March 1939, Sergeant George Wilson was turned down for a library card because of his race and Samuel Tucker filed a civil rights lawsuit against the librarian on his behalf. Plans for a segregated facility were dusted off, and new staff was hired so that the librarian could focus on the controversy. On 21 August 1939, several black men organized by Tucker entered the library and followed Wilson's example, but after being refused, seated themselves in the library with books, beginning America's first library sit-in. It ended only after the city manager called the police, and all were arrested. The lawsuit was dismissed on technical grounds, but to prevent a new lawsuit the city approved the Robert H. Robinson branch, which opened in 1940. Tucker refused to accept a card there. ","A major issue in the early 1950s was the push to expand the overcrowded main library serving the white community. The white librarian at the time, who had been hired in a junior capacity during Tucker's campaign in 1939, suggested to the Society that the expansion could be an opportunity to integrate. In the midst of the debates over expansion and additional funding, an opportunity emerged to purchase a neighboring building on the corner of North Columbus and Queen, which was later demolished. This prompted a discussion about the Alexandria Library Society's connection to the original library company. It was decided to change the name from the \"Alexandria Library Society\" to the \"Alexandria Library Company,\" make the appropriate filings with the state government, and reinstate the 1799 charter, which would be revised by the legislature in the 1980s to help obtain tax-exempt status from the IRS.","This name change was completed at one of the company's most consequential meetings in February 1956. Every member was asked to sign their name in the minute book to signal their assent. A letter from a local civil rights activist questioning the legality of library segregation was also read, but deemed the province of the library board, which referred the matter back to the company whose reply is not preserved.","Member Mangum Weeks thereupon raised the question of the future role of the Library Company, and proposed resuming the tradition of annual lectures dating from the Lyceum period using funds from the newly instituted membership dues. This proposal was adopted, and preparing the annual lectures soon became a major focus of the Company. The Library Company continues to appoint members to the board of the Alexandria Library and hold its annual lecture series. It commissioned a new history of the library by William Seale in 2007, which can be found at the Local History and Special Collections Branch.","Chronological listings for both presidents of the board and librarians up to the modern day.","Presidents of the Library Company and Its Successors February 1794-February 1813 Rev. James Muir February 1813-February 1815 Hugh Smith February 1815-March 1824 John Roberts March 1824-February 1829 Hugh Smith February 1829-February 1835 John Richards February 1835-February 1840 John Roberts February 1840-1852 Elias Harrison 1852-February 1855 J. Louis Kinzer February 1855-September 1858 Francis Miller September 1858- February 1859 Richard L. Carne February 1859-September 1859 Caleb S. Hallowell September 1859-February 1860 William G. Cazenove February 1860-February 1870 Richard L. Carne February 1870-February 1873 K. Kemper February 1873-October 1873 Samuel H. Janney October 1873-February 1874 Sidney C. Neale February 1874-June 1879 Mercer Slaughter September 1897-October 1905 Virginia Corse July 1906-June 1925 Mrs. Samuel. L. Monroe October 1925-April 1930 Loula Smoot April 1930-November 1933 Mrs. Henry B. Soule, [Jessie E. Soule] December 1933-December 1934 Mary Lloyd December 1934-December 1936 Susan Thomson December 1936-November 1937 Mrs. Louis Scott November 1937-November 1944 Mrs. Curtis Backus November 1944-November 1946 Mrs. [Lawrence] Fawcett, [Mary Fawcett] November 1946-November 1947 Howard Worth Smith November 1947-October 1948 [Miss Anne] Lewis Jones October 1948-October 1949 Miss Horne October 1949-October 1950 Mr. Stanley King October 1950-December 1951 Mr. [Joseph] Crockett December 1951-February 1955 Mr. Robert Moncure February 1955-February 1957 Dr. [W. Bruce] Silcox February 1957-February 1959 Stanley King February 1959-February 1962 Mangum Weeks February 1962-February 1963 Richard Bales February 1963-February 1965 Donald King February 1965-February 1967 David Squires February 1967-February 1969 Howard Worth Smith Jr. February 1969-February 1971 William Francis Smith February 1971-February 1972 John T. Ticer February 1972-February 1974 David M. Abshire February 1974-February 1976 Mrs. Merill Beede February 1976-February 1978 Mrs. Douglas Lindsey February 1978-February 1980 Clarke T. Cooper Jr. February 1980-February 1982 William Seale February 1982-February 1983 Denys Peter Myers February 1983-February 1985 William B. Hurd February 1985-February 1986 George J. Stansfield February 1986-February 1987 Dr. Ernest A. Connally February 1987-February 1989 Dr. Wilton C. Corkern, Jr. February 1989-March 1991 James M. Lewis March 1991-March 1992 Mrs. Anne Smith Paul March 1992-March 1993 Richard R. G. Hobson March 1993-March 1995 Dabney Waring March 1995-March 1997 James R. Hobson March 1997-March 1998 Robert C. Reed March 1998-March 2000 Neil Horstman March 2000-March 2002 Carroll Johnson March 2002-March 2003 Thomas C. Brown Jr.","Librarians of Alexandria February 1794-February 1796 Edward Stabler February 1796-February 1818 James Kennedy February 1818-August 1826 William Cranch August 1826-October 1829 W. Samuel Mark October 1829-March 1845 George Drinker March 1845-September 1845 James M. Eaches September 1845-September 1852 C.F. Stuart September 1852-April 1853 H. W. P. Junius September 1852-April 1853 L.? Hunter November 1853 Office Abolished February 1854-October 1855 E. M.[Magruder?] Lowe October 1855-September 1858 Norval E. Foard September 1858-February 1859 S. Scott February 1859-September 1859 Edward R. Roxbury September 1859-February 1860 James A. Clarridge February 1860-April 1861 Charles R. Burgess (acting) April 1861-Unknown Edwin N. Wise March 1868 Wr. Bushby April 1870-May 1871 August Henning July 1871-March 1872 W. F. Stansbury March 1872-August 1873 Emma J. Young October 1873-March 1876 Emily English March 1876 Position Eliminated June 1879 R. Pendleton Bruin (unofficial? acting?) October 1900-October 1903 F. Olive Lyons October 1903-April 1937 (continued part-time, mentioned up to 1946) Alice Green April 1937-December 1938 Miss Beatrice Workman January 1939-January 1941 Katherine Scoggin (later Martyn) February 1941-June 1948 Bessie Watson July 1948-June 1969 (hired part-time October 1939, letter of resignation later that month) Ellen C. Burke July 1969-October 1992 (librarian from 1958) Jeanne G. Plitt","The initial combination of financial and subscription records likely reflected the company's initial dependence on subscription fees, in contrast to the later subscription library in the city that relied more on donors. This recordkeeping system appears to have been a casualty of the merger with the Lyceum, which became official in early 1840.","\nAs the physical volume in use at that time was still mostly blank, it was repeatedly repurposed, first for additional circulation records (until these too lapsed) and later for a \"list of Stockholders and the amount due from each for the year commencing the 13th February 1854,\" which likely relates to the revitalization of the company after its agreement with the Young Men's group. The agreement required the men to find 100 subscribers, and the list was likely prepared for the annual meeting originally scheduled for 20 February (a week after the date on the list), at which it was decided to void the shares of individuals who had not paid.","The 1980 lecture of Dr. William Dudley on \"Captain Gordon and the Raid on Alexandria 1814\" was recorded but was left off the lists of annual lectures printed in later years. It marks the point at which the sequential numbering of annual lectures was stopped. The reason for this is unknown.","No catalog was published under the first librarian, but four were published during the 1796-1818 tenure of his successor.","\nOn 29 December 1796 he was directed to prepare a catalog of books \"classed according to their size and arranged in the order of the alphabet, with the number and cost or value of each,\" although a March 1797 entry suggests that it was still not complete four months later. No copy of this catalog has survived, but there would have been between 200 and 400 titles at that time.","\nThe growth of the collection was driven in part by the acceptance of books in place of subscription fees and the purchase of private libraries. In May 1800 a committee was formed to examine its acquisitions for books that were \"useless, superfluous or of immoral tendency,\" which decided in September to postpone acting on them until it was time to print a new catalog. That time came on 2 November 1801 when a committee was appointed to assist the librarian in creating a new catalog.","\nOn 1 February 1808 the board decided to print a new catalog at 50 cents a copy because \"many members were without any.\" On 2 May this catalog was reported to be largely complete. Another meeting was planned shortly thereafter so that it could be printed \"without delay.\" That meeting is undocumented, if indeed it took place. No copy of this catalog or any direct record of its publication is currently known. But it must have existed since it was referenced in a later circulation book and the librarian received a bonus for his work on it in March 1809.","\nOn 2 May 1814, it was decided to create another new catalog. It would eventually have 1,027 numbers, which circulation records show the library had reached by July 1814. On 14 November 1814, the librarian reported the catalog \"ready for the press.\" He was instructed to obtain 150 copies \"with all convenient dispatch,\" a number raised to 200 the following month. In February 1815, he reported the catalog \"about half-finished\" and presented a copy to the board, which set a price of 50 cents. In March he received compensation for \"his additional trouble in preparing the new catalogue for the press,\" suggesting that the printing had been completed.","\nThe 1815 catalog was later extended by a published supplement that added additional numbers. Unlike other printed works, there is no mention of when the supplement was produced in the minutes. It is, however, clear from circulation records that all its books had circulated by 14 August 1830. According to the minutes, a meeting had been called for 10 May 1830 only to be quickly adjourned \"there appearing no business requiring the attention of the board,\" and quarterly meetings on 2 August and 2 November were adjourned, lacking a quorum. The librarian at the time had replaced his predecessor in October 1829 and been confirmed in the position the following March. It seems plausible that he pushed to update the catalog after becoming librarian but that the question was either not deemed important or could not be addressed due to the lack of quorum but that it was printed in 1830 anyway.","\nAt the same time, a working catalog was created for use in the library itself. It is the earliest preserved catalog of this type but was probably not the first. It contains a relisting of the contents of the 1815 catalog and supplement sorted by the first letter of the alphabet with pamphlets listed separately as well as books added between April 1833 and the suspension of library operations after 1848 listed by subject. Although its initial form was compiled some time earlier, it does not appear to have come into use until sometime after 1834 where there is a gap in the circulation records. The first 1,725 entries may have been added at the time of the 1815 supplement with the shift to a new method of arrangement occurring later. ","\nOn 8 March 1856 a committee of the revived library company was assigned to rearrange and renumber the books for publication. On 29 November 1856, the board voted for 300 copies of the finished catalog to be produced.","\nOn 18 June 1858 board president Andrew Jamison resigned. On 4 September Richard L. Carne, the chairmen of the committee on the catalog and president pro-tem submitted \"his amendment to the catalog\" and appointed Sylvester Scott as librarian to constitute a \"committee of revisal.\" A new working catalog is preserved from this period continuing into the Civil War, although it does not appear to have been published.","\nFrom the reestablishment of the library in the late 1860s to its failure at the close of the 1870s the lack of a published catalog to advertise the available books was identified as a major issue. The last version of the catalog prior to the Civil War had contained over 5,000 books, of which it was estimated in 1871 that 1,000-1,500 had been lost.","\nCirculations records from the early 1870s feature book numbers around 1,000 that do not correspond to any known listing, and numbers were abandoned entirely from May 1871 to January 1872. It was decided on 2 October 1872 to create a new catalog, and the task was assigned to the new librarian, Emma Young. The fact that the numbers of the circulating books changed to include some with numbers over 5,000 after 4 December 1872 indicates that this work was completed, but it was never published and there is no surviving catalog from that period.","\nThe limited use of the catalog is evident from the prevalence of high numbered works among those in circulation. The highest numbers indicated recent acquisitions, which often received announcements in the Alexandria Gazette.","\nAt the 20 February 1874 meeting, it was noted that \"the last catalogue was published some years previous to the war and had become, by reasons of subsequent losses and additions, very incomplete\" and the board decided to appoint Dr. Theo West \"to catalogue and arrange the books.\" They planned to print the catalog in time for the 1875 annual meeting, but printing was postponed indefinitely. ","\nThe new catalog went into effect on 10 July 1874 as seen in the shift in circulation records from a system with numbers up to around 5,800 to a new catalog going to 4,314, but again they were unable to publish it.  Seven months later at the 19 February 1875 meeting, it was decided to arrange a printing \"as soon as possible,\" but this did not occur either.","\nOn 10 March 1876 the board decided upon a different plan. The catalog was to be divided among the directors so that copies might be made \"for the librarian's desk.\" The published account of the 21 February 1877 annual meeting noted that \"many persons have given as a reason for not becoming subscribers the inaccessibility of the old library which was not catalogued. This plea no longer holds.\" Doctor West's catalog \"copied by members of the Board without expense, bound in good style, can now always be found on the Librarian's desk.\" Operations ceased and the books went into storage a few years later.","\nAt the 8 January 1898 meeting of the newly formed Alexandria Library Association, it was moved that the \"the catalogue be printed at once\" with the addition of blank pages between the leaves for advertisements from city merchants.","\nThis catalog was the first to use a version of the Dewey Decimal System, which had become popular since its first publication in 1888, reaching its 5th edition in 1894. This was the first modern classification system in the history of the Alexandria Library.","\nSubsequent to the publication of the 1898 catalog in January of that year, there are several mentions of publishing \"supplements\" such as on 11 April 1899 and 11 July 1899 which may refer to the practice of publishing notices with the titles of new additions in the Alexandria Gazette, such as those of 6 July and 13 July 1899.","\nOn 1 January 1902 there was a push for a \"supplementary catalogue (being a catalogue of books up to date) be printed\" and the president appointed a committee for that purpose. It was postponed pending the catalog's completion. On 9 October 1906 the board voted to accept an offer from a Mr. White to print 1000 copies in return for advertising space. According to the 8 January 1907 minutes, the library was given half the copies of the 1906 catalog for free, of which it sold 200 and gave 300 away.","\nThe 12 April 1910 minutes mention a decision to \"again postpone the publication a supplementary catalogue.\" On 23 January 1912 it was again put off until the 9 April meeting, where it was decided for a new catalog to be printed and priced at five cents a copy and \"to have the names of the old magazines put into the new catalogue but not into the card catalogue.\" On 12 June 1912 it was reported that \"the catalogue was in the hands of the printer and that Mrs. Monroe was reading the proof\" and the \"new catalog\" was deemed \"ready for distribution\" on 8 October 1912.","\nThe annual report at that same meeting noted that \"the year has also seen the completion of the labelling, classifying, and cataloguing of all the old and valuable magazines which the Board has for so long a time desired to put into shape for distribution,\" which a review of the supplement suggests meant works in good condition available for circulation.","\nOn 11 April 1933 Mrs. Newell \"volunteered to catalogue old magazines in order that their value may be ascertained.\"  On 9 May 1933 she presented a \"typewritten list\" of \"old magazines\" for appraisal as part of their depression era fundraising efforts. On 10 October she reported them to be of \"no value\" and suggested having them sent to the Salvation Army for use as old paper. On 8 January 1934 the board approved this proposal for those magazines of \"no value,\" which do not appear to have included many titles listed in this catalog.","\nNo explicit reason for the abandonment of published catalogs after 1912 was given, but the allusion to card catalogs suggests that it was a final step in the transition from numerical catalogs, which favored bound volumes by allowing new titles to be added to the end of the sequence, to the Dewey Decimal System, which required new titles to be inserted in the correct place in the existing list and was more easily managed with cards which did not require leaving space for new titles as the 1876 catalog had.","The circulation records began with the original library company in 1794 and continued until its collapse in 1880. Some of the gaps in the records reflect periods during which its activity was disrupted.","\nDuring the War of 1812, British forces arrived in Alexandria on 29 August 1814 and remained there until 2 September. The library normally closed on Sundays, and remained closed from Sunday 28 August through Tuesday 30 August. It opened from 31 August to 2 September, during which time only four books circulated.","\nThe library was also affected by the Civil War. Hostilities between the Union and Confederacy began at Fort Sumter on 12 April 1861. A vote on Virginia secession was held on 17 April and ratified by a referendum on 23 May. Alexandria was occupied by Union forces the following day. Confederate forces had briefly made use of the Lyceum building housing the library, but it later served as a hospital for the Union. Some books were moved out but others were not.","\nIt is unclear were the library operated from in 1861 and 1862, but it did operate. There was a significant reduction in circulation leading up to the war, dropping to a single entry for 22 April 1861. Solitary patrons were recorded for 18th and 30th of May, and an individual withdrew a book every day through 21-25 December, although the May and December entries are in a different hand and initially broke with the format. In early June 1862 however, the library resumed semi-regular hours, usually opening only Tuesday and Thursday but occasionally other days. Records continue into mid-October, after which two pages are missing from the book before it resumes in 1868. Returns are dated as late as December 1862, and it is unclear when the library ceased operations.","\nAttempts to preserve the library in the late 1870s were unsuccessful, and the number of pages per year charts its decline and eventual failure over the second half of the decade.","Volume ended up with the Leadbeater family in the 1860s but was donated back in 1922. Was moved at one point in Collection 98 (Library Records after 1937) but was moved back to the Library Company Records in 2018.","Filmed 5/1/1969\n\"Alexandria Library Minute Books - 6 Vols\"\nUniversity of Virginia Library Photographic Service","Filmed 5/1/1969\n\"Alexandria Library Minute Books - 6 Vols\"\nUniversity of Virginia Library Photographic Service","Filmed 5/1/1969 \n\"Alexandria Library Minute Books - 6 Vols\"\nUniversity of Virginia Library Photographic Service","Filmed 5/1/1969\n\"Alexandria Library Minute Books - 6 Vols\"\nUniversity of Virginia Library Photographic Service","Filmed 5/1/1969\n\"Alexandria Library Minute Books - 6 Vols\"\nUniversity of Virginia Library Photographic Service","Filmed 5/1/1969\n\"Alexandria Library Minute Books - 6 Vols\"\nUniversity of Virginia Library Photographic Service","A microfilm reproduction of a copy from the Library of Congress with an 1876 stamp donated as a gift of Mr. Allen Reese 3/1/49.","The binding is almost completely broken and many leaves are loose.","Ms 2-2","Ms 2-3","Ms 2-3","Ms 2-3","Ms 2-3","Box 98-2 Folder 16","Ms 2-9","Many of the books have damaged bindings or missing covers. The 1801-1805 volume has both problems, while the 1809-1811 is missing a page and the front cover. The 1814-1816 is also missing pages, as is the 1858-1868 volume for the crucial period of 1862-1863.","A reprocessing project begun in 2018 incorporated several boxes of previously unprocessed materials dating from the 1960s to the 2000s, with the bulk dating from after 1980. They included many short, overlapping sequences of correspondence, lecture, meeting, and member records which were merged into continuations of established series including primarily correspondence and lectures but also meetings and member correspondence. The \"subject files\" were added to the existing miscellaneous series. ","\nSeveral other changes were also made. A re-examination of the catalog, subscription, and circulation books was undertaken and most were renumbered, described, and relabeled based on primary source research. The 1794-1861 minute book that had been donated back in 1922 was also discovered misfiled in Ms 98 (which covers the library proper since 1937) and was returned to its original collection. Some letters found in minute books were moved to the correspondence series, and their original locations were bookmarked with acid free paper. Photocopies of catalogs were removed. ","Records concerning individual lectures, such as programs and invitations, were foldered by individual lecture unless part of a separate series. This permitted the titles of lectures and names of lecturers to be better indexed and gaps in documentation to be made more obvious than would have been the case with separate subseries for programs, transcripts, etc.","There is no mention of when the supplement was produced in the minutes, which is odd for a printed pamphlet. As a result dating was attempted starting from the circulation records, which showed the #1,728 was first checked out on 14 August 1830. According to the minutes, a meeting had been called for 10 May 1830, only to be quickly adjourned \"there appearing no business requiring the attention of the board,\" and quarterly meetings on 2 August and 2 November adjourned for lack of a quorum.  The librarian at the time, George Drinker, had replaced his predecessor in October 1829 and been confirmed in the position in March, so the working hypothesis is that he pushed to update the catalog after becoming librarian but the question was either not deemed important or could not be addressed due to the lack of a quorum and that it was printing anyway sometime in 1830. That date may need to be updated in light of additional evidence in the future (e.g. the Gazette becoming searchable for the 1830s).","\nThe location of the original is unknown despite Library of Congress Classification number noted by a previous processor resembling that of the original 1815 catalog. ","\nThe collection originally contained a photocopy which was removed. I had the image of a staple, suggesting it was a copy of a copy. It was not correctly dated. A modern processor had written \"NOT used. The # sequence would conflict with 1815 catalogue complied by Evans\" in reference to the effort to reconstruct the 1815 arrangement made by Marjorie Darnell Evans, possibly the only record that the individual had access to, and added an \"1815\" date in pen. This is all the more perplexing as another hand had also added a \"1\" before the first number to highlight the fact that the numbers were higher than the 1815 catalog, a fact that tendency to list only the last two digits otherwise obscured.","This volume was difficult to date, for while an inscription makes clear that the book itself was in possession of the library by the end of March 1830, it does not make clear that it was being applied to its intended purpose. It contains a calendar suggesting 1833-1834, but books go until at least 1841 and perhaps 1844, and publication date can differ greatly from acquisition date. Circulation records also show that while created earlier, it was not yet the primary catalog by 1834, and due to gaps in the records we can only demonstrate that the subject system was in use between 1841 and 1848. Although Drinker's name is everywhere, his long service as librarian prevents this information from being particularly useful. In light of all this, it was given a recordkeeping date of 1830-1848, indicating that the collection was documented and it could have been used by librarians during that period, new books were recorded there covering this period, even though the period of active use may have begun at a later, unknown date.","A previous processor had dated this catalog \"1799?\" but the second page of titles lists an \"Address on the Life and actions of Gen. R. E. Lee delivered on the 12th of Oct. 1871 before the Society of Confederate Soldiers and Sailors in Maryland\" which seemed unlikely to predate the Civil War by so many years, so a later date was sought. Although the initial catalog was completed in 1874, it has been given the date of 1876 when this copy was physically created by the directors.","A copy of the \"S\" section of the 1876 catalog was found in the circulation book for the early 1840s, although it dated from decades later. It was moved to the same folder as the \"R\" section, being from the same period and seemingly in the same hand. They were also given a date along with the 1876 catalog.","A photocopy of the original was removed from the collection.","The catalog was previously dated to the 19th century, but has been dated to May 1933 based on the minutes as described in the historical note. The specific reference to a typescript in connection with the term \"old magazines\" in 1933 is difficult to ignore and the scattered notes on condition fit with the goal of appraising the magazines being pursued at that time. I also found it unlikely that the list was drawn up in 1912 as part of the catalog supplement for that year given the differences in arrangement, like the supplement separating bound and unbound volumes, and the differences in contents, like the absence of the Atheneum from the supplement.","A copy of the \"S\" section of the 1876 catalog was found in this circulation book, although it obviously dated from decades later than its period of active use. It was moved to the same folder as the \"R\" section.","The Alexandria Library Records (Ms 98) document the library as a separate institution from 1937 onward.","\nIt particularly complements this collection in its early decades through its administrative correspondence, board correspondence, minutes, annual reports, and organizational records, including contracts with the Alexandria Library Society.","\nThe minutes of the library's executive board (1938-1947) are included in the microfilm version of the library minute books 1794-1947.","Transcripts of library company lectures 2-18 are available in the library.","Lecture series : [transcripts of the audiotapes made of the scholars invited to speak at these annual lectures] Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #2 080 LEC 2 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #3 080 LEC 3 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #4 080 LEC 4 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #5 080 LEC 5 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #6 080 LEC 6 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #7 080 LEC 7 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #8 080 LEC 8 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #9 080 LEC 9 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #10 080 LEC 10 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #11 080 LEC 11 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #12 080 LEC 12 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #13 080 LEC 13 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #14 080 LEC 14 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #15 080 LEC 15 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #16 080 LEC 16 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #17 080 LEC 17 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #18 080 LEC 18","The collection consists of circulation, subscription, and financial ledgers, annual lecture series documents, catalogues, correspondence, and various organizational documents. Topics include: foundation of the\nAlexandria 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.","The organizational records series contains those records directly concerned with the library company and its predecessors as organizations. It covers charters, by-laws, contracts, the legal definition of the company, and its history. Charters and by-laws between 1794 and 1944 are generally documented in the minutes and or reprinted in catalogs or the Alexandria Gazette.","The general correspondence series covers a long period of the history of the Library Company and its successors, with the bulk from the modern Library Company after 1954, when more documentation was being produced and captured in a systematic way.","\nFrom the earlier period, one folder covers the old Library Company, including an account of the Civil War and two folders cover the period of the Alexandria Library Association consisting primarily of correspondence with Andrew Carnegie about his financial support. The material from the Alexandria Library Society chiefly consists of copies of minutes. \nFor library related inquiries after 1937 see the extensive public library correspondence in Ms 98.","\nThe post-1954 correspondence includes lecture arrangements, nomination and member correspondence, announcements, and all manner of memoranda and external correspondence.","The financial reports series includes monthly financial reports from the Alexandria Library Association prior the establishment of the public library and annual reports of the Library Company after 1953 along with a limited amount of additional correspondence on related issues.","\nThere is also a file of annual reports which the Library Company was required to make to the state as a corporation.","\nFor records relating to the Alexandria Library Company's efforts to become tax-exempt in the 1980s, see the Organizational Records series.","The meetings series consists chiefly of bound and unbound minutes from the Alexandria Library Company and its successors.","\nThe bound minutes cover the early Library Company from 1794 to its last meeting in 1879, the Alexandria Library Association and Library Society from 1897 through its loss of control of the library in the late 1947, and the Society and modern Library Company from 1948 to 1993.","\nAfter 1937, there are two minute books, one for the \"executive board,\" which ran the library, and the other for the Library Society and later Library Company which appointed some of its members. The 1938-1947 executive board minutes are included in the microfilm copy of the older bound volumes, but the original is located in Ms 98.","\nBylaws, agreements, financial, and membership information often appear in the records, as do records of elections. In some periods, annual reports are pasted into the minute books, which like a lot of library business, was printed in the Gazette.","\nThe unbound meeting records cover the modern period of the Library Company and contain minutes, announcements of meetings, and notes, although for the earlier periods the minutes are merely photocopies of the bound volumes as indicated by page numbers.","The members series contains records relating to the selection, participation, and retention of members of the Library Company, with a focus on the modern period from the 1950s onward. It includes records of the nominating committee, correspondence with and about current or prospective members, and lists of members and guests attending the annual lectures. One of these lists is also available on a 3½ inch disk.","The subscription series consists of bound volumes of records documenting the subscribers of the company while doubling as ledgers for many of the financial transactions of the pre-Lyceum period (1794-1839), with gaps between volumes. Apart from the minutes, the volumes contain the only information on the subscribers of the late 1790s, for which there is a gap in the circulation records.","\nThere are also additional financial records from 1826-1839 and a list of subscribers, paid and not, from 1854. These appear in the same volume (see historical note), along with the circulation records for 1846-1848 in between.","\nThe stubs of printed subscription certificates from 1874-1879 are also included in this series. Each contains an identifying number, the name of a subscriber, and a dollar amount, accompanied in some cases by dates or other notations. A few of the completed patron slips are also in this volume, including dates and the signature of the treasurer.","This series contains information on the annual lecture series, with the bulk covering the period after its revival in 1957. The files for the early years include much of the correspondence arranging for the lectures and information on the lecturers as well as in some cases printed copies of the prepared text. For later years the files consist largely of lecture announcements, programs, and attendance lists. ","\nAudio or video recordings were made of most lectures, but are not currently available. Correspondence relating to the recordings can be found in the relevant subseries. ","\nCorrespondence is also available regarding the production of the printed programs and the selection of speakers during the 1970s along with an undated seat plan. ","\nInformation on attendance and the financial aspects of the lectures can be found in other series. ","\nPrint transcriptions for certain lectures are available in the reading room.","The collection's miscellany includes annual reports of the library, a survey of the old library company books, seals, stationary, and printed matter including poems, fundraising pamphlets, and literature about the library from the League of Women Voters.","The news clippings series consists chiefly of articles about the annual lectures or which report on the annual meetings and the election of officers and members.","The catalogs provide listings of books showing what was available at the library during different time periods and identifying books for some parts of the circulation records. Catalogs also frequently included information on other topics, including the rules of the library, founding documents, library histories, and the value of the books. ","\nTitles were often abbreviated, especially in the working catalogs, and dates of publication were often lacking. This can make identifying a work from the catalog difficult even when copies of it are extant elsewhere. ","\nCatalogs can be used reliably for most of the numerical listings in the circulation records for roughly 1801-1807, 1815-1848, 1856-1862, and 1874-1879. The 1815 catalog was not only bigger than the 1801, but had been renumbered. Because of this practice, the 1801 catalog cannot be relied upon for records prior to its implementation nor after the point in 1807-1808 when its successor went into effect. Since there is no way to know if the 1815 catalog was an extension of the 1808, it likewise cannot be trusted prior to implementation. The 1815 and its supplement were used for a longer period and the 1830-1848 used it as a base, although it altered its system of arrangement leaving around 30 or so numbers undefined for part of the 1830s. The 1856 printed and 1858-1860 working catalogs cover much of the same material and are usable for records into the Civil War. The 1856 is available online in a searchable format and organized to be browsed, while the working catalog is arranged by number. The 1876 copy of the catalog implemented in July 1874 is missing the letters O-P, but is otherwise usable for the last few years of circulation records. ","\nSee specific catalog notes for details. ","The 1801 catalog corresponds to the title numbers 1-452 in the circulations records from around 1802-1808 and offers the number of volumes and value for each. It is hard to be precise since the dates on which it came into and fell out of use at the library are unknown. The fact that books were removed as well as added at the time of its adoption and its organization suggest that it may not be reliable for the 1794-1796 circulation records, and possibly not even for books circulating earlier in 1801 which were likely identified by an earlier catalog. ","\nIn addition to a listing of books, the catalog includes the revised act of incorporation dated September 1799, the laws of the company passed on 2 November 1801 and an alphabetical membership list. \nAt the back is a list of book donations from largest to smallest, including the name of the donor, the total number of volumes donated, and a list of title numbers, along with an index to the catalog and some errata. ","\nIt was printed by Cottom and Stewart in Alexandria and sold for fifty cents a copy. ","This catalog of 1,027 titles includes the title number, number of volumes, and price, as well as a note to indicate whether something was a donation. It is a reliable reference for the decades that followed, but should be used with caution for earlier periods. Comparison with the 1801 catalog shows that titles were inserted with very low numbers, and it is unclear how the 1808 catalog was organized. Given the way the catalog was divided, there is no clear method by which accretions could have been added to the working catalog other than accession order, whereas the 1815 catalog required them to be categorized. ","\nIt is therefore logical to assume that numbers added in between catalog issuances were later changed, and that the 1815 catalog is probably not valid for the preceding period. ","\nThe full title of the catalog included the phrase \"to which are prefixed, the Act of Incorporation; the Laws of the Company, and the Names of the Members,\" but our copy contains only pages 11-46 and does not contain front matter. It is unclear whether the first ten pages were removed, or John A. Stewart's edition was simply printed without them. ","This printed catalog supplement extends the 1815 catalog from #1,027 to #1,728 updating it to August 1830. It was likely published around that time by William Greer, printer, and matches the titles. It matches the numbers of a listing of books dated 1828 in one of the circulation books suggesting that no rearrangement of newer books occurred prior to publication. ","\nThe supplement has most of the same information as the 1815, offering the number, title, volume, and value of each title, but lacks its classification system by size and subject. Despite a short cross-listing of periodical works, it has neither the subject classification nor even alphabetization to make it a ready reference. ","This catalog contains a relisting of the contents of the 1815 catalog and supplement sorted by the first letter of the alphabet with pamphlets listed separately as well as books added between April 1833 and the suspension of library operations after 1848 listed by subject. Although its initial form was compiled by George Drinker some time earlier, it does not appear to gone into effect until sometime after 1834 where there is a gap in circulation records. Because the numbering up to 1,725 remained the same, earlier print catalogs can also be employed for those number for the period from 1815-1848 even though this catalog alone can be used for the numbers 1,726-1,793 during that period.","\nAdditions beyond 1,793 are only usable for the period 1841-1848, because they were relisted here under a combined subject/numbering system after being originally cataloged differently up to around 1,825. The later rearrangement left no record of how those 30 or so numbers should be understood during the period before 1834.","\nThese later additions occupy the latter sections which include materials published from the late-1830s and early 1840s. Other indications of the ongoing nature of the listings include the blank entry for #351 at the end of Novels and Romances and the blank page with the heading \"Biography\" following the rest of that section.","\nThe third, and final section, is the \"List of Books from the Reading Room.\" These are dated 1840-1841, and consist almost entirely of new additions to the periodicals with a few exceptions, chiefly among the first few entries. This suggests that the page may not have been used for its original purpose.","\nThe title/subject organization of the latter part of the catalog is helpful in understanding acquisition priorities during the late-1830s and the Lyceum period of the 1840s.","\nThe inside cover contains a calendar for 1833 going through February 1834, with the Thursdays closest to the middle of each month marked (none are the dates of official meetings). There is also a 29 March 1830 inscription by Drinker, Treasurer, authorizing James Dunlap in financial matters while he is librarian, which may predate the decision to use the book as a catalog. Drinker may have done the first 1,725 entries at that time in preparation for the publication of the 1815 supplement.","As noted in its introduction, the 300 copies of the 1856 catalog were created not as \"a model catalog but such a one as would be practically useful to the readers of the library.\" It serves as a guide to the collection as contemporary subscribers would have known it, covering the first 4,473 volume numbers for this period. For looking up numbers from the circulation records, it is easier to use the searchable catalog of surviving books or the online version. For later acquisitions, one may use the manuscript catalog that was in use internally from 1858-1860 which is arranged by number.","\nIn addition to the aforementioned note on the catalog's creation, the catalog also includes a historical note on the early history of the library and a copy of the 1799 act of incorporation.","This catalog was implemented sometime in the fall of 1858 as an \"amendment\" to the catalog of 1856 and was likely expanded on an ongoing basis up to the Civil War. Since the 1856 catalog was presumably still in use by subscribers, the two contain largely the same information apart from three key differences. Firstly, the 1858 added accretions to the book collection, extending the book numbers from 4,473 to 5,063. The second difference is that it lists the books by number, to assist the librarians in managing the books, rather than by author and title, which in the 1856 catalog assisted subscribers in finding them. Lastly, it should be noted that titles in both catalogs are abbreviated in different ways.","\nDespite the overlap and differences of organization, a person looking up a number in the circulation records between February 1857 and 17 September 1859 may still find it easier to consult a searchable online version of the catalog and reserve use of the 1858 for its last 600 numbers. Starting on 27 September 1859, titles began to appear in the circulation records alongside the numbers, making either catalog usable for numbers below 4,474, although due to unpredictable title abbreviations numerical catalogs remained more reliable.","\nThe catalog was signed by a number of librarians of the company inside the front and back covers, sometimes more than once. This includes a listing made in 1871 which is notable for the presence of names not associated with the title \"librarian\" by the minutes.","The initial form of this catalog was compiled by Doctor Theo West and put into use on 10 July 1874, although there may have been additions by the time it was copied by the directors of the library company into its current form. It was intended for publication, but was later advertised as merely being available at the librarian's desk. It was therefore organized with the aim of finding books by title, like a printed catalog, rather than by number like the manuscript catalogs from before the Civil War. It remained in use until the company shut down after 1880.","\nThe book contains a detailed history of the library company including the text of the 1799 act of incorporation written by \"John Stewart, Keeper of the Rolls.\" It is also the only extant catalog with a book plate, albeit one with the shelf location and classification numbers left blank.","\nThe listing of books is missing the letters O and P at a point where the binding is broken, either because they were removed from this edition or never added in. Title information includes the title and number of each book as well as a \"case\" number (presumably for shelving) and occasional volume and date information. Space is left in many places for additional titles to be added, although in some cases this was handled by inserted slips of paper. For details on the organization of the title list see the arrangement note.","This listing of \"R\" titles is largely the same as that copied by the directors for the 1876 catalog, but appears to be in a different hand (most noticeably the number 8). The listing for \"S\" appears to be the same hand as \"R.\" Also included are two pieces of paper with additional titles, and notes in blue asking that additional space be left for new titles to be added. That feature of the main 1876 catalog is absent here and may be the reason it was not included in a complete volume.","The 1898 catalog provides the earliest record of the library's collection after its reestablishment by the Alexandria Library Association, including numbers of volumes and publications dates for each title. The subject classification allows a simple method of gauging the balance of the collection between different areas, particularly in comparison with the publications of 1906 and 1912. Handwritten notes seem to indicate additions and shelf locations, although the date and provenance of those notes is unclear.","A complete update to the 1898 catalog, the 1906 retained the same basic classification system apart from the addition of 3 new sub-classes. It also includes a chart of subscription prices for the library at the front giving lengths of time and numbers of books and a large number of advertisements from local businesses.","\nFor the new subclasses see arrangement note.","The 1912 supplement to the catalog includes additions to the library collection since 1906 as well as a listing of old magazines, which were not mentioned in the 1906 catalog. Most classification numbers were therefore unneeded. The bulk of the entries appear to be fiction and old magazines.","This typescript contains a listing of \"old magazines\" by title and volume that were in the collection in 1933. It also includes some notes on their condition, such as whether they were bound and missing covers, pages, and volumes.","The circulation records consist of bound volumes containing lists of books checked out. They typically list the name of the subscriber, the date, and some method of identifying the work along with various other details. For much of its history, the old library company identified books only by number, although titles and combinations of numbers and titles began appearing around 1845, with titles becoming commonplace after 1858.","\nThe catalogs can be used reliably for only some of the numerical listings due to additions following the publication of rapidly outdated catalogs and changes in numbering that preceded new ones. They are relevant to some of the numbers for 1801-1807, 1815-1848, 1856-1862, and 1874-1879 (see catalog series notes and below). Because of possible renumbering, the 1801 catalog cannot be relied upon for records prior to its implementation nor after the point in 1807-1808 when its successor went into effect. Since there is no way to know if the 1815 catalog was an extension of the 1808 or if it was the first to change the numbering from the 1801, it likewise cannot be trusted prior to its implementation.","\nThe 1815 and its supplement were used for a longer period and the 1834-1848 catalog used it as a base, despite altering its system of arrangement for later materials and leaving about 30 numbers unclear due to renumbering. The 1856 printed and 1858-1860 working catalogs cover much of the same material and are usable into the Civil War. Notably, the 1856 is available online in a searchable format. It was arranged to be browsed, while the working catalog is arranged by number only. The 1876 copy of the catalog implemented in July 1874 is missing the letters O-P, but is otherwise usable for the last few years of circulation records.","\nEven when numbers cannot be identified, useful information can be inferred from changes in the numbering system and preferences for numbers from particular periods, such as for new acquisitions. One can also use the records to quantify the level of patronage as a whole in various periods. There are no circulation records at the book level from the Alexandria Library Association (1897-1937) and later, although summary reports of circulation became common during the modern period and were often noted in minutes and annual reports.","\nThere are significant gaps in the circulation records, which nominally cover the period from November 1794 to January 1880. These come in several different types. Some of them appear to indicate missing volumes, including July 1795-June 1801, May 1811-February 1814, January 1835-Feburary 1841, September 1848-October 1858, and 1868-1870, but there are also gaps of a few months between volumes in 1805, 1824, 1846, 1871, and 1874. Additionally, there is a month of pages missing from the middle of 1831, and two pages are missing after October 1862, even though returns were noted as late December, before resuming in April 1868 (on the Civil War see the historical note for this series).","\nTitle numbers began at around 200, gradually rising to over 5,000 before the Civil War. After the war, numbers ran below 1,000 for the most part, before changing to numbers over 5,000 again on 4 December 1873 (p.279) and then dropping to lower numbers on 10 July 1874 (p.69), with some titles in the 5000s being renumbered to the 3000s.","\nMany of volumes contain lists of books in their front or back matter, usually including both titles and numbers. This is one of the only sources for matching that information for some periods of the library's history and includes the only reference to the 1808 catalog outside the minutes. They include lists of missing books (the 1822-1824 volume), books sent to be bound (1824-1828 and 1828-1831) and of the Waverly Novels (1822-1824).","\nChanges in the hand recording the information signal personnel changes, and many of the volumes were inscribed with the names of librarians or members of the company, occasionally accompanied by other kinds of scribbling as in 1814-1816, 1831-1834, and especially 1858-1868. There is also some doodling, which appears inside the covers in a modest way in the 1814-1816 volume and far more extensively in the 1841-1848 and 1858-1868 ones. The 1841-1848 also contains doodles among the actual circulation records.","\nFor the columns and specific information that varied over time see the arrangement note for this series.","Local History and Special Collections Branch, Alexandria Library","Alexandria Library Company","Alexandria Library Association (1897-1937)","Alexandria Library Society (1937-1953)","Alexandria Library (Alexandria, Va.)","English"],"unitid_tesim":["MS002","/repositories/2/resources/128"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Alexandria Library Company Records (MS002)"],"collection_title_tesim":["Alexandria Library Company Records (MS002)"],"collection_ssim":["Alexandria Library Company Records (MS002)"],"repository_ssm":["Alexandria Library"],"repository_ssim":["Alexandria Library"],"geogname_ssm":["Libraries -- Subscription Libraries","Lectures and Lecturing","Associations, institutions, etc"],"geogname_ssim":["Libraries -- Subscription Libraries","Lectures and Lecturing","Associations, institutions, 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exception of the 1826-1854 book, all entries are characterized by double-entry bookkeeping, with the left side page documenting money going out (\"to\"), and the right hand page documenting money coming in (\"by\"), this can be confusing as bills for subscriptions seem at times to have been listed in the outgoing section.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nMost of the books begin with indexes of numbered names in no clear order. The same numbers appear in columns toward the right of the accounts pages, just before the amounts, apparently signifying people and groups with which the transactions were undertaken. These numbers should not be confused with the columns on the left indicating the calendar day. They were dropped around 1826.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nPayments under the names of individuals appear in the first part of the 1794-1799 volume, the latter parts of the 1799-1809 and 1809-1819 volumes, and throughout the bulk of the two volumes covering 1820-1828.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrangement is by year of lecture under its title and orator apart from the seat plan and correspondence on administrative issues. Those are arranged chronologically. Lectures in the modern series were assigned numbers by the Library Company until 1980.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe printed 1801 and 1815 catalogs were arranged by subject and size, with the 1815 supplement seemingly arranged in accession order. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe 1856 printed catalog was arranged alphabetically by author or title. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nWorking catalogs are arranged by number, except that the 1830-1848 switched to a subject system sometime after 1834 and the 1876 is arranged alphabetically. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nCatalogs from 1898 on use a version of the Dewey Decimal System. \nThe old magazines are arranged by title. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nSee individual arrangement notes for details. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCivil History, Voyages and Travels, Biography, Antiquities, Geography, and Maps etc. (p.13) \u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFolios (1-9) \u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQuartos (10-24) \u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOctavos (25-109) \u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDuodecima and Infra (110-151) \u003c/li\u003e\n\n\t\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEcclesiastical History, Theology, Didactic Pieces, Moral Philosophy, and Metaphysics (p.29) \u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFolios (152-154) \u003c/li\u003e\t\n\u003cli\u003eQuartos (155-156) \u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOctavos (157-188) \u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDuodecima and Infra (189-218) \u003c/li\u003e\n\n\t\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArts and Sciences, Natural History, Natural Philosophy, and Miscellaneous Literature (p. 35) \u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFolios (219-222) \u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQuartos (223-225) \u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOctavos (226-266) \u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDuodecima and Infra (267-293) \u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLaw, Politics, Political Economy, Agriculture, Commerce, etc. (p.42) \u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFolios (294-295) \u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQuartos (296) \u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOctavos (297-326) \u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDuodecima and Infra (327-338) \u003c/li\u003e\n\n\t\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoetry, Plays, Belles Lettres, and Criticism etc. (p.47) \u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOctavos (339-353) \u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDuodecima and Infra (354-385) \u003c/li\u003e\n\n\t\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNovels and Romances (p.52) \u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOctavos (386) \u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDuodecimas and Infra (387-427) \u003c/li\u003e\n\n\t\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendix and Supplementary (428-452) (p.54) \u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe 1,027 titles were assigned numbers according to the following classification system based on size and subject. 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Different volumes bear different numbers. A certain amount of cross-listing is also evident, most obviously through the appendix of Tours, Voyages, and Travels, containing works listed by country that also appear in the main catalog by author. Multi-volume works have the number of volumes indicated following their titles, their numbers end with hyphens to indicate an ascending number for each successive volume.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThere are some variations in how titles are counted. 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The subject headings are \"History\" after \"H,\" \"Letters\" after \"L,\" \"Memoirs\" after \"M,\" and \"British Prose Writers\" after \"P.\" A similar practice was used for the \"Pamphlets\" section of Drinker's catalog of the 1830-1848.  Books are numbered up to 4,314.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe main listing of titles is alphabetical by titles beginning with the letters \"R\" and \"S.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrangement is by classification number and title based on a version of the Dewey Decimal System, but differs from the fifth edition (1894) in some respects, such as listing 973 as \"Egypt\" rather than the United States. (see the 1894 at https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007477697)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nClass headings and numbers are followed by subclass numbers, the first two letters of the author's name, and a number in case there are multiple books by that author. Volumes and publications dates are appended to the end of the title.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nCase numbers (shelf locations) have been written in by hand as well as additional titles written in the margins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe classification is identical to the 1898 except for the added subheadings of Cuba, Japan, and Korea.\nThere is an alphabetical index of subjects.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe 1912 supplement to the catalog was arranged according the same version of the Dewey Decimal System used in previous publications, with classification numbers for which no books were added to the collection omitted. The two lists of magazines divided them into bound and unbound collections, each arranged by title and date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlphabetical by title. 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This method disappeared and reappeared over the years that followed.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nBetween September 1846 and September 1848 the circulation records were kept in the second part of an account book (see notes for the subscription series). The subject system continued during this period under a new organization of columns, consisting of: subject, number (within subject), patron name (with volume number), and finally a column with either a note saying \"return,\" a date, or often a blank field.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe 1857-1858 volume has alphabetical tabs on which patrons are recorded chronologically under the first letter of their name. The columns are also different. From left-to-right they include:  date, patron name (including institutions), title number, and return date. The year is given at the top. In place of a return note, some fields contain other notes like \"mistake\" or \"transferred to Roxbury,\" which are open to interpretation. Titles resume appearing in place of numbers in mid-1858.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe volume covering 1862-1868 shows considerable variation. Initially it featured columns on the left with headings for each day followed by the patron name, while on the right the columns showed the title number and return date. Starting on September 27, 1859 (page 114), the left-hand column was divided between patron name and title, while the columns for title number and return date on the right remained in place. From March 1860 (page 127) to March 1861 (page 175) it returned to the earlier format.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe 1870-1871 volume introduced the columns that would be standard for most of the remainder of the series ending in 1880. They consisted of checkout date, patron name, book title, title number, and return date. The exception was a period beginning in May 1871 and ending on 1 January 1872 of the 1871-1872 volume. During that period, the records provided sections by patron name, with columns for checkout date, title, and return date. There were no title numbers during that period. The arrangement of names was partially alphabetized, possibly reflecting the addition of new names to an originally alphabetical arrangement.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nIt can be difficult to tell what year it is in some of the later volumes. In the 1872-1874 volume year breaks occur on pages 113 (1873) and 292 (1874). In the 1874-1880 volume they occur on pages 137 (1875), 275 (1876), 345 (1877), 375 (1878), 434 (1879), and 454 (1880).\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement","Arrangement","Arrangement","Arrangement","Arrangement","Arrangement","Arrangement","Arrangement","Arrangement","Arrangement","Arrangement","Arrangement","Arrangement","Arrangement","Arrangement","Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The accounting records in the subscription books shifted back and forth between two systems, one listing transactions chronologically and the other listing them under the names of individuals.","\nWith the exception of the 1826-1854 book, all entries are characterized by double-entry bookkeeping, with the left side page documenting money going out (\"to\"), and the right hand page documenting money coming in (\"by\"), this can be confusing as bills for subscriptions seem at times to have been listed in the outgoing section.","\nMost of the books begin with indexes of numbered names in no clear order. The same numbers appear in columns toward the right of the accounts pages, just before the amounts, apparently signifying people and groups with which the transactions were undertaken. These numbers should not be confused with the columns on the left indicating the calendar day. They were dropped around 1826.","\nPayments under the names of individuals appear in the first part of the 1794-1799 volume, the latter parts of the 1799-1809 and 1809-1819 volumes, and throughout the bulk of the two volumes covering 1820-1828.","Arrangement is by year of lecture under its title and orator apart from the seat plan and correspondence on administrative issues. Those are arranged chronologically. Lectures in the modern series were assigned numbers by the Library Company until 1980.","The printed 1801 and 1815 catalogs were arranged by subject and size, with the 1815 supplement seemingly arranged in accession order. ","\nThe 1856 printed catalog was arranged alphabetically by author or title. ","\nWorking catalogs are arranged by number, except that the 1830-1848 switched to a subject system sometime after 1834 and the 1876 is arranged alphabetically. ","\nCatalogs from 1898 on use a version of the Dewey Decimal System. \nThe old magazines are arranged by title. ","\nSee individual arrangement notes for details. ","Civil History, Voyages and Travels, Biography, Antiquities, Geography, and Maps etc. (p.13)  Folios (1-9)  Quartos (10-24)  Octavos (25-109)  Duodecima and Infra (110-151)  Ecclesiastical History, Theology, Didactic Pieces, Moral Philosophy, and Metaphysics (p.29)  Folios (152-154)  Quartos (155-156)  Octavos (157-188)  Duodecima and Infra (189-218)  Arts and Sciences, Natural History, Natural Philosophy, and Miscellaneous Literature (p. 35)  Folios (219-222)  Quartos (223-225)  Octavos (226-266)  Duodecima and Infra (267-293)  Law, Politics, Political Economy, Agriculture, Commerce, etc. (p.42)  Folios (294-295)  Quartos (296)  Octavos (297-326)  Duodecima and Infra (327-338)  Poetry, Plays, Belles Lettres, and Criticism etc. (p.47)  Octavos (339-353)  Duodecima and Infra (354-385)  Novels and Romances (p.52)  Octavos (386)  Duodecimas and Infra (387-427)  Appendix and Supplementary (428-452) (p.54) ","The 1,027 titles were assigned numbers according to the following classification system based on size and subject. The title counts are taken from Evans, 1967.","Miscellaneous Folios (21 titles)  Miscellaneous Quarto (33 titles)  Civil History, Voyages and Travels, Geography, Antiquities, Biography, etc.  Octavos (223 titles)  Duodecima and Infra (95 titles)  Ecclesiastical History, Theology, Essays Moral and Religious, Moral Philosophy and Metaphysics etc.  Octavos (54 titles)  Duodecima and Infra (47 titles)  Miscellaneous _______ General Science, The Arts, Domestic Economy, Natural Philosophy, Periodical Essays, Magazines and Reviews, etc.  Octavo (72 titles)  Duodecima and Infra (43 titles)  Law, Politics, Political Economy, Agriculture, Commerce, etc.  Octavo (60 titles)  Duodecima and Infra (13 titles)  Poetry, the Drama, Belles Lettres, and Criticism Octavo (39 titles)  Duodecima and Infra (13 titles)  Novels and Romances etc. (130 titles)  Appendix-Supplementary and Miscellaneous (30 titles) ","The catalog uses a numbering system in which the full number is given only every hundred and but which otherwise provides only the last two digits, hence the sequence: 98, 99, 1100, 01, 02. ","\nThe main portion of the catalog appears to be in accession order. At the end of the numbers #1,028-#1,728, a cross-listing of about 20 periodical works appears.","History #1-122 -Ecclesiastical History Biography #1-145 Voyages and Travels #1-213 Theology #1-113 Lexicography [crossed out] #1-6 Periodicals #1-31 Novels and Romances #1-350","As well as the unnumbered subjects: ","Poetry, Belles Letters and the Drama Lexicography, Statistics and Encyclopedia Chemistry, Minerology, Surgery, and Materia Medica Periodicals, Philosophy, and Miscellaneous and General Science Law, Oratory of the Bar, and Military and Political Journals","The catalog is arranged alphabetically, usually by author, but otherwise by title. Different volumes bear different numbers. A certain amount of cross-listing is also evident, most obviously through the appendix of Tours, Voyages, and Travels, containing works listed by country that also appear in the main catalog by author. Multi-volume works have the number of volumes indicated following their titles, their numbers end with hyphens to indicate an ascending number for each successive volume.","\nThere are some variations in how titles are counted. The \"Edinburg Encyclopedia\" for example is listed as #1- with 21 volumes but under \"Encyclopedia, Domestic\" it is listed as \"Edinburg\" with 18 volumes and a separate 3 volume supplement at #19-.","The catalog is arranged numerically from 1 to 5,063 following the model of the 1815 Supplement, with numbers greater than 100 being listed in full only every 100 numbers and at the top of each page, but otherwise by their last two digits (e.g. 98, 99, 3900, 1, 2).","\nEntries include the number, title, and volume of the work. The last three pages have volume numbers and titles. Their sequence is unclear and some are periodicals.","The arrangement of the catalog is alphabetical by title with a few additional sections by subject.  The alphabetical portion includes the letters A-N and Q-Y with the letters O and P missing. The subject headings are \"History\" after \"H,\" \"Letters\" after \"L,\" \"Memoirs\" after \"M,\" and \"British Prose Writers\" after \"P.\" A similar practice was used for the \"Pamphlets\" section of Drinker's catalog of the 1830-1848.  Books are numbered up to 4,314.","The main listing of titles is alphabetical by titles beginning with the letters \"R\" and \"S.\"","Arrangement is by classification number and title based on a version of the Dewey Decimal System, but differs from the fifth edition (1894) in some respects, such as listing 973 as \"Egypt\" rather than the United States. (see the 1894 at https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007477697)","\nClass headings and numbers are followed by subclass numbers, the first two letters of the author's name, and a number in case there are multiple books by that author. Volumes and publications dates are appended to the end of the title.","\nCase numbers (shelf locations) have been written in by hand as well as additional titles written in the margins.","The classification is identical to the 1898 except for the added subheadings of Cuba, Japan, and Korea.\nThere is an alphabetical index of subjects.","The 1912 supplement to the catalog was arranged according the same version of the Dewey Decimal System used in previous publications, with classification numbers for which no books were added to the collection omitted. The two lists of magazines divided them into bound and unbound collections, each arranged by title and date.","Alphabetical by title. Note that bound and unbound magazines are grouped together, rather than separated as in the 1912 supplement list.","The original circulation book of 1794-1795 contains two different systems for tracking loans and borrowers. The columns of the initial system included, from left-to-right: patron name, the time the book was out, book number, and book size. Each book size had its own column, which from left-to-right were folio, \"4-to\" (quarto), \"8-vo\" (octavio), \"12-mo\" (duodecimo or twelvemo), and \"16-mo\" (sextodecimo or sixteenmo).","\nThis method was abandoned, and subsequently an attempt was made to record circulation by subscriber. Each subscriber was assigned a number and accorded a set of pages bearing that number instead of page numbers. An index of them appears at the back with some names crossed out. They are not in alphabetical order on the whole, and may represent the order in which they become subscribers. The left-hand pages list the books taken out and the right-hand pages represent returns. As such, similar years and dates are repeated on both sides.","\nBy the start of the 1801-1805 records, the library \nhad switched to a chronological format, which was flexible enough to accommodate increases in the number of subscribers and variations in their degree of patronage but at the cost of making an individual's activity more difficult to isolate. Columns consisted of: patron, title number and volume number, date and day of the week, date returned, and the number of days late and fine (if any).","\nThis remained standard through 1834 with minor variations, like the addition of a date at the top of the page in the 1814-1818 volume, which lasted into the 1830s, and a key for marks indicating returns and renewals in the 1822-1824 volume.","\nThe 1841-1848 volume introduced a new system which separated each set of records into daily sections, with a heading for each day. The columns from left-to-right provided: title number, patron name, returned date, and subject section; the latter being a feature of the working catalog in use at the time.","\nAbbreviated titles started to appear near the end of June 1845, with some of them being numbered and others not. By July 1845, a majority of the entries were like that. This method disappeared and reappeared over the years that followed.","\nBetween September 1846 and September 1848 the circulation records were kept in the second part of an account book (see notes for the subscription series). The subject system continued during this period under a new organization of columns, consisting of: subject, number (within subject), patron name (with volume number), and finally a column with either a note saying \"return,\" a date, or often a blank field.","\nThe 1857-1858 volume has alphabetical tabs on which patrons are recorded chronologically under the first letter of their name. The columns are also different. From left-to-right they include:  date, patron name (including institutions), title number, and return date. The year is given at the top. In place of a return note, some fields contain other notes like \"mistake\" or \"transferred to Roxbury,\" which are open to interpretation. Titles resume appearing in place of numbers in mid-1858.","\nThe volume covering 1862-1868 shows considerable variation. Initially it featured columns on the left with headings for each day followed by the patron name, while on the right the columns showed the title number and return date. Starting on September 27, 1859 (page 114), the left-hand column was divided between patron name and title, while the columns for title number and return date on the right remained in place. From March 1860 (page 127) to March 1861 (page 175) it returned to the earlier format.","\nThe 1870-1871 volume introduced the columns that would be standard for most of the remainder of the series ending in 1880. They consisted of checkout date, patron name, book title, title number, and return date. The exception was a period beginning in May 1871 and ending on 1 January 1872 of the 1871-1872 volume. During that period, the records provided sections by patron name, with columns for checkout date, title, and return date. There were no title numbers during that period. The arrangement of names was partially alphabetized, possibly reflecting the addition of new names to an originally alphabetical arrangement.","\nIt can be difficult to tell what year it is in some of the later volumes. In the 1872-1874 volume year breaks occur on pages 113 (1873) and 292 (1874). In the 1874-1880 volume they occur on pages 137 (1875), 275 (1876), 345 (1877), 375 (1878), 434 (1879), and 454 (1880)."],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical","Presidents and Librarians of the Library","Historical Note","Biographical / Historical","Historical Note","Historical Note"],"bioghist_tesim":["In the 1780s, a discussion group of Alexandria gentlemen called \"The Society for the Promotion of Useful Knowledge\" was formed. In 1794, many of these same individuals gathered to form the nucleus of the Alexandria Library Company (ALC). The ALC was a subscription library modelled after the Philadelphia Library Company, which had also emerged from such a club. ","Society president Reverend John Muir became president of the ALC, a position he would hold for almost 20 years. Many of the library's founders are known to have been members of local Masonic lodges. Elisha Cullen Dick, who had succeeded George Washington as the leader of Lodge 22, was among the first directors of the ALC as well as the secretary of the earlier Society. The first Librarian was Edward Stabler, the proprietor of an apothecary shop. In 1796, Stabler was replaced by James Kennedy, who served as librarian until 1818. Overlaps and family links between the leadership of the library and other Alexandria institutions remained common over the next century and a half. ","For a time, the Alexandria Lyceum (founded in 1838) and the ALC shared a physical space as well as similar missions. The Alexandria Lyceum was founded as part of a national movement focused on educational lectures. The union between the two organizations was dissolved in 1844, but the library continued to rent space from the Lyceum. The library was later said to have been in a state of \"suspended animation\" from around 1846 to 1852. In 1852, a \"Young Men's\" group took over under the original charter, publishing a new catalog in 1856. The library continued to operate into the Civil War. It remained in the Lyceum but not without acrimony, which is evident in the Alexandria Gazette in 1860. ","In October 1867, an agreement was reached with what was variously referred to as the Alexandria Christian Association and the YMCA for assistance with running the library. The library separated from this organization during the early 1870s. By the second half of the 1870s, the library fell into a decline which the directors blamed on the lack of a published catalog. ","The first library catalog had been prepared by Kennedy in 1796 and published sometime thereafter. The earliest catalog of which there is an extant copy was published in 1801, followed by another in 1808 of which there are few traces. A more enduring catalog was created in 1815. The 1830s saw publication of a supplement to the 1815 catalog and the creation of a working catalog that would be used into the late 1840s. Normal circulation records end in April 1861 when the library was converted into a military hospital. There are stray entries in May and December before operations resumed on a limited basis in May 1862 and continued at least through that year. Over a thousand volumes were lost during the war. Due to the decline in usage in the 1870s, a new catalog was produced by librarian Emma J. Young in 1872 but never published. After two years with Young's catalog, another was commissioned from Dr. Theo West, which also went unpublished. As a stopgap, handwritten copies were used by patrons. In 1898, a new catalog was created which utilized a decimal system for the first time. The last published catalog was a supplement to the 1912 version. ","In the late 1870s, appeals were made to the men of Alexandria for support,. The directors met with another \"Young Men's Library Association\" in 1878 without success, records of operations stop after January 1880.","The Gazette reported in January 1881 that the books were now in the custody of the school board, whose membership included William F. Carne, a former library company director and the son of one its former presidents. In May 1887 it reported that Carne, as leader of the board's library committee, was inviting associations wishing to participate in re-opening the library to a meeting at the Peabody school building where the books were held, and explained that he had always intended a reading room to be opened to the public once space was freed up for that purpose.","In June 1887, the Gazette reported that the \"Reading Circle of Washington and Lee Schools\" organized by teachers two years prior and the YMCA would operate the free library during the summer, in the hope that in September \"an effort will be made, with a very fair prospect of success, to re-organize the Library Company.\" Gazette reports in 1890 and 1891 refer to continued efforts by Carne and others to \"re-open\" the library, and in 1892 being part of a \"committee on the project for a free public library,\" but they did not succeed.","In the decades after 1870s librarianship not only professionalized but underwent a rapid gender shift, and apart from the periods in which there was no librarian for financial reasons, no male librarians seem to have been employed until well into the 20th century. Women's library organizations had become common nationally, and along with the philanthropy of Andrew Carnegie played a major role in the growth of public libraries in America starting in the late 19th century.","In September 1897, the Alexandria Library Association led by Virginia Corse received custody of the books then in possession of the school board. With a modest donation from Carnegie, by 1898 the library was back in business, but as a subscription library, it would not become a free public library for almost 40 years. The new library needed a new librarian, and after one or two initial hires, the association found Alice Green (1865-1956), who would serve from 1902-1937 and in a lesser capacity into the mid-1940s. During this period, space for the library was rented from the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC).","The Depression brought financial hardship. As the crisis worsened in early 1931, the association had obtained $1,000 from the city council to form \"a nucleus for the establishment of a public library.\" Discussion of becoming a public library had been common since the 1920s, as the efforts of Carnegie and others had made them the norm nationally. Attempts were made to sell older books and hold fundraisers as subscription fees dried up. There was also a dispute with the UDC over a rent increase in 1933. The library was aided by the wealth of its members, including a $5,000 bequest in 1935 from its long-time treasurer, Margaret L. Smoot.","Members built political support both on the council and among the public in the mid-1930s and in 1937 it was agreed that a building would be constructed on the site of the old cemetery of the Society of Friends and that the city government would cover annual expenses of no more than $5,000 for the association to operate a free library. One member of the board would be appointed by the city. The new governing organization was rebranded the Alexandria Library Society.  Agreements were signed in January, and the library opened at the Kate Waller Barrett Branch's current location, 717 Queen Street.","Another change after 1937 was the gender composition of the leadership. Men served on the board of the new Society and played prominent roles after 1937. After 1948 they typically occupied the presidency of the organization. Most elections were unanimous, often with women casting most of the votes, but it ceased to be a women's organization. ","In 1945 a technicality in the Society's contract with the city was brought to the attention of the board. Namely that the $5,000 the city was obligated to provide each year was not the minimum but rather the maximum contribution, and that the higher appropriations it had been making were illegal. The city took this as an opportunity to demand a contract change beyond the funding formula. Although the men of the city council had representation on the board, the women of the Society were still ultimately running the library, and the Society was asked to allow a majority of the executive board to be appointed by the city, and a minority by the Society. That the city legally \"owned the building and all its contents\" so long as it paid $5,000 per year was also pointed out. The Alexandria Library Society signed the new contract, surrendering control of the library in November 1947. In its reduced role, the Society still elected members to the board and received reports from the librarian. It also retained independent funds that could be used for the benefit of the library. With the library now fully the city's responsibility, the membership was also able to more openly advocate for additional funding.","Another longstanding issue at the library was race. The president's 1928 annual report had endorsed becoming a \"free city library,\" but feared that becoming a Carnegie library \"would bring in some elements hitherto unknown and I think undesirable in our Library.\" In the 1930s the library association favored providing segregated facilities, but, after repeated meetings with the city council, failed to achieve even that modest goal. In the 13 March, 1939, minutes, the issue was revisited yet again, but without result. ","Four days later on 17 March 1939, Sergeant George Wilson was turned down for a library card because of his race and Samuel Tucker filed a civil rights lawsuit against the librarian on his behalf. Plans for a segregated facility were dusted off, and new staff was hired so that the librarian could focus on the controversy. On 21 August 1939, several black men organized by Tucker entered the library and followed Wilson's example, but after being refused, seated themselves in the library with books, beginning America's first library sit-in. It ended only after the city manager called the police, and all were arrested. The lawsuit was dismissed on technical grounds, but to prevent a new lawsuit the city approved the Robert H. Robinson branch, which opened in 1940. Tucker refused to accept a card there. ","A major issue in the early 1950s was the push to expand the overcrowded main library serving the white community. The white librarian at the time, who had been hired in a junior capacity during Tucker's campaign in 1939, suggested to the Society that the expansion could be an opportunity to integrate. In the midst of the debates over expansion and additional funding, an opportunity emerged to purchase a neighboring building on the corner of North Columbus and Queen, which was later demolished. This prompted a discussion about the Alexandria Library Society's connection to the original library company. It was decided to change the name from the \"Alexandria Library Society\" to the \"Alexandria Library Company,\" make the appropriate filings with the state government, and reinstate the 1799 charter, which would be revised by the legislature in the 1980s to help obtain tax-exempt status from the IRS.","This name change was completed at one of the company's most consequential meetings in February 1956. Every member was asked to sign their name in the minute book to signal their assent. A letter from a local civil rights activist questioning the legality of library segregation was also read, but deemed the province of the library board, which referred the matter back to the company whose reply is not preserved.","Member Mangum Weeks thereupon raised the question of the future role of the Library Company, and proposed resuming the tradition of annual lectures dating from the Lyceum period using funds from the newly instituted membership dues. This proposal was adopted, and preparing the annual lectures soon became a major focus of the Company. The Library Company continues to appoint members to the board of the Alexandria Library and hold its annual lecture series. It commissioned a new history of the library by William Seale in 2007, which can be found at the Local History and Special Collections Branch.","Chronological listings for both presidents of the board and librarians up to the modern day.","Presidents of the Library Company and Its Successors February 1794-February 1813 Rev. James Muir February 1813-February 1815 Hugh Smith February 1815-March 1824 John Roberts March 1824-February 1829 Hugh Smith February 1829-February 1835 John Richards February 1835-February 1840 John Roberts February 1840-1852 Elias Harrison 1852-February 1855 J. Louis Kinzer February 1855-September 1858 Francis Miller September 1858- February 1859 Richard L. Carne February 1859-September 1859 Caleb S. Hallowell September 1859-February 1860 William G. Cazenove February 1860-February 1870 Richard L. Carne February 1870-February 1873 K. Kemper February 1873-October 1873 Samuel H. Janney October 1873-February 1874 Sidney C. Neale February 1874-June 1879 Mercer Slaughter September 1897-October 1905 Virginia Corse July 1906-June 1925 Mrs. Samuel. L. Monroe October 1925-April 1930 Loula Smoot April 1930-November 1933 Mrs. Henry B. Soule, [Jessie E. Soule] December 1933-December 1934 Mary Lloyd December 1934-December 1936 Susan Thomson December 1936-November 1937 Mrs. Louis Scott November 1937-November 1944 Mrs. Curtis Backus November 1944-November 1946 Mrs. [Lawrence] Fawcett, [Mary Fawcett] November 1946-November 1947 Howard Worth Smith November 1947-October 1948 [Miss Anne] Lewis Jones October 1948-October 1949 Miss Horne October 1949-October 1950 Mr. Stanley King October 1950-December 1951 Mr. [Joseph] Crockett December 1951-February 1955 Mr. Robert Moncure February 1955-February 1957 Dr. [W. Bruce] Silcox February 1957-February 1959 Stanley King February 1959-February 1962 Mangum Weeks February 1962-February 1963 Richard Bales February 1963-February 1965 Donald King February 1965-February 1967 David Squires February 1967-February 1969 Howard Worth Smith Jr. February 1969-February 1971 William Francis Smith February 1971-February 1972 John T. Ticer February 1972-February 1974 David M. Abshire February 1974-February 1976 Mrs. Merill Beede February 1976-February 1978 Mrs. Douglas Lindsey February 1978-February 1980 Clarke T. Cooper Jr. February 1980-February 1982 William Seale February 1982-February 1983 Denys Peter Myers February 1983-February 1985 William B. Hurd February 1985-February 1986 George J. Stansfield February 1986-February 1987 Dr. Ernest A. Connally February 1987-February 1989 Dr. Wilton C. Corkern, Jr. February 1989-March 1991 James M. Lewis March 1991-March 1992 Mrs. Anne Smith Paul March 1992-March 1993 Richard R. G. Hobson March 1993-March 1995 Dabney Waring March 1995-March 1997 James R. Hobson March 1997-March 1998 Robert C. Reed March 1998-March 2000 Neil Horstman March 2000-March 2002 Carroll Johnson March 2002-March 2003 Thomas C. Brown Jr.","Librarians of Alexandria February 1794-February 1796 Edward Stabler February 1796-February 1818 James Kennedy February 1818-August 1826 William Cranch August 1826-October 1829 W. Samuel Mark October 1829-March 1845 George Drinker March 1845-September 1845 James M. Eaches September 1845-September 1852 C.F. Stuart September 1852-April 1853 H. W. P. Junius September 1852-April 1853 L.? Hunter November 1853 Office Abolished February 1854-October 1855 E. M.[Magruder?] Lowe October 1855-September 1858 Norval E. Foard September 1858-February 1859 S. Scott February 1859-September 1859 Edward R. Roxbury September 1859-February 1860 James A. Clarridge February 1860-April 1861 Charles R. Burgess (acting) April 1861-Unknown Edwin N. Wise March 1868 Wr. Bushby April 1870-May 1871 August Henning July 1871-March 1872 W. F. Stansbury March 1872-August 1873 Emma J. Young October 1873-March 1876 Emily English March 1876 Position Eliminated June 1879 R. Pendleton Bruin (unofficial? acting?) October 1900-October 1903 F. Olive Lyons October 1903-April 1937 (continued part-time, mentioned up to 1946) Alice Green April 1937-December 1938 Miss Beatrice Workman January 1939-January 1941 Katherine Scoggin (later Martyn) February 1941-June 1948 Bessie Watson July 1948-June 1969 (hired part-time October 1939, letter of resignation later that month) Ellen C. Burke July 1969-October 1992 (librarian from 1958) Jeanne G. Plitt","The initial combination of financial and subscription records likely reflected the company's initial dependence on subscription fees, in contrast to the later subscription library in the city that relied more on donors. This recordkeeping system appears to have been a casualty of the merger with the Lyceum, which became official in early 1840.","\nAs the physical volume in use at that time was still mostly blank, it was repeatedly repurposed, first for additional circulation records (until these too lapsed) and later for a \"list of Stockholders and the amount due from each for the year commencing the 13th February 1854,\" which likely relates to the revitalization of the company after its agreement with the Young Men's group. The agreement required the men to find 100 subscribers, and the list was likely prepared for the annual meeting originally scheduled for 20 February (a week after the date on the list), at which it was decided to void the shares of individuals who had not paid.","The 1980 lecture of Dr. William Dudley on \"Captain Gordon and the Raid on Alexandria 1814\" was recorded but was left off the lists of annual lectures printed in later years. It marks the point at which the sequential numbering of annual lectures was stopped. The reason for this is unknown.","No catalog was published under the first librarian, but four were published during the 1796-1818 tenure of his successor.","\nOn 29 December 1796 he was directed to prepare a catalog of books \"classed according to their size and arranged in the order of the alphabet, with the number and cost or value of each,\" although a March 1797 entry suggests that it was still not complete four months later. No copy of this catalog has survived, but there would have been between 200 and 400 titles at that time.","\nThe growth of the collection was driven in part by the acceptance of books in place of subscription fees and the purchase of private libraries. In May 1800 a committee was formed to examine its acquisitions for books that were \"useless, superfluous or of immoral tendency,\" which decided in September to postpone acting on them until it was time to print a new catalog. That time came on 2 November 1801 when a committee was appointed to assist the librarian in creating a new catalog.","\nOn 1 February 1808 the board decided to print a new catalog at 50 cents a copy because \"many members were without any.\" On 2 May this catalog was reported to be largely complete. Another meeting was planned shortly thereafter so that it could be printed \"without delay.\" That meeting is undocumented, if indeed it took place. No copy of this catalog or any direct record of its publication is currently known. But it must have existed since it was referenced in a later circulation book and the librarian received a bonus for his work on it in March 1809.","\nOn 2 May 1814, it was decided to create another new catalog. It would eventually have 1,027 numbers, which circulation records show the library had reached by July 1814. On 14 November 1814, the librarian reported the catalog \"ready for the press.\" He was instructed to obtain 150 copies \"with all convenient dispatch,\" a number raised to 200 the following month. In February 1815, he reported the catalog \"about half-finished\" and presented a copy to the board, which set a price of 50 cents. In March he received compensation for \"his additional trouble in preparing the new catalogue for the press,\" suggesting that the printing had been completed.","\nThe 1815 catalog was later extended by a published supplement that added additional numbers. Unlike other printed works, there is no mention of when the supplement was produced in the minutes. It is, however, clear from circulation records that all its books had circulated by 14 August 1830. According to the minutes, a meeting had been called for 10 May 1830 only to be quickly adjourned \"there appearing no business requiring the attention of the board,\" and quarterly meetings on 2 August and 2 November were adjourned, lacking a quorum. The librarian at the time had replaced his predecessor in October 1829 and been confirmed in the position the following March. It seems plausible that he pushed to update the catalog after becoming librarian but that the question was either not deemed important or could not be addressed due to the lack of quorum but that it was printed in 1830 anyway.","\nAt the same time, a working catalog was created for use in the library itself. It is the earliest preserved catalog of this type but was probably not the first. It contains a relisting of the contents of the 1815 catalog and supplement sorted by the first letter of the alphabet with pamphlets listed separately as well as books added between April 1833 and the suspension of library operations after 1848 listed by subject. Although its initial form was compiled some time earlier, it does not appear to have come into use until sometime after 1834 where there is a gap in the circulation records. The first 1,725 entries may have been added at the time of the 1815 supplement with the shift to a new method of arrangement occurring later. ","\nOn 8 March 1856 a committee of the revived library company was assigned to rearrange and renumber the books for publication. On 29 November 1856, the board voted for 300 copies of the finished catalog to be produced.","\nOn 18 June 1858 board president Andrew Jamison resigned. On 4 September Richard L. Carne, the chairmen of the committee on the catalog and president pro-tem submitted \"his amendment to the catalog\" and appointed Sylvester Scott as librarian to constitute a \"committee of revisal.\" A new working catalog is preserved from this period continuing into the Civil War, although it does not appear to have been published.","\nFrom the reestablishment of the library in the late 1860s to its failure at the close of the 1870s the lack of a published catalog to advertise the available books was identified as a major issue. The last version of the catalog prior to the Civil War had contained over 5,000 books, of which it was estimated in 1871 that 1,000-1,500 had been lost.","\nCirculations records from the early 1870s feature book numbers around 1,000 that do not correspond to any known listing, and numbers were abandoned entirely from May 1871 to January 1872. It was decided on 2 October 1872 to create a new catalog, and the task was assigned to the new librarian, Emma Young. The fact that the numbers of the circulating books changed to include some with numbers over 5,000 after 4 December 1872 indicates that this work was completed, but it was never published and there is no surviving catalog from that period.","\nThe limited use of the catalog is evident from the prevalence of high numbered works among those in circulation. The highest numbers indicated recent acquisitions, which often received announcements in the Alexandria Gazette.","\nAt the 20 February 1874 meeting, it was noted that \"the last catalogue was published some years previous to the war and had become, by reasons of subsequent losses and additions, very incomplete\" and the board decided to appoint Dr. Theo West \"to catalogue and arrange the books.\" They planned to print the catalog in time for the 1875 annual meeting, but printing was postponed indefinitely. ","\nThe new catalog went into effect on 10 July 1874 as seen in the shift in circulation records from a system with numbers up to around 5,800 to a new catalog going to 4,314, but again they were unable to publish it.  Seven months later at the 19 February 1875 meeting, it was decided to arrange a printing \"as soon as possible,\" but this did not occur either.","\nOn 10 March 1876 the board decided upon a different plan. The catalog was to be divided among the directors so that copies might be made \"for the librarian's desk.\" The published account of the 21 February 1877 annual meeting noted that \"many persons have given as a reason for not becoming subscribers the inaccessibility of the old library which was not catalogued. This plea no longer holds.\" Doctor West's catalog \"copied by members of the Board without expense, bound in good style, can now always be found on the Librarian's desk.\" Operations ceased and the books went into storage a few years later.","\nAt the 8 January 1898 meeting of the newly formed Alexandria Library Association, it was moved that the \"the catalogue be printed at once\" with the addition of blank pages between the leaves for advertisements from city merchants.","\nThis catalog was the first to use a version of the Dewey Decimal System, which had become popular since its first publication in 1888, reaching its 5th edition in 1894. This was the first modern classification system in the history of the Alexandria Library.","\nSubsequent to the publication of the 1898 catalog in January of that year, there are several mentions of publishing \"supplements\" such as on 11 April 1899 and 11 July 1899 which may refer to the practice of publishing notices with the titles of new additions in the Alexandria Gazette, such as those of 6 July and 13 July 1899.","\nOn 1 January 1902 there was a push for a \"supplementary catalogue (being a catalogue of books up to date) be printed\" and the president appointed a committee for that purpose. It was postponed pending the catalog's completion. On 9 October 1906 the board voted to accept an offer from a Mr. White to print 1000 copies in return for advertising space. According to the 8 January 1907 minutes, the library was given half the copies of the 1906 catalog for free, of which it sold 200 and gave 300 away.","\nThe 12 April 1910 minutes mention a decision to \"again postpone the publication a supplementary catalogue.\" On 23 January 1912 it was again put off until the 9 April meeting, where it was decided for a new catalog to be printed and priced at five cents a copy and \"to have the names of the old magazines put into the new catalogue but not into the card catalogue.\" On 12 June 1912 it was reported that \"the catalogue was in the hands of the printer and that Mrs. Monroe was reading the proof\" and the \"new catalog\" was deemed \"ready for distribution\" on 8 October 1912.","\nThe annual report at that same meeting noted that \"the year has also seen the completion of the labelling, classifying, and cataloguing of all the old and valuable magazines which the Board has for so long a time desired to put into shape for distribution,\" which a review of the supplement suggests meant works in good condition available for circulation.","\nOn 11 April 1933 Mrs. Newell \"volunteered to catalogue old magazines in order that their value may be ascertained.\"  On 9 May 1933 she presented a \"typewritten list\" of \"old magazines\" for appraisal as part of their depression era fundraising efforts. On 10 October she reported them to be of \"no value\" and suggested having them sent to the Salvation Army for use as old paper. On 8 January 1934 the board approved this proposal for those magazines of \"no value,\" which do not appear to have included many titles listed in this catalog.","\nNo explicit reason for the abandonment of published catalogs after 1912 was given, but the allusion to card catalogs suggests that it was a final step in the transition from numerical catalogs, which favored bound volumes by allowing new titles to be added to the end of the sequence, to the Dewey Decimal System, which required new titles to be inserted in the correct place in the existing list and was more easily managed with cards which did not require leaving space for new titles as the 1876 catalog had.","The circulation records began with the original library company in 1794 and continued until its collapse in 1880. Some of the gaps in the records reflect periods during which its activity was disrupted.","\nDuring the War of 1812, British forces arrived in Alexandria on 29 August 1814 and remained there until 2 September. The library normally closed on Sundays, and remained closed from Sunday 28 August through Tuesday 30 August. It opened from 31 August to 2 September, during which time only four books circulated.","\nThe library was also affected by the Civil War. Hostilities between the Union and Confederacy began at Fort Sumter on 12 April 1861. A vote on Virginia secession was held on 17 April and ratified by a referendum on 23 May. Alexandria was occupied by Union forces the following day. Confederate forces had briefly made use of the Lyceum building housing the library, but it later served as a hospital for the Union. Some books were moved out but others were not.","\nIt is unclear were the library operated from in 1861 and 1862, but it did operate. There was a significant reduction in circulation leading up to the war, dropping to a single entry for 22 April 1861. Solitary patrons were recorded for 18th and 30th of May, and an individual withdrew a book every day through 21-25 December, although the May and December entries are in a different hand and initially broke with the format. In early June 1862 however, the library resumed semi-regular hours, usually opening only Tuesday and Thursday but occasionally other days. Records continue into mid-October, after which two pages are missing from the book before it resumes in 1868. Returns are dated as late as December 1862, and it is unclear when the library ceased operations.","\nAttempts to preserve the library in the late 1870s were unsuccessful, and the number of pages per year charts its decline and eventual failure over the second half of the decade."],"custodhist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eVolume ended up with the Leadbeater family in the 1860s but was donated back in 1922. 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The 1801-1805 volume has both problems, while the 1809-1811 is missing a page and the front cover. The 1814-1816 is also missing pages, as is the 1858-1868 volume for the crucial period of 1862-1863.\u003c/p\u003e"],"phystech_heading_ssm":["Preservation Issues"],"phystech_tesim":["Many of the books have damaged bindings or missing covers. The 1801-1805 volume has both problems, while the 1809-1811 is missing a page and the front cover. The 1814-1816 is also missing pages, as is the 1858-1868 volume for the crucial period of 1862-1863."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Item], Alexandria Library Company Records, MS002, Alexandria Library, Local History and Special Collections, Alexandria, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[Item], Alexandria Library Company Records, MS002, Alexandria Library, Local History and Special Collections, Alexandria, Virginia."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eA reprocessing project begun in 2018 incorporated several boxes of previously unprocessed materials dating from the 1960s to the 2000s, with the bulk dating from after 1980. They included many short, overlapping sequences of correspondence, lecture, meeting, and member records which were merged into continuations of established series including primarily correspondence and lectures but also meetings and member correspondence. The \"subject files\" were added to the existing miscellaneous series. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nSeveral other changes were also made. A re-examination of the catalog, subscription, and circulation books was undertaken and most were renumbered, described, and relabeled based on primary source research. The 1794-1861 minute book that had been donated back in 1922 was also discovered misfiled in Ms 98 (which covers the library proper since 1937) and was returned to its original collection. Some letters found in minute books were moved to the correspondence series, and their original locations were bookmarked with acid free paper. Photocopies of catalogs were removed. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords concerning individual lectures, such as programs and invitations, were foldered by individual lecture unless part of a separate series. This permitted the titles of lectures and names of lecturers to be better indexed and gaps in documentation to be made more obvious than would have been the case with separate subseries for programs, transcripts, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is no mention of when the supplement was produced in the minutes, which is odd for a printed pamphlet. As a result dating was attempted starting from the circulation records, which showed the #1,728 was first checked out on 14 August 1830. According to the minutes, a meeting had been called for 10 May 1830, only to be quickly adjourned \"there appearing no business requiring the attention of the board,\" and quarterly meetings on 2 August and 2 November adjourned for lack of a quorum.  The librarian at the time, George Drinker, had replaced his predecessor in October 1829 and been confirmed in the position in March, so the working hypothesis is that he pushed to update the catalog after becoming librarian but the question was either not deemed important or could not be addressed due to the lack of a quorum and that it was printing anyway sometime in 1830. That date may need to be updated in light of additional evidence in the future (e.g. the Gazette becoming searchable for the 1830s).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nThe location of the original is unknown despite Library of Congress Classification number noted by a previous processor resembling that of the original 1815 catalog. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nThe collection originally contained a photocopy which was removed. I had the image of a staple, suggesting it was a copy of a copy. It was not correctly dated. A modern processor had written \"NOT used. The # sequence would conflict with 1815 catalogue complied by Evans\" in reference to the effort to reconstruct the 1815 arrangement made by Marjorie Darnell Evans, possibly the only record that the individual had access to, and added an \"1815\" date in pen. This is all the more perplexing as another hand had also added a \"1\" before the first number to highlight the fact that the numbers were higher than the 1815 catalog, a fact that tendency to list only the last two digits otherwise obscured.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis volume was difficult to date, for while an inscription makes clear that the book itself was in possession of the library by the end of March 1830, it does not make clear that it was being applied to its intended purpose. It contains a calendar suggesting 1833-1834, but books go until at least 1841 and perhaps 1844, and publication date can differ greatly from acquisition date. Circulation records also show that while created earlier, it was not yet the primary catalog by 1834, and due to gaps in the records we can only demonstrate that the subject system was in use between 1841 and 1848. Although Drinker's name is everywhere, his long service as librarian prevents this information from being particularly useful. In light of all this, it was given a recordkeeping date of 1830-1848, indicating that the collection was documented and it could have been used by librarians during that period, new books were recorded there covering this period, even though the period of active use may have begun at a later, unknown date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA previous processor had dated this catalog \"1799?\" but the second page of titles lists an \"Address on the Life and actions of Gen. R. E. Lee delivered on the 12th of Oct. 1871 before the Society of Confederate Soldiers and Sailors in Maryland\" which seemed unlikely to predate the Civil War by so many years, so a later date was sought. Although the initial catalog was completed in 1874, it has been given the date of 1876 when this copy was physically created by the directors.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA copy of the \"S\" section of the 1876 catalog was found in the circulation book for the early 1840s, although it dated from decades later. It was moved to the same folder as the \"R\" section, being from the same period and seemingly in the same hand. They were also given a date along with the 1876 catalog.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA photocopy of the original was removed from the collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe catalog was previously dated to the 19th century, but has been dated to May 1933 based on the minutes as described in the historical note. 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A re-examination of the catalog, subscription, and circulation books was undertaken and most were renumbered, described, and relabeled based on primary source research. The 1794-1861 minute book that had been donated back in 1922 was also discovered misfiled in Ms 98 (which covers the library proper since 1937) and was returned to its original collection. Some letters found in minute books were moved to the correspondence series, and their original locations were bookmarked with acid free paper. Photocopies of catalogs were removed. ","Records concerning individual lectures, such as programs and invitations, were foldered by individual lecture unless part of a separate series. This permitted the titles of lectures and names of lecturers to be better indexed and gaps in documentation to be made more obvious than would have been the case with separate subseries for programs, transcripts, etc.","There is no mention of when the supplement was produced in the minutes, which is odd for a printed pamphlet. As a result dating was attempted starting from the circulation records, which showed the #1,728 was first checked out on 14 August 1830. According to the minutes, a meeting had been called for 10 May 1830, only to be quickly adjourned \"there appearing no business requiring the attention of the board,\" and quarterly meetings on 2 August and 2 November adjourned for lack of a quorum.  The librarian at the time, George Drinker, had replaced his predecessor in October 1829 and been confirmed in the position in March, so the working hypothesis is that he pushed to update the catalog after becoming librarian but the question was either not deemed important or could not be addressed due to the lack of a quorum and that it was printing anyway sometime in 1830. That date may need to be updated in light of additional evidence in the future (e.g. the Gazette becoming searchable for the 1830s).","\nThe location of the original is unknown despite Library of Congress Classification number noted by a previous processor resembling that of the original 1815 catalog. ","\nThe collection originally contained a photocopy which was removed. I had the image of a staple, suggesting it was a copy of a copy. It was not correctly dated. A modern processor had written \"NOT used. The # sequence would conflict with 1815 catalogue complied by Evans\" in reference to the effort to reconstruct the 1815 arrangement made by Marjorie Darnell Evans, possibly the only record that the individual had access to, and added an \"1815\" date in pen. This is all the more perplexing as another hand had also added a \"1\" before the first number to highlight the fact that the numbers were higher than the 1815 catalog, a fact that tendency to list only the last two digits otherwise obscured.","This volume was difficult to date, for while an inscription makes clear that the book itself was in possession of the library by the end of March 1830, it does not make clear that it was being applied to its intended purpose. It contains a calendar suggesting 1833-1834, but books go until at least 1841 and perhaps 1844, and publication date can differ greatly from acquisition date. Circulation records also show that while created earlier, it was not yet the primary catalog by 1834, and due to gaps in the records we can only demonstrate that the subject system was in use between 1841 and 1848. Although Drinker's name is everywhere, his long service as librarian prevents this information from being particularly useful. In light of all this, it was given a recordkeeping date of 1830-1848, indicating that the collection was documented and it could have been used by librarians during that period, new books were recorded there covering this period, even though the period of active use may have begun at a later, unknown date.","A previous processor had dated this catalog \"1799?\" but the second page of titles lists an \"Address on the Life and actions of Gen. R. E. Lee delivered on the 12th of Oct. 1871 before the Society of Confederate Soldiers and Sailors in Maryland\" which seemed unlikely to predate the Civil War by so many years, so a later date was sought. Although the initial catalog was completed in 1874, it has been given the date of 1876 when this copy was physically created by the directors.","A copy of the \"S\" section of the 1876 catalog was found in the circulation book for the early 1840s, although it dated from decades later. It was moved to the same folder as the \"R\" section, being from the same period and seemingly in the same hand. They were also given a date along with the 1876 catalog.","A photocopy of the original was removed from the collection.","The catalog was previously dated to the 19th century, but has been dated to May 1933 based on the minutes as described in the historical note. The specific reference to a typescript in connection with the term \"old magazines\" in 1933 is difficult to ignore and the scattered notes on condition fit with the goal of appraising the magazines being pursued at that time. I also found it unlikely that the list was drawn up in 1912 as part of the catalog supplement for that year given the differences in arrangement, like the supplement separating bound and unbound volumes, and the differences in contents, like the absence of the Atheneum from the supplement.","A copy of the \"S\" section of the 1876 catalog was found in this circulation book, although it obviously dated from decades later than its period of active use. It was moved to the same folder as the \"R\" section."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Alexandria Library Records (Ms 98) document the library as a separate institution from 1937 onward.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nIt particularly complements this collection in its early decades through its administrative correspondence, board correspondence, minutes, annual reports, and organizational records, including contracts with the Alexandria Library Society.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe minutes of the library's executive board (1938-1947) are included in the microfilm version of the library minute books 1794-1947.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eTranscripts of library company lectures 2-18 are available in the library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003clist type=\"deflist\"\u003e\n      \u003chead\u003eLecture series : [transcripts of the audiotapes made of the scholars invited to speak at these annual lectures]\u003c/head\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eAlexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #2\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003e080 LEC 2\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eAlexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #3\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003e080 LEC 3\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eAlexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #4\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003e080 LEC 4\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eAlexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #5\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003e080 LEC 5\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eAlexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #6\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003e080 LEC 6\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eAlexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #7\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003e080 LEC 7\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eAlexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #8\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003e080 LEC 8\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eAlexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #9\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003e080 LEC 9\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eAlexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #10\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003e080 LEC 10\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eAlexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #11\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003e080 LEC 11\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eAlexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #12\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003e080 LEC 12\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eAlexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #13\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003e080 LEC 13\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eAlexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #14\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003e080 LEC 14\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eAlexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #15\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003e080 LEC 15\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eAlexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #16\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003e080 LEC 16\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eAlexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #17\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003e080 LEC 17\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eAlexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #18\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003e080 LEC 18\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n    \u003c/list\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["The Alexandria Library Records (Ms 98) document the library as a separate institution from 1937 onward.","\nIt particularly complements this collection in its early decades through its administrative correspondence, board correspondence, minutes, annual reports, and organizational records, including contracts with the Alexandria Library Society.","\nThe minutes of the library's executive board (1938-1947) are included in the microfilm version of the library minute books 1794-1947.","Transcripts of library company lectures 2-18 are available in the library.","Lecture series : [transcripts of the audiotapes made of the scholars invited to speak at these annual lectures] Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #2 080 LEC 2 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #3 080 LEC 3 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #4 080 LEC 4 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #5 080 LEC 5 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #6 080 LEC 6 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #7 080 LEC 7 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #8 080 LEC 8 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #9 080 LEC 9 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #10 080 LEC 10 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #11 080 LEC 11 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #12 080 LEC 12 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #13 080 LEC 13 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #14 080 LEC 14 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #15 080 LEC 15 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #16 080 LEC 16 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #17 080 LEC 17 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #18 080 LEC 18"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection consists of circulation, subscription, and financial ledgers, annual lecture series documents, catalogues, correspondence, and various organizational documents. Topics include: foundation of the\nAlexandria 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.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe organizational records series contains those records directly concerned with the library company and its predecessors as organizations. It covers charters, by-laws, contracts, the legal definition of the company, and its history. Charters and by-laws between 1794 and 1944 are generally documented in the minutes and or reprinted in catalogs or the Alexandria Gazette.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe general correspondence series covers a long period of the history of the Library Company and its successors, with the bulk from the modern Library Company after 1954, when more documentation was being produced and captured in a systematic way.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nFrom the earlier period, one folder covers the old Library Company, including an account of the Civil War and two folders cover the period of the Alexandria Library Association consisting primarily of correspondence with Andrew Carnegie about his financial support. The material from the Alexandria Library Society chiefly consists of copies of minutes. \nFor library related inquiries after 1937 see the extensive public library correspondence in Ms 98.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe post-1954 correspondence includes lecture arrangements, nomination and member correspondence, announcements, and all manner of memoranda and external correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe financial reports series includes monthly financial reports from the Alexandria Library Association prior the establishment of the public library and annual reports of the Library Company after 1953 along with a limited amount of additional correspondence on related issues.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThere is also a file of annual reports which the Library Company was required to make to the state as a corporation.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nFor records relating to the Alexandria Library Company's efforts to become tax-exempt in the 1980s, see the Organizational Records series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe meetings series consists chiefly of bound and unbound minutes from the Alexandria Library Company and its successors.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe bound minutes cover the early Library Company from 1794 to its last meeting in 1879, the Alexandria Library Association and Library Society from 1897 through its loss of control of the library in the late 1947, and the Society and modern Library Company from 1948 to 1993.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nAfter 1937, there are two minute books, one for the \"executive board,\" which ran the library, and the other for the Library Society and later Library Company which appointed some of its members. The 1938-1947 executive board minutes are included in the microfilm copy of the older bound volumes, but the original is located in Ms 98.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nBylaws, agreements, financial, and membership information often appear in the records, as do records of elections. In some periods, annual reports are pasted into the minute books, which like a lot of library business, was printed in the Gazette.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe unbound meeting records cover the modern period of the Library Company and contain minutes, announcements of meetings, and notes, although for the earlier periods the minutes are merely photocopies of the bound volumes as indicated by page numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe members series contains records relating to the selection, participation, and retention of members of the Library Company, with a focus on the modern period from the 1950s onward. It includes records of the nominating committee, correspondence with and about current or prospective members, and lists of members and guests attending the annual lectures. One of these lists is also available on a 3½ inch disk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe subscription series consists of bound volumes of records documenting the subscribers of the company while doubling as ledgers for many of the financial transactions of the pre-Lyceum period (1794-1839), with gaps between volumes. Apart from the minutes, the volumes contain the only information on the subscribers of the late 1790s, for which there is a gap in the circulation records.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThere are also additional financial records from 1826-1839 and a list of subscribers, paid and not, from 1854. These appear in the same volume (see historical note), along with the circulation records for 1846-1848 in between.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe stubs of printed subscription certificates from 1874-1879 are also included in this series. Each contains an identifying number, the name of a subscriber, and a dollar amount, accompanied in some cases by dates or other notations. A few of the completed patron slips are also in this volume, including dates and the signature of the treasurer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains information on the annual lecture series, with the bulk covering the period after its revival in 1957. The files for the early years include much of the correspondence arranging for the lectures and information on the lecturers as well as in some cases printed copies of the prepared text. For later years the files consist largely of lecture announcements, programs, and attendance lists. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nAudio or video recordings were made of most lectures, but are not currently available. Correspondence relating to the recordings can be found in the relevant subseries. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nCorrespondence is also available regarding the production of the printed programs and the selection of speakers during the 1970s along with an undated seat plan. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nInformation on attendance and the financial aspects of the lectures can be found in other series. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nPrint transcriptions for certain lectures are available in the reading room.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe collection's miscellany includes annual reports of the library, a survey of the old library company books, seals, stationary, and printed matter including poems, fundraising pamphlets, and literature about the library from the League of Women Voters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe news clippings series consists chiefly of articles about the annual lectures or which report on the annual meetings and the election of officers and members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe catalogs provide listings of books showing what was available at the library during different time periods and identifying books for some parts of the circulation records. Catalogs also frequently included information on other topics, including the rules of the library, founding documents, library histories, and the value of the books. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nTitles were often abbreviated, especially in the working catalogs, and dates of publication were often lacking. This can make identifying a work from the catalog difficult even when copies of it are extant elsewhere. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nCatalogs can be used reliably for most of the numerical listings in the circulation records for roughly 1801-1807, 1815-1848, 1856-1862, and 1874-1879. The 1815 catalog was not only bigger than the 1801, but had been renumbered. Because of this practice, the 1801 catalog cannot be relied upon for records prior to its implementation nor after the point in 1807-1808 when its successor went into effect. Since there is no way to know if the 1815 catalog was an extension of the 1808, it likewise cannot be trusted prior to implementation. The 1815 and its supplement were used for a longer period and the 1830-1848 used it as a base, although it altered its system of arrangement leaving around 30 or so numbers undefined for part of the 1830s. The 1856 printed and 1858-1860 working catalogs cover much of the same material and are usable for records into the Civil War. The 1856 is available online in a searchable format and organized to be browsed, while the working catalog is arranged by number. The 1876 copy of the catalog implemented in July 1874 is missing the letters O-P, but is otherwise usable for the last few years of circulation records. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nSee specific catalog notes for details. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe 1801 catalog corresponds to the title numbers 1-452 in the circulations records from around 1802-1808 and offers the number of volumes and value for each. It is hard to be precise since the dates on which it came into and fell out of use at the library are unknown. The fact that books were removed as well as added at the time of its adoption and its organization suggest that it may not be reliable for the 1794-1796 circulation records, and possibly not even for books circulating earlier in 1801 which were likely identified by an earlier catalog. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nIn addition to a listing of books, the catalog includes the revised act of incorporation dated September 1799, the laws of the company passed on 2 November 1801 and an alphabetical membership list. \nAt the back is a list of book donations from largest to smallest, including the name of the donor, the total number of volumes donated, and a list of title numbers, along with an index to the catalog and some errata. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nIt was printed by Cottom and Stewart in Alexandria and sold for fifty cents a copy. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis catalog of 1,027 titles includes the title number, number of volumes, and price, as well as a note to indicate whether something was a donation. It is a reliable reference for the decades that followed, but should be used with caution for earlier periods. Comparison with the 1801 catalog shows that titles were inserted with very low numbers, and it is unclear how the 1808 catalog was organized. Given the way the catalog was divided, there is no clear method by which accretions could have been added to the working catalog other than accession order, whereas the 1815 catalog required them to be categorized. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nIt is therefore logical to assume that numbers added in between catalog issuances were later changed, and that the 1815 catalog is probably not valid for the preceding period. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe full title of the catalog included the phrase \"to which are prefixed, the Act of Incorporation; the Laws of the Company, and the Names of the Members,\" but our copy contains only pages 11-46 and does not contain front matter. It is unclear whether the first ten pages were removed, or John A. Stewart's edition was simply printed without them. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis printed catalog supplement extends the 1815 catalog from #1,027 to #1,728 updating it to August 1830. It was likely published around that time by William Greer, printer, and matches the titles. It matches the numbers of a listing of books dated 1828 in one of the circulation books suggesting that no rearrangement of newer books occurred prior to publication. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe supplement has most of the same information as the 1815, offering the number, title, volume, and value of each title, but lacks its classification system by size and subject. Despite a short cross-listing of periodical works, it has neither the subject classification nor even alphabetization to make it a ready reference. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis catalog contains a relisting of the contents of the 1815 catalog and supplement sorted by the first letter of the alphabet with pamphlets listed separately as well as books added between April 1833 and the suspension of library operations after 1848 listed by subject. Although its initial form was compiled by George Drinker some time earlier, it does not appear to gone into effect until sometime after 1834 where there is a gap in circulation records. Because the numbering up to 1,725 remained the same, earlier print catalogs can also be employed for those number for the period from 1815-1848 even though this catalog alone can be used for the numbers 1,726-1,793 during that period.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nAdditions beyond 1,793 are only usable for the period 1841-1848, because they were relisted here under a combined subject/numbering system after being originally cataloged differently up to around 1,825. The later rearrangement left no record of how those 30 or so numbers should be understood during the period before 1834.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThese later additions occupy the latter sections which include materials published from the late-1830s and early 1840s. Other indications of the ongoing nature of the listings include the blank entry for #351 at the end of Novels and Romances and the blank page with the heading \"Biography\" following the rest of that section.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe third, and final section, is the \"List of Books from the Reading Room.\" These are dated 1840-1841, and consist almost entirely of new additions to the periodicals with a few exceptions, chiefly among the first few entries. This suggests that the page may not have been used for its original purpose.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe title/subject organization of the latter part of the catalog is helpful in understanding acquisition priorities during the late-1830s and the Lyceum period of the 1840s.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe inside cover contains a calendar for 1833 going through February 1834, with the Thursdays closest to the middle of each month marked (none are the dates of official meetings). There is also a 29 March 1830 inscription by Drinker, Treasurer, authorizing James Dunlap in financial matters while he is librarian, which may predate the decision to use the book as a catalog. Drinker may have done the first 1,725 entries at that time in preparation for the publication of the 1815 supplement.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs noted in its introduction, the 300 copies of the 1856 catalog were created not as \"a model catalog but such a one as would be practically useful to the readers of the library.\" It serves as a guide to the collection as contemporary subscribers would have known it, covering the first 4,473 volume numbers for this period. For looking up numbers from the circulation records, it is easier to use the searchable catalog of surviving books or the online version. For later acquisitions, one may use the manuscript catalog that was in use internally from 1858-1860 which is arranged by number.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nIn addition to the aforementioned note on the catalog's creation, the catalog also includes a historical note on the early history of the library and a copy of the 1799 act of incorporation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis catalog was implemented sometime in the fall of 1858 as an \"amendment\" to the catalog of 1856 and was likely expanded on an ongoing basis up to the Civil War. Since the 1856 catalog was presumably still in use by subscribers, the two contain largely the same information apart from three key differences. Firstly, the 1858 added accretions to the book collection, extending the book numbers from 4,473 to 5,063. The second difference is that it lists the books by number, to assist the librarians in managing the books, rather than by author and title, which in the 1856 catalog assisted subscribers in finding them. Lastly, it should be noted that titles in both catalogs are abbreviated in different ways.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nDespite the overlap and differences of organization, a person looking up a number in the circulation records between February 1857 and 17 September 1859 may still find it easier to consult a searchable online version of the catalog and reserve use of the 1858 for its last 600 numbers. Starting on 27 September 1859, titles began to appear in the circulation records alongside the numbers, making either catalog usable for numbers below 4,474, although due to unpredictable title abbreviations numerical catalogs remained more reliable.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe catalog was signed by a number of librarians of the company inside the front and back covers, sometimes more than once. This includes a listing made in 1871 which is notable for the presence of names not associated with the title \"librarian\" by the minutes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe initial form of this catalog was compiled by Doctor Theo West and put into use on 10 July 1874, although there may have been additions by the time it was copied by the directors of the library company into its current form. It was intended for publication, but was later advertised as merely being available at the librarian's desk. It was therefore organized with the aim of finding books by title, like a printed catalog, rather than by number like the manuscript catalogs from before the Civil War. It remained in use until the company shut down after 1880.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe book contains a detailed history of the library company including the text of the 1799 act of incorporation written by \"John Stewart, Keeper of the Rolls.\" It is also the only extant catalog with a book plate, albeit one with the shelf location and classification numbers left blank.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe listing of books is missing the letters O and P at a point where the binding is broken, either because they were removed from this edition or never added in. Title information includes the title and number of each book as well as a \"case\" number (presumably for shelving) and occasional volume and date information. Space is left in many places for additional titles to be added, although in some cases this was handled by inserted slips of paper. For details on the organization of the title list see the arrangement note.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis listing of \"R\" titles is largely the same as that copied by the directors for the 1876 catalog, but appears to be in a different hand (most noticeably the number 8). The listing for \"S\" appears to be the same hand as \"R.\" Also included are two pieces of paper with additional titles, and notes in blue asking that additional space be left for new titles to be added. That feature of the main 1876 catalog is absent here and may be the reason it was not included in a complete volume.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe 1898 catalog provides the earliest record of the library's collection after its reestablishment by the Alexandria Library Association, including numbers of volumes and publications dates for each title. The subject classification allows a simple method of gauging the balance of the collection between different areas, particularly in comparison with the publications of 1906 and 1912. Handwritten notes seem to indicate additions and shelf locations, although the date and provenance of those notes is unclear.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA complete update to the 1898 catalog, the 1906 retained the same basic classification system apart from the addition of 3 new sub-classes. It also includes a chart of subscription prices for the library at the front giving lengths of time and numbers of books and a large number of advertisements from local businesses.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nFor the new subclasses see arrangement note.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe 1912 supplement to the catalog includes additions to the library collection since 1906 as well as a listing of old magazines, which were not mentioned in the 1906 catalog. Most classification numbers were therefore unneeded. The bulk of the entries appear to be fiction and old magazines.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis typescript contains a listing of \"old magazines\" by title and volume that were in the collection in 1933. It also includes some notes on their condition, such as whether they were bound and missing covers, pages, and volumes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe circulation records consist of bound volumes containing lists of books checked out. They typically list the name of the subscriber, the date, and some method of identifying the work along with various other details. For much of its history, the old library company identified books only by number, although titles and combinations of numbers and titles began appearing around 1845, with titles becoming commonplace after 1858.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe catalogs can be used reliably for only some of the numerical listings due to additions following the publication of rapidly outdated catalogs and changes in numbering that preceded new ones. They are relevant to some of the numbers for 1801-1807, 1815-1848, 1856-1862, and 1874-1879 (see catalog series notes and below). Because of possible renumbering, the 1801 catalog cannot be relied upon for records prior to its implementation nor after the point in 1807-1808 when its successor went into effect. Since there is no way to know if the 1815 catalog was an extension of the 1808 or if it was the first to change the numbering from the 1801, it likewise cannot be trusted prior to its implementation.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe 1815 and its supplement were used for a longer period and the 1834-1848 catalog used it as a base, despite altering its system of arrangement for later materials and leaving about 30 numbers unclear due to renumbering. The 1856 printed and 1858-1860 working catalogs cover much of the same material and are usable into the Civil War. Notably, the 1856 is available online in a searchable format. It was arranged to be browsed, while the working catalog is arranged by number only. The 1876 copy of the catalog implemented in July 1874 is missing the letters O-P, but is otherwise usable for the last few years of circulation records.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nEven when numbers cannot be identified, useful information can be inferred from changes in the numbering system and preferences for numbers from particular periods, such as for new acquisitions. One can also use the records to quantify the level of patronage as a whole in various periods. There are no circulation records at the book level from the Alexandria Library Association (1897-1937) and later, although summary reports of circulation became common during the modern period and were often noted in minutes and annual reports.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThere are significant gaps in the circulation records, which nominally cover the period from November 1794 to January 1880. These come in several different types. Some of them appear to indicate missing volumes, including July 1795-June 1801, May 1811-February 1814, January 1835-Feburary 1841, September 1848-October 1858, and 1868-1870, but there are also gaps of a few months between volumes in 1805, 1824, 1846, 1871, and 1874. Additionally, there is a month of pages missing from the middle of 1831, and two pages are missing after October 1862, even though returns were noted as late December, before resuming in April 1868 (on the Civil War see the historical note for this series).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nTitle numbers began at around 200, gradually rising to over 5,000 before the Civil War. After the war, numbers ran below 1,000 for the most part, before changing to numbers over 5,000 again on 4 December 1873 (p.279) and then dropping to lower numbers on 10 July 1874 (p.69), with some titles in the 5000s being renumbered to the 3000s.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nMany of volumes contain lists of books in their front or back matter, usually including both titles and numbers. This is one of the only sources for matching that information for some periods of the library's history and includes the only reference to the 1808 catalog outside the minutes. They include lists of missing books (the 1822-1824 volume), books sent to be bound (1824-1828 and 1828-1831) and of the Waverly Novels (1822-1824).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nChanges in the hand recording the information signal personnel changes, and many of the volumes were inscribed with the names of librarians or members of the company, occasionally accompanied by other kinds of scribbling as in 1814-1816, 1831-1834, and especially 1858-1868. There is also some doodling, which appears inside the covers in a modest way in the 1814-1816 volume and far more extensively in the 1841-1848 and 1858-1868 ones. The 1841-1848 also contains doodles among the actual circulation records.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nFor the columns and specific information that varied over time see the arrangement note for this series.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Content Description","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection consists of circulation, subscription, and financial ledgers, annual lecture series documents, catalogues, correspondence, and various organizational documents. Topics include: foundation of the\nAlexandria 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.","The organizational records series contains those records directly concerned with the library company and its predecessors as organizations. It covers charters, by-laws, contracts, the legal definition of the company, and its history. Charters and by-laws between 1794 and 1944 are generally documented in the minutes and or reprinted in catalogs or the Alexandria Gazette.","The general correspondence series covers a long period of the history of the Library Company and its successors, with the bulk from the modern Library Company after 1954, when more documentation was being produced and captured in a systematic way.","\nFrom the earlier period, one folder covers the old Library Company, including an account of the Civil War and two folders cover the period of the Alexandria Library Association consisting primarily of correspondence with Andrew Carnegie about his financial support. The material from the Alexandria Library Society chiefly consists of copies of minutes. \nFor library related inquiries after 1937 see the extensive public library correspondence in Ms 98.","\nThe post-1954 correspondence includes lecture arrangements, nomination and member correspondence, announcements, and all manner of memoranda and external correspondence.","The financial reports series includes monthly financial reports from the Alexandria Library Association prior the establishment of the public library and annual reports of the Library Company after 1953 along with a limited amount of additional correspondence on related issues.","\nThere is also a file of annual reports which the Library Company was required to make to the state as a corporation.","\nFor records relating to the Alexandria Library Company's efforts to become tax-exempt in the 1980s, see the Organizational Records series.","The meetings series consists chiefly of bound and unbound minutes from the Alexandria Library Company and its successors.","\nThe bound minutes cover the early Library Company from 1794 to its last meeting in 1879, the Alexandria Library Association and Library Society from 1897 through its loss of control of the library in the late 1947, and the Society and modern Library Company from 1948 to 1993.","\nAfter 1937, there are two minute books, one for the \"executive board,\" which ran the library, and the other for the Library Society and later Library Company which appointed some of its members. The 1938-1947 executive board minutes are included in the microfilm copy of the older bound volumes, but the original is located in Ms 98.","\nBylaws, agreements, financial, and membership information often appear in the records, as do records of elections. In some periods, annual reports are pasted into the minute books, which like a lot of library business, was printed in the Gazette.","\nThe unbound meeting records cover the modern period of the Library Company and contain minutes, announcements of meetings, and notes, although for the earlier periods the minutes are merely photocopies of the bound volumes as indicated by page numbers.","The members series contains records relating to the selection, participation, and retention of members of the Library Company, with a focus on the modern period from the 1950s onward. It includes records of the nominating committee, correspondence with and about current or prospective members, and lists of members and guests attending the annual lectures. One of these lists is also available on a 3½ inch disk.","The subscription series consists of bound volumes of records documenting the subscribers of the company while doubling as ledgers for many of the financial transactions of the pre-Lyceum period (1794-1839), with gaps between volumes. Apart from the minutes, the volumes contain the only information on the subscribers of the late 1790s, for which there is a gap in the circulation records.","\nThere are also additional financial records from 1826-1839 and a list of subscribers, paid and not, from 1854. These appear in the same volume (see historical note), along with the circulation records for 1846-1848 in between.","\nThe stubs of printed subscription certificates from 1874-1879 are also included in this series. Each contains an identifying number, the name of a subscriber, and a dollar amount, accompanied in some cases by dates or other notations. A few of the completed patron slips are also in this volume, including dates and the signature of the treasurer.","This series contains information on the annual lecture series, with the bulk covering the period after its revival in 1957. The files for the early years include much of the correspondence arranging for the lectures and information on the lecturers as well as in some cases printed copies of the prepared text. For later years the files consist largely of lecture announcements, programs, and attendance lists. ","\nAudio or video recordings were made of most lectures, but are not currently available. Correspondence relating to the recordings can be found in the relevant subseries. ","\nCorrespondence is also available regarding the production of the printed programs and the selection of speakers during the 1970s along with an undated seat plan. ","\nInformation on attendance and the financial aspects of the lectures can be found in other series. ","\nPrint transcriptions for certain lectures are available in the reading room.","The collection's miscellany includes annual reports of the library, a survey of the old library company books, seals, stationary, and printed matter including poems, fundraising pamphlets, and literature about the library from the League of Women Voters.","The news clippings series consists chiefly of articles about the annual lectures or which report on the annual meetings and the election of officers and members.","The catalogs provide listings of books showing what was available at the library during different time periods and identifying books for some parts of the circulation records. Catalogs also frequently included information on other topics, including the rules of the library, founding documents, library histories, and the value of the books. ","\nTitles were often abbreviated, especially in the working catalogs, and dates of publication were often lacking. This can make identifying a work from the catalog difficult even when copies of it are extant elsewhere. ","\nCatalogs can be used reliably for most of the numerical listings in the circulation records for roughly 1801-1807, 1815-1848, 1856-1862, and 1874-1879. The 1815 catalog was not only bigger than the 1801, but had been renumbered. Because of this practice, the 1801 catalog cannot be relied upon for records prior to its implementation nor after the point in 1807-1808 when its successor went into effect. Since there is no way to know if the 1815 catalog was an extension of the 1808, it likewise cannot be trusted prior to implementation. The 1815 and its supplement were used for a longer period and the 1830-1848 used it as a base, although it altered its system of arrangement leaving around 30 or so numbers undefined for part of the 1830s. The 1856 printed and 1858-1860 working catalogs cover much of the same material and are usable for records into the Civil War. The 1856 is available online in a searchable format and organized to be browsed, while the working catalog is arranged by number. The 1876 copy of the catalog implemented in July 1874 is missing the letters O-P, but is otherwise usable for the last few years of circulation records. ","\nSee specific catalog notes for details. ","The 1801 catalog corresponds to the title numbers 1-452 in the circulations records from around 1802-1808 and offers the number of volumes and value for each. It is hard to be precise since the dates on which it came into and fell out of use at the library are unknown. The fact that books were removed as well as added at the time of its adoption and its organization suggest that it may not be reliable for the 1794-1796 circulation records, and possibly not even for books circulating earlier in 1801 which were likely identified by an earlier catalog. ","\nIn addition to a listing of books, the catalog includes the revised act of incorporation dated September 1799, the laws of the company passed on 2 November 1801 and an alphabetical membership list. \nAt the back is a list of book donations from largest to smallest, including the name of the donor, the total number of volumes donated, and a list of title numbers, along with an index to the catalog and some errata. ","\nIt was printed by Cottom and Stewart in Alexandria and sold for fifty cents a copy. ","This catalog of 1,027 titles includes the title number, number of volumes, and price, as well as a note to indicate whether something was a donation. It is a reliable reference for the decades that followed, but should be used with caution for earlier periods. Comparison with the 1801 catalog shows that titles were inserted with very low numbers, and it is unclear how the 1808 catalog was organized. Given the way the catalog was divided, there is no clear method by which accretions could have been added to the working catalog other than accession order, whereas the 1815 catalog required them to be categorized. ","\nIt is therefore logical to assume that numbers added in between catalog issuances were later changed, and that the 1815 catalog is probably not valid for the preceding period. ","\nThe full title of the catalog included the phrase \"to which are prefixed, the Act of Incorporation; the Laws of the Company, and the Names of the Members,\" but our copy contains only pages 11-46 and does not contain front matter. It is unclear whether the first ten pages were removed, or John A. Stewart's edition was simply printed without them. ","This printed catalog supplement extends the 1815 catalog from #1,027 to #1,728 updating it to August 1830. It was likely published around that time by William Greer, printer, and matches the titles. It matches the numbers of a listing of books dated 1828 in one of the circulation books suggesting that no rearrangement of newer books occurred prior to publication. ","\nThe supplement has most of the same information as the 1815, offering the number, title, volume, and value of each title, but lacks its classification system by size and subject. Despite a short cross-listing of periodical works, it has neither the subject classification nor even alphabetization to make it a ready reference. ","This catalog contains a relisting of the contents of the 1815 catalog and supplement sorted by the first letter of the alphabet with pamphlets listed separately as well as books added between April 1833 and the suspension of library operations after 1848 listed by subject. Although its initial form was compiled by George Drinker some time earlier, it does not appear to gone into effect until sometime after 1834 where there is a gap in circulation records. Because the numbering up to 1,725 remained the same, earlier print catalogs can also be employed for those number for the period from 1815-1848 even though this catalog alone can be used for the numbers 1,726-1,793 during that period.","\nAdditions beyond 1,793 are only usable for the period 1841-1848, because they were relisted here under a combined subject/numbering system after being originally cataloged differently up to around 1,825. The later rearrangement left no record of how those 30 or so numbers should be understood during the period before 1834.","\nThese later additions occupy the latter sections which include materials published from the late-1830s and early 1840s. Other indications of the ongoing nature of the listings include the blank entry for #351 at the end of Novels and Romances and the blank page with the heading \"Biography\" following the rest of that section.","\nThe third, and final section, is the \"List of Books from the Reading Room.\" These are dated 1840-1841, and consist almost entirely of new additions to the periodicals with a few exceptions, chiefly among the first few entries. This suggests that the page may not have been used for its original purpose.","\nThe title/subject organization of the latter part of the catalog is helpful in understanding acquisition priorities during the late-1830s and the Lyceum period of the 1840s.","\nThe inside cover contains a calendar for 1833 going through February 1834, with the Thursdays closest to the middle of each month marked (none are the dates of official meetings). There is also a 29 March 1830 inscription by Drinker, Treasurer, authorizing James Dunlap in financial matters while he is librarian, which may predate the decision to use the book as a catalog. Drinker may have done the first 1,725 entries at that time in preparation for the publication of the 1815 supplement.","As noted in its introduction, the 300 copies of the 1856 catalog were created not as \"a model catalog but such a one as would be practically useful to the readers of the library.\" It serves as a guide to the collection as contemporary subscribers would have known it, covering the first 4,473 volume numbers for this period. For looking up numbers from the circulation records, it is easier to use the searchable catalog of surviving books or the online version. For later acquisitions, one may use the manuscript catalog that was in use internally from 1858-1860 which is arranged by number.","\nIn addition to the aforementioned note on the catalog's creation, the catalog also includes a historical note on the early history of the library and a copy of the 1799 act of incorporation.","This catalog was implemented sometime in the fall of 1858 as an \"amendment\" to the catalog of 1856 and was likely expanded on an ongoing basis up to the Civil War. Since the 1856 catalog was presumably still in use by subscribers, the two contain largely the same information apart from three key differences. Firstly, the 1858 added accretions to the book collection, extending the book numbers from 4,473 to 5,063. The second difference is that it lists the books by number, to assist the librarians in managing the books, rather than by author and title, which in the 1856 catalog assisted subscribers in finding them. Lastly, it should be noted that titles in both catalogs are abbreviated in different ways.","\nDespite the overlap and differences of organization, a person looking up a number in the circulation records between February 1857 and 17 September 1859 may still find it easier to consult a searchable online version of the catalog and reserve use of the 1858 for its last 600 numbers. Starting on 27 September 1859, titles began to appear in the circulation records alongside the numbers, making either catalog usable for numbers below 4,474, although due to unpredictable title abbreviations numerical catalogs remained more reliable.","\nThe catalog was signed by a number of librarians of the company inside the front and back covers, sometimes more than once. This includes a listing made in 1871 which is notable for the presence of names not associated with the title \"librarian\" by the minutes.","The initial form of this catalog was compiled by Doctor Theo West and put into use on 10 July 1874, although there may have been additions by the time it was copied by the directors of the library company into its current form. It was intended for publication, but was later advertised as merely being available at the librarian's desk. It was therefore organized with the aim of finding books by title, like a printed catalog, rather than by number like the manuscript catalogs from before the Civil War. It remained in use until the company shut down after 1880.","\nThe book contains a detailed history of the library company including the text of the 1799 act of incorporation written by \"John Stewart, Keeper of the Rolls.\" It is also the only extant catalog with a book plate, albeit one with the shelf location and classification numbers left blank.","\nThe listing of books is missing the letters O and P at a point where the binding is broken, either because they were removed from this edition or never added in. Title information includes the title and number of each book as well as a \"case\" number (presumably for shelving) and occasional volume and date information. Space is left in many places for additional titles to be added, although in some cases this was handled by inserted slips of paper. For details on the organization of the title list see the arrangement note.","This listing of \"R\" titles is largely the same as that copied by the directors for the 1876 catalog, but appears to be in a different hand (most noticeably the number 8). The listing for \"S\" appears to be the same hand as \"R.\" Also included are two pieces of paper with additional titles, and notes in blue asking that additional space be left for new titles to be added. That feature of the main 1876 catalog is absent here and may be the reason it was not included in a complete volume.","The 1898 catalog provides the earliest record of the library's collection after its reestablishment by the Alexandria Library Association, including numbers of volumes and publications dates for each title. The subject classification allows a simple method of gauging the balance of the collection between different areas, particularly in comparison with the publications of 1906 and 1912. Handwritten notes seem to indicate additions and shelf locations, although the date and provenance of those notes is unclear.","A complete update to the 1898 catalog, the 1906 retained the same basic classification system apart from the addition of 3 new sub-classes. It also includes a chart of subscription prices for the library at the front giving lengths of time and numbers of books and a large number of advertisements from local businesses.","\nFor the new subclasses see arrangement note.","The 1912 supplement to the catalog includes additions to the library collection since 1906 as well as a listing of old magazines, which were not mentioned in the 1906 catalog. Most classification numbers were therefore unneeded. The bulk of the entries appear to be fiction and old magazines.","This typescript contains a listing of \"old magazines\" by title and volume that were in the collection in 1933. It also includes some notes on their condition, such as whether they were bound and missing covers, pages, and volumes.","The circulation records consist of bound volumes containing lists of books checked out. They typically list the name of the subscriber, the date, and some method of identifying the work along with various other details. For much of its history, the old library company identified books only by number, although titles and combinations of numbers and titles began appearing around 1845, with titles becoming commonplace after 1858.","\nThe catalogs can be used reliably for only some of the numerical listings due to additions following the publication of rapidly outdated catalogs and changes in numbering that preceded new ones. They are relevant to some of the numbers for 1801-1807, 1815-1848, 1856-1862, and 1874-1879 (see catalog series notes and below). Because of possible renumbering, the 1801 catalog cannot be relied upon for records prior to its implementation nor after the point in 1807-1808 when its successor went into effect. Since there is no way to know if the 1815 catalog was an extension of the 1808 or if it was the first to change the numbering from the 1801, it likewise cannot be trusted prior to its implementation.","\nThe 1815 and its supplement were used for a longer period and the 1834-1848 catalog used it as a base, despite altering its system of arrangement for later materials and leaving about 30 numbers unclear due to renumbering. The 1856 printed and 1858-1860 working catalogs cover much of the same material and are usable into the Civil War. Notably, the 1856 is available online in a searchable format. It was arranged to be browsed, while the working catalog is arranged by number only. The 1876 copy of the catalog implemented in July 1874 is missing the letters O-P, but is otherwise usable for the last few years of circulation records.","\nEven when numbers cannot be identified, useful information can be inferred from changes in the numbering system and preferences for numbers from particular periods, such as for new acquisitions. One can also use the records to quantify the level of patronage as a whole in various periods. There are no circulation records at the book level from the Alexandria Library Association (1897-1937) and later, although summary reports of circulation became common during the modern period and were often noted in minutes and annual reports.","\nThere are significant gaps in the circulation records, which nominally cover the period from November 1794 to January 1880. These come in several different types. Some of them appear to indicate missing volumes, including July 1795-June 1801, May 1811-February 1814, January 1835-Feburary 1841, September 1848-October 1858, and 1868-1870, but there are also gaps of a few months between volumes in 1805, 1824, 1846, 1871, and 1874. Additionally, there is a month of pages missing from the middle of 1831, and two pages are missing after October 1862, even though returns were noted as late December, before resuming in April 1868 (on the Civil War see the historical note for this series).","\nTitle numbers began at around 200, gradually rising to over 5,000 before the Civil War. After the war, numbers ran below 1,000 for the most part, before changing to numbers over 5,000 again on 4 December 1873 (p.279) and then dropping to lower numbers on 10 July 1874 (p.69), with some titles in the 5000s being renumbered to the 3000s.","\nMany of volumes contain lists of books in their front or back matter, usually including both titles and numbers. This is one of the only sources for matching that information for some periods of the library's history and includes the only reference to the 1808 catalog outside the minutes. They include lists of missing books (the 1822-1824 volume), books sent to be bound (1824-1828 and 1828-1831) and of the Waverly Novels (1822-1824).","\nChanges in the hand recording the information signal personnel changes, and many of the volumes were inscribed with the names of librarians or members of the company, occasionally accompanied by other kinds of scribbling as in 1814-1816, 1831-1834, and especially 1858-1868. There is also some doodling, which appears inside the covers in a modest way in the 1814-1816 volume and far more extensively in the 1841-1848 and 1858-1868 ones. The 1841-1848 also contains doodles among the actual circulation records.","\nFor the columns and specific information that varied over time see the arrangement note for this series."],"names_coll_ssim":["Alexandria Library (Alexandria, Va.)"],"names_ssim":["Local History and Special Collections Branch, Alexandria Library","Alexandria Library Company","Alexandria Library Association (1897-1937)","Alexandria Library Society (1937-1953)","Alexandria Library (Alexandria, Va.)"],"corpname_ssim":["Local History and Special Collections Branch, Alexandria Library","Alexandria Library Company","Alexandria Library Association (1897-1937)","Alexandria Library Society (1937-1953)","Alexandria Library (Alexandria, Va.)"],"language_ssim":["English"],"descrules_ssm":["Describing Archives: A Content Standard"],"total_component_count_is":147,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T03:58:50.090Z","bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eIn the 1780s, a discussion group of Alexandria gentlemen called \"The Society for the Promotion of Useful Knowledge\" was formed. In 1794, many of these same individuals gathered to form the nucleus of the Alexandria Library Company (ALC). The ALC was a subscription library modelled after the Philadelphia Library Company, which had also emerged from such a club. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSociety president Reverend John Muir became president of the ALC, a position he would hold for almost 20 years. Many of the library's founders are known to have been members of local Masonic lodges. Elisha Cullen Dick, who had succeeded George Washington as the leader of Lodge 22, was among the first directors of the ALC as well as the secretary of the earlier Society. The first Librarian was Edward Stabler, the proprietor of an apothecary shop. In 1796, Stabler was replaced by James Kennedy, who served as librarian until 1818. Overlaps and family links between the leadership of the library and other Alexandria institutions remained common over the next century and a half. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFor a time, the Alexandria Lyceum (founded in 1838) and the ALC shared a physical space as well as similar missions. The Alexandria Lyceum was founded as part of a national movement focused on educational lectures. The union between the two organizations was dissolved in 1844, but the library continued to rent space from the Lyceum. The library was later said to have been in a state of \"suspended animation\" from around 1846 to 1852. In 1852, a \"Young Men's\" group took over under the original charter, publishing a new catalog in 1856. The library continued to operate into the Civil War. It remained in the Lyceum but not without acrimony, which is evident in the Alexandria Gazette in 1860. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn October 1867, an agreement was reached with what was variously referred to as the Alexandria Christian Association and the YMCA for assistance with running the library. The library separated from this organization during the early 1870s. By the second half of the 1870s, the library fell into a decline which the directors blamed on the lack of a published catalog. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe first library catalog had been prepared by Kennedy in 1796 and published sometime thereafter. The earliest catalog of which there is an extant copy was published in 1801, followed by another in 1808 of which there are few traces. A more enduring catalog was created in 1815. The 1830s saw publication of a supplement to the 1815 catalog and the creation of a working catalog that would be used into the late 1840s. Normal circulation records end in April 1861 when the library was converted into a military hospital. There are stray entries in May and December before operations resumed on a limited basis in May 1862 and continued at least through that year. Over a thousand volumes were lost during the war. Due to the decline in usage in the 1870s, a new catalog was produced by librarian Emma J. Young in 1872 but never published. After two years with Young's catalog, another was commissioned from Dr. Theo West, which also went unpublished. As a stopgap, handwritten copies were used by patrons. In 1898, a new catalog was created which utilized a decimal system for the first time. The last published catalog was a supplement to the 1912 version. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn the late 1870s, appeals were made to the men of Alexandria for support,. The directors met with another \"Young Men's Library Association\" in 1878 without success, records of operations stop after January 1880.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Gazette reported in January 1881 that the books were now in the custody of the school board, whose membership included William F. Carne, a former library company director and the son of one its former presidents. In May 1887 it reported that Carne, as leader of the board's library committee, was inviting associations wishing to participate in re-opening the library to a meeting at the Peabody school building where the books were held, and explained that he had always intended a reading room to be opened to the public once space was freed up for that purpose.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn June 1887, the Gazette reported that the \"Reading Circle of Washington and Lee Schools\" organized by teachers two years prior and the YMCA would operate the free library during the summer, in the hope that in September \"an effort will be made, with a very fair prospect of success, to re-organize the Library Company.\" Gazette reports in 1890 and 1891 refer to continued efforts by Carne and others to \"re-open\" the library, and in 1892 being part of a \"committee on the project for a free public library,\" but they did not succeed.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn the decades after 1870s librarianship not only professionalized but underwent a rapid gender shift, and apart from the periods in which there was no librarian for financial reasons, no male librarians seem to have been employed until well into the 20th century. Women's library organizations had become common nationally, and along with the philanthropy of Andrew Carnegie played a major role in the growth of public libraries in America starting in the late 19th century.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn September 1897, the Alexandria Library Association led by Virginia Corse received custody of the books then in possession of the school board. With a modest donation from Carnegie, by 1898 the library was back in business, but as a subscription library, it would not become a free public library for almost 40 years. The new library needed a new librarian, and after one or two initial hires, the association found Alice Green (1865-1956), who would serve from 1902-1937 and in a lesser capacity into the mid-1940s. During this period, space for the library was rented from the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Depression brought financial hardship. As the crisis worsened in early 1931, the association had obtained $1,000 from the city council to form \"a nucleus for the establishment of a public library.\" Discussion of becoming a public library had been common since the 1920s, as the efforts of Carnegie and others had made them the norm nationally. Attempts were made to sell older books and hold fundraisers as subscription fees dried up. There was also a dispute with the UDC over a rent increase in 1933. The library was aided by the wealth of its members, including a $5,000 bequest in 1935 from its long-time treasurer, Margaret L. Smoot.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMembers built political support both on the council and among the public in the mid-1930s and in 1937 it was agreed that a building would be constructed on the site of the old cemetery of the Society of Friends and that the city government would cover annual expenses of no more than $5,000 for the association to operate a free library. One member of the board would be appointed by the city. The new governing organization was rebranded the Alexandria Library Society.  Agreements were signed in January, and the library opened at the Kate Waller Barrett Branch's current location, 717 Queen Street.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAnother change after 1937 was the gender composition of the leadership. Men served on the board of the new Society and played prominent roles after 1937. After 1948 they typically occupied the presidency of the organization. Most elections were unanimous, often with women casting most of the votes, but it ceased to be a women's organization. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1945 a technicality in the Society's contract with the city was brought to the attention of the board. Namely that the $5,000 the city was obligated to provide each year was not the minimum but rather the maximum contribution, and that the higher appropriations it had been making were illegal. The city took this as an opportunity to demand a contract change beyond the funding formula. Although the men of the city council had representation on the board, the women of the Society were still ultimately running the library, and the Society was asked to allow a majority of the executive board to be appointed by the city, and a minority by the Society. That the city legally \"owned the building and all its contents\" so long as it paid $5,000 per year was also pointed out. The Alexandria Library Society signed the new contract, surrendering control of the library in November 1947. In its reduced role, the Society still elected members to the board and received reports from the librarian. It also retained independent funds that could be used for the benefit of the library. With the library now fully the city's responsibility, the membership was also able to more openly advocate for additional funding.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAnother longstanding issue at the library was race. The president's 1928 annual report had endorsed becoming a \"free city library,\" but feared that becoming a Carnegie library \"would bring in some elements hitherto unknown and I think undesirable in our Library.\" In the 1930s the library association favored providing segregated facilities, but, after repeated meetings with the city council, failed to achieve even that modest goal. In the 13 March, 1939, minutes, the issue was revisited yet again, but without result. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFour days later on 17 March 1939, Sergeant George Wilson was turned down for a library card because of his race and Samuel Tucker filed a civil rights lawsuit against the librarian on his behalf. Plans for a segregated facility were dusted off, and new staff was hired so that the librarian could focus on the controversy. On 21 August 1939, several black men organized by Tucker entered the library and followed Wilson's example, but after being refused, seated themselves in the library with books, beginning America's first library sit-in. It ended only after the city manager called the police, and all were arrested. The lawsuit was dismissed on technical grounds, but to prevent a new lawsuit the city approved the Robert H. Robinson branch, which opened in 1940. Tucker refused to accept a card there. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eA major issue in the early 1950s was the push to expand the overcrowded main library serving the white community. The white librarian at the time, who had been hired in a junior capacity during Tucker's campaign in 1939, suggested to the Society that the expansion could be an opportunity to integrate. In the midst of the debates over expansion and additional funding, an opportunity emerged to purchase a neighboring building on the corner of North Columbus and Queen, which was later demolished. This prompted a discussion about the Alexandria Library Society's connection to the original library company. It was decided to change the name from the \"Alexandria Library Society\" to the \"Alexandria Library Company,\" make the appropriate filings with the state government, and reinstate the 1799 charter, which would be revised by the legislature in the 1980s to help obtain tax-exempt status from the IRS.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThis name change was completed at one of the company's most consequential meetings in February 1956. Every member was asked to sign their name in the minute book to signal their assent. A letter from a local civil rights activist questioning the legality of library segregation was also read, but deemed the province of the library board, which referred the matter back to the company whose reply is not preserved.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMember Mangum Weeks thereupon raised the question of the future role of the Library Company, and proposed resuming the tradition of annual lectures dating from the Lyceum period using funds from the newly instituted membership dues. This proposal was adopted, and preparing the annual lectures soon became a major focus of the Company. The Library Company continues to appoint members to the board of the Alexandria Library and hold its annual lecture series. It commissioned a new history of the library by William Seale in 2007, which can be found at the Local History and Special Collections Branch.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eChronological listings for both presidents of the board and librarians up to the modern day.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003clist type=\"deflist\"\u003e\n      \u003chead\u003ePresidents of the Library Company and Its Successors\u003c/head\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1794-February 1813\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eRev. James Muir\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1813-February 1815\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eHugh Smith\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1815-March 1824\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eJohn Roberts\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eMarch 1824-February 1829\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eHugh Smith\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1829-February 1835\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eJohn Richards\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1835-February 1840\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eJohn Roberts\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1840-1852\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eElias Harrison\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003e1852-February 1855\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eJ. Louis Kinzer\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1855-September 1858\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eFrancis Miller\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eSeptember 1858- February 1859\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eRichard L. Carne\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1859-September 1859\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eCaleb S. Hallowell\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eSeptember 1859-February 1860\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eWilliam G. Cazenove\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1860-February 1870\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eRichard L. Carne\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1870-February 1873\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eK. Kemper\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1873-October 1873\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eSamuel H. Janney\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eOctober 1873-February 1874\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eSidney C. Neale\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1874-June 1879\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eMercer Slaughter\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eSeptember 1897-October 1905\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eVirginia Corse\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eJuly 1906-June 1925\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eMrs. Samuel. L. Monroe\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eOctober 1925-April 1930\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eLoula Smoot\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eApril 1930-November 1933\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eMrs. Henry B. Soule, [Jessie E. Soule]\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eDecember 1933-December 1934\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eMary Lloyd\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eDecember 1934-December 1936\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eSusan Thomson\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eDecember 1936-November 1937\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eMrs. Louis Scott\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eNovember 1937-November 1944\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eMrs. Curtis Backus\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eNovember 1944-November 1946\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eMrs. [Lawrence] Fawcett, [Mary Fawcett]\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eNovember 1946-November 1947\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eHoward Worth Smith\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eNovember 1947-October 1948\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003e[Miss Anne] Lewis Jones\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eOctober 1948-October 1949\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eMiss Horne\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eOctober 1949-October 1950\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eMr. Stanley King\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eOctober 1950-December 1951\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eMr. [Joseph] Crockett\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eDecember 1951-February 1955\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eMr. Robert Moncure\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1955-February 1957\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eDr. [W. Bruce] Silcox\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1957-February 1959\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eStanley King\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1959-February 1962\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eMangum Weeks\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1962-February 1963\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eRichard Bales\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1963-February 1965\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eDonald King\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1965-February 1967\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eDavid Squires\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1967-February 1969\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eHoward Worth Smith Jr.\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1969-February 1971\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eWilliam Francis Smith\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1971-February 1972\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eJohn T. Ticer\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1972-February 1974\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eDavid M. Abshire\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1974-February 1976\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eMrs. Merill Beede\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1976-February 1978\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eMrs. Douglas Lindsey\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1978-February 1980\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eClarke T. Cooper Jr.\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1980-February 1982\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eWilliam Seale\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1982-February 1983\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eDenys Peter Myers\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1983-February 1985\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eWilliam B. Hurd\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1985-February 1986\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eGeorge J. Stansfield\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1986-February 1987\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eDr. Ernest A. Connally\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1987-February 1989\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eDr. Wilton C. Corkern, Jr.\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1989-March 1991\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eJames M. Lewis\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eMarch 1991-March 1992\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eMrs. Anne Smith Paul\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eMarch 1992-March 1993\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eRichard R. G. Hobson\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eMarch 1993-March 1995\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eDabney Waring\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eMarch 1995-March 1997\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eJames R. Hobson\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eMarch 1997-March 1998\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eRobert C. Reed\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eMarch 1998-March 2000\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eNeil Horstman\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eMarch 2000-March 2002\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eCarroll Johnson\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eMarch 2002-March 2003\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eThomas C. Brown Jr.\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n    \u003c/list\u003e","\u003clist type=\"deflist\"\u003e\n      \u003chead\u003eLibrarians of Alexandria\u003c/head\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1794-February 1796\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eEdward Stabler\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1796-February 1818\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eJames Kennedy\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1818-August 1826\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eWilliam Cranch\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eAugust 1826-October 1829\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eW. Samuel Mark\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eOctober 1829-March 1845\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eGeorge Drinker\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eMarch 1845-September 1845\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eJames M. Eaches\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eSeptember 1845-September 1852\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eC.F. Stuart\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eSeptember 1852-April 1853\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eH. W. P. Junius\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eSeptember 1852-April 1853\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eL.? Hunter\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eNovember 1853\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eOffice Abolished\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1854-October 1855\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eE. M.[Magruder?] Lowe\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eOctober 1855-September 1858\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eNorval E. Foard\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eSeptember 1858-February 1859\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eS. Scott\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1859-September 1859\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eEdward R. Roxbury\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eSeptember 1859-February 1860\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eJames A. Clarridge\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1860-April 1861\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eCharles R. Burgess (acting)\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eApril 1861-Unknown\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eEdwin N. Wise\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eMarch 1868\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eWr. Bushby\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eApril 1870-May 1871\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eAugust Henning\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eJuly 1871-March 1872\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eW. F. Stansbury\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eMarch 1872-August 1873\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eEmma J. Young\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eOctober 1873-March 1876\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eEmily English\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eMarch 1876\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003ePosition Eliminated\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eJune 1879\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eR. Pendleton Bruin (unofficial? acting?)\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eOctober 1900-October 1903\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eF. Olive Lyons\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eOctober 1903-April 1937 (continued part-time, mentioned up to 1946)\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eAlice Green\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eApril 1937-December 1938\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eMiss Beatrice Workman\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eJanuary 1939-January 1941\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eKatherine Scoggin (later Martyn)\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1941-June 1948\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eBessie Watson\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eJuly 1948-June 1969 (hired part-time October 1939, letter of resignation later that month)\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eEllen C. Burke\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eJuly 1969-October 1992 (librarian from 1958)\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eJeanne G. Plitt\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n    \u003c/list\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe initial combination of financial and subscription records likely reflected the company's initial dependence on subscription fees, in contrast to the later subscription library in the city that relied more on donors. This recordkeeping system appears to have been a casualty of the merger with the Lyceum, which became official in early 1840.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nAs the physical volume in use at that time was still mostly blank, it was repeatedly repurposed, first for additional circulation records (until these too lapsed) and later for a \"list of Stockholders and the amount due from each for the year commencing the 13th February 1854,\" which likely relates to the revitalization of the company after its agreement with the Young Men's group. The agreement required the men to find 100 subscribers, and the list was likely prepared for the annual meeting originally scheduled for 20 February (a week after the date on the list), at which it was decided to void the shares of individuals who had not paid.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe 1980 lecture of Dr. William Dudley on \"Captain Gordon and the Raid on Alexandria 1814\" was recorded but was left off the lists of annual lectures printed in later years. It marks the point at which the sequential numbering of annual lectures was stopped. The reason for this is unknown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNo catalog was published under the first librarian, but four were published during the 1796-1818 tenure of his successor.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nOn 29 December 1796 he was directed to prepare a catalog of books \"classed according to their size and arranged in the order of the alphabet, with the number and cost or value of each,\" although a March 1797 entry suggests that it was still not complete four months later. No copy of this catalog has survived, but there would have been between 200 and 400 titles at that time.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe growth of the collection was driven in part by the acceptance of books in place of subscription fees and the purchase of private libraries. In May 1800 a committee was formed to examine its acquisitions for books that were \"useless, superfluous or of immoral tendency,\" which decided in September to postpone acting on them until it was time to print a new catalog. That time came on 2 November 1801 when a committee was appointed to assist the librarian in creating a new catalog.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nOn 1 February 1808 the board decided to print a new catalog at 50 cents a copy because \"many members were without any.\" On 2 May this catalog was reported to be largely complete. Another meeting was planned shortly thereafter so that it could be printed \"without delay.\" That meeting is undocumented, if indeed it took place. No copy of this catalog or any direct record of its publication is currently known. But it must have existed since it was referenced in a later circulation book and the librarian received a bonus for his work on it in March 1809.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nOn 2 May 1814, it was decided to create another new catalog. It would eventually have 1,027 numbers, which circulation records show the library had reached by July 1814. On 14 November 1814, the librarian reported the catalog \"ready for the press.\" He was instructed to obtain 150 copies \"with all convenient dispatch,\" a number raised to 200 the following month. In February 1815, he reported the catalog \"about half-finished\" and presented a copy to the board, which set a price of 50 cents. In March he received compensation for \"his additional trouble in preparing the new catalogue for the press,\" suggesting that the printing had been completed.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe 1815 catalog was later extended by a published supplement that added additional numbers. Unlike other printed works, there is no mention of when the supplement was produced in the minutes. It is, however, clear from circulation records that all its books had circulated by 14 August 1830. According to the minutes, a meeting had been called for 10 May 1830 only to be quickly adjourned \"there appearing no business requiring the attention of the board,\" and quarterly meetings on 2 August and 2 November were adjourned, lacking a quorum. The librarian at the time had replaced his predecessor in October 1829 and been confirmed in the position the following March. It seems plausible that he pushed to update the catalog after becoming librarian but that the question was either not deemed important or could not be addressed due to the lack of quorum but that it was printed in 1830 anyway.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nAt the same time, a working catalog was created for use in the library itself. It is the earliest preserved catalog of this type but was probably not the first. It contains a relisting of the contents of the 1815 catalog and supplement sorted by the first letter of the alphabet with pamphlets listed separately as well as books added between April 1833 and the suspension of library operations after 1848 listed by subject. Although its initial form was compiled some time earlier, it does not appear to have come into use until sometime after 1834 where there is a gap in the circulation records. The first 1,725 entries may have been added at the time of the 1815 supplement with the shift to a new method of arrangement occurring later. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nOn 8 March 1856 a committee of the revived library company was assigned to rearrange and renumber the books for publication. On 29 November 1856, the board voted for 300 copies of the finished catalog to be produced.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nOn 18 June 1858 board president Andrew Jamison resigned. On 4 September Richard L. Carne, the chairmen of the committee on the catalog and president pro-tem submitted \"his amendment to the catalog\" and appointed Sylvester Scott as librarian to constitute a \"committee of revisal.\" A new working catalog is preserved from this period continuing into the Civil War, although it does not appear to have been published.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nFrom the reestablishment of the library in the late 1860s to its failure at the close of the 1870s the lack of a published catalog to advertise the available books was identified as a major issue. The last version of the catalog prior to the Civil War had contained over 5,000 books, of which it was estimated in 1871 that 1,000-1,500 had been lost.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nCirculations records from the early 1870s feature book numbers around 1,000 that do not correspond to any known listing, and numbers were abandoned entirely from May 1871 to January 1872. It was decided on 2 October 1872 to create a new catalog, and the task was assigned to the new librarian, Emma Young. The fact that the numbers of the circulating books changed to include some with numbers over 5,000 after 4 December 1872 indicates that this work was completed, but it was never published and there is no surviving catalog from that period.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe limited use of the catalog is evident from the prevalence of high numbered works among those in circulation. The highest numbers indicated recent acquisitions, which often received announcements in the Alexandria Gazette.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nAt the 20 February 1874 meeting, it was noted that \"the last catalogue was published some years previous to the war and had become, by reasons of subsequent losses and additions, very incomplete\" and the board decided to appoint Dr. Theo West \"to catalogue and arrange the books.\" They planned to print the catalog in time for the 1875 annual meeting, but printing was postponed indefinitely. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe new catalog went into effect on 10 July 1874 as seen in the shift in circulation records from a system with numbers up to around 5,800 to a new catalog going to 4,314, but again they were unable to publish it.  Seven months later at the 19 February 1875 meeting, it was decided to arrange a printing \"as soon as possible,\" but this did not occur either.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nOn 10 March 1876 the board decided upon a different plan. The catalog was to be divided among the directors so that copies might be made \"for the librarian's desk.\" The published account of the 21 February 1877 annual meeting noted that \"many persons have given as a reason for not becoming subscribers the inaccessibility of the old library which was not catalogued. This plea no longer holds.\" Doctor West's catalog \"copied by members of the Board without expense, bound in good style, can now always be found on the Librarian's desk.\" Operations ceased and the books went into storage a few years later.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nAt the 8 January 1898 meeting of the newly formed Alexandria Library Association, it was moved that the \"the catalogue be printed at once\" with the addition of blank pages between the leaves for advertisements from city merchants.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThis catalog was the first to use a version of the Dewey Decimal System, which had become popular since its first publication in 1888, reaching its 5th edition in 1894. This was the first modern classification system in the history of the Alexandria Library.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nSubsequent to the publication of the 1898 catalog in January of that year, there are several mentions of publishing \"supplements\" such as on 11 April 1899 and 11 July 1899 which may refer to the practice of publishing notices with the titles of new additions in the Alexandria Gazette, such as those of 6 July and 13 July 1899.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nOn 1 January 1902 there was a push for a \"supplementary catalogue (being a catalogue of books up to date) be printed\" and the president appointed a committee for that purpose. It was postponed pending the catalog's completion. On 9 October 1906 the board voted to accept an offer from a Mr. White to print 1000 copies in return for advertising space. According to the 8 January 1907 minutes, the library was given half the copies of the 1906 catalog for free, of which it sold 200 and gave 300 away.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe 12 April 1910 minutes mention a decision to \"again postpone the publication a supplementary catalogue.\" On 23 January 1912 it was again put off until the 9 April meeting, where it was decided for a new catalog to be printed and priced at five cents a copy and \"to have the names of the old magazines put into the new catalogue but not into the card catalogue.\" On 12 June 1912 it was reported that \"the catalogue was in the hands of the printer and that Mrs. Monroe was reading the proof\" and the \"new catalog\" was deemed \"ready for distribution\" on 8 October 1912.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe annual report at that same meeting noted that \"the year has also seen the completion of the labelling, classifying, and cataloguing of all the old and valuable magazines which the Board has for so long a time desired to put into shape for distribution,\" which a review of the supplement suggests meant works in good condition available for circulation.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nOn 11 April 1933 Mrs. Newell \"volunteered to catalogue old magazines in order that their value may be ascertained.\"  On 9 May 1933 she presented a \"typewritten list\" of \"old magazines\" for appraisal as part of their depression era fundraising efforts. On 10 October she reported them to be of \"no value\" and suggested having them sent to the Salvation Army for use as old paper. On 8 January 1934 the board approved this proposal for those magazines of \"no value,\" which do not appear to have included many titles listed in this catalog.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nNo explicit reason for the abandonment of published catalogs after 1912 was given, but the allusion to card catalogs suggests that it was a final step in the transition from numerical catalogs, which favored bound volumes by allowing new titles to be added to the end of the sequence, to the Dewey Decimal System, which required new titles to be inserted in the correct place in the existing list and was more easily managed with cards which did not require leaving space for new titles as the 1876 catalog had.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe circulation records began with the original library company in 1794 and continued until its collapse in 1880. Some of the gaps in the records reflect periods during which its activity was disrupted.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nDuring the War of 1812, British forces arrived in Alexandria on 29 August 1814 and remained there until 2 September. The library normally closed on Sundays, and remained closed from Sunday 28 August through Tuesday 30 August. It opened from 31 August to 2 September, during which time only four books circulated.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe library was also affected by the Civil War. Hostilities between the Union and Confederacy began at Fort Sumter on 12 April 1861. A vote on Virginia secession was held on 17 April and ratified by a referendum on 23 May. Alexandria was occupied by Union forces the following day. Confederate forces had briefly made use of the Lyceum building housing the library, but it later served as a hospital for the Union. Some books were moved out but others were not.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nIt is unclear were the library operated from in 1861 and 1862, but it did operate. There was a significant reduction in circulation leading up to the war, dropping to a single entry for 22 April 1861. Solitary patrons were recorded for 18th and 30th of May, and an individual withdrew a book every day through 21-25 December, although the May and December entries are in a different hand and initially broke with the format. In early June 1862 however, the library resumed semi-regular hours, usually opening only Tuesday and Thursday but occasionally other days. Records continue into mid-October, after which two pages are missing from the book before it resumes in 1868. Returns are dated as late as December 1862, and it is unclear when the library ceased operations.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nAttempts to preserve the library in the late 1870s were unsuccessful, and the number of pages per year charts its decline and eventual failure over the second half of the decade.\u003c/p\u003e"],"collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vaallhs_repositories_2_resources_128","ead_ssi":"vaallhs_repositories_2_resources_128","_root_":"vaallhs_repositories_2_resources_128","_nest_parent_":"vaallhs_repositories_2_resources_128","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/ALEX/repositories_2_resources_128.xml","aspace_url_ssi":"https://alexlibraryva.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/resources/128","title_ssm":["Alexandria Library Company Records (MS002)"],"title_tesim":["Alexandria Library Company Records (MS002)"],"unitdate_ssm":["1794-2007"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1794-2007"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["MS002","/repositories/2/resources/128"],"text":["MS002","/repositories/2/resources/128","Alexandria Library Company Records (MS002)","Libraries -- Subscription Libraries","Lectures and Lecturing","Associations, institutions, etc","Public libraries.","Reel 00037, beginning of the reel.","Reel 00037, filmed after 1911-1930 volume but before the Executive minutes of 1938-1947.","Reel 00037 after 1794-1861 volume.","Reel 00037, following 1897-1911 volume.","Reel 00037 filmed after 1868-1879 minutes but before the 1938-1947 executive board minutes.","In 1967, Marjorie Darnell Evans completed a multi-year thesis project for Catholic University of America publishing a reorganized 1815 catalog in alphabetical order by author, and a typed copy of the original as an appendix, of which photocopies also exist.","On Archive.org \nhttps://archive.org/details/catalogueofalexa00alex/page/n5","Reel 00039","The accounting records in the subscription books shifted back and forth between two systems, one listing transactions chronologically and the other listing them under the names of individuals.","\nWith the exception of the 1826-1854 book, all entries are characterized by double-entry bookkeeping, with the left side page documenting money going out (\"to\"), and the right hand page documenting money coming in (\"by\"), this can be confusing as bills for subscriptions seem at times to have been listed in the outgoing section.","\nMost of the books begin with indexes of numbered names in no clear order. The same numbers appear in columns toward the right of the accounts pages, just before the amounts, apparently signifying people and groups with which the transactions were undertaken. These numbers should not be confused with the columns on the left indicating the calendar day. They were dropped around 1826.","\nPayments under the names of individuals appear in the first part of the 1794-1799 volume, the latter parts of the 1799-1809 and 1809-1819 volumes, and throughout the bulk of the two volumes covering 1820-1828.","Arrangement is by year of lecture under its title and orator apart from the seat plan and correspondence on administrative issues. Those are arranged chronologically. Lectures in the modern series were assigned numbers by the Library Company until 1980.","The printed 1801 and 1815 catalogs were arranged by subject and size, with the 1815 supplement seemingly arranged in accession order. ","\nThe 1856 printed catalog was arranged alphabetically by author or title. ","\nWorking catalogs are arranged by number, except that the 1830-1848 switched to a subject system sometime after 1834 and the 1876 is arranged alphabetically. ","\nCatalogs from 1898 on use a version of the Dewey Decimal System. \nThe old magazines are arranged by title. ","\nSee individual arrangement notes for details. ","Civil History, Voyages and Travels, Biography, Antiquities, Geography, and Maps etc. (p.13)  Folios (1-9)  Quartos (10-24)  Octavos (25-109)  Duodecima and Infra (110-151)  Ecclesiastical History, Theology, Didactic Pieces, Moral Philosophy, and Metaphysics (p.29)  Folios (152-154)  Quartos (155-156)  Octavos (157-188)  Duodecima and Infra (189-218)  Arts and Sciences, Natural History, Natural Philosophy, and Miscellaneous Literature (p. 35)  Folios (219-222)  Quartos (223-225)  Octavos (226-266)  Duodecima and Infra (267-293)  Law, Politics, Political Economy, Agriculture, Commerce, etc. (p.42)  Folios (294-295)  Quartos (296)  Octavos (297-326)  Duodecima and Infra (327-338)  Poetry, Plays, Belles Lettres, and Criticism etc. (p.47)  Octavos (339-353)  Duodecima and Infra (354-385)  Novels and Romances (p.52)  Octavos (386)  Duodecimas and Infra (387-427)  Appendix and Supplementary (428-452) (p.54) ","The 1,027 titles were assigned numbers according to the following classification system based on size and subject. The title counts are taken from Evans, 1967.","Miscellaneous Folios (21 titles)  Miscellaneous Quarto (33 titles)  Civil History, Voyages and Travels, Geography, Antiquities, Biography, etc.  Octavos (223 titles)  Duodecima and Infra (95 titles)  Ecclesiastical History, Theology, Essays Moral and Religious, Moral Philosophy and Metaphysics etc.  Octavos (54 titles)  Duodecima and Infra (47 titles)  Miscellaneous _______ General Science, The Arts, Domestic Economy, Natural Philosophy, Periodical Essays, Magazines and Reviews, etc.  Octavo (72 titles)  Duodecima and Infra (43 titles)  Law, Politics, Political Economy, Agriculture, Commerce, etc.  Octavo (60 titles)  Duodecima and Infra (13 titles)  Poetry, the Drama, Belles Lettres, and Criticism Octavo (39 titles)  Duodecima and Infra (13 titles)  Novels and Romances etc. (130 titles)  Appendix-Supplementary and Miscellaneous (30 titles) ","The catalog uses a numbering system in which the full number is given only every hundred and but which otherwise provides only the last two digits, hence the sequence: 98, 99, 1100, 01, 02. ","\nThe main portion of the catalog appears to be in accession order. At the end of the numbers #1,028-#1,728, a cross-listing of about 20 periodical works appears.","History #1-122 -Ecclesiastical History Biography #1-145 Voyages and Travels #1-213 Theology #1-113 Lexicography [crossed out] #1-6 Periodicals #1-31 Novels and Romances #1-350","As well as the unnumbered subjects: ","Poetry, Belles Letters and the Drama Lexicography, Statistics and Encyclopedia Chemistry, Minerology, Surgery, and Materia Medica Periodicals, Philosophy, and Miscellaneous and General Science Law, Oratory of the Bar, and Military and Political Journals","The catalog is arranged alphabetically, usually by author, but otherwise by title. Different volumes bear different numbers. A certain amount of cross-listing is also evident, most obviously through the appendix of Tours, Voyages, and Travels, containing works listed by country that also appear in the main catalog by author. Multi-volume works have the number of volumes indicated following their titles, their numbers end with hyphens to indicate an ascending number for each successive volume.","\nThere are some variations in how titles are counted. The \"Edinburg Encyclopedia\" for example is listed as #1- with 21 volumes but under \"Encyclopedia, Domestic\" it is listed as \"Edinburg\" with 18 volumes and a separate 3 volume supplement at #19-.","The catalog is arranged numerically from 1 to 5,063 following the model of the 1815 Supplement, with numbers greater than 100 being listed in full only every 100 numbers and at the top of each page, but otherwise by their last two digits (e.g. 98, 99, 3900, 1, 2).","\nEntries include the number, title, and volume of the work. The last three pages have volume numbers and titles. Their sequence is unclear and some are periodicals.","The arrangement of the catalog is alphabetical by title with a few additional sections by subject.  The alphabetical portion includes the letters A-N and Q-Y with the letters O and P missing. The subject headings are \"History\" after \"H,\" \"Letters\" after \"L,\" \"Memoirs\" after \"M,\" and \"British Prose Writers\" after \"P.\" A similar practice was used for the \"Pamphlets\" section of Drinker's catalog of the 1830-1848.  Books are numbered up to 4,314.","The main listing of titles is alphabetical by titles beginning with the letters \"R\" and \"S.\"","Arrangement is by classification number and title based on a version of the Dewey Decimal System, but differs from the fifth edition (1894) in some respects, such as listing 973 as \"Egypt\" rather than the United States. (see the 1894 at https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007477697)","\nClass headings and numbers are followed by subclass numbers, the first two letters of the author's name, and a number in case there are multiple books by that author. Volumes and publications dates are appended to the end of the title.","\nCase numbers (shelf locations) have been written in by hand as well as additional titles written in the margins.","The classification is identical to the 1898 except for the added subheadings of Cuba, Japan, and Korea.\nThere is an alphabetical index of subjects.","The 1912 supplement to the catalog was arranged according the same version of the Dewey Decimal System used in previous publications, with classification numbers for which no books were added to the collection omitted. The two lists of magazines divided them into bound and unbound collections, each arranged by title and date.","Alphabetical by title. Note that bound and unbound magazines are grouped together, rather than separated as in the 1912 supplement list.","The original circulation book of 1794-1795 contains two different systems for tracking loans and borrowers. The columns of the initial system included, from left-to-right: patron name, the time the book was out, book number, and book size. Each book size had its own column, which from left-to-right were folio, \"4-to\" (quarto), \"8-vo\" (octavio), \"12-mo\" (duodecimo or twelvemo), and \"16-mo\" (sextodecimo or sixteenmo).","\nThis method was abandoned, and subsequently an attempt was made to record circulation by subscriber. Each subscriber was assigned a number and accorded a set of pages bearing that number instead of page numbers. An index of them appears at the back with some names crossed out. They are not in alphabetical order on the whole, and may represent the order in which they become subscribers. The left-hand pages list the books taken out and the right-hand pages represent returns. As such, similar years and dates are repeated on both sides.","\nBy the start of the 1801-1805 records, the library \nhad switched to a chronological format, which was flexible enough to accommodate increases in the number of subscribers and variations in their degree of patronage but at the cost of making an individual's activity more difficult to isolate. Columns consisted of: patron, title number and volume number, date and day of the week, date returned, and the number of days late and fine (if any).","\nThis remained standard through 1834 with minor variations, like the addition of a date at the top of the page in the 1814-1818 volume, which lasted into the 1830s, and a key for marks indicating returns and renewals in the 1822-1824 volume.","\nThe 1841-1848 volume introduced a new system which separated each set of records into daily sections, with a heading for each day. The columns from left-to-right provided: title number, patron name, returned date, and subject section; the latter being a feature of the working catalog in use at the time.","\nAbbreviated titles started to appear near the end of June 1845, with some of them being numbered and others not. By July 1845, a majority of the entries were like that. This method disappeared and reappeared over the years that followed.","\nBetween September 1846 and September 1848 the circulation records were kept in the second part of an account book (see notes for the subscription series). The subject system continued during this period under a new organization of columns, consisting of: subject, number (within subject), patron name (with volume number), and finally a column with either a note saying \"return,\" a date, or often a blank field.","\nThe 1857-1858 volume has alphabetical tabs on which patrons are recorded chronologically under the first letter of their name. The columns are also different. From left-to-right they include:  date, patron name (including institutions), title number, and return date. The year is given at the top. In place of a return note, some fields contain other notes like \"mistake\" or \"transferred to Roxbury,\" which are open to interpretation. Titles resume appearing in place of numbers in mid-1858.","\nThe volume covering 1862-1868 shows considerable variation. Initially it featured columns on the left with headings for each day followed by the patron name, while on the right the columns showed the title number and return date. Starting on September 27, 1859 (page 114), the left-hand column was divided between patron name and title, while the columns for title number and return date on the right remained in place. From March 1860 (page 127) to March 1861 (page 175) it returned to the earlier format.","\nThe 1870-1871 volume introduced the columns that would be standard for most of the remainder of the series ending in 1880. They consisted of checkout date, patron name, book title, title number, and return date. The exception was a period beginning in May 1871 and ending on 1 January 1872 of the 1871-1872 volume. During that period, the records provided sections by patron name, with columns for checkout date, title, and return date. There were no title numbers during that period. The arrangement of names was partially alphabetized, possibly reflecting the addition of new names to an originally alphabetical arrangement.","\nIt can be difficult to tell what year it is in some of the later volumes. In the 1872-1874 volume year breaks occur on pages 113 (1873) and 292 (1874). In the 1874-1880 volume they occur on pages 137 (1875), 275 (1876), 345 (1877), 375 (1878), 434 (1879), and 454 (1880).","In the 1780s, a discussion group of Alexandria gentlemen called \"The Society for the Promotion of Useful Knowledge\" was formed. In 1794, many of these same individuals gathered to form the nucleus of the Alexandria Library Company (ALC). The ALC was a subscription library modelled after the Philadelphia Library Company, which had also emerged from such a club. ","Society president Reverend John Muir became president of the ALC, a position he would hold for almost 20 years. Many of the library's founders are known to have been members of local Masonic lodges. Elisha Cullen Dick, who had succeeded George Washington as the leader of Lodge 22, was among the first directors of the ALC as well as the secretary of the earlier Society. The first Librarian was Edward Stabler, the proprietor of an apothecary shop. In 1796, Stabler was replaced by James Kennedy, who served as librarian until 1818. Overlaps and family links between the leadership of the library and other Alexandria institutions remained common over the next century and a half. ","For a time, the Alexandria Lyceum (founded in 1838) and the ALC shared a physical space as well as similar missions. The Alexandria Lyceum was founded as part of a national movement focused on educational lectures. The union between the two organizations was dissolved in 1844, but the library continued to rent space from the Lyceum. The library was later said to have been in a state of \"suspended animation\" from around 1846 to 1852. In 1852, a \"Young Men's\" group took over under the original charter, publishing a new catalog in 1856. The library continued to operate into the Civil War. It remained in the Lyceum but not without acrimony, which is evident in the Alexandria Gazette in 1860. ","In October 1867, an agreement was reached with what was variously referred to as the Alexandria Christian Association and the YMCA for assistance with running the library. The library separated from this organization during the early 1870s. By the second half of the 1870s, the library fell into a decline which the directors blamed on the lack of a published catalog. ","The first library catalog had been prepared by Kennedy in 1796 and published sometime thereafter. The earliest catalog of which there is an extant copy was published in 1801, followed by another in 1808 of which there are few traces. A more enduring catalog was created in 1815. The 1830s saw publication of a supplement to the 1815 catalog and the creation of a working catalog that would be used into the late 1840s. Normal circulation records end in April 1861 when the library was converted into a military hospital. There are stray entries in May and December before operations resumed on a limited basis in May 1862 and continued at least through that year. Over a thousand volumes were lost during the war. Due to the decline in usage in the 1870s, a new catalog was produced by librarian Emma J. Young in 1872 but never published. After two years with Young's catalog, another was commissioned from Dr. Theo West, which also went unpublished. As a stopgap, handwritten copies were used by patrons. In 1898, a new catalog was created which utilized a decimal system for the first time. The last published catalog was a supplement to the 1912 version. ","In the late 1870s, appeals were made to the men of Alexandria for support,. The directors met with another \"Young Men's Library Association\" in 1878 without success, records of operations stop after January 1880.","The Gazette reported in January 1881 that the books were now in the custody of the school board, whose membership included William F. Carne, a former library company director and the son of one its former presidents. In May 1887 it reported that Carne, as leader of the board's library committee, was inviting associations wishing to participate in re-opening the library to a meeting at the Peabody school building where the books were held, and explained that he had always intended a reading room to be opened to the public once space was freed up for that purpose.","In June 1887, the Gazette reported that the \"Reading Circle of Washington and Lee Schools\" organized by teachers two years prior and the YMCA would operate the free library during the summer, in the hope that in September \"an effort will be made, with a very fair prospect of success, to re-organize the Library Company.\" Gazette reports in 1890 and 1891 refer to continued efforts by Carne and others to \"re-open\" the library, and in 1892 being part of a \"committee on the project for a free public library,\" but they did not succeed.","In the decades after 1870s librarianship not only professionalized but underwent a rapid gender shift, and apart from the periods in which there was no librarian for financial reasons, no male librarians seem to have been employed until well into the 20th century. Women's library organizations had become common nationally, and along with the philanthropy of Andrew Carnegie played a major role in the growth of public libraries in America starting in the late 19th century.","In September 1897, the Alexandria Library Association led by Virginia Corse received custody of the books then in possession of the school board. With a modest donation from Carnegie, by 1898 the library was back in business, but as a subscription library, it would not become a free public library for almost 40 years. The new library needed a new librarian, and after one or two initial hires, the association found Alice Green (1865-1956), who would serve from 1902-1937 and in a lesser capacity into the mid-1940s. During this period, space for the library was rented from the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC).","The Depression brought financial hardship. As the crisis worsened in early 1931, the association had obtained $1,000 from the city council to form \"a nucleus for the establishment of a public library.\" Discussion of becoming a public library had been common since the 1920s, as the efforts of Carnegie and others had made them the norm nationally. Attempts were made to sell older books and hold fundraisers as subscription fees dried up. There was also a dispute with the UDC over a rent increase in 1933. The library was aided by the wealth of its members, including a $5,000 bequest in 1935 from its long-time treasurer, Margaret L. Smoot.","Members built political support both on the council and among the public in the mid-1930s and in 1937 it was agreed that a building would be constructed on the site of the old cemetery of the Society of Friends and that the city government would cover annual expenses of no more than $5,000 for the association to operate a free library. One member of the board would be appointed by the city. The new governing organization was rebranded the Alexandria Library Society.  Agreements were signed in January, and the library opened at the Kate Waller Barrett Branch's current location, 717 Queen Street.","Another change after 1937 was the gender composition of the leadership. Men served on the board of the new Society and played prominent roles after 1937. After 1948 they typically occupied the presidency of the organization. Most elections were unanimous, often with women casting most of the votes, but it ceased to be a women's organization. ","In 1945 a technicality in the Society's contract with the city was brought to the attention of the board. Namely that the $5,000 the city was obligated to provide each year was not the minimum but rather the maximum contribution, and that the higher appropriations it had been making were illegal. The city took this as an opportunity to demand a contract change beyond the funding formula. Although the men of the city council had representation on the board, the women of the Society were still ultimately running the library, and the Society was asked to allow a majority of the executive board to be appointed by the city, and a minority by the Society. That the city legally \"owned the building and all its contents\" so long as it paid $5,000 per year was also pointed out. The Alexandria Library Society signed the new contract, surrendering control of the library in November 1947. In its reduced role, the Society still elected members to the board and received reports from the librarian. It also retained independent funds that could be used for the benefit of the library. With the library now fully the city's responsibility, the membership was also able to more openly advocate for additional funding.","Another longstanding issue at the library was race. The president's 1928 annual report had endorsed becoming a \"free city library,\" but feared that becoming a Carnegie library \"would bring in some elements hitherto unknown and I think undesirable in our Library.\" In the 1930s the library association favored providing segregated facilities, but, after repeated meetings with the city council, failed to achieve even that modest goal. In the 13 March, 1939, minutes, the issue was revisited yet again, but without result. ","Four days later on 17 March 1939, Sergeant George Wilson was turned down for a library card because of his race and Samuel Tucker filed a civil rights lawsuit against the librarian on his behalf. Plans for a segregated facility were dusted off, and new staff was hired so that the librarian could focus on the controversy. On 21 August 1939, several black men organized by Tucker entered the library and followed Wilson's example, but after being refused, seated themselves in the library with books, beginning America's first library sit-in. It ended only after the city manager called the police, and all were arrested. The lawsuit was dismissed on technical grounds, but to prevent a new lawsuit the city approved the Robert H. Robinson branch, which opened in 1940. Tucker refused to accept a card there. ","A major issue in the early 1950s was the push to expand the overcrowded main library serving the white community. The white librarian at the time, who had been hired in a junior capacity during Tucker's campaign in 1939, suggested to the Society that the expansion could be an opportunity to integrate. In the midst of the debates over expansion and additional funding, an opportunity emerged to purchase a neighboring building on the corner of North Columbus and Queen, which was later demolished. This prompted a discussion about the Alexandria Library Society's connection to the original library company. It was decided to change the name from the \"Alexandria Library Society\" to the \"Alexandria Library Company,\" make the appropriate filings with the state government, and reinstate the 1799 charter, which would be revised by the legislature in the 1980s to help obtain tax-exempt status from the IRS.","This name change was completed at one of the company's most consequential meetings in February 1956. Every member was asked to sign their name in the minute book to signal their assent. A letter from a local civil rights activist questioning the legality of library segregation was also read, but deemed the province of the library board, which referred the matter back to the company whose reply is not preserved.","Member Mangum Weeks thereupon raised the question of the future role of the Library Company, and proposed resuming the tradition of annual lectures dating from the Lyceum period using funds from the newly instituted membership dues. This proposal was adopted, and preparing the annual lectures soon became a major focus of the Company. The Library Company continues to appoint members to the board of the Alexandria Library and hold its annual lecture series. It commissioned a new history of the library by William Seale in 2007, which can be found at the Local History and Special Collections Branch.","Chronological listings for both presidents of the board and librarians up to the modern day.","Presidents of the Library Company and Its Successors February 1794-February 1813 Rev. James Muir February 1813-February 1815 Hugh Smith February 1815-March 1824 John Roberts March 1824-February 1829 Hugh Smith February 1829-February 1835 John Richards February 1835-February 1840 John Roberts February 1840-1852 Elias Harrison 1852-February 1855 J. Louis Kinzer February 1855-September 1858 Francis Miller September 1858- February 1859 Richard L. Carne February 1859-September 1859 Caleb S. Hallowell September 1859-February 1860 William G. Cazenove February 1860-February 1870 Richard L. Carne February 1870-February 1873 K. Kemper February 1873-October 1873 Samuel H. Janney October 1873-February 1874 Sidney C. Neale February 1874-June 1879 Mercer Slaughter September 1897-October 1905 Virginia Corse July 1906-June 1925 Mrs. Samuel. L. Monroe October 1925-April 1930 Loula Smoot April 1930-November 1933 Mrs. Henry B. Soule, [Jessie E. Soule] December 1933-December 1934 Mary Lloyd December 1934-December 1936 Susan Thomson December 1936-November 1937 Mrs. Louis Scott November 1937-November 1944 Mrs. Curtis Backus November 1944-November 1946 Mrs. [Lawrence] Fawcett, [Mary Fawcett] November 1946-November 1947 Howard Worth Smith November 1947-October 1948 [Miss Anne] Lewis Jones October 1948-October 1949 Miss Horne October 1949-October 1950 Mr. Stanley King October 1950-December 1951 Mr. [Joseph] Crockett December 1951-February 1955 Mr. Robert Moncure February 1955-February 1957 Dr. [W. Bruce] Silcox February 1957-February 1959 Stanley King February 1959-February 1962 Mangum Weeks February 1962-February 1963 Richard Bales February 1963-February 1965 Donald King February 1965-February 1967 David Squires February 1967-February 1969 Howard Worth Smith Jr. February 1969-February 1971 William Francis Smith February 1971-February 1972 John T. Ticer February 1972-February 1974 David M. Abshire February 1974-February 1976 Mrs. Merill Beede February 1976-February 1978 Mrs. Douglas Lindsey February 1978-February 1980 Clarke T. Cooper Jr. February 1980-February 1982 William Seale February 1982-February 1983 Denys Peter Myers February 1983-February 1985 William B. Hurd February 1985-February 1986 George J. Stansfield February 1986-February 1987 Dr. Ernest A. Connally February 1987-February 1989 Dr. Wilton C. Corkern, Jr. February 1989-March 1991 James M. Lewis March 1991-March 1992 Mrs. Anne Smith Paul March 1992-March 1993 Richard R. G. Hobson March 1993-March 1995 Dabney Waring March 1995-March 1997 James R. Hobson March 1997-March 1998 Robert C. Reed March 1998-March 2000 Neil Horstman March 2000-March 2002 Carroll Johnson March 2002-March 2003 Thomas C. Brown Jr.","Librarians of Alexandria February 1794-February 1796 Edward Stabler February 1796-February 1818 James Kennedy February 1818-August 1826 William Cranch August 1826-October 1829 W. Samuel Mark October 1829-March 1845 George Drinker March 1845-September 1845 James M. Eaches September 1845-September 1852 C.F. Stuart September 1852-April 1853 H. W. P. Junius September 1852-April 1853 L.? Hunter November 1853 Office Abolished February 1854-October 1855 E. M.[Magruder?] Lowe October 1855-September 1858 Norval E. Foard September 1858-February 1859 S. Scott February 1859-September 1859 Edward R. Roxbury September 1859-February 1860 James A. Clarridge February 1860-April 1861 Charles R. Burgess (acting) April 1861-Unknown Edwin N. Wise March 1868 Wr. Bushby April 1870-May 1871 August Henning July 1871-March 1872 W. F. Stansbury March 1872-August 1873 Emma J. Young October 1873-March 1876 Emily English March 1876 Position Eliminated June 1879 R. Pendleton Bruin (unofficial? acting?) October 1900-October 1903 F. Olive Lyons October 1903-April 1937 (continued part-time, mentioned up to 1946) Alice Green April 1937-December 1938 Miss Beatrice Workman January 1939-January 1941 Katherine Scoggin (later Martyn) February 1941-June 1948 Bessie Watson July 1948-June 1969 (hired part-time October 1939, letter of resignation later that month) Ellen C. Burke July 1969-October 1992 (librarian from 1958) Jeanne G. Plitt","The initial combination of financial and subscription records likely reflected the company's initial dependence on subscription fees, in contrast to the later subscription library in the city that relied more on donors. This recordkeeping system appears to have been a casualty of the merger with the Lyceum, which became official in early 1840.","\nAs the physical volume in use at that time was still mostly blank, it was repeatedly repurposed, first for additional circulation records (until these too lapsed) and later for a \"list of Stockholders and the amount due from each for the year commencing the 13th February 1854,\" which likely relates to the revitalization of the company after its agreement with the Young Men's group. The agreement required the men to find 100 subscribers, and the list was likely prepared for the annual meeting originally scheduled for 20 February (a week after the date on the list), at which it was decided to void the shares of individuals who had not paid.","The 1980 lecture of Dr. William Dudley on \"Captain Gordon and the Raid on Alexandria 1814\" was recorded but was left off the lists of annual lectures printed in later years. It marks the point at which the sequential numbering of annual lectures was stopped. The reason for this is unknown.","No catalog was published under the first librarian, but four were published during the 1796-1818 tenure of his successor.","\nOn 29 December 1796 he was directed to prepare a catalog of books \"classed according to their size and arranged in the order of the alphabet, with the number and cost or value of each,\" although a March 1797 entry suggests that it was still not complete four months later. No copy of this catalog has survived, but there would have been between 200 and 400 titles at that time.","\nThe growth of the collection was driven in part by the acceptance of books in place of subscription fees and the purchase of private libraries. In May 1800 a committee was formed to examine its acquisitions for books that were \"useless, superfluous or of immoral tendency,\" which decided in September to postpone acting on them until it was time to print a new catalog. That time came on 2 November 1801 when a committee was appointed to assist the librarian in creating a new catalog.","\nOn 1 February 1808 the board decided to print a new catalog at 50 cents a copy because \"many members were without any.\" On 2 May this catalog was reported to be largely complete. Another meeting was planned shortly thereafter so that it could be printed \"without delay.\" That meeting is undocumented, if indeed it took place. No copy of this catalog or any direct record of its publication is currently known. But it must have existed since it was referenced in a later circulation book and the librarian received a bonus for his work on it in March 1809.","\nOn 2 May 1814, it was decided to create another new catalog. It would eventually have 1,027 numbers, which circulation records show the library had reached by July 1814. On 14 November 1814, the librarian reported the catalog \"ready for the press.\" He was instructed to obtain 150 copies \"with all convenient dispatch,\" a number raised to 200 the following month. In February 1815, he reported the catalog \"about half-finished\" and presented a copy to the board, which set a price of 50 cents. In March he received compensation for \"his additional trouble in preparing the new catalogue for the press,\" suggesting that the printing had been completed.","\nThe 1815 catalog was later extended by a published supplement that added additional numbers. Unlike other printed works, there is no mention of when the supplement was produced in the minutes. It is, however, clear from circulation records that all its books had circulated by 14 August 1830. According to the minutes, a meeting had been called for 10 May 1830 only to be quickly adjourned \"there appearing no business requiring the attention of the board,\" and quarterly meetings on 2 August and 2 November were adjourned, lacking a quorum. The librarian at the time had replaced his predecessor in October 1829 and been confirmed in the position the following March. It seems plausible that he pushed to update the catalog after becoming librarian but that the question was either not deemed important or could not be addressed due to the lack of quorum but that it was printed in 1830 anyway.","\nAt the same time, a working catalog was created for use in the library itself. It is the earliest preserved catalog of this type but was probably not the first. It contains a relisting of the contents of the 1815 catalog and supplement sorted by the first letter of the alphabet with pamphlets listed separately as well as books added between April 1833 and the suspension of library operations after 1848 listed by subject. Although its initial form was compiled some time earlier, it does not appear to have come into use until sometime after 1834 where there is a gap in the circulation records. The first 1,725 entries may have been added at the time of the 1815 supplement with the shift to a new method of arrangement occurring later. ","\nOn 8 March 1856 a committee of the revived library company was assigned to rearrange and renumber the books for publication. On 29 November 1856, the board voted for 300 copies of the finished catalog to be produced.","\nOn 18 June 1858 board president Andrew Jamison resigned. On 4 September Richard L. Carne, the chairmen of the committee on the catalog and president pro-tem submitted \"his amendment to the catalog\" and appointed Sylvester Scott as librarian to constitute a \"committee of revisal.\" A new working catalog is preserved from this period continuing into the Civil War, although it does not appear to have been published.","\nFrom the reestablishment of the library in the late 1860s to its failure at the close of the 1870s the lack of a published catalog to advertise the available books was identified as a major issue. The last version of the catalog prior to the Civil War had contained over 5,000 books, of which it was estimated in 1871 that 1,000-1,500 had been lost.","\nCirculations records from the early 1870s feature book numbers around 1,000 that do not correspond to any known listing, and numbers were abandoned entirely from May 1871 to January 1872. It was decided on 2 October 1872 to create a new catalog, and the task was assigned to the new librarian, Emma Young. The fact that the numbers of the circulating books changed to include some with numbers over 5,000 after 4 December 1872 indicates that this work was completed, but it was never published and there is no surviving catalog from that period.","\nThe limited use of the catalog is evident from the prevalence of high numbered works among those in circulation. The highest numbers indicated recent acquisitions, which often received announcements in the Alexandria Gazette.","\nAt the 20 February 1874 meeting, it was noted that \"the last catalogue was published some years previous to the war and had become, by reasons of subsequent losses and additions, very incomplete\" and the board decided to appoint Dr. Theo West \"to catalogue and arrange the books.\" They planned to print the catalog in time for the 1875 annual meeting, but printing was postponed indefinitely. ","\nThe new catalog went into effect on 10 July 1874 as seen in the shift in circulation records from a system with numbers up to around 5,800 to a new catalog going to 4,314, but again they were unable to publish it.  Seven months later at the 19 February 1875 meeting, it was decided to arrange a printing \"as soon as possible,\" but this did not occur either.","\nOn 10 March 1876 the board decided upon a different plan. The catalog was to be divided among the directors so that copies might be made \"for the librarian's desk.\" The published account of the 21 February 1877 annual meeting noted that \"many persons have given as a reason for not becoming subscribers the inaccessibility of the old library which was not catalogued. This plea no longer holds.\" Doctor West's catalog \"copied by members of the Board without expense, bound in good style, can now always be found on the Librarian's desk.\" Operations ceased and the books went into storage a few years later.","\nAt the 8 January 1898 meeting of the newly formed Alexandria Library Association, it was moved that the \"the catalogue be printed at once\" with the addition of blank pages between the leaves for advertisements from city merchants.","\nThis catalog was the first to use a version of the Dewey Decimal System, which had become popular since its first publication in 1888, reaching its 5th edition in 1894. This was the first modern classification system in the history of the Alexandria Library.","\nSubsequent to the publication of the 1898 catalog in January of that year, there are several mentions of publishing \"supplements\" such as on 11 April 1899 and 11 July 1899 which may refer to the practice of publishing notices with the titles of new additions in the Alexandria Gazette, such as those of 6 July and 13 July 1899.","\nOn 1 January 1902 there was a push for a \"supplementary catalogue (being a catalogue of books up to date) be printed\" and the president appointed a committee for that purpose. It was postponed pending the catalog's completion. On 9 October 1906 the board voted to accept an offer from a Mr. White to print 1000 copies in return for advertising space. According to the 8 January 1907 minutes, the library was given half the copies of the 1906 catalog for free, of which it sold 200 and gave 300 away.","\nThe 12 April 1910 minutes mention a decision to \"again postpone the publication a supplementary catalogue.\" On 23 January 1912 it was again put off until the 9 April meeting, where it was decided for a new catalog to be printed and priced at five cents a copy and \"to have the names of the old magazines put into the new catalogue but not into the card catalogue.\" On 12 June 1912 it was reported that \"the catalogue was in the hands of the printer and that Mrs. Monroe was reading the proof\" and the \"new catalog\" was deemed \"ready for distribution\" on 8 October 1912.","\nThe annual report at that same meeting noted that \"the year has also seen the completion of the labelling, classifying, and cataloguing of all the old and valuable magazines which the Board has for so long a time desired to put into shape for distribution,\" which a review of the supplement suggests meant works in good condition available for circulation.","\nOn 11 April 1933 Mrs. Newell \"volunteered to catalogue old magazines in order that their value may be ascertained.\"  On 9 May 1933 she presented a \"typewritten list\" of \"old magazines\" for appraisal as part of their depression era fundraising efforts. On 10 October she reported them to be of \"no value\" and suggested having them sent to the Salvation Army for use as old paper. On 8 January 1934 the board approved this proposal for those magazines of \"no value,\" which do not appear to have included many titles listed in this catalog.","\nNo explicit reason for the abandonment of published catalogs after 1912 was given, but the allusion to card catalogs suggests that it was a final step in the transition from numerical catalogs, which favored bound volumes by allowing new titles to be added to the end of the sequence, to the Dewey Decimal System, which required new titles to be inserted in the correct place in the existing list and was more easily managed with cards which did not require leaving space for new titles as the 1876 catalog had.","The circulation records began with the original library company in 1794 and continued until its collapse in 1880. Some of the gaps in the records reflect periods during which its activity was disrupted.","\nDuring the War of 1812, British forces arrived in Alexandria on 29 August 1814 and remained there until 2 September. The library normally closed on Sundays, and remained closed from Sunday 28 August through Tuesday 30 August. It opened from 31 August to 2 September, during which time only four books circulated.","\nThe library was also affected by the Civil War. Hostilities between the Union and Confederacy began at Fort Sumter on 12 April 1861. A vote on Virginia secession was held on 17 April and ratified by a referendum on 23 May. Alexandria was occupied by Union forces the following day. Confederate forces had briefly made use of the Lyceum building housing the library, but it later served as a hospital for the Union. Some books were moved out but others were not.","\nIt is unclear were the library operated from in 1861 and 1862, but it did operate. There was a significant reduction in circulation leading up to the war, dropping to a single entry for 22 April 1861. Solitary patrons were recorded for 18th and 30th of May, and an individual withdrew a book every day through 21-25 December, although the May and December entries are in a different hand and initially broke with the format. In early June 1862 however, the library resumed semi-regular hours, usually opening only Tuesday and Thursday but occasionally other days. Records continue into mid-October, after which two pages are missing from the book before it resumes in 1868. Returns are dated as late as December 1862, and it is unclear when the library ceased operations.","\nAttempts to preserve the library in the late 1870s were unsuccessful, and the number of pages per year charts its decline and eventual failure over the second half of the decade.","Volume ended up with the Leadbeater family in the 1860s but was donated back in 1922. Was moved at one point in Collection 98 (Library Records after 1937) but was moved back to the Library Company Records in 2018.","Filmed 5/1/1969\n\"Alexandria Library Minute Books - 6 Vols\"\nUniversity of Virginia Library Photographic Service","Filmed 5/1/1969\n\"Alexandria Library Minute Books - 6 Vols\"\nUniversity of Virginia Library Photographic Service","Filmed 5/1/1969 \n\"Alexandria Library Minute Books - 6 Vols\"\nUniversity of Virginia Library Photographic Service","Filmed 5/1/1969\n\"Alexandria Library Minute Books - 6 Vols\"\nUniversity of Virginia Library Photographic Service","Filmed 5/1/1969\n\"Alexandria Library Minute Books - 6 Vols\"\nUniversity of Virginia Library Photographic Service","Filmed 5/1/1969\n\"Alexandria Library Minute Books - 6 Vols\"\nUniversity of Virginia Library Photographic Service","A microfilm reproduction of a copy from the Library of Congress with an 1876 stamp donated as a gift of Mr. Allen Reese 3/1/49.","The binding is almost completely broken and many leaves are loose.","Ms 2-2","Ms 2-3","Ms 2-3","Ms 2-3","Ms 2-3","Box 98-2 Folder 16","Ms 2-9","Many of the books have damaged bindings or missing covers. The 1801-1805 volume has both problems, while the 1809-1811 is missing a page and the front cover. The 1814-1816 is also missing pages, as is the 1858-1868 volume for the crucial period of 1862-1863.","A reprocessing project begun in 2018 incorporated several boxes of previously unprocessed materials dating from the 1960s to the 2000s, with the bulk dating from after 1980. They included many short, overlapping sequences of correspondence, lecture, meeting, and member records which were merged into continuations of established series including primarily correspondence and lectures but also meetings and member correspondence. The \"subject files\" were added to the existing miscellaneous series. ","\nSeveral other changes were also made. A re-examination of the catalog, subscription, and circulation books was undertaken and most were renumbered, described, and relabeled based on primary source research. The 1794-1861 minute book that had been donated back in 1922 was also discovered misfiled in Ms 98 (which covers the library proper since 1937) and was returned to its original collection. Some letters found in minute books were moved to the correspondence series, and their original locations were bookmarked with acid free paper. Photocopies of catalogs were removed. ","Records concerning individual lectures, such as programs and invitations, were foldered by individual lecture unless part of a separate series. This permitted the titles of lectures and names of lecturers to be better indexed and gaps in documentation to be made more obvious than would have been the case with separate subseries for programs, transcripts, etc.","There is no mention of when the supplement was produced in the minutes, which is odd for a printed pamphlet. As a result dating was attempted starting from the circulation records, which showed the #1,728 was first checked out on 14 August 1830. According to the minutes, a meeting had been called for 10 May 1830, only to be quickly adjourned \"there appearing no business requiring the attention of the board,\" and quarterly meetings on 2 August and 2 November adjourned for lack of a quorum.  The librarian at the time, George Drinker, had replaced his predecessor in October 1829 and been confirmed in the position in March, so the working hypothesis is that he pushed to update the catalog after becoming librarian but the question was either not deemed important or could not be addressed due to the lack of a quorum and that it was printing anyway sometime in 1830. That date may need to be updated in light of additional evidence in the future (e.g. the Gazette becoming searchable for the 1830s).","\nThe location of the original is unknown despite Library of Congress Classification number noted by a previous processor resembling that of the original 1815 catalog. ","\nThe collection originally contained a photocopy which was removed. I had the image of a staple, suggesting it was a copy of a copy. It was not correctly dated. A modern processor had written \"NOT used. The # sequence would conflict with 1815 catalogue complied by Evans\" in reference to the effort to reconstruct the 1815 arrangement made by Marjorie Darnell Evans, possibly the only record that the individual had access to, and added an \"1815\" date in pen. This is all the more perplexing as another hand had also added a \"1\" before the first number to highlight the fact that the numbers were higher than the 1815 catalog, a fact that tendency to list only the last two digits otherwise obscured.","This volume was difficult to date, for while an inscription makes clear that the book itself was in possession of the library by the end of March 1830, it does not make clear that it was being applied to its intended purpose. It contains a calendar suggesting 1833-1834, but books go until at least 1841 and perhaps 1844, and publication date can differ greatly from acquisition date. Circulation records also show that while created earlier, it was not yet the primary catalog by 1834, and due to gaps in the records we can only demonstrate that the subject system was in use between 1841 and 1848. Although Drinker's name is everywhere, his long service as librarian prevents this information from being particularly useful. In light of all this, it was given a recordkeeping date of 1830-1848, indicating that the collection was documented and it could have been used by librarians during that period, new books were recorded there covering this period, even though the period of active use may have begun at a later, unknown date.","A previous processor had dated this catalog \"1799?\" but the second page of titles lists an \"Address on the Life and actions of Gen. R. E. Lee delivered on the 12th of Oct. 1871 before the Society of Confederate Soldiers and Sailors in Maryland\" which seemed unlikely to predate the Civil War by so many years, so a later date was sought. Although the initial catalog was completed in 1874, it has been given the date of 1876 when this copy was physically created by the directors.","A copy of the \"S\" section of the 1876 catalog was found in the circulation book for the early 1840s, although it dated from decades later. It was moved to the same folder as the \"R\" section, being from the same period and seemingly in the same hand. They were also given a date along with the 1876 catalog.","A photocopy of the original was removed from the collection.","The catalog was previously dated to the 19th century, but has been dated to May 1933 based on the minutes as described in the historical note. The specific reference to a typescript in connection with the term \"old magazines\" in 1933 is difficult to ignore and the scattered notes on condition fit with the goal of appraising the magazines being pursued at that time. I also found it unlikely that the list was drawn up in 1912 as part of the catalog supplement for that year given the differences in arrangement, like the supplement separating bound and unbound volumes, and the differences in contents, like the absence of the Atheneum from the supplement.","A copy of the \"S\" section of the 1876 catalog was found in this circulation book, although it obviously dated from decades later than its period of active use. It was moved to the same folder as the \"R\" section.","The Alexandria Library Records (Ms 98) document the library as a separate institution from 1937 onward.","\nIt particularly complements this collection in its early decades through its administrative correspondence, board correspondence, minutes, annual reports, and organizational records, including contracts with the Alexandria Library Society.","\nThe minutes of the library's executive board (1938-1947) are included in the microfilm version of the library minute books 1794-1947.","Transcripts of library company lectures 2-18 are available in the library.","Lecture series : [transcripts of the audiotapes made of the scholars invited to speak at these annual lectures] Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #2 080 LEC 2 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #3 080 LEC 3 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #4 080 LEC 4 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #5 080 LEC 5 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #6 080 LEC 6 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #7 080 LEC 7 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #8 080 LEC 8 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #9 080 LEC 9 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #10 080 LEC 10 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #11 080 LEC 11 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #12 080 LEC 12 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #13 080 LEC 13 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #14 080 LEC 14 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #15 080 LEC 15 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #16 080 LEC 16 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #17 080 LEC 17 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #18 080 LEC 18","The collection consists of circulation, subscription, and financial ledgers, annual lecture series documents, catalogues, correspondence, and various organizational documents. Topics include: foundation of the\nAlexandria 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.","The organizational records series contains those records directly concerned with the library company and its predecessors as organizations. It covers charters, by-laws, contracts, the legal definition of the company, and its history. Charters and by-laws between 1794 and 1944 are generally documented in the minutes and or reprinted in catalogs or the Alexandria Gazette.","The general correspondence series covers a long period of the history of the Library Company and its successors, with the bulk from the modern Library Company after 1954, when more documentation was being produced and captured in a systematic way.","\nFrom the earlier period, one folder covers the old Library Company, including an account of the Civil War and two folders cover the period of the Alexandria Library Association consisting primarily of correspondence with Andrew Carnegie about his financial support. The material from the Alexandria Library Society chiefly consists of copies of minutes. \nFor library related inquiries after 1937 see the extensive public library correspondence in Ms 98.","\nThe post-1954 correspondence includes lecture arrangements, nomination and member correspondence, announcements, and all manner of memoranda and external correspondence.","The financial reports series includes monthly financial reports from the Alexandria Library Association prior the establishment of the public library and annual reports of the Library Company after 1953 along with a limited amount of additional correspondence on related issues.","\nThere is also a file of annual reports which the Library Company was required to make to the state as a corporation.","\nFor records relating to the Alexandria Library Company's efforts to become tax-exempt in the 1980s, see the Organizational Records series.","The meetings series consists chiefly of bound and unbound minutes from the Alexandria Library Company and its successors.","\nThe bound minutes cover the early Library Company from 1794 to its last meeting in 1879, the Alexandria Library Association and Library Society from 1897 through its loss of control of the library in the late 1947, and the Society and modern Library Company from 1948 to 1993.","\nAfter 1937, there are two minute books, one for the \"executive board,\" which ran the library, and the other for the Library Society and later Library Company which appointed some of its members. The 1938-1947 executive board minutes are included in the microfilm copy of the older bound volumes, but the original is located in Ms 98.","\nBylaws, agreements, financial, and membership information often appear in the records, as do records of elections. In some periods, annual reports are pasted into the minute books, which like a lot of library business, was printed in the Gazette.","\nThe unbound meeting records cover the modern period of the Library Company and contain minutes, announcements of meetings, and notes, although for the earlier periods the minutes are merely photocopies of the bound volumes as indicated by page numbers.","The members series contains records relating to the selection, participation, and retention of members of the Library Company, with a focus on the modern period from the 1950s onward. It includes records of the nominating committee, correspondence with and about current or prospective members, and lists of members and guests attending the annual lectures. One of these lists is also available on a 3½ inch disk.","The subscription series consists of bound volumes of records documenting the subscribers of the company while doubling as ledgers for many of the financial transactions of the pre-Lyceum period (1794-1839), with gaps between volumes. Apart from the minutes, the volumes contain the only information on the subscribers of the late 1790s, for which there is a gap in the circulation records.","\nThere are also additional financial records from 1826-1839 and a list of subscribers, paid and not, from 1854. These appear in the same volume (see historical note), along with the circulation records for 1846-1848 in between.","\nThe stubs of printed subscription certificates from 1874-1879 are also included in this series. Each contains an identifying number, the name of a subscriber, and a dollar amount, accompanied in some cases by dates or other notations. A few of the completed patron slips are also in this volume, including dates and the signature of the treasurer.","This series contains information on the annual lecture series, with the bulk covering the period after its revival in 1957. The files for the early years include much of the correspondence arranging for the lectures and information on the lecturers as well as in some cases printed copies of the prepared text. For later years the files consist largely of lecture announcements, programs, and attendance lists. ","\nAudio or video recordings were made of most lectures, but are not currently available. Correspondence relating to the recordings can be found in the relevant subseries. ","\nCorrespondence is also available regarding the production of the printed programs and the selection of speakers during the 1970s along with an undated seat plan. ","\nInformation on attendance and the financial aspects of the lectures can be found in other series. ","\nPrint transcriptions for certain lectures are available in the reading room.","The collection's miscellany includes annual reports of the library, a survey of the old library company books, seals, stationary, and printed matter including poems, fundraising pamphlets, and literature about the library from the League of Women Voters.","The news clippings series consists chiefly of articles about the annual lectures or which report on the annual meetings and the election of officers and members.","The catalogs provide listings of books showing what was available at the library during different time periods and identifying books for some parts of the circulation records. Catalogs also frequently included information on other topics, including the rules of the library, founding documents, library histories, and the value of the books. ","\nTitles were often abbreviated, especially in the working catalogs, and dates of publication were often lacking. This can make identifying a work from the catalog difficult even when copies of it are extant elsewhere. ","\nCatalogs can be used reliably for most of the numerical listings in the circulation records for roughly 1801-1807, 1815-1848, 1856-1862, and 1874-1879. The 1815 catalog was not only bigger than the 1801, but had been renumbered. Because of this practice, the 1801 catalog cannot be relied upon for records prior to its implementation nor after the point in 1807-1808 when its successor went into effect. Since there is no way to know if the 1815 catalog was an extension of the 1808, it likewise cannot be trusted prior to implementation. The 1815 and its supplement were used for a longer period and the 1830-1848 used it as a base, although it altered its system of arrangement leaving around 30 or so numbers undefined for part of the 1830s. The 1856 printed and 1858-1860 working catalogs cover much of the same material and are usable for records into the Civil War. The 1856 is available online in a searchable format and organized to be browsed, while the working catalog is arranged by number. The 1876 copy of the catalog implemented in July 1874 is missing the letters O-P, but is otherwise usable for the last few years of circulation records. ","\nSee specific catalog notes for details. ","The 1801 catalog corresponds to the title numbers 1-452 in the circulations records from around 1802-1808 and offers the number of volumes and value for each. It is hard to be precise since the dates on which it came into and fell out of use at the library are unknown. The fact that books were removed as well as added at the time of its adoption and its organization suggest that it may not be reliable for the 1794-1796 circulation records, and possibly not even for books circulating earlier in 1801 which were likely identified by an earlier catalog. ","\nIn addition to a listing of books, the catalog includes the revised act of incorporation dated September 1799, the laws of the company passed on 2 November 1801 and an alphabetical membership list. \nAt the back is a list of book donations from largest to smallest, including the name of the donor, the total number of volumes donated, and a list of title numbers, along with an index to the catalog and some errata. ","\nIt was printed by Cottom and Stewart in Alexandria and sold for fifty cents a copy. ","This catalog of 1,027 titles includes the title number, number of volumes, and price, as well as a note to indicate whether something was a donation. It is a reliable reference for the decades that followed, but should be used with caution for earlier periods. Comparison with the 1801 catalog shows that titles were inserted with very low numbers, and it is unclear how the 1808 catalog was organized. Given the way the catalog was divided, there is no clear method by which accretions could have been added to the working catalog other than accession order, whereas the 1815 catalog required them to be categorized. ","\nIt is therefore logical to assume that numbers added in between catalog issuances were later changed, and that the 1815 catalog is probably not valid for the preceding period. ","\nThe full title of the catalog included the phrase \"to which are prefixed, the Act of Incorporation; the Laws of the Company, and the Names of the Members,\" but our copy contains only pages 11-46 and does not contain front matter. It is unclear whether the first ten pages were removed, or John A. Stewart's edition was simply printed without them. ","This printed catalog supplement extends the 1815 catalog from #1,027 to #1,728 updating it to August 1830. It was likely published around that time by William Greer, printer, and matches the titles. It matches the numbers of a listing of books dated 1828 in one of the circulation books suggesting that no rearrangement of newer books occurred prior to publication. ","\nThe supplement has most of the same information as the 1815, offering the number, title, volume, and value of each title, but lacks its classification system by size and subject. Despite a short cross-listing of periodical works, it has neither the subject classification nor even alphabetization to make it a ready reference. ","This catalog contains a relisting of the contents of the 1815 catalog and supplement sorted by the first letter of the alphabet with pamphlets listed separately as well as books added between April 1833 and the suspension of library operations after 1848 listed by subject. Although its initial form was compiled by George Drinker some time earlier, it does not appear to gone into effect until sometime after 1834 where there is a gap in circulation records. Because the numbering up to 1,725 remained the same, earlier print catalogs can also be employed for those number for the period from 1815-1848 even though this catalog alone can be used for the numbers 1,726-1,793 during that period.","\nAdditions beyond 1,793 are only usable for the period 1841-1848, because they were relisted here under a combined subject/numbering system after being originally cataloged differently up to around 1,825. The later rearrangement left no record of how those 30 or so numbers should be understood during the period before 1834.","\nThese later additions occupy the latter sections which include materials published from the late-1830s and early 1840s. Other indications of the ongoing nature of the listings include the blank entry for #351 at the end of Novels and Romances and the blank page with the heading \"Biography\" following the rest of that section.","\nThe third, and final section, is the \"List of Books from the Reading Room.\" These are dated 1840-1841, and consist almost entirely of new additions to the periodicals with a few exceptions, chiefly among the first few entries. This suggests that the page may not have been used for its original purpose.","\nThe title/subject organization of the latter part of the catalog is helpful in understanding acquisition priorities during the late-1830s and the Lyceum period of the 1840s.","\nThe inside cover contains a calendar for 1833 going through February 1834, with the Thursdays closest to the middle of each month marked (none are the dates of official meetings). There is also a 29 March 1830 inscription by Drinker, Treasurer, authorizing James Dunlap in financial matters while he is librarian, which may predate the decision to use the book as a catalog. Drinker may have done the first 1,725 entries at that time in preparation for the publication of the 1815 supplement.","As noted in its introduction, the 300 copies of the 1856 catalog were created not as \"a model catalog but such a one as would be practically useful to the readers of the library.\" It serves as a guide to the collection as contemporary subscribers would have known it, covering the first 4,473 volume numbers for this period. For looking up numbers from the circulation records, it is easier to use the searchable catalog of surviving books or the online version. For later acquisitions, one may use the manuscript catalog that was in use internally from 1858-1860 which is arranged by number.","\nIn addition to the aforementioned note on the catalog's creation, the catalog also includes a historical note on the early history of the library and a copy of the 1799 act of incorporation.","This catalog was implemented sometime in the fall of 1858 as an \"amendment\" to the catalog of 1856 and was likely expanded on an ongoing basis up to the Civil War. Since the 1856 catalog was presumably still in use by subscribers, the two contain largely the same information apart from three key differences. Firstly, the 1858 added accretions to the book collection, extending the book numbers from 4,473 to 5,063. The second difference is that it lists the books by number, to assist the librarians in managing the books, rather than by author and title, which in the 1856 catalog assisted subscribers in finding them. Lastly, it should be noted that titles in both catalogs are abbreviated in different ways.","\nDespite the overlap and differences of organization, a person looking up a number in the circulation records between February 1857 and 17 September 1859 may still find it easier to consult a searchable online version of the catalog and reserve use of the 1858 for its last 600 numbers. Starting on 27 September 1859, titles began to appear in the circulation records alongside the numbers, making either catalog usable for numbers below 4,474, although due to unpredictable title abbreviations numerical catalogs remained more reliable.","\nThe catalog was signed by a number of librarians of the company inside the front and back covers, sometimes more than once. This includes a listing made in 1871 which is notable for the presence of names not associated with the title \"librarian\" by the minutes.","The initial form of this catalog was compiled by Doctor Theo West and put into use on 10 July 1874, although there may have been additions by the time it was copied by the directors of the library company into its current form. It was intended for publication, but was later advertised as merely being available at the librarian's desk. It was therefore organized with the aim of finding books by title, like a printed catalog, rather than by number like the manuscript catalogs from before the Civil War. It remained in use until the company shut down after 1880.","\nThe book contains a detailed history of the library company including the text of the 1799 act of incorporation written by \"John Stewart, Keeper of the Rolls.\" It is also the only extant catalog with a book plate, albeit one with the shelf location and classification numbers left blank.","\nThe listing of books is missing the letters O and P at a point where the binding is broken, either because they were removed from this edition or never added in. Title information includes the title and number of each book as well as a \"case\" number (presumably for shelving) and occasional volume and date information. Space is left in many places for additional titles to be added, although in some cases this was handled by inserted slips of paper. For details on the organization of the title list see the arrangement note.","This listing of \"R\" titles is largely the same as that copied by the directors for the 1876 catalog, but appears to be in a different hand (most noticeably the number 8). The listing for \"S\" appears to be the same hand as \"R.\" Also included are two pieces of paper with additional titles, and notes in blue asking that additional space be left for new titles to be added. That feature of the main 1876 catalog is absent here and may be the reason it was not included in a complete volume.","The 1898 catalog provides the earliest record of the library's collection after its reestablishment by the Alexandria Library Association, including numbers of volumes and publications dates for each title. The subject classification allows a simple method of gauging the balance of the collection between different areas, particularly in comparison with the publications of 1906 and 1912. Handwritten notes seem to indicate additions and shelf locations, although the date and provenance of those notes is unclear.","A complete update to the 1898 catalog, the 1906 retained the same basic classification system apart from the addition of 3 new sub-classes. It also includes a chart of subscription prices for the library at the front giving lengths of time and numbers of books and a large number of advertisements from local businesses.","\nFor the new subclasses see arrangement note.","The 1912 supplement to the catalog includes additions to the library collection since 1906 as well as a listing of old magazines, which were not mentioned in the 1906 catalog. Most classification numbers were therefore unneeded. The bulk of the entries appear to be fiction and old magazines.","This typescript contains a listing of \"old magazines\" by title and volume that were in the collection in 1933. It also includes some notes on their condition, such as whether they were bound and missing covers, pages, and volumes.","The circulation records consist of bound volumes containing lists of books checked out. They typically list the name of the subscriber, the date, and some method of identifying the work along with various other details. For much of its history, the old library company identified books only by number, although titles and combinations of numbers and titles began appearing around 1845, with titles becoming commonplace after 1858.","\nThe catalogs can be used reliably for only some of the numerical listings due to additions following the publication of rapidly outdated catalogs and changes in numbering that preceded new ones. They are relevant to some of the numbers for 1801-1807, 1815-1848, 1856-1862, and 1874-1879 (see catalog series notes and below). Because of possible renumbering, the 1801 catalog cannot be relied upon for records prior to its implementation nor after the point in 1807-1808 when its successor went into effect. Since there is no way to know if the 1815 catalog was an extension of the 1808 or if it was the first to change the numbering from the 1801, it likewise cannot be trusted prior to its implementation.","\nThe 1815 and its supplement were used for a longer period and the 1834-1848 catalog used it as a base, despite altering its system of arrangement for later materials and leaving about 30 numbers unclear due to renumbering. The 1856 printed and 1858-1860 working catalogs cover much of the same material and are usable into the Civil War. Notably, the 1856 is available online in a searchable format. It was arranged to be browsed, while the working catalog is arranged by number only. The 1876 copy of the catalog implemented in July 1874 is missing the letters O-P, but is otherwise usable for the last few years of circulation records.","\nEven when numbers cannot be identified, useful information can be inferred from changes in the numbering system and preferences for numbers from particular periods, such as for new acquisitions. One can also use the records to quantify the level of patronage as a whole in various periods. There are no circulation records at the book level from the Alexandria Library Association (1897-1937) and later, although summary reports of circulation became common during the modern period and were often noted in minutes and annual reports.","\nThere are significant gaps in the circulation records, which nominally cover the period from November 1794 to January 1880. These come in several different types. Some of them appear to indicate missing volumes, including July 1795-June 1801, May 1811-February 1814, January 1835-Feburary 1841, September 1848-October 1858, and 1868-1870, but there are also gaps of a few months between volumes in 1805, 1824, 1846, 1871, and 1874. Additionally, there is a month of pages missing from the middle of 1831, and two pages are missing after October 1862, even though returns were noted as late December, before resuming in April 1868 (on the Civil War see the historical note for this series).","\nTitle numbers began at around 200, gradually rising to over 5,000 before the Civil War. After the war, numbers ran below 1,000 for the most part, before changing to numbers over 5,000 again on 4 December 1873 (p.279) and then dropping to lower numbers on 10 July 1874 (p.69), with some titles in the 5000s being renumbered to the 3000s.","\nMany of volumes contain lists of books in their front or back matter, usually including both titles and numbers. This is one of the only sources for matching that information for some periods of the library's history and includes the only reference to the 1808 catalog outside the minutes. They include lists of missing books (the 1822-1824 volume), books sent to be bound (1824-1828 and 1828-1831) and of the Waverly Novels (1822-1824).","\nChanges in the hand recording the information signal personnel changes, and many of the volumes were inscribed with the names of librarians or members of the company, occasionally accompanied by other kinds of scribbling as in 1814-1816, 1831-1834, and especially 1858-1868. There is also some doodling, which appears inside the covers in a modest way in the 1814-1816 volume and far more extensively in the 1841-1848 and 1858-1868 ones. 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The same numbers appear in columns toward the right of the accounts pages, just before the amounts, apparently signifying people and groups with which the transactions were undertaken. These numbers should not be confused with the columns on the left indicating the calendar day. They were dropped around 1826.","\nPayments under the names of individuals appear in the first part of the 1794-1799 volume, the latter parts of the 1799-1809 and 1809-1819 volumes, and throughout the bulk of the two volumes covering 1820-1828.","Arrangement is by year of lecture under its title and orator apart from the seat plan and correspondence on administrative issues. Those are arranged chronologically. Lectures in the modern series were assigned numbers by the Library Company until 1980.","The printed 1801 and 1815 catalogs were arranged by subject and size, with the 1815 supplement seemingly arranged in accession order. ","\nThe 1856 printed catalog was arranged alphabetically by author or title. 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The title counts are taken from Evans, 1967.","Miscellaneous Folios (21 titles)  Miscellaneous Quarto (33 titles)  Civil History, Voyages and Travels, Geography, Antiquities, Biography, etc.  Octavos (223 titles)  Duodecima and Infra (95 titles)  Ecclesiastical History, Theology, Essays Moral and Religious, Moral Philosophy and Metaphysics etc.  Octavos (54 titles)  Duodecima and Infra (47 titles)  Miscellaneous _______ General Science, The Arts, Domestic Economy, Natural Philosophy, Periodical Essays, Magazines and Reviews, etc.  Octavo (72 titles)  Duodecima and Infra (43 titles)  Law, Politics, Political Economy, Agriculture, Commerce, etc.  Octavo (60 titles)  Duodecima and Infra (13 titles)  Poetry, the Drama, Belles Lettres, and Criticism Octavo (39 titles)  Duodecima and Infra (13 titles)  Novels and Romances etc. (130 titles)  Appendix-Supplementary and Miscellaneous (30 titles) ","The catalog uses a numbering system in which the full number is given only every hundred and but which otherwise provides only the last two digits, hence the sequence: 98, 99, 1100, 01, 02. ","\nThe main portion of the catalog appears to be in accession order. At the end of the numbers #1,028-#1,728, a cross-listing of about 20 periodical works appears.","History #1-122 -Ecclesiastical History Biography #1-145 Voyages and Travels #1-213 Theology #1-113 Lexicography [crossed out] #1-6 Periodicals #1-31 Novels and Romances #1-350","As well as the unnumbered subjects: ","Poetry, Belles Letters and the Drama Lexicography, Statistics and Encyclopedia Chemistry, Minerology, Surgery, and Materia Medica Periodicals, Philosophy, and Miscellaneous and General Science Law, Oratory of the Bar, and Military and Political Journals","The catalog is arranged alphabetically, usually by author, but otherwise by title. Different volumes bear different numbers. A certain amount of cross-listing is also evident, most obviously through the appendix of Tours, Voyages, and Travels, containing works listed by country that also appear in the main catalog by author. Multi-volume works have the number of volumes indicated following their titles, their numbers end with hyphens to indicate an ascending number for each successive volume.","\nThere are some variations in how titles are counted. The \"Edinburg Encyclopedia\" for example is listed as #1- with 21 volumes but under \"Encyclopedia, Domestic\" it is listed as \"Edinburg\" with 18 volumes and a separate 3 volume supplement at #19-.","The catalog is arranged numerically from 1 to 5,063 following the model of the 1815 Supplement, with numbers greater than 100 being listed in full only every 100 numbers and at the top of each page, but otherwise by their last two digits (e.g. 98, 99, 3900, 1, 2).","\nEntries include the number, title, and volume of the work. The last three pages have volume numbers and titles. Their sequence is unclear and some are periodicals.","The arrangement of the catalog is alphabetical by title with a few additional sections by subject.  The alphabetical portion includes the letters A-N and Q-Y with the letters O and P missing. The subject headings are \"History\" after \"H,\" \"Letters\" after \"L,\" \"Memoirs\" after \"M,\" and \"British Prose Writers\" after \"P.\" A similar practice was used for the \"Pamphlets\" section of Drinker's catalog of the 1830-1848.  Books are numbered up to 4,314.","The main listing of titles is alphabetical by titles beginning with the letters \"R\" and \"S.\"","Arrangement is by classification number and title based on a version of the Dewey Decimal System, but differs from the fifth edition (1894) in some respects, such as listing 973 as \"Egypt\" rather than the United States. (see the 1894 at https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007477697)","\nClass headings and numbers are followed by subclass numbers, the first two letters of the author's name, and a number in case there are multiple books by that author. Volumes and publications dates are appended to the end of the title.","\nCase numbers (shelf locations) have been written in by hand as well as additional titles written in the margins.","The classification is identical to the 1898 except for the added subheadings of Cuba, Japan, and Korea.\nThere is an alphabetical index of subjects.","The 1912 supplement to the catalog was arranged according the same version of the Dewey Decimal System used in previous publications, with classification numbers for which no books were added to the collection omitted. The two lists of magazines divided them into bound and unbound collections, each arranged by title and date.","Alphabetical by title. Note that bound and unbound magazines are grouped together, rather than separated as in the 1912 supplement list.","The original circulation book of 1794-1795 contains two different systems for tracking loans and borrowers. The columns of the initial system included, from left-to-right: patron name, the time the book was out, book number, and book size. Each book size had its own column, which from left-to-right were folio, \"4-to\" (quarto), \"8-vo\" (octavio), \"12-mo\" (duodecimo or twelvemo), and \"16-mo\" (sextodecimo or sixteenmo).","\nThis method was abandoned, and subsequently an attempt was made to record circulation by subscriber. Each subscriber was assigned a number and accorded a set of pages bearing that number instead of page numbers. An index of them appears at the back with some names crossed out. They are not in alphabetical order on the whole, and may represent the order in which they become subscribers. The left-hand pages list the books taken out and the right-hand pages represent returns. As such, similar years and dates are repeated on both sides.","\nBy the start of the 1801-1805 records, the library \nhad switched to a chronological format, which was flexible enough to accommodate increases in the number of subscribers and variations in their degree of patronage but at the cost of making an individual's activity more difficult to isolate. Columns consisted of: patron, title number and volume number, date and day of the week, date returned, and the number of days late and fine (if any).","\nThis remained standard through 1834 with minor variations, like the addition of a date at the top of the page in the 1814-1818 volume, which lasted into the 1830s, and a key for marks indicating returns and renewals in the 1822-1824 volume.","\nThe 1841-1848 volume introduced a new system which separated each set of records into daily sections, with a heading for each day. The columns from left-to-right provided: title number, patron name, returned date, and subject section; the latter being a feature of the working catalog in use at the time.","\nAbbreviated titles started to appear near the end of June 1845, with some of them being numbered and others not. By July 1845, a majority of the entries were like that. This method disappeared and reappeared over the years that followed.","\nBetween September 1846 and September 1848 the circulation records were kept in the second part of an account book (see notes for the subscription series). The subject system continued during this period under a new organization of columns, consisting of: subject, number (within subject), patron name (with volume number), and finally a column with either a note saying \"return,\" a date, or often a blank field.","\nThe 1857-1858 volume has alphabetical tabs on which patrons are recorded chronologically under the first letter of their name. The columns are also different. From left-to-right they include:  date, patron name (including institutions), title number, and return date. The year is given at the top. In place of a return note, some fields contain other notes like \"mistake\" or \"transferred to Roxbury,\" which are open to interpretation. Titles resume appearing in place of numbers in mid-1858.","\nThe volume covering 1862-1868 shows considerable variation. Initially it featured columns on the left with headings for each day followed by the patron name, while on the right the columns showed the title number and return date. Starting on September 27, 1859 (page 114), the left-hand column was divided between patron name and title, while the columns for title number and return date on the right remained in place. From March 1860 (page 127) to March 1861 (page 175) it returned to the earlier format.","\nThe 1870-1871 volume introduced the columns that would be standard for most of the remainder of the series ending in 1880. They consisted of checkout date, patron name, book title, title number, and return date. The exception was a period beginning in May 1871 and ending on 1 January 1872 of the 1871-1872 volume. During that period, the records provided sections by patron name, with columns for checkout date, title, and return date. There were no title numbers during that period. The arrangement of names was partially alphabetized, possibly reflecting the addition of new names to an originally alphabetical arrangement.","\nIt can be difficult to tell what year it is in some of the later volumes. In the 1872-1874 volume year breaks occur on pages 113 (1873) and 292 (1874). In the 1874-1880 volume they occur on pages 137 (1875), 275 (1876), 345 (1877), 375 (1878), 434 (1879), and 454 (1880)."],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical","Presidents and Librarians of the Library","Historical Note","Biographical / Historical","Historical Note","Historical Note"],"bioghist_tesim":["In the 1780s, a discussion group of Alexandria gentlemen called \"The Society for the Promotion of Useful Knowledge\" was formed. In 1794, many of these same individuals gathered to form the nucleus of the Alexandria Library Company (ALC). The ALC was a subscription library modelled after the Philadelphia Library Company, which had also emerged from such a club. ","Society president Reverend John Muir became president of the ALC, a position he would hold for almost 20 years. Many of the library's founders are known to have been members of local Masonic lodges. Elisha Cullen Dick, who had succeeded George Washington as the leader of Lodge 22, was among the first directors of the ALC as well as the secretary of the earlier Society. The first Librarian was Edward Stabler, the proprietor of an apothecary shop. In 1796, Stabler was replaced by James Kennedy, who served as librarian until 1818. Overlaps and family links between the leadership of the library and other Alexandria institutions remained common over the next century and a half. ","For a time, the Alexandria Lyceum (founded in 1838) and the ALC shared a physical space as well as similar missions. The Alexandria Lyceum was founded as part of a national movement focused on educational lectures. The union between the two organizations was dissolved in 1844, but the library continued to rent space from the Lyceum. The library was later said to have been in a state of \"suspended animation\" from around 1846 to 1852. In 1852, a \"Young Men's\" group took over under the original charter, publishing a new catalog in 1856. The library continued to operate into the Civil War. It remained in the Lyceum but not without acrimony, which is evident in the Alexandria Gazette in 1860. ","In October 1867, an agreement was reached with what was variously referred to as the Alexandria Christian Association and the YMCA for assistance with running the library. The library separated from this organization during the early 1870s. By the second half of the 1870s, the library fell into a decline which the directors blamed on the lack of a published catalog. ","The first library catalog had been prepared by Kennedy in 1796 and published sometime thereafter. The earliest catalog of which there is an extant copy was published in 1801, followed by another in 1808 of which there are few traces. A more enduring catalog was created in 1815. The 1830s saw publication of a supplement to the 1815 catalog and the creation of a working catalog that would be used into the late 1840s. Normal circulation records end in April 1861 when the library was converted into a military hospital. There are stray entries in May and December before operations resumed on a limited basis in May 1862 and continued at least through that year. Over a thousand volumes were lost during the war. Due to the decline in usage in the 1870s, a new catalog was produced by librarian Emma J. Young in 1872 but never published. After two years with Young's catalog, another was commissioned from Dr. Theo West, which also went unpublished. As a stopgap, handwritten copies were used by patrons. In 1898, a new catalog was created which utilized a decimal system for the first time. The last published catalog was a supplement to the 1912 version. ","In the late 1870s, appeals were made to the men of Alexandria for support,. The directors met with another \"Young Men's Library Association\" in 1878 without success, records of operations stop after January 1880.","The Gazette reported in January 1881 that the books were now in the custody of the school board, whose membership included William F. Carne, a former library company director and the son of one its former presidents. In May 1887 it reported that Carne, as leader of the board's library committee, was inviting associations wishing to participate in re-opening the library to a meeting at the Peabody school building where the books were held, and explained that he had always intended a reading room to be opened to the public once space was freed up for that purpose.","In June 1887, the Gazette reported that the \"Reading Circle of Washington and Lee Schools\" organized by teachers two years prior and the YMCA would operate the free library during the summer, in the hope that in September \"an effort will be made, with a very fair prospect of success, to re-organize the Library Company.\" Gazette reports in 1890 and 1891 refer to continued efforts by Carne and others to \"re-open\" the library, and in 1892 being part of a \"committee on the project for a free public library,\" but they did not succeed.","In the decades after 1870s librarianship not only professionalized but underwent a rapid gender shift, and apart from the periods in which there was no librarian for financial reasons, no male librarians seem to have been employed until well into the 20th century. Women's library organizations had become common nationally, and along with the philanthropy of Andrew Carnegie played a major role in the growth of public libraries in America starting in the late 19th century.","In September 1897, the Alexandria Library Association led by Virginia Corse received custody of the books then in possession of the school board. With a modest donation from Carnegie, by 1898 the library was back in business, but as a subscription library, it would not become a free public library for almost 40 years. The new library needed a new librarian, and after one or two initial hires, the association found Alice Green (1865-1956), who would serve from 1902-1937 and in a lesser capacity into the mid-1940s. During this period, space for the library was rented from the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC).","The Depression brought financial hardship. As the crisis worsened in early 1931, the association had obtained $1,000 from the city council to form \"a nucleus for the establishment of a public library.\" Discussion of becoming a public library had been common since the 1920s, as the efforts of Carnegie and others had made them the norm nationally. Attempts were made to sell older books and hold fundraisers as subscription fees dried up. There was also a dispute with the UDC over a rent increase in 1933. The library was aided by the wealth of its members, including a $5,000 bequest in 1935 from its long-time treasurer, Margaret L. Smoot.","Members built political support both on the council and among the public in the mid-1930s and in 1937 it was agreed that a building would be constructed on the site of the old cemetery of the Society of Friends and that the city government would cover annual expenses of no more than $5,000 for the association to operate a free library. One member of the board would be appointed by the city. The new governing organization was rebranded the Alexandria Library Society.  Agreements were signed in January, and the library opened at the Kate Waller Barrett Branch's current location, 717 Queen Street.","Another change after 1937 was the gender composition of the leadership. Men served on the board of the new Society and played prominent roles after 1937. After 1948 they typically occupied the presidency of the organization. Most elections were unanimous, often with women casting most of the votes, but it ceased to be a women's organization. ","In 1945 a technicality in the Society's contract with the city was brought to the attention of the board. Namely that the $5,000 the city was obligated to provide each year was not the minimum but rather the maximum contribution, and that the higher appropriations it had been making were illegal. The city took this as an opportunity to demand a contract change beyond the funding formula. Although the men of the city council had representation on the board, the women of the Society were still ultimately running the library, and the Society was asked to allow a majority of the executive board to be appointed by the city, and a minority by the Society. That the city legally \"owned the building and all its contents\" so long as it paid $5,000 per year was also pointed out. The Alexandria Library Society signed the new contract, surrendering control of the library in November 1947. In its reduced role, the Society still elected members to the board and received reports from the librarian. It also retained independent funds that could be used for the benefit of the library. With the library now fully the city's responsibility, the membership was also able to more openly advocate for additional funding.","Another longstanding issue at the library was race. The president's 1928 annual report had endorsed becoming a \"free city library,\" but feared that becoming a Carnegie library \"would bring in some elements hitherto unknown and I think undesirable in our Library.\" In the 1930s the library association favored providing segregated facilities, but, after repeated meetings with the city council, failed to achieve even that modest goal. In the 13 March, 1939, minutes, the issue was revisited yet again, but without result. ","Four days later on 17 March 1939, Sergeant George Wilson was turned down for a library card because of his race and Samuel Tucker filed a civil rights lawsuit against the librarian on his behalf. Plans for a segregated facility were dusted off, and new staff was hired so that the librarian could focus on the controversy. On 21 August 1939, several black men organized by Tucker entered the library and followed Wilson's example, but after being refused, seated themselves in the library with books, beginning America's first library sit-in. It ended only after the city manager called the police, and all were arrested. The lawsuit was dismissed on technical grounds, but to prevent a new lawsuit the city approved the Robert H. Robinson branch, which opened in 1940. Tucker refused to accept a card there. ","A major issue in the early 1950s was the push to expand the overcrowded main library serving the white community. The white librarian at the time, who had been hired in a junior capacity during Tucker's campaign in 1939, suggested to the Society that the expansion could be an opportunity to integrate. In the midst of the debates over expansion and additional funding, an opportunity emerged to purchase a neighboring building on the corner of North Columbus and Queen, which was later demolished. This prompted a discussion about the Alexandria Library Society's connection to the original library company. It was decided to change the name from the \"Alexandria Library Society\" to the \"Alexandria Library Company,\" make the appropriate filings with the state government, and reinstate the 1799 charter, which would be revised by the legislature in the 1980s to help obtain tax-exempt status from the IRS.","This name change was completed at one of the company's most consequential meetings in February 1956. Every member was asked to sign their name in the minute book to signal their assent. A letter from a local civil rights activist questioning the legality of library segregation was also read, but deemed the province of the library board, which referred the matter back to the company whose reply is not preserved.","Member Mangum Weeks thereupon raised the question of the future role of the Library Company, and proposed resuming the tradition of annual lectures dating from the Lyceum period using funds from the newly instituted membership dues. This proposal was adopted, and preparing the annual lectures soon became a major focus of the Company. The Library Company continues to appoint members to the board of the Alexandria Library and hold its annual lecture series. It commissioned a new history of the library by William Seale in 2007, which can be found at the Local History and Special Collections Branch.","Chronological listings for both presidents of the board and librarians up to the modern day.","Presidents of the Library Company and Its Successors February 1794-February 1813 Rev. James Muir February 1813-February 1815 Hugh Smith February 1815-March 1824 John Roberts March 1824-February 1829 Hugh Smith February 1829-February 1835 John Richards February 1835-February 1840 John Roberts February 1840-1852 Elias Harrison 1852-February 1855 J. Louis Kinzer February 1855-September 1858 Francis Miller September 1858- February 1859 Richard L. Carne February 1859-September 1859 Caleb S. Hallowell September 1859-February 1860 William G. Cazenove February 1860-February 1870 Richard L. Carne February 1870-February 1873 K. Kemper February 1873-October 1873 Samuel H. Janney October 1873-February 1874 Sidney C. Neale February 1874-June 1879 Mercer Slaughter September 1897-October 1905 Virginia Corse July 1906-June 1925 Mrs. Samuel. L. Monroe October 1925-April 1930 Loula Smoot April 1930-November 1933 Mrs. Henry B. Soule, [Jessie E. Soule] December 1933-December 1934 Mary Lloyd December 1934-December 1936 Susan Thomson December 1936-November 1937 Mrs. Louis Scott November 1937-November 1944 Mrs. Curtis Backus November 1944-November 1946 Mrs. [Lawrence] Fawcett, [Mary Fawcett] November 1946-November 1947 Howard Worth Smith November 1947-October 1948 [Miss Anne] Lewis Jones October 1948-October 1949 Miss Horne October 1949-October 1950 Mr. Stanley King October 1950-December 1951 Mr. [Joseph] Crockett December 1951-February 1955 Mr. Robert Moncure February 1955-February 1957 Dr. [W. Bruce] Silcox February 1957-February 1959 Stanley King February 1959-February 1962 Mangum Weeks February 1962-February 1963 Richard Bales February 1963-February 1965 Donald King February 1965-February 1967 David Squires February 1967-February 1969 Howard Worth Smith Jr. February 1969-February 1971 William Francis Smith February 1971-February 1972 John T. Ticer February 1972-February 1974 David M. Abshire February 1974-February 1976 Mrs. Merill Beede February 1976-February 1978 Mrs. Douglas Lindsey February 1978-February 1980 Clarke T. Cooper Jr. February 1980-February 1982 William Seale February 1982-February 1983 Denys Peter Myers February 1983-February 1985 William B. Hurd February 1985-February 1986 George J. Stansfield February 1986-February 1987 Dr. Ernest A. Connally February 1987-February 1989 Dr. Wilton C. Corkern, Jr. February 1989-March 1991 James M. Lewis March 1991-March 1992 Mrs. Anne Smith Paul March 1992-March 1993 Richard R. G. Hobson March 1993-March 1995 Dabney Waring March 1995-March 1997 James R. Hobson March 1997-March 1998 Robert C. Reed March 1998-March 2000 Neil Horstman March 2000-March 2002 Carroll Johnson March 2002-March 2003 Thomas C. Brown Jr.","Librarians of Alexandria February 1794-February 1796 Edward Stabler February 1796-February 1818 James Kennedy February 1818-August 1826 William Cranch August 1826-October 1829 W. Samuel Mark October 1829-March 1845 George Drinker March 1845-September 1845 James M. Eaches September 1845-September 1852 C.F. Stuart September 1852-April 1853 H. W. P. Junius September 1852-April 1853 L.? Hunter November 1853 Office Abolished February 1854-October 1855 E. M.[Magruder?] Lowe October 1855-September 1858 Norval E. Foard September 1858-February 1859 S. Scott February 1859-September 1859 Edward R. Roxbury September 1859-February 1860 James A. Clarridge February 1860-April 1861 Charles R. Burgess (acting) April 1861-Unknown Edwin N. Wise March 1868 Wr. Bushby April 1870-May 1871 August Henning July 1871-March 1872 W. F. Stansbury March 1872-August 1873 Emma J. Young October 1873-March 1876 Emily English March 1876 Position Eliminated June 1879 R. Pendleton Bruin (unofficial? acting?) October 1900-October 1903 F. Olive Lyons October 1903-April 1937 (continued part-time, mentioned up to 1946) Alice Green April 1937-December 1938 Miss Beatrice Workman January 1939-January 1941 Katherine Scoggin (later Martyn) February 1941-June 1948 Bessie Watson July 1948-June 1969 (hired part-time October 1939, letter of resignation later that month) Ellen C. Burke July 1969-October 1992 (librarian from 1958) Jeanne G. Plitt","The initial combination of financial and subscription records likely reflected the company's initial dependence on subscription fees, in contrast to the later subscription library in the city that relied more on donors. This recordkeeping system appears to have been a casualty of the merger with the Lyceum, which became official in early 1840.","\nAs the physical volume in use at that time was still mostly blank, it was repeatedly repurposed, first for additional circulation records (until these too lapsed) and later for a \"list of Stockholders and the amount due from each for the year commencing the 13th February 1854,\" which likely relates to the revitalization of the company after its agreement with the Young Men's group. The agreement required the men to find 100 subscribers, and the list was likely prepared for the annual meeting originally scheduled for 20 February (a week after the date on the list), at which it was decided to void the shares of individuals who had not paid.","The 1980 lecture of Dr. William Dudley on \"Captain Gordon and the Raid on Alexandria 1814\" was recorded but was left off the lists of annual lectures printed in later years. It marks the point at which the sequential numbering of annual lectures was stopped. The reason for this is unknown.","No catalog was published under the first librarian, but four were published during the 1796-1818 tenure of his successor.","\nOn 29 December 1796 he was directed to prepare a catalog of books \"classed according to their size and arranged in the order of the alphabet, with the number and cost or value of each,\" although a March 1797 entry suggests that it was still not complete four months later. No copy of this catalog has survived, but there would have been between 200 and 400 titles at that time.","\nThe growth of the collection was driven in part by the acceptance of books in place of subscription fees and the purchase of private libraries. In May 1800 a committee was formed to examine its acquisitions for books that were \"useless, superfluous or of immoral tendency,\" which decided in September to postpone acting on them until it was time to print a new catalog. That time came on 2 November 1801 when a committee was appointed to assist the librarian in creating a new catalog.","\nOn 1 February 1808 the board decided to print a new catalog at 50 cents a copy because \"many members were without any.\" On 2 May this catalog was reported to be largely complete. Another meeting was planned shortly thereafter so that it could be printed \"without delay.\" That meeting is undocumented, if indeed it took place. No copy of this catalog or any direct record of its publication is currently known. But it must have existed since it was referenced in a later circulation book and the librarian received a bonus for his work on it in March 1809.","\nOn 2 May 1814, it was decided to create another new catalog. It would eventually have 1,027 numbers, which circulation records show the library had reached by July 1814. On 14 November 1814, the librarian reported the catalog \"ready for the press.\" He was instructed to obtain 150 copies \"with all convenient dispatch,\" a number raised to 200 the following month. In February 1815, he reported the catalog \"about half-finished\" and presented a copy to the board, which set a price of 50 cents. In March he received compensation for \"his additional trouble in preparing the new catalogue for the press,\" suggesting that the printing had been completed.","\nThe 1815 catalog was later extended by a published supplement that added additional numbers. Unlike other printed works, there is no mention of when the supplement was produced in the minutes. It is, however, clear from circulation records that all its books had circulated by 14 August 1830. According to the minutes, a meeting had been called for 10 May 1830 only to be quickly adjourned \"there appearing no business requiring the attention of the board,\" and quarterly meetings on 2 August and 2 November were adjourned, lacking a quorum. The librarian at the time had replaced his predecessor in October 1829 and been confirmed in the position the following March. It seems plausible that he pushed to update the catalog after becoming librarian but that the question was either not deemed important or could not be addressed due to the lack of quorum but that it was printed in 1830 anyway.","\nAt the same time, a working catalog was created for use in the library itself. It is the earliest preserved catalog of this type but was probably not the first. It contains a relisting of the contents of the 1815 catalog and supplement sorted by the first letter of the alphabet with pamphlets listed separately as well as books added between April 1833 and the suspension of library operations after 1848 listed by subject. Although its initial form was compiled some time earlier, it does not appear to have come into use until sometime after 1834 where there is a gap in the circulation records. The first 1,725 entries may have been added at the time of the 1815 supplement with the shift to a new method of arrangement occurring later. ","\nOn 8 March 1856 a committee of the revived library company was assigned to rearrange and renumber the books for publication. On 29 November 1856, the board voted for 300 copies of the finished catalog to be produced.","\nOn 18 June 1858 board president Andrew Jamison resigned. On 4 September Richard L. Carne, the chairmen of the committee on the catalog and president pro-tem submitted \"his amendment to the catalog\" and appointed Sylvester Scott as librarian to constitute a \"committee of revisal.\" A new working catalog is preserved from this period continuing into the Civil War, although it does not appear to have been published.","\nFrom the reestablishment of the library in the late 1860s to its failure at the close of the 1870s the lack of a published catalog to advertise the available books was identified as a major issue. The last version of the catalog prior to the Civil War had contained over 5,000 books, of which it was estimated in 1871 that 1,000-1,500 had been lost.","\nCirculations records from the early 1870s feature book numbers around 1,000 that do not correspond to any known listing, and numbers were abandoned entirely from May 1871 to January 1872. It was decided on 2 October 1872 to create a new catalog, and the task was assigned to the new librarian, Emma Young. The fact that the numbers of the circulating books changed to include some with numbers over 5,000 after 4 December 1872 indicates that this work was completed, but it was never published and there is no surviving catalog from that period.","\nThe limited use of the catalog is evident from the prevalence of high numbered works among those in circulation. The highest numbers indicated recent acquisitions, which often received announcements in the Alexandria Gazette.","\nAt the 20 February 1874 meeting, it was noted that \"the last catalogue was published some years previous to the war and had become, by reasons of subsequent losses and additions, very incomplete\" and the board decided to appoint Dr. Theo West \"to catalogue and arrange the books.\" They planned to print the catalog in time for the 1875 annual meeting, but printing was postponed indefinitely. ","\nThe new catalog went into effect on 10 July 1874 as seen in the shift in circulation records from a system with numbers up to around 5,800 to a new catalog going to 4,314, but again they were unable to publish it.  Seven months later at the 19 February 1875 meeting, it was decided to arrange a printing \"as soon as possible,\" but this did not occur either.","\nOn 10 March 1876 the board decided upon a different plan. The catalog was to be divided among the directors so that copies might be made \"for the librarian's desk.\" The published account of the 21 February 1877 annual meeting noted that \"many persons have given as a reason for not becoming subscribers the inaccessibility of the old library which was not catalogued. This plea no longer holds.\" Doctor West's catalog \"copied by members of the Board without expense, bound in good style, can now always be found on the Librarian's desk.\" Operations ceased and the books went into storage a few years later.","\nAt the 8 January 1898 meeting of the newly formed Alexandria Library Association, it was moved that the \"the catalogue be printed at once\" with the addition of blank pages between the leaves for advertisements from city merchants.","\nThis catalog was the first to use a version of the Dewey Decimal System, which had become popular since its first publication in 1888, reaching its 5th edition in 1894. This was the first modern classification system in the history of the Alexandria Library.","\nSubsequent to the publication of the 1898 catalog in January of that year, there are several mentions of publishing \"supplements\" such as on 11 April 1899 and 11 July 1899 which may refer to the practice of publishing notices with the titles of new additions in the Alexandria Gazette, such as those of 6 July and 13 July 1899.","\nOn 1 January 1902 there was a push for a \"supplementary catalogue (being a catalogue of books up to date) be printed\" and the president appointed a committee for that purpose. It was postponed pending the catalog's completion. On 9 October 1906 the board voted to accept an offer from a Mr. White to print 1000 copies in return for advertising space. According to the 8 January 1907 minutes, the library was given half the copies of the 1906 catalog for free, of which it sold 200 and gave 300 away.","\nThe 12 April 1910 minutes mention a decision to \"again postpone the publication a supplementary catalogue.\" On 23 January 1912 it was again put off until the 9 April meeting, where it was decided for a new catalog to be printed and priced at five cents a copy and \"to have the names of the old magazines put into the new catalogue but not into the card catalogue.\" On 12 June 1912 it was reported that \"the catalogue was in the hands of the printer and that Mrs. Monroe was reading the proof\" and the \"new catalog\" was deemed \"ready for distribution\" on 8 October 1912.","\nThe annual report at that same meeting noted that \"the year has also seen the completion of the labelling, classifying, and cataloguing of all the old and valuable magazines which the Board has for so long a time desired to put into shape for distribution,\" which a review of the supplement suggests meant works in good condition available for circulation.","\nOn 11 April 1933 Mrs. Newell \"volunteered to catalogue old magazines in order that their value may be ascertained.\"  On 9 May 1933 she presented a \"typewritten list\" of \"old magazines\" for appraisal as part of their depression era fundraising efforts. On 10 October she reported them to be of \"no value\" and suggested having them sent to the Salvation Army for use as old paper. On 8 January 1934 the board approved this proposal for those magazines of \"no value,\" which do not appear to have included many titles listed in this catalog.","\nNo explicit reason for the abandonment of published catalogs after 1912 was given, but the allusion to card catalogs suggests that it was a final step in the transition from numerical catalogs, which favored bound volumes by allowing new titles to be added to the end of the sequence, to the Dewey Decimal System, which required new titles to be inserted in the correct place in the existing list and was more easily managed with cards which did not require leaving space for new titles as the 1876 catalog had.","The circulation records began with the original library company in 1794 and continued until its collapse in 1880. Some of the gaps in the records reflect periods during which its activity was disrupted.","\nDuring the War of 1812, British forces arrived in Alexandria on 29 August 1814 and remained there until 2 September. The library normally closed on Sundays, and remained closed from Sunday 28 August through Tuesday 30 August. It opened from 31 August to 2 September, during which time only four books circulated.","\nThe library was also affected by the Civil War. Hostilities between the Union and Confederacy began at Fort Sumter on 12 April 1861. A vote on Virginia secession was held on 17 April and ratified by a referendum on 23 May. Alexandria was occupied by Union forces the following day. Confederate forces had briefly made use of the Lyceum building housing the library, but it later served as a hospital for the Union. Some books were moved out but others were not.","\nIt is unclear were the library operated from in 1861 and 1862, but it did operate. There was a significant reduction in circulation leading up to the war, dropping to a single entry for 22 April 1861. Solitary patrons were recorded for 18th and 30th of May, and an individual withdrew a book every day through 21-25 December, although the May and December entries are in a different hand and initially broke with the format. In early June 1862 however, the library resumed semi-regular hours, usually opening only Tuesday and Thursday but occasionally other days. Records continue into mid-October, after which two pages are missing from the book before it resumes in 1868. Returns are dated as late as December 1862, and it is unclear when the library ceased operations.","\nAttempts to preserve the library in the late 1870s were unsuccessful, and the number of pages per year charts its decline and eventual failure over the second half of the decade."],"custodhist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eVolume ended up with the Leadbeater family in the 1860s but was donated back in 1922. 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materials in this collection","Click to view digital materials in this collection"],"phystech_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMany of the books have damaged bindings or missing covers. The 1801-1805 volume has both problems, while the 1809-1811 is missing a page and the front cover. The 1814-1816 is also missing pages, as is the 1858-1868 volume for the crucial period of 1862-1863.\u003c/p\u003e"],"phystech_heading_ssm":["Preservation Issues"],"phystech_tesim":["Many of the books have damaged bindings or missing covers. The 1801-1805 volume has both problems, while the 1809-1811 is missing a page and the front cover. The 1814-1816 is also missing pages, as is the 1858-1868 volume for the crucial period of 1862-1863."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Item], Alexandria Library Company Records, MS002, Alexandria Library, Local History and Special Collections, Alexandria, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[Item], Alexandria Library Company Records, MS002, Alexandria Library, Local History and Special Collections, Alexandria, Virginia."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eA reprocessing project begun in 2018 incorporated several boxes of previously unprocessed materials dating from the 1960s to the 2000s, with the bulk dating from after 1980. They included many short, overlapping sequences of correspondence, lecture, meeting, and member records which were merged into continuations of established series including primarily correspondence and lectures but also meetings and member correspondence. The \"subject files\" were added to the existing miscellaneous series. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nSeveral other changes were also made. A re-examination of the catalog, subscription, and circulation books was undertaken and most were renumbered, described, and relabeled based on primary source research. The 1794-1861 minute book that had been donated back in 1922 was also discovered misfiled in Ms 98 (which covers the library proper since 1937) and was returned to its original collection. Some letters found in minute books were moved to the correspondence series, and their original locations were bookmarked with acid free paper. Photocopies of catalogs were removed. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords concerning individual lectures, such as programs and invitations, were foldered by individual lecture unless part of a separate series. This permitted the titles of lectures and names of lecturers to be better indexed and gaps in documentation to be made more obvious than would have been the case with separate subseries for programs, transcripts, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is no mention of when the supplement was produced in the minutes, which is odd for a printed pamphlet. As a result dating was attempted starting from the circulation records, which showed the #1,728 was first checked out on 14 August 1830. According to the minutes, a meeting had been called for 10 May 1830, only to be quickly adjourned \"there appearing no business requiring the attention of the board,\" and quarterly meetings on 2 August and 2 November adjourned for lack of a quorum.  The librarian at the time, George Drinker, had replaced his predecessor in October 1829 and been confirmed in the position in March, so the working hypothesis is that he pushed to update the catalog after becoming librarian but the question was either not deemed important or could not be addressed due to the lack of a quorum and that it was printing anyway sometime in 1830. That date may need to be updated in light of additional evidence in the future (e.g. the Gazette becoming searchable for the 1830s).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nThe location of the original is unknown despite Library of Congress Classification number noted by a previous processor resembling that of the original 1815 catalog. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nThe collection originally contained a photocopy which was removed. I had the image of a staple, suggesting it was a copy of a copy. It was not correctly dated. A modern processor had written \"NOT used. The # sequence would conflict with 1815 catalogue complied by Evans\" in reference to the effort to reconstruct the 1815 arrangement made by Marjorie Darnell Evans, possibly the only record that the individual had access to, and added an \"1815\" date in pen. This is all the more perplexing as another hand had also added a \"1\" before the first number to highlight the fact that the numbers were higher than the 1815 catalog, a fact that tendency to list only the last two digits otherwise obscured.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis volume was difficult to date, for while an inscription makes clear that the book itself was in possession of the library by the end of March 1830, it does not make clear that it was being applied to its intended purpose. It contains a calendar suggesting 1833-1834, but books go until at least 1841 and perhaps 1844, and publication date can differ greatly from acquisition date. Circulation records also show that while created earlier, it was not yet the primary catalog by 1834, and due to gaps in the records we can only demonstrate that the subject system was in use between 1841 and 1848. Although Drinker's name is everywhere, his long service as librarian prevents this information from being particularly useful. In light of all this, it was given a recordkeeping date of 1830-1848, indicating that the collection was documented and it could have been used by librarians during that period, new books were recorded there covering this period, even though the period of active use may have begun at a later, unknown date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA previous processor had dated this catalog \"1799?\" but the second page of titles lists an \"Address on the Life and actions of Gen. R. E. Lee delivered on the 12th of Oct. 1871 before the Society of Confederate Soldiers and Sailors in Maryland\" which seemed unlikely to predate the Civil War by so many years, so a later date was sought. Although the initial catalog was completed in 1874, it has been given the date of 1876 when this copy was physically created by the directors.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA copy of the \"S\" section of the 1876 catalog was found in the circulation book for the early 1840s, although it dated from decades later. It was moved to the same folder as the \"R\" section, being from the same period and seemingly in the same hand. They were also given a date along with the 1876 catalog.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA photocopy of the original was removed from the collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe catalog was previously dated to the 19th century, but has been dated to May 1933 based on the minutes as described in the historical note. The specific reference to a typescript in connection with the term \"old magazines\" in 1933 is difficult to ignore and the scattered notes on condition fit with the goal of appraising the magazines being pursued at that time. I also found it unlikely that the list was drawn up in 1912 as part of the catalog supplement for that year given the differences in arrangement, like the supplement separating bound and unbound volumes, and the differences in contents, like the absence of the Atheneum from the supplement.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA copy of the \"S\" section of the 1876 catalog was found in this circulation book, although it obviously dated from decades later than its period of active use. It was moved to the same folder as the \"R\" section.\u003c/p\u003e"],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information","Processing Information","Processing Information","Processing Information","Processing Information","Processing Information","Processing Information","Processing Information","Processing Information"],"processinfo_tesim":["A reprocessing project begun in 2018 incorporated several boxes of previously unprocessed materials dating from the 1960s to the 2000s, with the bulk dating from after 1980. They included many short, overlapping sequences of correspondence, lecture, meeting, and member records which were merged into continuations of established series including primarily correspondence and lectures but also meetings and member correspondence. The \"subject files\" were added to the existing miscellaneous series. ","\nSeveral other changes were also made. A re-examination of the catalog, subscription, and circulation books was undertaken and most were renumbered, described, and relabeled based on primary source research. The 1794-1861 minute book that had been donated back in 1922 was also discovered misfiled in Ms 98 (which covers the library proper since 1937) and was returned to its original collection. Some letters found in minute books were moved to the correspondence series, and their original locations were bookmarked with acid free paper. Photocopies of catalogs were removed. ","Records concerning individual lectures, such as programs and invitations, were foldered by individual lecture unless part of a separate series. This permitted the titles of lectures and names of lecturers to be better indexed and gaps in documentation to be made more obvious than would have been the case with separate subseries for programs, transcripts, etc.","There is no mention of when the supplement was produced in the minutes, which is odd for a printed pamphlet. As a result dating was attempted starting from the circulation records, which showed the #1,728 was first checked out on 14 August 1830. According to the minutes, a meeting had been called for 10 May 1830, only to be quickly adjourned \"there appearing no business requiring the attention of the board,\" and quarterly meetings on 2 August and 2 November adjourned for lack of a quorum.  The librarian at the time, George Drinker, had replaced his predecessor in October 1829 and been confirmed in the position in March, so the working hypothesis is that he pushed to update the catalog after becoming librarian but the question was either not deemed important or could not be addressed due to the lack of a quorum and that it was printing anyway sometime in 1830. That date may need to be updated in light of additional evidence in the future (e.g. the Gazette becoming searchable for the 1830s).","\nThe location of the original is unknown despite Library of Congress Classification number noted by a previous processor resembling that of the original 1815 catalog. ","\nThe collection originally contained a photocopy which was removed. I had the image of a staple, suggesting it was a copy of a copy. It was not correctly dated. A modern processor had written \"NOT used. The # sequence would conflict with 1815 catalogue complied by Evans\" in reference to the effort to reconstruct the 1815 arrangement made by Marjorie Darnell Evans, possibly the only record that the individual had access to, and added an \"1815\" date in pen. This is all the more perplexing as another hand had also added a \"1\" before the first number to highlight the fact that the numbers were higher than the 1815 catalog, a fact that tendency to list only the last two digits otherwise obscured.","This volume was difficult to date, for while an inscription makes clear that the book itself was in possession of the library by the end of March 1830, it does not make clear that it was being applied to its intended purpose. It contains a calendar suggesting 1833-1834, but books go until at least 1841 and perhaps 1844, and publication date can differ greatly from acquisition date. Circulation records also show that while created earlier, it was not yet the primary catalog by 1834, and due to gaps in the records we can only demonstrate that the subject system was in use between 1841 and 1848. Although Drinker's name is everywhere, his long service as librarian prevents this information from being particularly useful. In light of all this, it was given a recordkeeping date of 1830-1848, indicating that the collection was documented and it could have been used by librarians during that period, new books were recorded there covering this period, even though the period of active use may have begun at a later, unknown date.","A previous processor had dated this catalog \"1799?\" but the second page of titles lists an \"Address on the Life and actions of Gen. R. E. Lee delivered on the 12th of Oct. 1871 before the Society of Confederate Soldiers and Sailors in Maryland\" which seemed unlikely to predate the Civil War by so many years, so a later date was sought. Although the initial catalog was completed in 1874, it has been given the date of 1876 when this copy was physically created by the directors.","A copy of the \"S\" section of the 1876 catalog was found in the circulation book for the early 1840s, although it dated from decades later. It was moved to the same folder as the \"R\" section, being from the same period and seemingly in the same hand. They were also given a date along with the 1876 catalog.","A photocopy of the original was removed from the collection.","The catalog was previously dated to the 19th century, but has been dated to May 1933 based on the minutes as described in the historical note. The specific reference to a typescript in connection with the term \"old magazines\" in 1933 is difficult to ignore and the scattered notes on condition fit with the goal of appraising the magazines being pursued at that time. I also found it unlikely that the list was drawn up in 1912 as part of the catalog supplement for that year given the differences in arrangement, like the supplement separating bound and unbound volumes, and the differences in contents, like the absence of the Atheneum from the supplement.","A copy of the \"S\" section of the 1876 catalog was found in this circulation book, although it obviously dated from decades later than its period of active use. It was moved to the same folder as the \"R\" section."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Alexandria Library Records (Ms 98) document the library as a separate institution from 1937 onward.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nIt particularly complements this collection in its early decades through its administrative correspondence, board correspondence, minutes, annual reports, and organizational records, including contracts with the Alexandria Library Society.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe minutes of the library's executive board (1938-1947) are included in the microfilm version of the library minute books 1794-1947.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eTranscripts of library company lectures 2-18 are available in the library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003clist type=\"deflist\"\u003e\n      \u003chead\u003eLecture series : [transcripts of the audiotapes made of the scholars invited to speak at these annual lectures]\u003c/head\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eAlexandria Library Co. 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Lecture Series #7\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003e080 LEC 7\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eAlexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #8\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003e080 LEC 8\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eAlexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #9\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003e080 LEC 9\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eAlexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #10\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003e080 LEC 10\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eAlexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #11\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003e080 LEC 11\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eAlexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #12\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003e080 LEC 12\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eAlexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #13\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003e080 LEC 13\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eAlexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #14\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003e080 LEC 14\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eAlexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #15\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003e080 LEC 15\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eAlexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #16\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003e080 LEC 16\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eAlexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #17\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003e080 LEC 17\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eAlexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #18\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003e080 LEC 18\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n    \u003c/list\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["The Alexandria Library Records (Ms 98) document the library as a separate institution from 1937 onward.","\nIt particularly complements this collection in its early decades through its administrative correspondence, board correspondence, minutes, annual reports, and organizational records, including contracts with the Alexandria Library Society.","\nThe minutes of the library's executive board (1938-1947) are included in the microfilm version of the library minute books 1794-1947.","Transcripts of library company lectures 2-18 are available in the library.","Lecture series : [transcripts of the audiotapes made of the scholars invited to speak at these annual lectures] Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #2 080 LEC 2 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #3 080 LEC 3 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #4 080 LEC 4 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #5 080 LEC 5 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #6 080 LEC 6 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #7 080 LEC 7 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #8 080 LEC 8 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #9 080 LEC 9 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #10 080 LEC 10 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #11 080 LEC 11 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #12 080 LEC 12 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #13 080 LEC 13 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #14 080 LEC 14 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #15 080 LEC 15 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #16 080 LEC 16 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #17 080 LEC 17 Alexandria Library Co. Lecture Series #18 080 LEC 18"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection consists of circulation, subscription, and financial ledgers, annual lecture series documents, catalogues, correspondence, and various organizational documents. Topics include: foundation of the\nAlexandria 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.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe organizational records series contains those records directly concerned with the library company and its predecessors as organizations. It covers charters, by-laws, contracts, the legal definition of the company, and its history. Charters and by-laws between 1794 and 1944 are generally documented in the minutes and or reprinted in catalogs or the Alexandria Gazette.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe general correspondence series covers a long period of the history of the Library Company and its successors, with the bulk from the modern Library Company after 1954, when more documentation was being produced and captured in a systematic way.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nFrom the earlier period, one folder covers the old Library Company, including an account of the Civil War and two folders cover the period of the Alexandria Library Association consisting primarily of correspondence with Andrew Carnegie about his financial support. The material from the Alexandria Library Society chiefly consists of copies of minutes. \nFor library related inquiries after 1937 see the extensive public library correspondence in Ms 98.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe post-1954 correspondence includes lecture arrangements, nomination and member correspondence, announcements, and all manner of memoranda and external correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe financial reports series includes monthly financial reports from the Alexandria Library Association prior the establishment of the public library and annual reports of the Library Company after 1953 along with a limited amount of additional correspondence on related issues.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThere is also a file of annual reports which the Library Company was required to make to the state as a corporation.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nFor records relating to the Alexandria Library Company's efforts to become tax-exempt in the 1980s, see the Organizational Records series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe meetings series consists chiefly of bound and unbound minutes from the Alexandria Library Company and its successors.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe bound minutes cover the early Library Company from 1794 to its last meeting in 1879, the Alexandria Library Association and Library Society from 1897 through its loss of control of the library in the late 1947, and the Society and modern Library Company from 1948 to 1993.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nAfter 1937, there are two minute books, one for the \"executive board,\" which ran the library, and the other for the Library Society and later Library Company which appointed some of its members. The 1938-1947 executive board minutes are included in the microfilm copy of the older bound volumes, but the original is located in Ms 98.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nBylaws, agreements, financial, and membership information often appear in the records, as do records of elections. In some periods, annual reports are pasted into the minute books, which like a lot of library business, was printed in the Gazette.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe unbound meeting records cover the modern period of the Library Company and contain minutes, announcements of meetings, and notes, although for the earlier periods the minutes are merely photocopies of the bound volumes as indicated by page numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe members series contains records relating to the selection, participation, and retention of members of the Library Company, with a focus on the modern period from the 1950s onward. It includes records of the nominating committee, correspondence with and about current or prospective members, and lists of members and guests attending the annual lectures. One of these lists is also available on a 3½ inch disk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe subscription series consists of bound volumes of records documenting the subscribers of the company while doubling as ledgers for many of the financial transactions of the pre-Lyceum period (1794-1839), with gaps between volumes. Apart from the minutes, the volumes contain the only information on the subscribers of the late 1790s, for which there is a gap in the circulation records.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThere are also additional financial records from 1826-1839 and a list of subscribers, paid and not, from 1854. These appear in the same volume (see historical note), along with the circulation records for 1846-1848 in between.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe stubs of printed subscription certificates from 1874-1879 are also included in this series. Each contains an identifying number, the name of a subscriber, and a dollar amount, accompanied in some cases by dates or other notations. A few of the completed patron slips are also in this volume, including dates and the signature of the treasurer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains information on the annual lecture series, with the bulk covering the period after its revival in 1957. The files for the early years include much of the correspondence arranging for the lectures and information on the lecturers as well as in some cases printed copies of the prepared text. For later years the files consist largely of lecture announcements, programs, and attendance lists. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nAudio or video recordings were made of most lectures, but are not currently available. Correspondence relating to the recordings can be found in the relevant subseries. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nCorrespondence is also available regarding the production of the printed programs and the selection of speakers during the 1970s along with an undated seat plan. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nInformation on attendance and the financial aspects of the lectures can be found in other series. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nPrint transcriptions for certain lectures are available in the reading room.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe collection's miscellany includes annual reports of the library, a survey of the old library company books, seals, stationary, and printed matter including poems, fundraising pamphlets, and literature about the library from the League of Women Voters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe news clippings series consists chiefly of articles about the annual lectures or which report on the annual meetings and the election of officers and members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe catalogs provide listings of books showing what was available at the library during different time periods and identifying books for some parts of the circulation records. Catalogs also frequently included information on other topics, including the rules of the library, founding documents, library histories, and the value of the books. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nTitles were often abbreviated, especially in the working catalogs, and dates of publication were often lacking. This can make identifying a work from the catalog difficult even when copies of it are extant elsewhere. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nCatalogs can be used reliably for most of the numerical listings in the circulation records for roughly 1801-1807, 1815-1848, 1856-1862, and 1874-1879. The 1815 catalog was not only bigger than the 1801, but had been renumbered. Because of this practice, the 1801 catalog cannot be relied upon for records prior to its implementation nor after the point in 1807-1808 when its successor went into effect. Since there is no way to know if the 1815 catalog was an extension of the 1808, it likewise cannot be trusted prior to implementation. The 1815 and its supplement were used for a longer period and the 1830-1848 used it as a base, although it altered its system of arrangement leaving around 30 or so numbers undefined for part of the 1830s. The 1856 printed and 1858-1860 working catalogs cover much of the same material and are usable for records into the Civil War. The 1856 is available online in a searchable format and organized to be browsed, while the working catalog is arranged by number. The 1876 copy of the catalog implemented in July 1874 is missing the letters O-P, but is otherwise usable for the last few years of circulation records. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nSee specific catalog notes for details. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe 1801 catalog corresponds to the title numbers 1-452 in the circulations records from around 1802-1808 and offers the number of volumes and value for each. It is hard to be precise since the dates on which it came into and fell out of use at the library are unknown. The fact that books were removed as well as added at the time of its adoption and its organization suggest that it may not be reliable for the 1794-1796 circulation records, and possibly not even for books circulating earlier in 1801 which were likely identified by an earlier catalog. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nIn addition to a listing of books, the catalog includes the revised act of incorporation dated September 1799, the laws of the company passed on 2 November 1801 and an alphabetical membership list. \nAt the back is a list of book donations from largest to smallest, including the name of the donor, the total number of volumes donated, and a list of title numbers, along with an index to the catalog and some errata. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nIt was printed by Cottom and Stewart in Alexandria and sold for fifty cents a copy. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis catalog of 1,027 titles includes the title number, number of volumes, and price, as well as a note to indicate whether something was a donation. It is a reliable reference for the decades that followed, but should be used with caution for earlier periods. Comparison with the 1801 catalog shows that titles were inserted with very low numbers, and it is unclear how the 1808 catalog was organized. Given the way the catalog was divided, there is no clear method by which accretions could have been added to the working catalog other than accession order, whereas the 1815 catalog required them to be categorized. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nIt is therefore logical to assume that numbers added in between catalog issuances were later changed, and that the 1815 catalog is probably not valid for the preceding period. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe full title of the catalog included the phrase \"to which are prefixed, the Act of Incorporation; the Laws of the Company, and the Names of the Members,\" but our copy contains only pages 11-46 and does not contain front matter. It is unclear whether the first ten pages were removed, or John A. Stewart's edition was simply printed without them. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis printed catalog supplement extends the 1815 catalog from #1,027 to #1,728 updating it to August 1830. It was likely published around that time by William Greer, printer, and matches the titles. It matches the numbers of a listing of books dated 1828 in one of the circulation books suggesting that no rearrangement of newer books occurred prior to publication. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe supplement has most of the same information as the 1815, offering the number, title, volume, and value of each title, but lacks its classification system by size and subject. Despite a short cross-listing of periodical works, it has neither the subject classification nor even alphabetization to make it a ready reference. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis catalog contains a relisting of the contents of the 1815 catalog and supplement sorted by the first letter of the alphabet with pamphlets listed separately as well as books added between April 1833 and the suspension of library operations after 1848 listed by subject. Although its initial form was compiled by George Drinker some time earlier, it does not appear to gone into effect until sometime after 1834 where there is a gap in circulation records. Because the numbering up to 1,725 remained the same, earlier print catalogs can also be employed for those number for the period from 1815-1848 even though this catalog alone can be used for the numbers 1,726-1,793 during that period.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nAdditions beyond 1,793 are only usable for the period 1841-1848, because they were relisted here under a combined subject/numbering system after being originally cataloged differently up to around 1,825. The later rearrangement left no record of how those 30 or so numbers should be understood during the period before 1834.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThese later additions occupy the latter sections which include materials published from the late-1830s and early 1840s. Other indications of the ongoing nature of the listings include the blank entry for #351 at the end of Novels and Romances and the blank page with the heading \"Biography\" following the rest of that section.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe third, and final section, is the \"List of Books from the Reading Room.\" These are dated 1840-1841, and consist almost entirely of new additions to the periodicals with a few exceptions, chiefly among the first few entries. This suggests that the page may not have been used for its original purpose.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe title/subject organization of the latter part of the catalog is helpful in understanding acquisition priorities during the late-1830s and the Lyceum period of the 1840s.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe inside cover contains a calendar for 1833 going through February 1834, with the Thursdays closest to the middle of each month marked (none are the dates of official meetings). There is also a 29 March 1830 inscription by Drinker, Treasurer, authorizing James Dunlap in financial matters while he is librarian, which may predate the decision to use the book as a catalog. Drinker may have done the first 1,725 entries at that time in preparation for the publication of the 1815 supplement.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs noted in its introduction, the 300 copies of the 1856 catalog were created not as \"a model catalog but such a one as would be practically useful to the readers of the library.\" It serves as a guide to the collection as contemporary subscribers would have known it, covering the first 4,473 volume numbers for this period. For looking up numbers from the circulation records, it is easier to use the searchable catalog of surviving books or the online version. For later acquisitions, one may use the manuscript catalog that was in use internally from 1858-1860 which is arranged by number.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nIn addition to the aforementioned note on the catalog's creation, the catalog also includes a historical note on the early history of the library and a copy of the 1799 act of incorporation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis catalog was implemented sometime in the fall of 1858 as an \"amendment\" to the catalog of 1856 and was likely expanded on an ongoing basis up to the Civil War. Since the 1856 catalog was presumably still in use by subscribers, the two contain largely the same information apart from three key differences. Firstly, the 1858 added accretions to the book collection, extending the book numbers from 4,473 to 5,063. The second difference is that it lists the books by number, to assist the librarians in managing the books, rather than by author and title, which in the 1856 catalog assisted subscribers in finding them. Lastly, it should be noted that titles in both catalogs are abbreviated in different ways.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nDespite the overlap and differences of organization, a person looking up a number in the circulation records between February 1857 and 17 September 1859 may still find it easier to consult a searchable online version of the catalog and reserve use of the 1858 for its last 600 numbers. Starting on 27 September 1859, titles began to appear in the circulation records alongside the numbers, making either catalog usable for numbers below 4,474, although due to unpredictable title abbreviations numerical catalogs remained more reliable.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe catalog was signed by a number of librarians of the company inside the front and back covers, sometimes more than once. This includes a listing made in 1871 which is notable for the presence of names not associated with the title \"librarian\" by the minutes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe initial form of this catalog was compiled by Doctor Theo West and put into use on 10 July 1874, although there may have been additions by the time it was copied by the directors of the library company into its current form. It was intended for publication, but was later advertised as merely being available at the librarian's desk. It was therefore organized with the aim of finding books by title, like a printed catalog, rather than by number like the manuscript catalogs from before the Civil War. It remained in use until the company shut down after 1880.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe book contains a detailed history of the library company including the text of the 1799 act of incorporation written by \"John Stewart, Keeper of the Rolls.\" It is also the only extant catalog with a book plate, albeit one with the shelf location and classification numbers left blank.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe listing of books is missing the letters O and P at a point where the binding is broken, either because they were removed from this edition or never added in. Title information includes the title and number of each book as well as a \"case\" number (presumably for shelving) and occasional volume and date information. Space is left in many places for additional titles to be added, although in some cases this was handled by inserted slips of paper. For details on the organization of the title list see the arrangement note.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis listing of \"R\" titles is largely the same as that copied by the directors for the 1876 catalog, but appears to be in a different hand (most noticeably the number 8). The listing for \"S\" appears to be the same hand as \"R.\" Also included are two pieces of paper with additional titles, and notes in blue asking that additional space be left for new titles to be added. That feature of the main 1876 catalog is absent here and may be the reason it was not included in a complete volume.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe 1898 catalog provides the earliest record of the library's collection after its reestablishment by the Alexandria Library Association, including numbers of volumes and publications dates for each title. The subject classification allows a simple method of gauging the balance of the collection between different areas, particularly in comparison with the publications of 1906 and 1912. Handwritten notes seem to indicate additions and shelf locations, although the date and provenance of those notes is unclear.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA complete update to the 1898 catalog, the 1906 retained the same basic classification system apart from the addition of 3 new sub-classes. It also includes a chart of subscription prices for the library at the front giving lengths of time and numbers of books and a large number of advertisements from local businesses.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nFor the new subclasses see arrangement note.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe 1912 supplement to the catalog includes additions to the library collection since 1906 as well as a listing of old magazines, which were not mentioned in the 1906 catalog. Most classification numbers were therefore unneeded. The bulk of the entries appear to be fiction and old magazines.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis typescript contains a listing of \"old magazines\" by title and volume that were in the collection in 1933. It also includes some notes on their condition, such as whether they were bound and missing covers, pages, and volumes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe circulation records consist of bound volumes containing lists of books checked out. They typically list the name of the subscriber, the date, and some method of identifying the work along with various other details. For much of its history, the old library company identified books only by number, although titles and combinations of numbers and titles began appearing around 1845, with titles becoming commonplace after 1858.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe catalogs can be used reliably for only some of the numerical listings due to additions following the publication of rapidly outdated catalogs and changes in numbering that preceded new ones. They are relevant to some of the numbers for 1801-1807, 1815-1848, 1856-1862, and 1874-1879 (see catalog series notes and below). Because of possible renumbering, the 1801 catalog cannot be relied upon for records prior to its implementation nor after the point in 1807-1808 when its successor went into effect. Since there is no way to know if the 1815 catalog was an extension of the 1808 or if it was the first to change the numbering from the 1801, it likewise cannot be trusted prior to its implementation.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe 1815 and its supplement were used for a longer period and the 1834-1848 catalog used it as a base, despite altering its system of arrangement for later materials and leaving about 30 numbers unclear due to renumbering. The 1856 printed and 1858-1860 working catalogs cover much of the same material and are usable into the Civil War. Notably, the 1856 is available online in a searchable format. It was arranged to be browsed, while the working catalog is arranged by number only. The 1876 copy of the catalog implemented in July 1874 is missing the letters O-P, but is otherwise usable for the last few years of circulation records.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nEven when numbers cannot be identified, useful information can be inferred from changes in the numbering system and preferences for numbers from particular periods, such as for new acquisitions. One can also use the records to quantify the level of patronage as a whole in various periods. There are no circulation records at the book level from the Alexandria Library Association (1897-1937) and later, although summary reports of circulation became common during the modern period and were often noted in minutes and annual reports.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThere are significant gaps in the circulation records, which nominally cover the period from November 1794 to January 1880. These come in several different types. Some of them appear to indicate missing volumes, including July 1795-June 1801, May 1811-February 1814, January 1835-Feburary 1841, September 1848-October 1858, and 1868-1870, but there are also gaps of a few months between volumes in 1805, 1824, 1846, 1871, and 1874. Additionally, there is a month of pages missing from the middle of 1831, and two pages are missing after October 1862, even though returns were noted as late December, before resuming in April 1868 (on the Civil War see the historical note for this series).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nTitle numbers began at around 200, gradually rising to over 5,000 before the Civil War. After the war, numbers ran below 1,000 for the most part, before changing to numbers over 5,000 again on 4 December 1873 (p.279) and then dropping to lower numbers on 10 July 1874 (p.69), with some titles in the 5000s being renumbered to the 3000s.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nMany of volumes contain lists of books in their front or back matter, usually including both titles and numbers. This is one of the only sources for matching that information for some periods of the library's history and includes the only reference to the 1808 catalog outside the minutes. They include lists of missing books (the 1822-1824 volume), books sent to be bound (1824-1828 and 1828-1831) and of the Waverly Novels (1822-1824).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nChanges in the hand recording the information signal personnel changes, and many of the volumes were inscribed with the names of librarians or members of the company, occasionally accompanied by other kinds of scribbling as in 1814-1816, 1831-1834, and especially 1858-1868. There is also some doodling, which appears inside the covers in a modest way in the 1814-1816 volume and far more extensively in the 1841-1848 and 1858-1868 ones. The 1841-1848 also contains doodles among the actual circulation records.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nFor the columns and specific information that varied over time see the arrangement note for this series.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Content Description","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection consists of circulation, subscription, and financial ledgers, annual lecture series documents, catalogues, correspondence, and various organizational documents. Topics include: foundation of the\nAlexandria 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.","The organizational records series contains those records directly concerned with the library company and its predecessors as organizations. It covers charters, by-laws, contracts, the legal definition of the company, and its history. Charters and by-laws between 1794 and 1944 are generally documented in the minutes and or reprinted in catalogs or the Alexandria Gazette.","The general correspondence series covers a long period of the history of the Library Company and its successors, with the bulk from the modern Library Company after 1954, when more documentation was being produced and captured in a systematic way.","\nFrom the earlier period, one folder covers the old Library Company, including an account of the Civil War and two folders cover the period of the Alexandria Library Association consisting primarily of correspondence with Andrew Carnegie about his financial support. The material from the Alexandria Library Society chiefly consists of copies of minutes. \nFor library related inquiries after 1937 see the extensive public library correspondence in Ms 98.","\nThe post-1954 correspondence includes lecture arrangements, nomination and member correspondence, announcements, and all manner of memoranda and external correspondence.","The financial reports series includes monthly financial reports from the Alexandria Library Association prior the establishment of the public library and annual reports of the Library Company after 1953 along with a limited amount of additional correspondence on related issues.","\nThere is also a file of annual reports which the Library Company was required to make to the state as a corporation.","\nFor records relating to the Alexandria Library Company's efforts to become tax-exempt in the 1980s, see the Organizational Records series.","The meetings series consists chiefly of bound and unbound minutes from the Alexandria Library Company and its successors.","\nThe bound minutes cover the early Library Company from 1794 to its last meeting in 1879, the Alexandria Library Association and Library Society from 1897 through its loss of control of the library in the late 1947, and the Society and modern Library Company from 1948 to 1993.","\nAfter 1937, there are two minute books, one for the \"executive board,\" which ran the library, and the other for the Library Society and later Library Company which appointed some of its members. The 1938-1947 executive board minutes are included in the microfilm copy of the older bound volumes, but the original is located in Ms 98.","\nBylaws, agreements, financial, and membership information often appear in the records, as do records of elections. In some periods, annual reports are pasted into the minute books, which like a lot of library business, was printed in the Gazette.","\nThe unbound meeting records cover the modern period of the Library Company and contain minutes, announcements of meetings, and notes, although for the earlier periods the minutes are merely photocopies of the bound volumes as indicated by page numbers.","The members series contains records relating to the selection, participation, and retention of members of the Library Company, with a focus on the modern period from the 1950s onward. It includes records of the nominating committee, correspondence with and about current or prospective members, and lists of members and guests attending the annual lectures. One of these lists is also available on a 3½ inch disk.","The subscription series consists of bound volumes of records documenting the subscribers of the company while doubling as ledgers for many of the financial transactions of the pre-Lyceum period (1794-1839), with gaps between volumes. Apart from the minutes, the volumes contain the only information on the subscribers of the late 1790s, for which there is a gap in the circulation records.","\nThere are also additional financial records from 1826-1839 and a list of subscribers, paid and not, from 1854. These appear in the same volume (see historical note), along with the circulation records for 1846-1848 in between.","\nThe stubs of printed subscription certificates from 1874-1879 are also included in this series. Each contains an identifying number, the name of a subscriber, and a dollar amount, accompanied in some cases by dates or other notations. A few of the completed patron slips are also in this volume, including dates and the signature of the treasurer.","This series contains information on the annual lecture series, with the bulk covering the period after its revival in 1957. The files for the early years include much of the correspondence arranging for the lectures and information on the lecturers as well as in some cases printed copies of the prepared text. For later years the files consist largely of lecture announcements, programs, and attendance lists. ","\nAudio or video recordings were made of most lectures, but are not currently available. Correspondence relating to the recordings can be found in the relevant subseries. ","\nCorrespondence is also available regarding the production of the printed programs and the selection of speakers during the 1970s along with an undated seat plan. ","\nInformation on attendance and the financial aspects of the lectures can be found in other series. ","\nPrint transcriptions for certain lectures are available in the reading room.","The collection's miscellany includes annual reports of the library, a survey of the old library company books, seals, stationary, and printed matter including poems, fundraising pamphlets, and literature about the library from the League of Women Voters.","The news clippings series consists chiefly of articles about the annual lectures or which report on the annual meetings and the election of officers and members.","The catalogs provide listings of books showing what was available at the library during different time periods and identifying books for some parts of the circulation records. Catalogs also frequently included information on other topics, including the rules of the library, founding documents, library histories, and the value of the books. ","\nTitles were often abbreviated, especially in the working catalogs, and dates of publication were often lacking. This can make identifying a work from the catalog difficult even when copies of it are extant elsewhere. ","\nCatalogs can be used reliably for most of the numerical listings in the circulation records for roughly 1801-1807, 1815-1848, 1856-1862, and 1874-1879. The 1815 catalog was not only bigger than the 1801, but had been renumbered. Because of this practice, the 1801 catalog cannot be relied upon for records prior to its implementation nor after the point in 1807-1808 when its successor went into effect. Since there is no way to know if the 1815 catalog was an extension of the 1808, it likewise cannot be trusted prior to implementation. The 1815 and its supplement were used for a longer period and the 1830-1848 used it as a base, although it altered its system of arrangement leaving around 30 or so numbers undefined for part of the 1830s. The 1856 printed and 1858-1860 working catalogs cover much of the same material and are usable for records into the Civil War. The 1856 is available online in a searchable format and organized to be browsed, while the working catalog is arranged by number. The 1876 copy of the catalog implemented in July 1874 is missing the letters O-P, but is otherwise usable for the last few years of circulation records. ","\nSee specific catalog notes for details. ","The 1801 catalog corresponds to the title numbers 1-452 in the circulations records from around 1802-1808 and offers the number of volumes and value for each. It is hard to be precise since the dates on which it came into and fell out of use at the library are unknown. The fact that books were removed as well as added at the time of its adoption and its organization suggest that it may not be reliable for the 1794-1796 circulation records, and possibly not even for books circulating earlier in 1801 which were likely identified by an earlier catalog. ","\nIn addition to a listing of books, the catalog includes the revised act of incorporation dated September 1799, the laws of the company passed on 2 November 1801 and an alphabetical membership list. \nAt the back is a list of book donations from largest to smallest, including the name of the donor, the total number of volumes donated, and a list of title numbers, along with an index to the catalog and some errata. ","\nIt was printed by Cottom and Stewart in Alexandria and sold for fifty cents a copy. ","This catalog of 1,027 titles includes the title number, number of volumes, and price, as well as a note to indicate whether something was a donation. It is a reliable reference for the decades that followed, but should be used with caution for earlier periods. Comparison with the 1801 catalog shows that titles were inserted with very low numbers, and it is unclear how the 1808 catalog was organized. Given the way the catalog was divided, there is no clear method by which accretions could have been added to the working catalog other than accession order, whereas the 1815 catalog required them to be categorized. ","\nIt is therefore logical to assume that numbers added in between catalog issuances were later changed, and that the 1815 catalog is probably not valid for the preceding period. ","\nThe full title of the catalog included the phrase \"to which are prefixed, the Act of Incorporation; the Laws of the Company, and the Names of the Members,\" but our copy contains only pages 11-46 and does not contain front matter. It is unclear whether the first ten pages were removed, or John A. Stewart's edition was simply printed without them. ","This printed catalog supplement extends the 1815 catalog from #1,027 to #1,728 updating it to August 1830. It was likely published around that time by William Greer, printer, and matches the titles. It matches the numbers of a listing of books dated 1828 in one of the circulation books suggesting that no rearrangement of newer books occurred prior to publication. ","\nThe supplement has most of the same information as the 1815, offering the number, title, volume, and value of each title, but lacks its classification system by size and subject. Despite a short cross-listing of periodical works, it has neither the subject classification nor even alphabetization to make it a ready reference. ","This catalog contains a relisting of the contents of the 1815 catalog and supplement sorted by the first letter of the alphabet with pamphlets listed separately as well as books added between April 1833 and the suspension of library operations after 1848 listed by subject. Although its initial form was compiled by George Drinker some time earlier, it does not appear to gone into effect until sometime after 1834 where there is a gap in circulation records. Because the numbering up to 1,725 remained the same, earlier print catalogs can also be employed for those number for the period from 1815-1848 even though this catalog alone can be used for the numbers 1,726-1,793 during that period.","\nAdditions beyond 1,793 are only usable for the period 1841-1848, because they were relisted here under a combined subject/numbering system after being originally cataloged differently up to around 1,825. The later rearrangement left no record of how those 30 or so numbers should be understood during the period before 1834.","\nThese later additions occupy the latter sections which include materials published from the late-1830s and early 1840s. Other indications of the ongoing nature of the listings include the blank entry for #351 at the end of Novels and Romances and the blank page with the heading \"Biography\" following the rest of that section.","\nThe third, and final section, is the \"List of Books from the Reading Room.\" These are dated 1840-1841, and consist almost entirely of new additions to the periodicals with a few exceptions, chiefly among the first few entries. This suggests that the page may not have been used for its original purpose.","\nThe title/subject organization of the latter part of the catalog is helpful in understanding acquisition priorities during the late-1830s and the Lyceum period of the 1840s.","\nThe inside cover contains a calendar for 1833 going through February 1834, with the Thursdays closest to the middle of each month marked (none are the dates of official meetings). There is also a 29 March 1830 inscription by Drinker, Treasurer, authorizing James Dunlap in financial matters while he is librarian, which may predate the decision to use the book as a catalog. Drinker may have done the first 1,725 entries at that time in preparation for the publication of the 1815 supplement.","As noted in its introduction, the 300 copies of the 1856 catalog were created not as \"a model catalog but such a one as would be practically useful to the readers of the library.\" It serves as a guide to the collection as contemporary subscribers would have known it, covering the first 4,473 volume numbers for this period. For looking up numbers from the circulation records, it is easier to use the searchable catalog of surviving books or the online version. For later acquisitions, one may use the manuscript catalog that was in use internally from 1858-1860 which is arranged by number.","\nIn addition to the aforementioned note on the catalog's creation, the catalog also includes a historical note on the early history of the library and a copy of the 1799 act of incorporation.","This catalog was implemented sometime in the fall of 1858 as an \"amendment\" to the catalog of 1856 and was likely expanded on an ongoing basis up to the Civil War. Since the 1856 catalog was presumably still in use by subscribers, the two contain largely the same information apart from three key differences. Firstly, the 1858 added accretions to the book collection, extending the book numbers from 4,473 to 5,063. The second difference is that it lists the books by number, to assist the librarians in managing the books, rather than by author and title, which in the 1856 catalog assisted subscribers in finding them. Lastly, it should be noted that titles in both catalogs are abbreviated in different ways.","\nDespite the overlap and differences of organization, a person looking up a number in the circulation records between February 1857 and 17 September 1859 may still find it easier to consult a searchable online version of the catalog and reserve use of the 1858 for its last 600 numbers. Starting on 27 September 1859, titles began to appear in the circulation records alongside the numbers, making either catalog usable for numbers below 4,474, although due to unpredictable title abbreviations numerical catalogs remained more reliable.","\nThe catalog was signed by a number of librarians of the company inside the front and back covers, sometimes more than once. This includes a listing made in 1871 which is notable for the presence of names not associated with the title \"librarian\" by the minutes.","The initial form of this catalog was compiled by Doctor Theo West and put into use on 10 July 1874, although there may have been additions by the time it was copied by the directors of the library company into its current form. It was intended for publication, but was later advertised as merely being available at the librarian's desk. It was therefore organized with the aim of finding books by title, like a printed catalog, rather than by number like the manuscript catalogs from before the Civil War. It remained in use until the company shut down after 1880.","\nThe book contains a detailed history of the library company including the text of the 1799 act of incorporation written by \"John Stewart, Keeper of the Rolls.\" It is also the only extant catalog with a book plate, albeit one with the shelf location and classification numbers left blank.","\nThe listing of books is missing the letters O and P at a point where the binding is broken, either because they were removed from this edition or never added in. Title information includes the title and number of each book as well as a \"case\" number (presumably for shelving) and occasional volume and date information. Space is left in many places for additional titles to be added, although in some cases this was handled by inserted slips of paper. For details on the organization of the title list see the arrangement note.","This listing of \"R\" titles is largely the same as that copied by the directors for the 1876 catalog, but appears to be in a different hand (most noticeably the number 8). The listing for \"S\" appears to be the same hand as \"R.\" Also included are two pieces of paper with additional titles, and notes in blue asking that additional space be left for new titles to be added. That feature of the main 1876 catalog is absent here and may be the reason it was not included in a complete volume.","The 1898 catalog provides the earliest record of the library's collection after its reestablishment by the Alexandria Library Association, including numbers of volumes and publications dates for each title. The subject classification allows a simple method of gauging the balance of the collection between different areas, particularly in comparison with the publications of 1906 and 1912. Handwritten notes seem to indicate additions and shelf locations, although the date and provenance of those notes is unclear.","A complete update to the 1898 catalog, the 1906 retained the same basic classification system apart from the addition of 3 new sub-classes. It also includes a chart of subscription prices for the library at the front giving lengths of time and numbers of books and a large number of advertisements from local businesses.","\nFor the new subclasses see arrangement note.","The 1912 supplement to the catalog includes additions to the library collection since 1906 as well as a listing of old magazines, which were not mentioned in the 1906 catalog. Most classification numbers were therefore unneeded. The bulk of the entries appear to be fiction and old magazines.","This typescript contains a listing of \"old magazines\" by title and volume that were in the collection in 1933. It also includes some notes on their condition, such as whether they were bound and missing covers, pages, and volumes.","The circulation records consist of bound volumes containing lists of books checked out. They typically list the name of the subscriber, the date, and some method of identifying the work along with various other details. For much of its history, the old library company identified books only by number, although titles and combinations of numbers and titles began appearing around 1845, with titles becoming commonplace after 1858.","\nThe catalogs can be used reliably for only some of the numerical listings due to additions following the publication of rapidly outdated catalogs and changes in numbering that preceded new ones. They are relevant to some of the numbers for 1801-1807, 1815-1848, 1856-1862, and 1874-1879 (see catalog series notes and below). Because of possible renumbering, the 1801 catalog cannot be relied upon for records prior to its implementation nor after the point in 1807-1808 when its successor went into effect. Since there is no way to know if the 1815 catalog was an extension of the 1808 or if it was the first to change the numbering from the 1801, it likewise cannot be trusted prior to its implementation.","\nThe 1815 and its supplement were used for a longer period and the 1834-1848 catalog used it as a base, despite altering its system of arrangement for later materials and leaving about 30 numbers unclear due to renumbering. The 1856 printed and 1858-1860 working catalogs cover much of the same material and are usable into the Civil War. Notably, the 1856 is available online in a searchable format. It was arranged to be browsed, while the working catalog is arranged by number only. The 1876 copy of the catalog implemented in July 1874 is missing the letters O-P, but is otherwise usable for the last few years of circulation records.","\nEven when numbers cannot be identified, useful information can be inferred from changes in the numbering system and preferences for numbers from particular periods, such as for new acquisitions. One can also use the records to quantify the level of patronage as a whole in various periods. There are no circulation records at the book level from the Alexandria Library Association (1897-1937) and later, although summary reports of circulation became common during the modern period and were often noted in minutes and annual reports.","\nThere are significant gaps in the circulation records, which nominally cover the period from November 1794 to January 1880. These come in several different types. Some of them appear to indicate missing volumes, including July 1795-June 1801, May 1811-February 1814, January 1835-Feburary 1841, September 1848-October 1858, and 1868-1870, but there are also gaps of a few months between volumes in 1805, 1824, 1846, 1871, and 1874. Additionally, there is a month of pages missing from the middle of 1831, and two pages are missing after October 1862, even though returns were noted as late December, before resuming in April 1868 (on the Civil War see the historical note for this series).","\nTitle numbers began at around 200, gradually rising to over 5,000 before the Civil War. After the war, numbers ran below 1,000 for the most part, before changing to numbers over 5,000 again on 4 December 1873 (p.279) and then dropping to lower numbers on 10 July 1874 (p.69), with some titles in the 5000s being renumbered to the 3000s.","\nMany of volumes contain lists of books in their front or back matter, usually including both titles and numbers. This is one of the only sources for matching that information for some periods of the library's history and includes the only reference to the 1808 catalog outside the minutes. They include lists of missing books (the 1822-1824 volume), books sent to be bound (1824-1828 and 1828-1831) and of the Waverly Novels (1822-1824).","\nChanges in the hand recording the information signal personnel changes, and many of the volumes were inscribed with the names of librarians or members of the company, occasionally accompanied by other kinds of scribbling as in 1814-1816, 1831-1834, and especially 1858-1868. There is also some doodling, which appears inside the covers in a modest way in the 1814-1816 volume and far more extensively in the 1841-1848 and 1858-1868 ones. The 1841-1848 also contains doodles among the actual circulation records.","\nFor the columns and specific information that varied over time see the arrangement note for this series."],"names_coll_ssim":["Alexandria Library (Alexandria, Va.)"],"names_ssim":["Local History and Special Collections Branch, Alexandria Library","Alexandria Library Company","Alexandria Library Association (1897-1937)","Alexandria Library Society (1937-1953)","Alexandria Library (Alexandria, Va.)"],"corpname_ssim":["Local History and Special Collections Branch, Alexandria Library","Alexandria Library Company","Alexandria Library Association (1897-1937)","Alexandria Library Society (1937-1953)","Alexandria Library (Alexandria, Va.)"],"language_ssim":["English"],"descrules_ssm":["Describing Archives: A Content Standard"],"total_component_count_is":147,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T03:58:50.090Z","bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eIn the 1780s, a discussion group of Alexandria gentlemen called \"The Society for the Promotion of Useful Knowledge\" was formed. In 1794, many of these same individuals gathered to form the nucleus of the Alexandria Library Company (ALC). The ALC was a subscription library modelled after the Philadelphia Library Company, which had also emerged from such a club. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSociety president Reverend John Muir became president of the ALC, a position he would hold for almost 20 years. Many of the library's founders are known to have been members of local Masonic lodges. Elisha Cullen Dick, who had succeeded George Washington as the leader of Lodge 22, was among the first directors of the ALC as well as the secretary of the earlier Society. The first Librarian was Edward Stabler, the proprietor of an apothecary shop. In 1796, Stabler was replaced by James Kennedy, who served as librarian until 1818. Overlaps and family links between the leadership of the library and other Alexandria institutions remained common over the next century and a half. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFor a time, the Alexandria Lyceum (founded in 1838) and the ALC shared a physical space as well as similar missions. The Alexandria Lyceum was founded as part of a national movement focused on educational lectures. The union between the two organizations was dissolved in 1844, but the library continued to rent space from the Lyceum. The library was later said to have been in a state of \"suspended animation\" from around 1846 to 1852. In 1852, a \"Young Men's\" group took over under the original charter, publishing a new catalog in 1856. The library continued to operate into the Civil War. It remained in the Lyceum but not without acrimony, which is evident in the Alexandria Gazette in 1860. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn October 1867, an agreement was reached with what was variously referred to as the Alexandria Christian Association and the YMCA for assistance with running the library. The library separated from this organization during the early 1870s. By the second half of the 1870s, the library fell into a decline which the directors blamed on the lack of a published catalog. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe first library catalog had been prepared by Kennedy in 1796 and published sometime thereafter. The earliest catalog of which there is an extant copy was published in 1801, followed by another in 1808 of which there are few traces. A more enduring catalog was created in 1815. The 1830s saw publication of a supplement to the 1815 catalog and the creation of a working catalog that would be used into the late 1840s. Normal circulation records end in April 1861 when the library was converted into a military hospital. There are stray entries in May and December before operations resumed on a limited basis in May 1862 and continued at least through that year. Over a thousand volumes were lost during the war. Due to the decline in usage in the 1870s, a new catalog was produced by librarian Emma J. Young in 1872 but never published. After two years with Young's catalog, another was commissioned from Dr. Theo West, which also went unpublished. As a stopgap, handwritten copies were used by patrons. In 1898, a new catalog was created which utilized a decimal system for the first time. The last published catalog was a supplement to the 1912 version. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn the late 1870s, appeals were made to the men of Alexandria for support,. The directors met with another \"Young Men's Library Association\" in 1878 without success, records of operations stop after January 1880.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Gazette reported in January 1881 that the books were now in the custody of the school board, whose membership included William F. Carne, a former library company director and the son of one its former presidents. In May 1887 it reported that Carne, as leader of the board's library committee, was inviting associations wishing to participate in re-opening the library to a meeting at the Peabody school building where the books were held, and explained that he had always intended a reading room to be opened to the public once space was freed up for that purpose.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn June 1887, the Gazette reported that the \"Reading Circle of Washington and Lee Schools\" organized by teachers two years prior and the YMCA would operate the free library during the summer, in the hope that in September \"an effort will be made, with a very fair prospect of success, to re-organize the Library Company.\" Gazette reports in 1890 and 1891 refer to continued efforts by Carne and others to \"re-open\" the library, and in 1892 being part of a \"committee on the project for a free public library,\" but they did not succeed.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn the decades after 1870s librarianship not only professionalized but underwent a rapid gender shift, and apart from the periods in which there was no librarian for financial reasons, no male librarians seem to have been employed until well into the 20th century. Women's library organizations had become common nationally, and along with the philanthropy of Andrew Carnegie played a major role in the growth of public libraries in America starting in the late 19th century.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn September 1897, the Alexandria Library Association led by Virginia Corse received custody of the books then in possession of the school board. With a modest donation from Carnegie, by 1898 the library was back in business, but as a subscription library, it would not become a free public library for almost 40 years. The new library needed a new librarian, and after one or two initial hires, the association found Alice Green (1865-1956), who would serve from 1902-1937 and in a lesser capacity into the mid-1940s. During this period, space for the library was rented from the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Depression brought financial hardship. As the crisis worsened in early 1931, the association had obtained $1,000 from the city council to form \"a nucleus for the establishment of a public library.\" Discussion of becoming a public library had been common since the 1920s, as the efforts of Carnegie and others had made them the norm nationally. Attempts were made to sell older books and hold fundraisers as subscription fees dried up. There was also a dispute with the UDC over a rent increase in 1933. The library was aided by the wealth of its members, including a $5,000 bequest in 1935 from its long-time treasurer, Margaret L. Smoot.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMembers built political support both on the council and among the public in the mid-1930s and in 1937 it was agreed that a building would be constructed on the site of the old cemetery of the Society of Friends and that the city government would cover annual expenses of no more than $5,000 for the association to operate a free library. One member of the board would be appointed by the city. The new governing organization was rebranded the Alexandria Library Society.  Agreements were signed in January, and the library opened at the Kate Waller Barrett Branch's current location, 717 Queen Street.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAnother change after 1937 was the gender composition of the leadership. Men served on the board of the new Society and played prominent roles after 1937. After 1948 they typically occupied the presidency of the organization. Most elections were unanimous, often with women casting most of the votes, but it ceased to be a women's organization. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1945 a technicality in the Society's contract with the city was brought to the attention of the board. Namely that the $5,000 the city was obligated to provide each year was not the minimum but rather the maximum contribution, and that the higher appropriations it had been making were illegal. The city took this as an opportunity to demand a contract change beyond the funding formula. Although the men of the city council had representation on the board, the women of the Society were still ultimately running the library, and the Society was asked to allow a majority of the executive board to be appointed by the city, and a minority by the Society. That the city legally \"owned the building and all its contents\" so long as it paid $5,000 per year was also pointed out. The Alexandria Library Society signed the new contract, surrendering control of the library in November 1947. In its reduced role, the Society still elected members to the board and received reports from the librarian. It also retained independent funds that could be used for the benefit of the library. With the library now fully the city's responsibility, the membership was also able to more openly advocate for additional funding.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAnother longstanding issue at the library was race. The president's 1928 annual report had endorsed becoming a \"free city library,\" but feared that becoming a Carnegie library \"would bring in some elements hitherto unknown and I think undesirable in our Library.\" In the 1930s the library association favored providing segregated facilities, but, after repeated meetings with the city council, failed to achieve even that modest goal. In the 13 March, 1939, minutes, the issue was revisited yet again, but without result. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFour days later on 17 March 1939, Sergeant George Wilson was turned down for a library card because of his race and Samuel Tucker filed a civil rights lawsuit against the librarian on his behalf. Plans for a segregated facility were dusted off, and new staff was hired so that the librarian could focus on the controversy. On 21 August 1939, several black men organized by Tucker entered the library and followed Wilson's example, but after being refused, seated themselves in the library with books, beginning America's first library sit-in. It ended only after the city manager called the police, and all were arrested. The lawsuit was dismissed on technical grounds, but to prevent a new lawsuit the city approved the Robert H. Robinson branch, which opened in 1940. Tucker refused to accept a card there. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eA major issue in the early 1950s was the push to expand the overcrowded main library serving the white community. The white librarian at the time, who had been hired in a junior capacity during Tucker's campaign in 1939, suggested to the Society that the expansion could be an opportunity to integrate. In the midst of the debates over expansion and additional funding, an opportunity emerged to purchase a neighboring building on the corner of North Columbus and Queen, which was later demolished. This prompted a discussion about the Alexandria Library Society's connection to the original library company. It was decided to change the name from the \"Alexandria Library Society\" to the \"Alexandria Library Company,\" make the appropriate filings with the state government, and reinstate the 1799 charter, which would be revised by the legislature in the 1980s to help obtain tax-exempt status from the IRS.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThis name change was completed at one of the company's most consequential meetings in February 1956. Every member was asked to sign their name in the minute book to signal their assent. A letter from a local civil rights activist questioning the legality of library segregation was also read, but deemed the province of the library board, which referred the matter back to the company whose reply is not preserved.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMember Mangum Weeks thereupon raised the question of the future role of the Library Company, and proposed resuming the tradition of annual lectures dating from the Lyceum period using funds from the newly instituted membership dues. This proposal was adopted, and preparing the annual lectures soon became a major focus of the Company. The Library Company continues to appoint members to the board of the Alexandria Library and hold its annual lecture series. It commissioned a new history of the library by William Seale in 2007, which can be found at the Local History and Special Collections Branch.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eChronological listings for both presidents of the board and librarians up to the modern day.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003clist type=\"deflist\"\u003e\n      \u003chead\u003ePresidents of the Library Company and Its Successors\u003c/head\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1794-February 1813\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eRev. James Muir\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1813-February 1815\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eHugh Smith\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1815-March 1824\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eJohn Roberts\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eMarch 1824-February 1829\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eHugh Smith\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1829-February 1835\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eJohn Richards\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1835-February 1840\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eJohn Roberts\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1840-1852\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eElias Harrison\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003e1852-February 1855\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eJ. Louis Kinzer\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1855-September 1858\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eFrancis Miller\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eSeptember 1858- February 1859\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eRichard L. Carne\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1859-September 1859\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eCaleb S. Hallowell\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eSeptember 1859-February 1860\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eWilliam G. Cazenove\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1860-February 1870\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eRichard L. Carne\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1870-February 1873\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eK. Kemper\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1873-October 1873\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eSamuel H. Janney\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eOctober 1873-February 1874\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eSidney C. Neale\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1874-June 1879\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eMercer Slaughter\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eSeptember 1897-October 1905\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eVirginia Corse\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eJuly 1906-June 1925\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eMrs. Samuel. L. Monroe\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eOctober 1925-April 1930\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eLoula Smoot\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eApril 1930-November 1933\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eMrs. Henry B. Soule, [Jessie E. Soule]\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eDecember 1933-December 1934\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eMary Lloyd\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eDecember 1934-December 1936\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eSusan Thomson\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eDecember 1936-November 1937\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eMrs. Louis Scott\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eNovember 1937-November 1944\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eMrs. Curtis Backus\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eNovember 1944-November 1946\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eMrs. [Lawrence] Fawcett, [Mary Fawcett]\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eNovember 1946-November 1947\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eHoward Worth Smith\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eNovember 1947-October 1948\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003e[Miss Anne] Lewis Jones\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eOctober 1948-October 1949\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eMiss Horne\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eOctober 1949-October 1950\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eMr. Stanley King\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eOctober 1950-December 1951\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eMr. [Joseph] Crockett\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eDecember 1951-February 1955\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eMr. Robert Moncure\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1955-February 1957\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eDr. [W. Bruce] Silcox\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1957-February 1959\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eStanley King\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1959-February 1962\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eMangum Weeks\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1962-February 1963\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eRichard Bales\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1963-February 1965\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eDonald King\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1965-February 1967\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eDavid Squires\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1967-February 1969\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eHoward Worth Smith Jr.\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1969-February 1971\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eWilliam Francis Smith\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1971-February 1972\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eJohn T. Ticer\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1972-February 1974\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eDavid M. Abshire\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1974-February 1976\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eMrs. Merill Beede\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1976-February 1978\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eMrs. Douglas Lindsey\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1978-February 1980\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eClarke T. Cooper Jr.\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1980-February 1982\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eWilliam Seale\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1982-February 1983\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eDenys Peter Myers\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1983-February 1985\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eWilliam B. Hurd\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1985-February 1986\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eGeorge J. Stansfield\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1986-February 1987\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eDr. Ernest A. Connally\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1987-February 1989\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eDr. Wilton C. Corkern, Jr.\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1989-March 1991\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eJames M. Lewis\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eMarch 1991-March 1992\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eMrs. Anne Smith Paul\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eMarch 1992-March 1993\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eRichard R. G. Hobson\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eMarch 1993-March 1995\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eDabney Waring\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eMarch 1995-March 1997\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eJames R. Hobson\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eMarch 1997-March 1998\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eRobert C. Reed\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eMarch 1998-March 2000\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eNeil Horstman\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eMarch 2000-March 2002\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eCarroll Johnson\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eMarch 2002-March 2003\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eThomas C. Brown Jr.\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n    \u003c/list\u003e","\u003clist type=\"deflist\"\u003e\n      \u003chead\u003eLibrarians of Alexandria\u003c/head\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1794-February 1796\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eEdward Stabler\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1796-February 1818\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eJames Kennedy\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1818-August 1826\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eWilliam Cranch\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eAugust 1826-October 1829\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eW. Samuel Mark\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eOctober 1829-March 1845\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eGeorge Drinker\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eMarch 1845-September 1845\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eJames M. Eaches\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eSeptember 1845-September 1852\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eC.F. Stuart\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eSeptember 1852-April 1853\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eH. W. P. Junius\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eSeptember 1852-April 1853\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eL.? Hunter\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eNovember 1853\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eOffice Abolished\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1854-October 1855\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eE. M.[Magruder?] Lowe\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eOctober 1855-September 1858\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eNorval E. Foard\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eSeptember 1858-February 1859\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eS. Scott\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1859-September 1859\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eEdward R. Roxbury\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eSeptember 1859-February 1860\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eJames A. Clarridge\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1860-April 1861\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eCharles R. Burgess (acting)\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eApril 1861-Unknown\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eEdwin N. Wise\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eMarch 1868\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eWr. Bushby\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eApril 1870-May 1871\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eAugust Henning\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eJuly 1871-March 1872\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eW. F. Stansbury\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eMarch 1872-August 1873\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eEmma J. Young\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eOctober 1873-March 1876\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eEmily English\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eMarch 1876\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003ePosition Eliminated\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eJune 1879\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eR. Pendleton Bruin (unofficial? acting?)\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eOctober 1900-October 1903\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eF. Olive Lyons\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eOctober 1903-April 1937 (continued part-time, mentioned up to 1946)\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eAlice Green\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eApril 1937-December 1938\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eMiss Beatrice Workman\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eJanuary 1939-January 1941\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eKatherine Scoggin (later Martyn)\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eFebruary 1941-June 1948\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eBessie Watson\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eJuly 1948-June 1969 (hired part-time October 1939, letter of resignation later that month)\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eEllen C. Burke\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n      \u003cdefitem\u003e\n        \u003clabel\u003eJuly 1969-October 1992 (librarian from 1958)\u003c/label\u003e\n        \u003citem\u003eJeanne G. Plitt\u003c/item\u003e\n      \u003c/defitem\u003e\n    \u003c/list\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe initial combination of financial and subscription records likely reflected the company's initial dependence on subscription fees, in contrast to the later subscription library in the city that relied more on donors. This recordkeeping system appears to have been a casualty of the merger with the Lyceum, which became official in early 1840.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nAs the physical volume in use at that time was still mostly blank, it was repeatedly repurposed, first for additional circulation records (until these too lapsed) and later for a \"list of Stockholders and the amount due from each for the year commencing the 13th February 1854,\" which likely relates to the revitalization of the company after its agreement with the Young Men's group. The agreement required the men to find 100 subscribers, and the list was likely prepared for the annual meeting originally scheduled for 20 February (a week after the date on the list), at which it was decided to void the shares of individuals who had not paid.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe 1980 lecture of Dr. William Dudley on \"Captain Gordon and the Raid on Alexandria 1814\" was recorded but was left off the lists of annual lectures printed in later years. It marks the point at which the sequential numbering of annual lectures was stopped. The reason for this is unknown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNo catalog was published under the first librarian, but four were published during the 1796-1818 tenure of his successor.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nOn 29 December 1796 he was directed to prepare a catalog of books \"classed according to their size and arranged in the order of the alphabet, with the number and cost or value of each,\" although a March 1797 entry suggests that it was still not complete four months later. No copy of this catalog has survived, but there would have been between 200 and 400 titles at that time.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe growth of the collection was driven in part by the acceptance of books in place of subscription fees and the purchase of private libraries. In May 1800 a committee was formed to examine its acquisitions for books that were \"useless, superfluous or of immoral tendency,\" which decided in September to postpone acting on them until it was time to print a new catalog. That time came on 2 November 1801 when a committee was appointed to assist the librarian in creating a new catalog.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nOn 1 February 1808 the board decided to print a new catalog at 50 cents a copy because \"many members were without any.\" On 2 May this catalog was reported to be largely complete. Another meeting was planned shortly thereafter so that it could be printed \"without delay.\" That meeting is undocumented, if indeed it took place. No copy of this catalog or any direct record of its publication is currently known. But it must have existed since it was referenced in a later circulation book and the librarian received a bonus for his work on it in March 1809.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nOn 2 May 1814, it was decided to create another new catalog. It would eventually have 1,027 numbers, which circulation records show the library had reached by July 1814. On 14 November 1814, the librarian reported the catalog \"ready for the press.\" He was instructed to obtain 150 copies \"with all convenient dispatch,\" a number raised to 200 the following month. In February 1815, he reported the catalog \"about half-finished\" and presented a copy to the board, which set a price of 50 cents. In March he received compensation for \"his additional trouble in preparing the new catalogue for the press,\" suggesting that the printing had been completed.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe 1815 catalog was later extended by a published supplement that added additional numbers. Unlike other printed works, there is no mention of when the supplement was produced in the minutes. It is, however, clear from circulation records that all its books had circulated by 14 August 1830. According to the minutes, a meeting had been called for 10 May 1830 only to be quickly adjourned \"there appearing no business requiring the attention of the board,\" and quarterly meetings on 2 August and 2 November were adjourned, lacking a quorum. The librarian at the time had replaced his predecessor in October 1829 and been confirmed in the position the following March. It seems plausible that he pushed to update the catalog after becoming librarian but that the question was either not deemed important or could not be addressed due to the lack of quorum but that it was printed in 1830 anyway.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nAt the same time, a working catalog was created for use in the library itself. It is the earliest preserved catalog of this type but was probably not the first. It contains a relisting of the contents of the 1815 catalog and supplement sorted by the first letter of the alphabet with pamphlets listed separately as well as books added between April 1833 and the suspension of library operations after 1848 listed by subject. Although its initial form was compiled some time earlier, it does not appear to have come into use until sometime after 1834 where there is a gap in the circulation records. The first 1,725 entries may have been added at the time of the 1815 supplement with the shift to a new method of arrangement occurring later. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nOn 8 March 1856 a committee of the revived library company was assigned to rearrange and renumber the books for publication. On 29 November 1856, the board voted for 300 copies of the finished catalog to be produced.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nOn 18 June 1858 board president Andrew Jamison resigned. On 4 September Richard L. Carne, the chairmen of the committee on the catalog and president pro-tem submitted \"his amendment to the catalog\" and appointed Sylvester Scott as librarian to constitute a \"committee of revisal.\" A new working catalog is preserved from this period continuing into the Civil War, although it does not appear to have been published.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nFrom the reestablishment of the library in the late 1860s to its failure at the close of the 1870s the lack of a published catalog to advertise the available books was identified as a major issue. The last version of the catalog prior to the Civil War had contained over 5,000 books, of which it was estimated in 1871 that 1,000-1,500 had been lost.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nCirculations records from the early 1870s feature book numbers around 1,000 that do not correspond to any known listing, and numbers were abandoned entirely from May 1871 to January 1872. It was decided on 2 October 1872 to create a new catalog, and the task was assigned to the new librarian, Emma Young. The fact that the numbers of the circulating books changed to include some with numbers over 5,000 after 4 December 1872 indicates that this work was completed, but it was never published and there is no surviving catalog from that period.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe limited use of the catalog is evident from the prevalence of high numbered works among those in circulation. The highest numbers indicated recent acquisitions, which often received announcements in the Alexandria Gazette.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nAt the 20 February 1874 meeting, it was noted that \"the last catalogue was published some years previous to the war and had become, by reasons of subsequent losses and additions, very incomplete\" and the board decided to appoint Dr. Theo West \"to catalogue and arrange the books.\" They planned to print the catalog in time for the 1875 annual meeting, but printing was postponed indefinitely. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe new catalog went into effect on 10 July 1874 as seen in the shift in circulation records from a system with numbers up to around 5,800 to a new catalog going to 4,314, but again they were unable to publish it.  Seven months later at the 19 February 1875 meeting, it was decided to arrange a printing \"as soon as possible,\" but this did not occur either.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nOn 10 March 1876 the board decided upon a different plan. The catalog was to be divided among the directors so that copies might be made \"for the librarian's desk.\" The published account of the 21 February 1877 annual meeting noted that \"many persons have given as a reason for not becoming subscribers the inaccessibility of the old library which was not catalogued. This plea no longer holds.\" Doctor West's catalog \"copied by members of the Board without expense, bound in good style, can now always be found on the Librarian's desk.\" Operations ceased and the books went into storage a few years later.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nAt the 8 January 1898 meeting of the newly formed Alexandria Library Association, it was moved that the \"the catalogue be printed at once\" with the addition of blank pages between the leaves for advertisements from city merchants.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThis catalog was the first to use a version of the Dewey Decimal System, which had become popular since its first publication in 1888, reaching its 5th edition in 1894. This was the first modern classification system in the history of the Alexandria Library.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nSubsequent to the publication of the 1898 catalog in January of that year, there are several mentions of publishing \"supplements\" such as on 11 April 1899 and 11 July 1899 which may refer to the practice of publishing notices with the titles of new additions in the Alexandria Gazette, such as those of 6 July and 13 July 1899.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nOn 1 January 1902 there was a push for a \"supplementary catalogue (being a catalogue of books up to date) be printed\" and the president appointed a committee for that purpose. It was postponed pending the catalog's completion. On 9 October 1906 the board voted to accept an offer from a Mr. White to print 1000 copies in return for advertising space. According to the 8 January 1907 minutes, the library was given half the copies of the 1906 catalog for free, of which it sold 200 and gave 300 away.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe 12 April 1910 minutes mention a decision to \"again postpone the publication a supplementary catalogue.\" On 23 January 1912 it was again put off until the 9 April meeting, where it was decided for a new catalog to be printed and priced at five cents a copy and \"to have the names of the old magazines put into the new catalogue but not into the card catalogue.\" On 12 June 1912 it was reported that \"the catalogue was in the hands of the printer and that Mrs. Monroe was reading the proof\" and the \"new catalog\" was deemed \"ready for distribution\" on 8 October 1912.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe annual report at that same meeting noted that \"the year has also seen the completion of the labelling, classifying, and cataloguing of all the old and valuable magazines which the Board has for so long a time desired to put into shape for distribution,\" which a review of the supplement suggests meant works in good condition available for circulation.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nOn 11 April 1933 Mrs. Newell \"volunteered to catalogue old magazines in order that their value may be ascertained.\"  On 9 May 1933 she presented a \"typewritten list\" of \"old magazines\" for appraisal as part of their depression era fundraising efforts. On 10 October she reported them to be of \"no value\" and suggested having them sent to the Salvation Army for use as old paper. On 8 January 1934 the board approved this proposal for those magazines of \"no value,\" which do not appear to have included many titles listed in this catalog.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nNo explicit reason for the abandonment of published catalogs after 1912 was given, but the allusion to card catalogs suggests that it was a final step in the transition from numerical catalogs, which favored bound volumes by allowing new titles to be added to the end of the sequence, to the Dewey Decimal System, which required new titles to be inserted in the correct place in the existing list and was more easily managed with cards which did not require leaving space for new titles as the 1876 catalog had.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe circulation records began with the original library company in 1794 and continued until its collapse in 1880. Some of the gaps in the records reflect periods during which its activity was disrupted.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nDuring the War of 1812, British forces arrived in Alexandria on 29 August 1814 and remained there until 2 September. The library normally closed on Sundays, and remained closed from Sunday 28 August through Tuesday 30 August. It opened from 31 August to 2 September, during which time only four books circulated.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThe library was also affected by the Civil War. Hostilities between the Union and Confederacy began at Fort Sumter on 12 April 1861. A vote on Virginia secession was held on 17 April and ratified by a referendum on 23 May. Alexandria was occupied by Union forces the following day. Confederate forces had briefly made use of the Lyceum building housing the library, but it later served as a hospital for the Union. Some books were moved out but others were not.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nIt is unclear were the library operated from in 1861 and 1862, but it did operate. There was a significant reduction in circulation leading up to the war, dropping to a single entry for 22 April 1861. Solitary patrons were recorded for 18th and 30th of May, and an individual withdrew a book every day through 21-25 December, although the May and December entries are in a different hand and initially broke with the format. In early June 1862 however, the library resumed semi-regular hours, usually opening only Tuesday and Thursday but occasionally other days. Records continue into mid-October, after which two pages are missing from the book before it resumes in 1868. Returns are dated as late as December 1862, and it is unclear when the library ceased operations.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nAttempts to preserve the library in the late 1870s were unsuccessful, and the number of pages per year charts its decline and eventual failure over the second half of the decade.\u003c/p\u003e"]}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vaallhs_repositories_2_resources_128"}},{"id":"vaallhs_repositories_2_resources_83","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"Alexandria National Bank Collection (MS193)","abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vaallhs_repositories_2_resources_83#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"\u003cp\u003eThe collection includes five scrapbooks, covering the years 1904-1976, that contain advertisements, clippings of news articles and photographs of bank employees. 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Lillian was a food columnist for the Oregonian newspaper. Alfred writes about current events in his area, the ousting of all of the Japanese from his region, activities in Afghanistan, work progress, some of his publications in scientific journals, and of his charge, a small girl whom he is determined to have learn English and become a teacher of such. As a last resort he would allow her to become a missionary. 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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","The following biographical information has been generously provided by Alastair H. Thomas, Professor Emeritus, Leyland, UK.  ","John Bishop Tingle (1866-1918), Lilian Ella Tingle (1872-1951) and Alfred Tingle (1876-1955) were the children of Mary Elizabeth Bishop (1846-1891) and her husband, Alfred Tingle (1832-1877), a miller and grocer in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. Mary's brothers were John and Joseph. Dr John Bishop (1841-86) was a pioneer with Joseph Lister of antiseptic surgery, and married Isabella Bird, the much-published travel writer. Joseph Thomas Ford Bishop (1843-1925) was a chemical industry entrepreneur and Secretary of Manchester Chemical Club.","John Bishop Tingle obtained his BSc in Manchester and his Chemistry PhD in Munich, Germany, then taught in high schools in Bristol and Aberdeen, Scotland, to secure his brother Alfred's education. In 1898 he moved to USA to lecture on Chemistry at the Lewis Institute, Chicago; from 1907 was Professor of Chemistry at McMaster University, Toronto. Lilian Tingle learned Domestic Economy in Aberdeen and taught this and German at the State Manual Training School, Ellendale, North Dakota, 1899-1905. She then moved to Portland, Oregon, to become Director of the School of Domestic Science, later called the Girls' Polytechnic School. She also wrote on Home Economics and travel topics for The Oregonian, as mentioned in the letters. In 1917 she moved to Eugene to found the Dept. of Household Arts in the University of Oregon, which holds three albums of carte-de-visite photographs of Tingle family members and others.","Alfred Tingle attended Aberdeen University and obtained his Chemistry PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1898. In 1904 he was appointed as a professor at the Shantung Provincial College in China and remained in China, living in Tientsin (Tianjin), until 1912 as a Chemistry consultant, working some of the time at the Imperial Chinese Pei Yang Mint. He returned to USA/Canada in 1912 when China transitioned from the Imperial Manchu Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China.","Letters in the collection span only January to April 1909. Alfred wrote regularly to Lilian but many letters did not arrive. His comments are very guarded on politics but mention mess-room gossip about impending trouble in distant Afghanistan. His advances in chemistry are referenced obliquely (and presumably published in scientific journals). Lilian had earlier visited him in China and met some of his acquaintances, on whom he comments. He had taken on the care and education of a young Chinese girl, referred to as 'the Responsibility' or 'R' or 'the youngster' and she is mentioned recurrently. She appears to have stayed in China when he left for the USA.","Additional genealogical information is available within the collection. ","Eight letters from brother in Tientsin, China to his sister in Oregon, both of whom expatriated from Britain.  Both were British ex-patriots. Alfred was a chemist and working for the Imperial Chinese Mint at the time of this letters. Lillian was a food columnist for the Oregonian newspaper. Alfred writes about current events in his area, the ousting of all of the Japanese from his region, activities in Afghanistan, work progress, some of his publications in scientific journals, and of his charge, a small girl whom he is determined to have learn English and become a teacher of such.  As a last resort he would allow her to become a missionary.  Alfred also comments in most of his letters how infrequently he receives letters from his sister, and how often they seem to get lost while en route to him.","Transcripts of the Alfred Tingle letters were written by Alastair H. Thomas, Professor Emeritus, Leyland, UK. ","? P.O. Ho Pei,Tientsin Jan 3rd/ 09 ","My dear Lilian","The fates have sent no letter from either John or you this fortnight, but yesterday came the Derby-shire for which I already gave thanks beforehand, which thanks are now redoubled. It is cut \u0026 glanced at –already. I have duly noted the reference to our dear bard \u0026 have grieved over the sum-mary dismissal of Allan \u0026 Clara –how much less romantic \"Enry, my Enery!\" is than \"Allan my Al-lan!\" I can see that much is unto is in this book. Since I wrote things have been broken up a bit, Leang En being recalled to be examined before, as we hope, being sent abroad. I had an Xmas party of him, Kwang, the youngster \u0026 myself. She is becoming quite satisfied to go to Peking but announc-es that she will reserve $2 of her pocket money \u0026 if you come here she will run away, pay her train rare down here \u0026 so manage to see you. Incidentally she wasn't to take a photo of you to Peking. Her ambition has been satisfied in another direction by having become the \"mother\" of a doll which opens and shuts its eyes and moves its head etc! I found one could be got in Shanghai at a reasonable price. I don't think they will make much of a Christian of her in Peking. She has no religious instinct seemingly. One of my idols33has come in for great luck. The translator of the Mint34was in here on business lately. We are good friends beginning from both being friends of Kwang with whom he was at school in the U.S. He admired my collection \u0026 then asked me to give or sell him one. I said \"Certainly\" and then he explained by saying \"My old woman \u0026 the children always kowtow during the 12th moon \u0026 especially at New Year and as they have nothing better they put up my tablet and kowtow to that. I don't like it but if they had one they could kowtow to that instead.\" He made his choice and carried it off, subject to approval. Next day I enquired whether it gave satisfaction. He said \"No. My wife reac-quired hers. She was a very bad woman who was sent to the lowest hell \u0026 only got out by the help of her son who let below a chain to her from heaven. My wife says she wasn't a respectable character \u0026 she won't kowtow to her.\" I offered to exchange it for another, but he came back empty handed \u0026 said that after all his wife had burned incense to the lady \u0026 had asked her to dinner that day: however I sent along another guaranteed to be a person of irreproachable morals. The matter was to be re-ferred to a nearby priest. Yesterday the moral lady returned \u0026 the one of doubtful morals (we will hope reformed completely) has been taken into the family \u0026 is getting a regular supply of rations. I have not yet heard how it was worked, as I have not seen the husband since he just came back.By the by the youngster, when the book came from you yesterday promptly reproached me for not having sent you anything Chinese for a long time, so I must send you something, but at present I don't quite know what. She is also planning to send you something, but we don't yet know what it is to be. I have had no routine work to do \u0026 so have got off a little note and about 6M.S.pp. via John, cal-culated to put a limit to some wild statements by a Belgian made some years back \u0026 stored away by me for future (use?).Tomorrow I begin a campaign by which I hope to vindicate my favourite meth-od of determining iron, on which a more recent slur has been cast. Believe me, Yr affectionate brother, Alfred Tingle.","Don't address letters here AT. Imperial Chinese Pei Yang Mint, Tientsin, Jan 19th, 1909.","My dear Lilian,","The enclosed was take at the same time as the last lab, but got overlooked. We are much occupied in preparations for going to school after the New Year which is Friday next. We should like not to go, if it were possible, but I see no other really good way, specially as we have \"growed\" so.The original idol has been kept by the lady to whom it was sent, on the advice of a priest, who re-ported the alternative one to be an image of the North Star \u0026agoddess of no importance. Talking of disreputable characters such as this goddess reminds me that C Quincey has come up here \u0026 reports the settlement much built up, a theatre opened opposite \"my\" door 7 all the city ladies of the same ancient profession as this goddess transferred to this settlement. I'm glad I don't have to keep order there now –I think it would cast too much in new riding whips. Quincey isdigging out for Shanghai. Goodall gone, Li (Frenchman) going, Husband going, Whittick to be married very soon(the young-ster says the girl who is going to marry him can never have seen him). Said youngster cannot be Chi-nese. I recently bought some cheese –the first I have had in the house since you were there, I think. She asked what it was, tasted it and promptly asked for more! The like never happened with a Chi-nese before, their version being that cheese is a filthy concoction much appreciated by rats, foreign devils \u0026 a few enterprising Chinese of strong stomach who have gradually \u0026 perseveringly learnt the habit. Please excuse more. I'm very tires \u0026 have been bedevilled for 12 days past by some opium reme-dies, for the analysis of which I have to use brain matter in place of more usual reagents \u0026 apparatus. Believe me, Yr affectionate brother, Alfred Tingle.","c/oNo 8 P.O. Ho Pei Tientsin City Jan 31st/ 09","My dear Lilian","Yours of Dec 12thcame recently, with its cutting enclosed. The latter are quite too funny. The Illsley35marriage is a queer go:71-25=46. I presume she decided it was better to be an old man's dar-ling than her mother's slave. Though it might have been better if both bride and groom had spun around three times on their heels and mutually cried No! No!! No!!! I cannot bring to mind any recol-lections of the bride \u0026 any of her sisters for that matter. They are \u0026 always have been amorphous to me. As to the McCambie marriage, what is Mr Effie McCambie's Christian name, not Jabez or Joseph I hope. I have refrained from replying re marriage with her (chile fu?).I am glad to hear that you are on the regular Oregonian staff again, but I hope you will not overdo it. I will see about the flint \u0026 steel etc. in due course. It is all a question of making up a parcel worth sending. If my stuff doesn't take on, simply withdraw it from circulation. I'm too busy, for writing, on the whole these days \u0026 in no mood for it. Anyhow I don't feel inclined to put myself out of the way about it. If the Public care for what I care to write so, \u0026 if not so, let them do the writing themselves, but not being dependent on it is not ...(end of page; letter is incomplete.)c/o No 8 P.O. Ho Pei Tientsin City. ","Feb 14th/ 09","My dear Lilian ","The day after I last wrotei.e. on the 1st, I took the Responsibility up to Peking \u0026 planted her at the school there. I hope the experiment is going to succeed. The impediment to my mind is the school-mistress element, with its materialistic sense that a promise is only a promise as long as is convenient, \u0026 alas the female-missionary lack of appreciation of the lines of Chinese thought. Anyhow fees are paid for a year \u0026 it is to be hope we shall be O.K. We are going to learn English (avances?), parallel with our Chinese. Finding nearly everyone away from Peking \u0026 being very uncomfortable at the hotel which was too hot \u0026 there the food was vile, I came back next day. Last week end the Peking mes-senger of Deutsche Asia Bank who hails from Edinburgh, came down \u0026 stayed with me waking me up in a very effectual manner –in fact on Sat I didn't get home till morning \u0026 barely got there then for there was a jubilation at the German Club, we had to go there hunting a man \u0026 didn't get away till after 4 am with a 3 or 4 mile walk before us, \u0026 I had to be up at 8 am to take my man to the hint, again on business. It was strenuous and I have barely recovered, not being assisted to do so by the sudden plunge into extreme solitude. There is no doubt I miss the Responsibility extremely –much more than I thought I should: However that –that is, is \u0026 I have no more news except that I saw the father of \"Admiral Togo\" on the street yesterday. He had been here some days but was going away last night. He says that by Sept he \u0026 all the Japs we know will have evacuated Chumanfu.I am sorry for a rather stupid letter but I have a very stupid 9 days behind me and behind that noth-ing much. I expect to be in regular harness tomorrow when a new coin sampling system of my invention comes into force. Believe me, Yr affectionate brother, Alfred Tingle.","c/o No 8 Post Office. Ho Pei, Tientsin City, Feb 28th/ 09","My dear Lilian ","I have no letters of yours to reply to, which may be because you have not had time to write, but also may be because your letters have been getting stolen. Either supposition is a reasonable one, the latter in view of the fact that the one you spoke of as having a handkerchief or two enclosed has never ar-rived on my side \u0026 I have very little to tell you. I have had a light time at the laboratory, for my rou-tine work is now reduced to a system. I have been carrying on a research in a somewhat tentative way only, because want of materials \u0026 apparatus came as a pretty heavy handicap on such. The particular thing in question has been on my mind for years\u0026 a preliminary canter with it may result in the pro-duction of compounds which can be identified without analysis, or, if analysis is necessary they can be sent to John. The materials are necessarily limited to what I have in hand. Meanwhile I am acquiring Fame. In recent journals a Scotchman has presented further indirect evidence in favour of a constitu-tional formula assigned by Japp36\u0026 Tingle (I thought it dead and buried) \u0026 a German has with due acknowledgement been employing a reaction first investigated by A Tingle. This reaction had also seemed dead these seven years past. Meanwhile I have not really enough work to keep me from being rather bored. I recently found some cardboard in which to send the photos of the Responsibility over with Mrs Hu \u0026 the others with Miss Hu. Hu, himself, is in hospital but going strong. He has to lie still \u0026 eat as little as possible. He can afford to starve a while, as I think you will agree. Properly he should be on a purely milk diet, but he likes milk about as much as I do castor oil, so semi-starvation is the alternative. I have a letter from Peking of most optimistic nature dealing with the Responsibility. It is too opti-mistic to suit me. Conduct all that could be desired –which I can well believe \u0026 she wants nothing which I cannot. It isn't in nature for a schoolgirl to want nothing when asked, but it is to refuse to put her wants through the medium of a new (and therefore distrusted) head teacher. However I shall be in Peking soon –perhaps next weekend –\u0026 can perhaps see for myself. I am only waiting for Harri-son to get leave. I want a talk with him. The female at the School I distrust myself. In one respect already she has gone back on her own word \u0026 agreement with me \"because she thinks best\" etc.\u0026 after the matter was pretty well thrashed out. More than once she has in the blandest manner sug-gested that I should (for the best of motives of course) go back on my own promises to that\u0026 the other. Being a Methodist she would be shocked to be called a Jesuit. The Point at issue is the teaching of English, \u0026 on this point I must screw her up. The general sense of the meeting is that the R's best chance is to be turned as completely as possible into a foreign devil (Quincey pattern with improve-ments so to say) in which case her earlier history becomes entirely absorbed. Also she can make more money by teaching English that Chinese. I don't for obvious reasons know how much I can do for her, but she will repay an effort –that is generally conceded. I have a pattern herein the shape of Dr. Kim –did I tell you about her? Chinese woman who speaks perfect English \u0026 would be clever \u0026 notable woman in home surroundings, I think.I am afraid this letter is very stupid, but there is nothing really to write about. I am wrong, though, for it is since my last letter that Iwas taken to see amateur performance of the \"Sorcerer\". Leading lady \u0026 gentleman were dreadful sticks, but J.W. Wells himself was admirable. The Rector was pretty good too \u0026 the chorus admirably drilled. I had never seen it on the stage before. The early part –be-fore JW Wells comes on–drags, \u0026 that badly where the leaders are fools.(Much encored on person-al grounds. The business kept me up late but \"shuk me up\" \u0026 did good generally. I was a Press dead-head taking Editorial Wife, Editor being ill in bed. Believe me, Yr affectionate brother, Alfred Tingle.","c/o No. 8P.O. Ho Pei,Tientsin City: March 14th/ 09","My Dear Lilian,","There has again been no letter from you, \u0026 I can only infer your continued existence as such from the arrival of the Sheffield Univ magazine which had passed through your hands. I hope you are not overdoing things because, while I should much like to have you come out here this summer I have no blessed tree for you to repose under if you do. I'm living in diminishing hope that I may yet find a kind of local Wu Li Kan where I may be able to pitch a moving tent \u0026 live more in the style that my heart loves. I'm hoping that I may hear before long what your prospects of coming are any how.Be under no mistake I have ample room only no tree \u0026 no prophet. I have had a desperate time this last two weeks getting orders for new chemical equipment put through \u0026 failing to do so, \u0026 all the rest of it, but I think there is nothing very interesting or exciting. Last night I was out of dinner at a local editors –quite small but a rather amusing company, to wit a French officer \u0026 wife, the deputy-commissioner of customs \u0026 wife\u0026 an officer of the Punjabi Regt. As bearing on the E.M.C. ques-tions I pricked up ears when the latter spoke of a bit turnup in India in a little while, but the whole idea of that is Afghan37trouble, it being stated that the Ameer is about on his last legs \u0026 things will happen soon on a large scaleup there. Of course that is only mess gossip with probably much wish as father to the thought. I didn't get home till morning \u0026 have a head today. On Thurs. I woke up to heavy snow, after very mild weather the day before. Snow again today. Good for the wheat. But it has put off some riding I might otherwise have got. My German neighbour, engineer in chief of the north section of the Tientsin Nanking Ry. has 4 ponies who don't have any work except when he goes on tour \u0026 then break down for lack of previous exercise he says, though I suspect it is too muchee squeeze –pidgin on the part of the mafuthat makes them crumple. I astonished him when I told him how much I had covered ground on Saul. However, I can give them some exercise, I think, when weather is a little better. Do you remember Kwang? He came here soon after me. Has now gota job on the Yangtse. His wife \u0026 family follow him shortly. It was one of his daughters who was reported to have a face like a plum pudding that had been trodden on. Poor oppressed Chinese women. My colleague at the Mint reports that his wife is going to her house to see after family affairs –took her ticket \u0026 went to her people to meet her without consult-ing him at all. He has to look after the children at home. There is, however some chance that she may bring him a (lioz?)to attend to his wants on her return. As, by the by, a sign of the times I may men-tion that he asserts that he is not going to get husbands for his daughters(one of whom is marriageable but at Normal School) he is going to \"educate them to make their own living, \u0026 if they want to marry that is their look-out\"! The Viceroy38seems to have made himself fairly solid with the new regime in Peking. He had a present lately of some of the late Emperor sold clothes, which means continued favour for the time being. All the better for me. Believe me, Yr affectionate brother, Alfred Tingle. \nIn case you are coming here I may observe that the Nippon Yusen Kaisha have a trans-Pacific service \u0026 also many coasting services, amongst others boats from Kobe to Tientsin. If times suited you might save by taking their boat from Japan at least \u0026 coming direct, not via Shanghai. On the other hand Shanghai-Tientsin boats sail almost daily \u0026most are better boats than these others.","c/o No 8P.O. Ho Pei, Tientsin City. April 7th/ 09","My dear Lilian","This is not my regular writing day, but it as happens that I have not much else to do for which I have any inclination. I shall keep the letter open till Tuesday, however on the off chance of there being something to add . Yours of Mar2ndcame some time ago. As to China –forests \u0026lumber –I am sending you \"Science\" with a condensation of a more or less recent Presidential message (Please return the Science when done with.) I have made marginal notes, mostly in the form of numbers which refer to comments under the same numbers regularly jotted down \u0026 enclosed with this. I also have added a few remarks of my own on subjects beyond the message's scope. I don't know if this is any use. As to the real state of the country you may say \"Veni Vidi\"39\u0026 can perhaps give more information by word of mouth that I can in writing. You have seen typical N. China. So what I have written in the notes I may add that if the climate here is changing now, it can have little connection with the clearing of the forests which must have been as complete asnow more than 6000 years ago.40Teddy41is a great energetic man, but liable to talk rot. Read for yourself \u0026 see if it not a written caricature.","I suppose Meyers report referred to is published, but don't know, if any particularized information is wanted, let me know what it is \u0026 I will get it if there is still time. The doubt you raise about Effie McCambies \"status\" (horrible word) is certainly a grave one. I looked at her last letter to me, thanking me for congratulations \u0026 she there speaks of his meeting her in Bombay (I think) \u0026 that they would go off together. You throw a horrid doubt too over the possible meaning of the reference to notmarrying one's cook. Does she possibly mean that one should (Good Heavens!) as Carlyle would say. And things are decidedly peculiar in the East too. I happen to know a man in Peking –a very notable man too, does all the German loans. His wife is, on some scruple of conscience that I don't understand about, not legally his wife though all the children are legitimatised according to German law! No wonder the bridegroom elect was afraid of you! Tis horrid, surely, of the highly virtuous E. McC. to do such a thing. Sounds like getting wedding presents by false pretenses too. On that score 10/642each lets us out cheap I think. Many thanks (in advance) for the Pagan Papers which I have often meant to ger for myself, but never have. I don't know why. Letter with handkershiefs may be considered definitely \"lost.\" Always register anybulky important letters as P.O. here (Tientsin) is very unreliable. Several letters to me, all fat, have been lost. All except one had the senders name and address on the outside, but they neither came to me nor went back. I am much amused by Miss Cornwall's remarks about the Responsibility43. Gently encourage her, if you have time \u0026 inclination, to go a little into ways \u0026 means. If \u0026 when I can manage it I should like her to go to America \u0026 (more or less) the sooner the better. I say more of less because I consider the experimental stage not to be finally over. She had a rather bad start \u0026 I was assured on many levels that I must fail. I want to see definitely that I have succeeded –that is in point of character. Then she must know a little English to start with \u0026 there remains the financial question. The school at present may succeed in pouring knowledge into her, but won't get much further. She cannot be moulded by machinery, but only by hand \u0026 that a hand that she is attached to or prepared to be attached to. You may as well tell Miss Cornwall that I should not approve of my daughter going buggy riding with young Chinese with whom I am am not personally acquainted. Not much fear, anyhow, as your local lot will all be Cantonese, I presume, as would the young lady in white satin. I have had another young woman much on my mind of late. I only discovered about a week ago (by the C in C'sdirect confession) that the elder girl's feet were bound. In the new house I don't see as muc of them as in Chumanfu. I remonstrated, gently but firmly. We had only come out of hospital for the day \u0026 were back that evening. Next day I saw the child \u0026 saw that my words had had an effect. I thereupon sent for her mother \u0026 jumped down her silly throat, boots \u0026 breeches \u0026 all. I have won \u0026 the feet are now unbound, but I had to risk a good deal as my one standing ground was that I simply would not allow it in my house, it being forbidden by the Emperor, which I admitted that of course in the country districts of China no Emperor counted for a tuppenny damn. Of coure, the plea is Cannot help it –no small feet, no husband. I want the child to join my Responsibility in Peking next term. I had antoher ride yesterday. I found a village with food houses in it –whether any to let I cannot say. It is to get society that I propose moving into a village. The Chinese town here is like London for knowing ones neighbours \u0026 except for the German whose horse I rode, I have no foreigners at all near. For them I shall be no more our of the way than at present. Meantime I have dug up some bricks \u0026 sown what I hope is good seed \u0026 may have some English flowers this summer if I stay in this house. I wishI lived in Peking, which isin China. There is just a faint chance that I may ultimately get a job there. Ihave been quietly cultivating it for six months or more. Believe me, Yr affectionate brother, Alfred TingleAp. 11thNothing to add to this. I think things are very quiet just now.44Yrs AT.","c/o No 5 P.O. Ho Pei, Tientsin City. April 26th/ 09","My dear Lilian","Just after I last wrote you came the Pagan Papers45. I have still 2 or three to read I think. They are excellent. I found the avuncular portion by instinct. Of course my position in the matter is a delicate one. I have an uncle \u0026 also amone46to say nothing of being a guardian. As to what should be done to my own there cannot be two opinions, \u0026 I am trying to give as little offfense as possible in my more active capacity. I was pretty busy 11th–18thinst, one little thing \u0026 another, but on 17thwent to an awfully poor show (mostly Japs) with another man. On 19thI went to Peking after finishing up, the 20thbeing a holiday, but hust before starting received your of Mar 21st\u0026 its enclosure about Wn \u0026 the han-fool with which I convulsed one or two people in Peking. I stayed there in the German Bank. Also saw the youngster who is well but pretty homesick –does not seem to make friends. Female in charge says she wants to be a Christian. I shall enquire into this at length during the holiday, for while I give a 'free hand' I will have no leg-pulling \u0026 I won't countenance her being raked into missionary educational methods. Present school is best that can be done\u0026 I don't say official (native) schools are worse. But the missionaries are trying to do too much on an utterly inadequate basis. On the train I met an ex-student of mine from New York. I had had him in private tuition extra, but never got a thing into him as he admits. He avowed (with shame, I'm glad to say) that he had been teaching chemistry amongst other things at a mission college, one of the best in Sufante (?)too! I should have come home on Wed. (21st) but missed the train, so got home on Thurs noon only to find (1) that I was not needed, the Mint having closed protem \u0026 (2) that my guts were working twistedly. Result I went to bed \u0026 disciplined the unruly members with magnesium sulphate, lead \u0026 opium \u0026 milk. If present symptoms continue I shall tomorrow get up \u0026 go onto full diet having learned there to be toads. Last night Eggeling, the German Bank man, came down, leaving again today. He reported he \u0026 Careles the other man at the Bank had both had a little trouble also. Their well pump was out of order \u0026 it seems as though the fish pond had been resorted to to help out the water supply. As to your letter, I hope you are not overdoing things. Ease up on letters to me if you can do nothing else. I presume you not understand that Japan is quite out of the question for me this year at least. At present I have to hold on here with teeth \u0026 claws, while swinging my tail towards Peking in hopes of twisting it round something there.I have added to my family today. Yesterday arrived the mother of the Responsibility, who had come in the train of some tai-tai, taking the chance to see the R. I wanted her any how (1) because I can get her a better job here than she had in Chunanfu\u0026 she being here the R can come home for her holidays without the disapproval of the Methodist element. I have not pointed out to the latter that inf act \u0026 in Chinese eyes the mother now counts for nothing except in just so far as she may still have persuasive powers. It is useless to try to meet everybody's ideas. It was pointed our by a Chinese (who has seen the old lady) that if I sent for her \u0026 had her under my roof, being unmarried, a scandal could be created. Now she is 45 gone\u0026 has had a very hard life which shows in her face –you know these country-women faces. Appropriately dressed she might pass if not for my grandmother at least for my grand-mother-in-law! As she has come without being sent for Providence evidently intends me to face the scandal out. Believe me, Yr affectionate brother, Alfred Tingle.","Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.","Special Collections Research Center","Read 'Em Again Books","Tingle, Alfred","English"],"unitid_tesim":["SC 01592","/repositories/2/resources/8328"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Alfred Tingle Letters to Lillian Tingle"],"collection_title_tesim":["Alfred Tingle Letters to Lillian Tingle"],"collection_ssim":["Alfred Tingle Letters to Lillian Tingle"],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"geogname_ssm":["China--History--20th century"],"geogname_ssim":["China--History--20th century"],"creator_ssm":["Tingle, Alfred","Read 'Em Again Books"],"creator_ssim":["Tingle, Alfred","Read 'Em Again Books"],"creator_persname_ssim":["Tingle, Alfred"],"creator_corpname_ssim":["Read 'Em Again Books"],"creators_ssim":["Tingle, Alfred","Read 'Em Again Books"],"places_ssim":["China--History--20th century"],"access_terms_ssm":["Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Purchased from Read 'Em Again Books with funds from the Maurine and William Dulin Fund, 2018."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Chemistry--Study and teaching"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Chemistry--Study and teaching"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"extent_ssm":["0.01 Linear Feet"],"extent_tesim":["0.01 Linear Feet"],"date_range_isim":[1909],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to all researchers. 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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe following biographical information has been generously provided by Alastair H. Thomas, Professor Emeritus, Leyland, UK.  \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eJohn Bishop Tingle (1866-1918), Lilian Ella Tingle (1872-1951) and Alfred Tingle (1876-1955) were the children of Mary Elizabeth Bishop (1846-1891) and her husband, Alfred Tingle (1832-1877), a miller and grocer in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. Mary's brothers were John and Joseph. Dr John Bishop (1841-86) was a pioneer with Joseph Lister of antiseptic surgery, and married Isabella Bird, the much-published travel writer. Joseph Thomas Ford Bishop (1843-1925) was a chemical industry entrepreneur and Secretary of Manchester Chemical Club.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eJohn Bishop Tingle obtained his BSc in Manchester and his Chemistry PhD in Munich, Germany, then taught in high schools in Bristol and Aberdeen, Scotland, to secure his brother Alfred's education. In 1898 he moved to USA to lecture on Chemistry at the Lewis Institute, Chicago; from 1907 was Professor of Chemistry at McMaster University, Toronto. Lilian Tingle learned Domestic Economy in Aberdeen and taught this and German at the State Manual Training School, Ellendale, North Dakota, 1899-1905. She then moved to Portland, Oregon, to become Director of the School of Domestic Science, later called the Girls' Polytechnic School. She also wrote on Home Economics and travel topics for The Oregonian, as mentioned in the letters. In 1917 she moved to Eugene to found the Dept. of Household Arts in the University of Oregon, which holds three albums of carte-de-visite photographs of Tingle family members and others.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAlfred Tingle attended Aberdeen University and obtained his Chemistry PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1898. In 1904 he was appointed as a professor at the Shantung Provincial College in China and remained in China, living in Tientsin (Tianjin), until 1912 as a Chemistry consultant, working some of the time at the Imperial Chinese Pei Yang Mint. He returned to USA/Canada in 1912 when China transitioned from the Imperial Manchu Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLetters in the collection span only January to April 1909. Alfred wrote regularly to Lilian but many letters did not arrive. His comments are very guarded on politics but mention mess-room gossip about impending trouble in distant Afghanistan. His advances in chemistry are referenced obliquely (and presumably published in scientific journals). Lilian had earlier visited him in China and met some of his acquaintances, on whom he comments. He had taken on the care and education of a young Chinese girl, referred to as 'the Responsibility' or 'R' or 'the youngster' and she is mentioned recurrently. She appears to have stayed in China when he left for the USA.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAdditional genealogical information is available within the collection. \u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["The following biographical information has been generously provided by Alastair H. Thomas, Professor Emeritus, Leyland, UK.  ","John Bishop Tingle (1866-1918), Lilian Ella Tingle (1872-1951) and Alfred Tingle (1876-1955) were the children of Mary Elizabeth Bishop (1846-1891) and her husband, Alfred Tingle (1832-1877), a miller and grocer in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. Mary's brothers were John and Joseph. Dr John Bishop (1841-86) was a pioneer with Joseph Lister of antiseptic surgery, and married Isabella Bird, the much-published travel writer. Joseph Thomas Ford Bishop (1843-1925) was a chemical industry entrepreneur and Secretary of Manchester Chemical Club.","John Bishop Tingle obtained his BSc in Manchester and his Chemistry PhD in Munich, Germany, then taught in high schools in Bristol and Aberdeen, Scotland, to secure his brother Alfred's education. In 1898 he moved to USA to lecture on Chemistry at the Lewis Institute, Chicago; from 1907 was Professor of Chemistry at McMaster University, Toronto. Lilian Tingle learned Domestic Economy in Aberdeen and taught this and German at the State Manual Training School, Ellendale, North Dakota, 1899-1905. She then moved to Portland, Oregon, to become Director of the School of Domestic Science, later called the Girls' Polytechnic School. She also wrote on Home Economics and travel topics for The Oregonian, as mentioned in the letters. In 1917 she moved to Eugene to found the Dept. of Household Arts in the University of Oregon, which holds three albums of carte-de-visite photographs of Tingle family members and others.","Alfred Tingle attended Aberdeen University and obtained his Chemistry PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1898. In 1904 he was appointed as a professor at the Shantung Provincial College in China and remained in China, living in Tientsin (Tianjin), until 1912 as a Chemistry consultant, working some of the time at the Imperial Chinese Pei Yang Mint. He returned to USA/Canada in 1912 when China transitioned from the Imperial Manchu Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China.","Letters in the collection span only January to April 1909. Alfred wrote regularly to Lilian but many letters did not arrive. His comments are very guarded on politics but mention mess-room gossip about impending trouble in distant Afghanistan. His advances in chemistry are referenced obliquely (and presumably published in scientific journals). Lilian had earlier visited him in China and met some of his acquaintances, on whom he comments. He had taken on the care and education of a young Chinese girl, referred to as 'the Responsibility' or 'R' or 'the youngster' and she is mentioned recurrently. She appears to have stayed in China when he left for the USA.","Additional genealogical information is available within the collection. "],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAlfred Tingle Letters to Lillian Tingle, Special Collections Research Center, William \u0026amp; Mary Libraries.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Alfred Tingle Letters to Lillian Tingle, Special Collections Research Center, William \u0026 Mary Libraries."],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Eight letters from brother in Tientsin, China to his sister in Oregon, both of whom expatriated from Britain.  Both were British ex-patriots. Alfred was a chemist and working for the Imperial Chinese Mint at the time of this letters. Lillian was a food columnist for the Oregonian newspaper. Alfred writes about current events in his area, the ousting of all of the Japanese from his region, activities in Afghanistan, work progress, some of his publications in scientific journals, and of his charge, a small girl whom he is determined to have learn English and become a teacher of such.  As a last resort he would allow her to become a missionary.  Alfred also comments in most of his letters how infrequently he receives letters from his sister, and how often they seem to get lost while en route to him.","Transcripts of the Alfred Tingle letters were written by Alastair H. Thomas, Professor Emeritus, Leyland, UK. ","? P.O. Ho Pei,Tientsin Jan 3rd/ 09 ","My dear Lilian","The fates have sent no letter from either John or you this fortnight, but yesterday came the Derby-shire for which I already gave thanks beforehand, which thanks are now redoubled. It is cut \u0026 glanced at –already. I have duly noted the reference to our dear bard \u0026 have grieved over the sum-mary dismissal of Allan \u0026 Clara –how much less romantic \"Enry, my Enery!\" is than \"Allan my Al-lan!\" I can see that much is unto is in this book. Since I wrote things have been broken up a bit, Leang En being recalled to be examined before, as we hope, being sent abroad. I had an Xmas party of him, Kwang, the youngster \u0026 myself. She is becoming quite satisfied to go to Peking but announc-es that she will reserve $2 of her pocket money \u0026 if you come here she will run away, pay her train rare down here \u0026 so manage to see you. Incidentally she wasn't to take a photo of you to Peking. Her ambition has been satisfied in another direction by having become the \"mother\" of a doll which opens and shuts its eyes and moves its head etc! I found one could be got in Shanghai at a reasonable price. I don't think they will make much of a Christian of her in Peking. She has no religious instinct seemingly. One of my idols33has come in for great luck. The translator of the Mint34was in here on business lately. We are good friends beginning from both being friends of Kwang with whom he was at school in the U.S. He admired my collection \u0026 then asked me to give or sell him one. I said \"Certainly\" and then he explained by saying \"My old woman \u0026 the children always kowtow during the 12th moon \u0026 especially at New Year and as they have nothing better they put up my tablet and kowtow to that. I don't like it but if they had one they could kowtow to that instead.\" He made his choice and carried it off, subject to approval. Next day I enquired whether it gave satisfaction. He said \"No. My wife reac-quired hers. She was a very bad woman who was sent to the lowest hell \u0026 only got out by the help of her son who let below a chain to her from heaven. My wife says she wasn't a respectable character \u0026 she won't kowtow to her.\" I offered to exchange it for another, but he came back empty handed \u0026 said that after all his wife had burned incense to the lady \u0026 had asked her to dinner that day: however I sent along another guaranteed to be a person of irreproachable morals. The matter was to be re-ferred to a nearby priest. Yesterday the moral lady returned \u0026 the one of doubtful morals (we will hope reformed completely) has been taken into the family \u0026 is getting a regular supply of rations. I have not yet heard how it was worked, as I have not seen the husband since he just came back.By the by the youngster, when the book came from you yesterday promptly reproached me for not having sent you anything Chinese for a long time, so I must send you something, but at present I don't quite know what. She is also planning to send you something, but we don't yet know what it is to be. I have had no routine work to do \u0026 so have got off a little note and about 6M.S.pp. via John, cal-culated to put a limit to some wild statements by a Belgian made some years back \u0026 stored away by me for future (use?).Tomorrow I begin a campaign by which I hope to vindicate my favourite meth-od of determining iron, on which a more recent slur has been cast. Believe me, Yr affectionate brother, Alfred Tingle.","Don't address letters here AT. Imperial Chinese Pei Yang Mint, Tientsin, Jan 19th, 1909.","My dear Lilian,","The enclosed was take at the same time as the last lab, but got overlooked. We are much occupied in preparations for going to school after the New Year which is Friday next. We should like not to go, if it were possible, but I see no other really good way, specially as we have \"growed\" so.The original idol has been kept by the lady to whom it was sent, on the advice of a priest, who re-ported the alternative one to be an image of the North Star \u0026agoddess of no importance. Talking of disreputable characters such as this goddess reminds me that C Quincey has come up here \u0026 reports the settlement much built up, a theatre opened opposite \"my\" door 7 all the city ladies of the same ancient profession as this goddess transferred to this settlement. I'm glad I don't have to keep order there now –I think it would cast too much in new riding whips. Quincey isdigging out for Shanghai. Goodall gone, Li (Frenchman) going, Husband going, Whittick to be married very soon(the young-ster says the girl who is going to marry him can never have seen him). Said youngster cannot be Chi-nese. I recently bought some cheese –the first I have had in the house since you were there, I think. She asked what it was, tasted it and promptly asked for more! The like never happened with a Chi-nese before, their version being that cheese is a filthy concoction much appreciated by rats, foreign devils \u0026 a few enterprising Chinese of strong stomach who have gradually \u0026 perseveringly learnt the habit. Please excuse more. I'm very tires \u0026 have been bedevilled for 12 days past by some opium reme-dies, for the analysis of which I have to use brain matter in place of more usual reagents \u0026 apparatus. Believe me, Yr affectionate brother, Alfred Tingle.","c/oNo 8 P.O. Ho Pei Tientsin City Jan 31st/ 09","My dear Lilian","Yours of Dec 12thcame recently, with its cutting enclosed. The latter are quite too funny. The Illsley35marriage is a queer go:71-25=46. I presume she decided it was better to be an old man's dar-ling than her mother's slave. Though it might have been better if both bride and groom had spun around three times on their heels and mutually cried No! No!! No!!! I cannot bring to mind any recol-lections of the bride \u0026 any of her sisters for that matter. They are \u0026 always have been amorphous to me. As to the McCambie marriage, what is Mr Effie McCambie's Christian name, not Jabez or Joseph I hope. I have refrained from replying re marriage with her (chile fu?).I am glad to hear that you are on the regular Oregonian staff again, but I hope you will not overdo it. I will see about the flint \u0026 steel etc. in due course. It is all a question of making up a parcel worth sending. If my stuff doesn't take on, simply withdraw it from circulation. I'm too busy, for writing, on the whole these days \u0026 in no mood for it. Anyhow I don't feel inclined to put myself out of the way about it. If the Public care for what I care to write so, \u0026 if not so, let them do the writing themselves, but not being dependent on it is not ...(end of page; letter is incomplete.)c/o No 8 P.O. Ho Pei Tientsin City. ","Feb 14th/ 09","My dear Lilian ","The day after I last wrotei.e. on the 1st, I took the Responsibility up to Peking \u0026 planted her at the school there. I hope the experiment is going to succeed. The impediment to my mind is the school-mistress element, with its materialistic sense that a promise is only a promise as long as is convenient, \u0026 alas the female-missionary lack of appreciation of the lines of Chinese thought. Anyhow fees are paid for a year \u0026 it is to be hope we shall be O.K. We are going to learn English (avances?), parallel with our Chinese. Finding nearly everyone away from Peking \u0026 being very uncomfortable at the hotel which was too hot \u0026 there the food was vile, I came back next day. Last week end the Peking mes-senger of Deutsche Asia Bank who hails from Edinburgh, came down \u0026 stayed with me waking me up in a very effectual manner –in fact on Sat I didn't get home till morning \u0026 barely got there then for there was a jubilation at the German Club, we had to go there hunting a man \u0026 didn't get away till after 4 am with a 3 or 4 mile walk before us, \u0026 I had to be up at 8 am to take my man to the hint, again on business. It was strenuous and I have barely recovered, not being assisted to do so by the sudden plunge into extreme solitude. There is no doubt I miss the Responsibility extremely –much more than I thought I should: However that –that is, is \u0026 I have no more news except that I saw the father of \"Admiral Togo\" on the street yesterday. He had been here some days but was going away last night. He says that by Sept he \u0026 all the Japs we know will have evacuated Chumanfu.I am sorry for a rather stupid letter but I have a very stupid 9 days behind me and behind that noth-ing much. I expect to be in regular harness tomorrow when a new coin sampling system of my invention comes into force. Believe me, Yr affectionate brother, Alfred Tingle.","c/o No 8 Post Office. Ho Pei, Tientsin City, Feb 28th/ 09","My dear Lilian ","I have no letters of yours to reply to, which may be because you have not had time to write, but also may be because your letters have been getting stolen. Either supposition is a reasonable one, the latter in view of the fact that the one you spoke of as having a handkerchief or two enclosed has never ar-rived on my side \u0026 I have very little to tell you. I have had a light time at the laboratory, for my rou-tine work is now reduced to a system. I have been carrying on a research in a somewhat tentative way only, because want of materials \u0026 apparatus came as a pretty heavy handicap on such. The particular thing in question has been on my mind for years\u0026 a preliminary canter with it may result in the pro-duction of compounds which can be identified without analysis, or, if analysis is necessary they can be sent to John. The materials are necessarily limited to what I have in hand. Meanwhile I am acquiring Fame. In recent journals a Scotchman has presented further indirect evidence in favour of a constitu-tional formula assigned by Japp36\u0026 Tingle (I thought it dead and buried) \u0026 a German has with due acknowledgement been employing a reaction first investigated by A Tingle. This reaction had also seemed dead these seven years past. Meanwhile I have not really enough work to keep me from being rather bored. I recently found some cardboard in which to send the photos of the Responsibility over with Mrs Hu \u0026 the others with Miss Hu. Hu, himself, is in hospital but going strong. He has to lie still \u0026 eat as little as possible. He can afford to starve a while, as I think you will agree. Properly he should be on a purely milk diet, but he likes milk about as much as I do castor oil, so semi-starvation is the alternative. I have a letter from Peking of most optimistic nature dealing with the Responsibility. It is too opti-mistic to suit me. Conduct all that could be desired –which I can well believe \u0026 she wants nothing which I cannot. It isn't in nature for a schoolgirl to want nothing when asked, but it is to refuse to put her wants through the medium of a new (and therefore distrusted) head teacher. However I shall be in Peking soon –perhaps next weekend –\u0026 can perhaps see for myself. I am only waiting for Harri-son to get leave. I want a talk with him. The female at the School I distrust myself. In one respect already she has gone back on her own word \u0026 agreement with me \"because she thinks best\" etc.\u0026 after the matter was pretty well thrashed out. More than once she has in the blandest manner sug-gested that I should (for the best of motives of course) go back on my own promises to that\u0026 the other. Being a Methodist she would be shocked to be called a Jesuit. The Point at issue is the teaching of English, \u0026 on this point I must screw her up. The general sense of the meeting is that the R's best chance is to be turned as completely as possible into a foreign devil (Quincey pattern with improve-ments so to say) in which case her earlier history becomes entirely absorbed. Also she can make more money by teaching English that Chinese. I don't for obvious reasons know how much I can do for her, but she will repay an effort –that is generally conceded. I have a pattern herein the shape of Dr. Kim –did I tell you about her? Chinese woman who speaks perfect English \u0026 would be clever \u0026 notable woman in home surroundings, I think.I am afraid this letter is very stupid, but there is nothing really to write about. I am wrong, though, for it is since my last letter that Iwas taken to see amateur performance of the \"Sorcerer\". Leading lady \u0026 gentleman were dreadful sticks, but J.W. Wells himself was admirable. The Rector was pretty good too \u0026 the chorus admirably drilled. I had never seen it on the stage before. The early part –be-fore JW Wells comes on–drags, \u0026 that badly where the leaders are fools.(Much encored on person-al grounds. The business kept me up late but \"shuk me up\" \u0026 did good generally. I was a Press dead-head taking Editorial Wife, Editor being ill in bed. Believe me, Yr affectionate brother, Alfred Tingle.","c/o No. 8P.O. Ho Pei,Tientsin City: March 14th/ 09","My Dear Lilian,","There has again been no letter from you, \u0026 I can only infer your continued existence as such from the arrival of the Sheffield Univ magazine which had passed through your hands. I hope you are not overdoing things because, while I should much like to have you come out here this summer I have no blessed tree for you to repose under if you do. I'm living in diminishing hope that I may yet find a kind of local Wu Li Kan where I may be able to pitch a moving tent \u0026 live more in the style that my heart loves. I'm hoping that I may hear before long what your prospects of coming are any how.Be under no mistake I have ample room only no tree \u0026 no prophet. I have had a desperate time this last two weeks getting orders for new chemical equipment put through \u0026 failing to do so, \u0026 all the rest of it, but I think there is nothing very interesting or exciting. Last night I was out of dinner at a local editors –quite small but a rather amusing company, to wit a French officer \u0026 wife, the deputy-commissioner of customs \u0026 wife\u0026 an officer of the Punjabi Regt. As bearing on the E.M.C. ques-tions I pricked up ears when the latter spoke of a bit turnup in India in a little while, but the whole idea of that is Afghan37trouble, it being stated that the Ameer is about on his last legs \u0026 things will happen soon on a large scaleup there. Of course that is only mess gossip with probably much wish as father to the thought. I didn't get home till morning \u0026 have a head today. On Thurs. I woke up to heavy snow, after very mild weather the day before. Snow again today. Good for the wheat. But it has put off some riding I might otherwise have got. My German neighbour, engineer in chief of the north section of the Tientsin Nanking Ry. has 4 ponies who don't have any work except when he goes on tour \u0026 then break down for lack of previous exercise he says, though I suspect it is too muchee squeeze –pidgin on the part of the mafuthat makes them crumple. I astonished him when I told him how much I had covered ground on Saul. However, I can give them some exercise, I think, when weather is a little better. Do you remember Kwang? He came here soon after me. Has now gota job on the Yangtse. His wife \u0026 family follow him shortly. It was one of his daughters who was reported to have a face like a plum pudding that had been trodden on. Poor oppressed Chinese women. My colleague at the Mint reports that his wife is going to her house to see after family affairs –took her ticket \u0026 went to her people to meet her without consult-ing him at all. He has to look after the children at home. There is, however some chance that she may bring him a (lioz?)to attend to his wants on her return. As, by the by, a sign of the times I may men-tion that he asserts that he is not going to get husbands for his daughters(one of whom is marriageable but at Normal School) he is going to \"educate them to make their own living, \u0026 if they want to marry that is their look-out\"! The Viceroy38seems to have made himself fairly solid with the new regime in Peking. He had a present lately of some of the late Emperor sold clothes, which means continued favour for the time being. All the better for me. Believe me, Yr affectionate brother, Alfred Tingle. \nIn case you are coming here I may observe that the Nippon Yusen Kaisha have a trans-Pacific service \u0026 also many coasting services, amongst others boats from Kobe to Tientsin. If times suited you might save by taking their boat from Japan at least \u0026 coming direct, not via Shanghai. On the other hand Shanghai-Tientsin boats sail almost daily \u0026most are better boats than these others.","c/o No 8P.O. Ho Pei, Tientsin City. April 7th/ 09","My dear Lilian","This is not my regular writing day, but it as happens that I have not much else to do for which I have any inclination. I shall keep the letter open till Tuesday, however on the off chance of there being something to add . Yours of Mar2ndcame some time ago. As to China –forests \u0026lumber –I am sending you \"Science\" with a condensation of a more or less recent Presidential message (Please return the Science when done with.) I have made marginal notes, mostly in the form of numbers which refer to comments under the same numbers regularly jotted down \u0026 enclosed with this. I also have added a few remarks of my own on subjects beyond the message's scope. I don't know if this is any use. As to the real state of the country you may say \"Veni Vidi\"39\u0026 can perhaps give more information by word of mouth that I can in writing. You have seen typical N. China. So what I have written in the notes I may add that if the climate here is changing now, it can have little connection with the clearing of the forests which must have been as complete asnow more than 6000 years ago.40Teddy41is a great energetic man, but liable to talk rot. Read for yourself \u0026 see if it not a written caricature.","I suppose Meyers report referred to is published, but don't know, if any particularized information is wanted, let me know what it is \u0026 I will get it if there is still time. The doubt you raise about Effie McCambies \"status\" (horrible word) is certainly a grave one. I looked at her last letter to me, thanking me for congratulations \u0026 she there speaks of his meeting her in Bombay (I think) \u0026 that they would go off together. You throw a horrid doubt too over the possible meaning of the reference to notmarrying one's cook. Does she possibly mean that one should (Good Heavens!) as Carlyle would say. And things are decidedly peculiar in the East too. I happen to know a man in Peking –a very notable man too, does all the German loans. His wife is, on some scruple of conscience that I don't understand about, not legally his wife though all the children are legitimatised according to German law! No wonder the bridegroom elect was afraid of you! Tis horrid, surely, of the highly virtuous E. McC. to do such a thing. Sounds like getting wedding presents by false pretenses too. On that score 10/642each lets us out cheap I think. Many thanks (in advance) for the Pagan Papers which I have often meant to ger for myself, but never have. I don't know why. Letter with handkershiefs may be considered definitely \"lost.\" Always register anybulky important letters as P.O. here (Tientsin) is very unreliable. Several letters to me, all fat, have been lost. All except one had the senders name and address on the outside, but they neither came to me nor went back. I am much amused by Miss Cornwall's remarks about the Responsibility43. Gently encourage her, if you have time \u0026 inclination, to go a little into ways \u0026 means. If \u0026 when I can manage it I should like her to go to America \u0026 (more or less) the sooner the better. I say more of less because I consider the experimental stage not to be finally over. She had a rather bad start \u0026 I was assured on many levels that I must fail. I want to see definitely that I have succeeded –that is in point of character. Then she must know a little English to start with \u0026 there remains the financial question. The school at present may succeed in pouring knowledge into her, but won't get much further. She cannot be moulded by machinery, but only by hand \u0026 that a hand that she is attached to or prepared to be attached to. You may as well tell Miss Cornwall that I should not approve of my daughter going buggy riding with young Chinese with whom I am am not personally acquainted. Not much fear, anyhow, as your local lot will all be Cantonese, I presume, as would the young lady in white satin. I have had another young woman much on my mind of late. I only discovered about a week ago (by the C in C'sdirect confession) that the elder girl's feet were bound. In the new house I don't see as muc of them as in Chumanfu. I remonstrated, gently but firmly. We had only come out of hospital for the day \u0026 were back that evening. Next day I saw the child \u0026 saw that my words had had an effect. I thereupon sent for her mother \u0026 jumped down her silly throat, boots \u0026 breeches \u0026 all. I have won \u0026 the feet are now unbound, but I had to risk a good deal as my one standing ground was that I simply would not allow it in my house, it being forbidden by the Emperor, which I admitted that of course in the country districts of China no Emperor counted for a tuppenny damn. Of coure, the plea is Cannot help it –no small feet, no husband. I want the child to join my Responsibility in Peking next term. I had antoher ride yesterday. I found a village with food houses in it –whether any to let I cannot say. It is to get society that I propose moving into a village. The Chinese town here is like London for knowing ones neighbours \u0026 except for the German whose horse I rode, I have no foreigners at all near. For them I shall be no more our of the way than at present. Meantime I have dug up some bricks \u0026 sown what I hope is good seed \u0026 may have some English flowers this summer if I stay in this house. I wishI lived in Peking, which isin China. There is just a faint chance that I may ultimately get a job there. Ihave been quietly cultivating it for six months or more. Believe me, Yr affectionate brother, Alfred TingleAp. 11thNothing to add to this. I think things are very quiet just now.44Yrs AT.","c/o No 5 P.O. Ho Pei, Tientsin City. April 26th/ 09","My dear Lilian","Just after I last wrote you came the Pagan Papers45. I have still 2 or three to read I think. They are excellent. I found the avuncular portion by instinct. Of course my position in the matter is a delicate one. I have an uncle \u0026 also amone46to say nothing of being a guardian. As to what should be done to my own there cannot be two opinions, \u0026 I am trying to give as little offfense as possible in my more active capacity. I was pretty busy 11th–18thinst, one little thing \u0026 another, but on 17thwent to an awfully poor show (mostly Japs) with another man. On 19thI went to Peking after finishing up, the 20thbeing a holiday, but hust before starting received your of Mar 21st\u0026 its enclosure about Wn \u0026 the han-fool with which I convulsed one or two people in Peking. I stayed there in the German Bank. Also saw the youngster who is well but pretty homesick –does not seem to make friends. Female in charge says she wants to be a Christian. I shall enquire into this at length during the holiday, for while I give a 'free hand' I will have no leg-pulling \u0026 I won't countenance her being raked into missionary educational methods. Present school is best that can be done\u0026 I don't say official (native) schools are worse. But the missionaries are trying to do too much on an utterly inadequate basis. On the train I met an ex-student of mine from New York. I had had him in private tuition extra, but never got a thing into him as he admits. He avowed (with shame, I'm glad to say) that he had been teaching chemistry amongst other things at a mission college, one of the best in Sufante (?)too! I should have come home on Wed. (21st) but missed the train, so got home on Thurs noon only to find (1) that I was not needed, the Mint having closed protem \u0026 (2) that my guts were working twistedly. Result I went to bed \u0026 disciplined the unruly members with magnesium sulphate, lead \u0026 opium \u0026 milk. If present symptoms continue I shall tomorrow get up \u0026 go onto full diet having learned there to be toads. Last night Eggeling, the German Bank man, came down, leaving again today. He reported he \u0026 Careles the other man at the Bank had both had a little trouble also. Their well pump was out of order \u0026 it seems as though the fish pond had been resorted to to help out the water supply. As to your letter, I hope you are not overdoing things. Ease up on letters to me if you can do nothing else. I presume you not understand that Japan is quite out of the question for me this year at least. At present I have to hold on here with teeth \u0026 claws, while swinging my tail towards Peking in hopes of twisting it round something there.I have added to my family today. Yesterday arrived the mother of the Responsibility, who had come in the train of some tai-tai, taking the chance to see the R. I wanted her any how (1) because I can get her a better job here than she had in Chunanfu\u0026 she being here the R can come home for her holidays without the disapproval of the Methodist element. I have not pointed out to the latter that inf act \u0026 in Chinese eyes the mother now counts for nothing except in just so far as she may still have persuasive powers. It is useless to try to meet everybody's ideas. It was pointed our by a Chinese (who has seen the old lady) that if I sent for her \u0026 had her under my roof, being unmarried, a scandal could be created. Now she is 45 gone\u0026 has had a very hard life which shows in her face –you know these country-women faces. Appropriately dressed she might pass if not for my grandmother at least for my grand-mother-in-law! As she has come without being sent for Providence evidently intends me to face the scandal out. Believe me, Yr affectionate brother, Alfred Tingle."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"names_coll_ssim":["Read 'Em Again Books"],"names_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","Read 'Em Again Books","Tingle, Alfred"],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","Read 'Em Again Books"],"persname_ssim":["Tingle, Alfred"],"language_ssim":["English"],"descrules_ssm":["Describing Archives: A Content Standard"],"total_component_count_is":1,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T09:01:07.323Z","scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eEight letters from brother in Tientsin, China to his sister in Oregon, both of whom expatriated from Britain.  Both were British ex-patriots. Alfred was a chemist and working for the Imperial Chinese Mint at the time of this letters. Lillian was a food columnist for the Oregonian newspaper. Alfred writes about current events in his area, the ousting of all of the Japanese from his region, activities in Afghanistan, work progress, some of his publications in scientific journals, and of his charge, a small girl whom he is determined to have learn English and become a teacher of such.  As a last resort he would allow her to become a missionary.  Alfred also comments in most of his letters how infrequently he receives letters from his sister, and how often they seem to get lost while en route to him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTranscripts of the Alfred Tingle letters were written by Alastair H. Thomas, Professor Emeritus, Leyland, UK. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e? P.O. Ho Pei,Tientsin Jan 3rd/ 09 \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMy dear Lilian\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe fates have sent no letter from either John or you this fortnight, but yesterday came the Derby-shire for which I already gave thanks beforehand, which thanks are now redoubled. It is cut \u0026amp; glanced at –already. I have duly noted the reference to our dear bard \u0026amp; have grieved over the sum-mary dismissal of Allan \u0026amp; Clara –how much less romantic \"Enry, my Enery!\" is than \"Allan my Al-lan!\" I can see that much is unto is in this book. Since I wrote things have been broken up a bit, Leang En being recalled to be examined before, as we hope, being sent abroad. I had an Xmas party of him, Kwang, the youngster \u0026amp; myself. She is becoming quite satisfied to go to Peking but announc-es that she will reserve $2 of her pocket money \u0026amp; if you come here she will run away, pay her train rare down here \u0026amp; so manage to see you. Incidentally she wasn't to take a photo of you to Peking. Her ambition has been satisfied in another direction by having become the \"mother\" of a doll which opens and shuts its eyes and moves its head etc! I found one could be got in Shanghai at a reasonable price. I don't think they will make much of a Christian of her in Peking. She has no religious instinct seemingly. One of my idols33has come in for great luck. The translator of the Mint34was in here on business lately. We are good friends beginning from both being friends of Kwang with whom he was at school in the U.S. He admired my collection \u0026amp; then asked me to give or sell him one. I said \"Certainly\" and then he explained by saying \"My old woman \u0026amp; the children always kowtow during the 12th moon \u0026amp; especially at New Year and as they have nothing better they put up my tablet and kowtow to that. I don't like it but if they had one they could kowtow to that instead.\" He made his choice and carried it off, subject to approval. Next day I enquired whether it gave satisfaction. He said \"No. My wife reac-quired hers. She was a very bad woman who was sent to the lowest hell \u0026amp; only got out by the help of her son who let below a chain to her from heaven. My wife says she wasn't a respectable character \u0026amp; she won't kowtow to her.\" I offered to exchange it for another, but he came back empty handed \u0026amp; said that after all his wife had burned incense to the lady \u0026amp; had asked her to dinner that day: however I sent along another guaranteed to be a person of irreproachable morals. The matter was to be re-ferred to a nearby priest. Yesterday the moral lady returned \u0026amp; the one of doubtful morals (we will hope reformed completely) has been taken into the family \u0026amp; is getting a regular supply of rations. I have not yet heard how it was worked, as I have not seen the husband since he just came back.By the by the youngster, when the book came from you yesterday promptly reproached me for not having sent you anything Chinese for a long time, so I must send you something, but at present I don't quite know what. She is also planning to send you something, but we don't yet know what it is to be. I have had no routine work to do \u0026amp; so have got off a little note and about 6M.S.pp. via John, cal-culated to put a limit to some wild statements by a Belgian made some years back \u0026amp; stored away by me for future (use?).Tomorrow I begin a campaign by which I hope to vindicate my favourite meth-od of determining iron, on which a more recent slur has been cast. Believe me, Yr affectionate brother, Alfred Tingle.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDon't address letters here AT. Imperial Chinese Pei Yang Mint, Tientsin, Jan 19th, 1909.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMy dear Lilian,\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe enclosed was take at the same time as the last lab, but got overlooked. We are much occupied in preparations for going to school after the New Year which is Friday next. We should like not to go, if it were possible, but I see no other really good way, specially as we have \"growed\" so.The original idol has been kept by the lady to whom it was sent, on the advice of a priest, who re-ported the alternative one to be an image of the North Star \u0026amp;agoddess of no importance. Talking of disreputable characters such as this goddess reminds me that C Quincey has come up here \u0026amp; reports the settlement much built up, a theatre opened opposite \"my\" door 7 all the city ladies of the same ancient profession as this goddess transferred to this settlement. I'm glad I don't have to keep order there now –I think it would cast too much in new riding whips. Quincey isdigging out for Shanghai. Goodall gone, Li (Frenchman) going, Husband going, Whittick to be married very soon(the young-ster says the girl who is going to marry him can never have seen him). Said youngster cannot be Chi-nese. I recently bought some cheese –the first I have had in the house since you were there, I think. She asked what it was, tasted it and promptly asked for more! The like never happened with a Chi-nese before, their version being that cheese is a filthy concoction much appreciated by rats, foreign devils \u0026amp; a few enterprising Chinese of strong stomach who have gradually \u0026amp; perseveringly learnt the habit. Please excuse more. I'm very tires \u0026amp; have been bedevilled for 12 days past by some opium reme-dies, for the analysis of which I have to use brain matter in place of more usual reagents \u0026amp; apparatus. Believe me, Yr affectionate brother, Alfred Tingle.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ec/oNo 8 P.O. Ho Pei Tientsin City Jan 31st/ 09\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMy dear Lilian\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eYours of Dec 12thcame recently, with its cutting enclosed. The latter are quite too funny. The Illsley35marriage is a queer go:71-25=46. I presume she decided it was better to be an old man's dar-ling than her mother's slave. Though it might have been better if both bride and groom had spun around three times on their heels and mutually cried No! No!! No!!! I cannot bring to mind any recol-lections of the bride \u0026amp; any of her sisters for that matter. They are \u0026amp; always have been amorphous to me. As to the McCambie marriage, what is Mr Effie McCambie's Christian name, not Jabez or Joseph I hope. I have refrained from replying re marriage with her (chile fu?).I am glad to hear that you are on the regular Oregonian staff again, but I hope you will not overdo it. I will see about the flint \u0026amp; steel etc. in due course. It is all a question of making up a parcel worth sending. If my stuff doesn't take on, simply withdraw it from circulation. I'm too busy, for writing, on the whole these days \u0026amp; in no mood for it. Anyhow I don't feel inclined to put myself out of the way about it. If the Public care for what I care to write so, \u0026amp; if not so, let them do the writing themselves, but not being dependent on it is not ...(end of page; letter is incomplete.)c/o No 8 P.O. Ho Pei Tientsin City. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFeb 14th/ 09\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMy dear Lilian \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe day after I last wrotei.e. on the 1st, I took the Responsibility up to Peking \u0026amp; planted her at the school there. I hope the experiment is going to succeed. The impediment to my mind is the school-mistress element, with its materialistic sense that a promise is only a promise as long as is convenient, \u0026amp; alas the female-missionary lack of appreciation of the lines of Chinese thought. Anyhow fees are paid for a year \u0026amp; it is to be hope we shall be O.K. We are going to learn English (avances?), parallel with our Chinese. Finding nearly everyone away from Peking \u0026amp; being very uncomfortable at the hotel which was too hot \u0026amp; there the food was vile, I came back next day. Last week end the Peking mes-senger of Deutsche Asia Bank who hails from Edinburgh, came down \u0026amp; stayed with me waking me up in a very effectual manner –in fact on Sat I didn't get home till morning \u0026amp; barely got there then for there was a jubilation at the German Club, we had to go there hunting a man \u0026amp; didn't get away till after 4 am with a 3 or 4 mile walk before us, \u0026amp; I had to be up at 8 am to take my man to the hint, again on business. It was strenuous and I have barely recovered, not being assisted to do so by the sudden plunge into extreme solitude. There is no doubt I miss the Responsibility extremely –much more than I thought I should: However that –that is, is \u0026amp; I have no more news except that I saw the father of \"Admiral Togo\" on the street yesterday. He had been here some days but was going away last night. He says that by Sept he \u0026amp; all the Japs we know will have evacuated Chumanfu.I am sorry for a rather stupid letter but I have a very stupid 9 days behind me and behind that noth-ing much. I expect to be in regular harness tomorrow when a new coin sampling system of my invention comes into force. Believe me, Yr affectionate brother, Alfred Tingle.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ec/o No 8 Post Office. Ho Pei, Tientsin City, Feb 28th/ 09\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMy dear Lilian \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI have no letters of yours to reply to, which may be because you have not had time to write, but also may be because your letters have been getting stolen. Either supposition is a reasonable one, the latter in view of the fact that the one you spoke of as having a handkerchief or two enclosed has never ar-rived on my side \u0026amp; I have very little to tell you. I have had a light time at the laboratory, for my rou-tine work is now reduced to a system. I have been carrying on a research in a somewhat tentative way only, because want of materials \u0026amp; apparatus came as a pretty heavy handicap on such. The particular thing in question has been on my mind for years\u0026amp; a preliminary canter with it may result in the pro-duction of compounds which can be identified without analysis, or, if analysis is necessary they can be sent to John. The materials are necessarily limited to what I have in hand. Meanwhile I am acquiring Fame. In recent journals a Scotchman has presented further indirect evidence in favour of a constitu-tional formula assigned by Japp36\u0026amp; Tingle (I thought it dead and buried) \u0026amp; a German has with due acknowledgement been employing a reaction first investigated by A Tingle. This reaction had also seemed dead these seven years past. Meanwhile I have not really enough work to keep me from being rather bored. I recently found some cardboard in which to send the photos of the Responsibility over with Mrs Hu \u0026amp; the others with Miss Hu. Hu, himself, is in hospital but going strong. He has to lie still \u0026amp; eat as little as possible. He can afford to starve a while, as I think you will agree. Properly he should be on a purely milk diet, but he likes milk about as much as I do castor oil, so semi-starvation is the alternative. I have a letter from Peking of most optimistic nature dealing with the Responsibility. It is too opti-mistic to suit me. Conduct all that could be desired –which I can well believe \u0026amp; she wants nothing which I cannot. It isn't in nature for a schoolgirl to want nothing when asked, but it is to refuse to put her wants through the medium of a new (and therefore distrusted) head teacher. However I shall be in Peking soon –perhaps next weekend –\u0026amp; can perhaps see for myself. I am only waiting for Harri-son to get leave. I want a talk with him. The female at the School I distrust myself. In one respect already she has gone back on her own word \u0026amp; agreement with me \"because she thinks best\" etc.\u0026amp; after the matter was pretty well thrashed out. More than once she has in the blandest manner sug-gested that I should (for the best of motives of course) go back on my own promises to that\u0026amp; the other. Being a Methodist she would be shocked to be called a Jesuit. The Point at issue is the teaching of English, \u0026amp; on this point I must screw her up. The general sense of the meeting is that the R's best chance is to be turned as completely as possible into a foreign devil (Quincey pattern with improve-ments so to say) in which case her earlier history becomes entirely absorbed. Also she can make more money by teaching English that Chinese. I don't for obvious reasons know how much I can do for her, but she will repay an effort –that is generally conceded. I have a pattern herein the shape of Dr. Kim –did I tell you about her? Chinese woman who speaks perfect English \u0026amp; would be clever \u0026amp; notable woman in home surroundings, I think.I am afraid this letter is very stupid, but there is nothing really to write about. I am wrong, though, for it is since my last letter that Iwas taken to see amateur performance of the \"Sorcerer\". Leading lady \u0026amp; gentleman were dreadful sticks, but J.W. Wells himself was admirable. The Rector was pretty good too \u0026amp; the chorus admirably drilled. I had never seen it on the stage before. The early part –be-fore JW Wells comes on–drags, \u0026amp; that badly where the leaders are fools.(Much encored on person-al grounds. The business kept me up late but \"shuk me up\" \u0026amp; did good generally. I was a Press dead-head taking Editorial Wife, Editor being ill in bed. Believe me, Yr affectionate brother, Alfred Tingle.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ec/o No. 8P.O. Ho Pei,Tientsin City: March 14th/ 09\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMy Dear Lilian,\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThere has again been no letter from you, \u0026amp; I can only infer your continued existence as such from the arrival of the Sheffield Univ magazine which had passed through your hands. I hope you are not overdoing things because, while I should much like to have you come out here this summer I have no blessed tree for you to repose under if you do. I'm living in diminishing hope that I may yet find a kind of local Wu Li Kan where I may be able to pitch a moving tent \u0026amp; live more in the style that my heart loves. I'm hoping that I may hear before long what your prospects of coming are any how.Be under no mistake I have ample room only no tree \u0026amp; no prophet. I have had a desperate time this last two weeks getting orders for new chemical equipment put through \u0026amp; failing to do so, \u0026amp; all the rest of it, but I think there is nothing very interesting or exciting. Last night I was out of dinner at a local editors –quite small but a rather amusing company, to wit a French officer \u0026amp; wife, the deputy-commissioner of customs \u0026amp; wife\u0026amp; an officer of the Punjabi Regt. As bearing on the E.M.C. ques-tions I pricked up ears when the latter spoke of a bit turnup in India in a little while, but the whole idea of that is Afghan37trouble, it being stated that the Ameer is about on his last legs \u0026amp; things will happen soon on a large scaleup there. Of course that is only mess gossip with probably much wish as father to the thought. I didn't get home till morning \u0026amp; have a head today. On Thurs. I woke up to heavy snow, after very mild weather the day before. Snow again today. Good for the wheat. But it has put off some riding I might otherwise have got. My German neighbour, engineer in chief of the north section of the Tientsin Nanking Ry. has 4 ponies who don't have any work except when he goes on tour \u0026amp; then break down for lack of previous exercise he says, though I suspect it is too muchee squeeze –pidgin on the part of the mafuthat makes them crumple. I astonished him when I told him how much I had covered ground on Saul. However, I can give them some exercise, I think, when weather is a little better. Do you remember Kwang? He came here soon after me. Has now gota job on the Yangtse. His wife \u0026amp; family follow him shortly. It was one of his daughters who was reported to have a face like a plum pudding that had been trodden on. Poor oppressed Chinese women. My colleague at the Mint reports that his wife is going to her house to see after family affairs –took her ticket \u0026amp; went to her people to meet her without consult-ing him at all. He has to look after the children at home. There is, however some chance that she may bring him a (lioz?)to attend to his wants on her return. As, by the by, a sign of the times I may men-tion that he asserts that he is not going to get husbands for his daughters(one of whom is marriageable but at Normal School) he is going to \"educate them to make their own living, \u0026amp; if they want to marry that is their look-out\"! The Viceroy38seems to have made himself fairly solid with the new regime in Peking. He had a present lately of some of the late Emperor sold clothes, which means continued favour for the time being. All the better for me. Believe me, Yr affectionate brother, Alfred Tingle. \nIn case you are coming here I may observe that the Nippon Yusen Kaisha have a trans-Pacific service \u0026amp; also many coasting services, amongst others boats from Kobe to Tientsin. If times suited you might save by taking their boat from Japan at least \u0026amp; coming direct, not via Shanghai. On the other hand Shanghai-Tientsin boats sail almost daily \u0026amp;most are better boats than these others.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ec/o No 8P.O. Ho Pei, Tientsin City. April 7th/ 09\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMy dear Lilian\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThis is not my regular writing day, but it as happens that I have not much else to do for which I have any inclination. I shall keep the letter open till Tuesday, however on the off chance of there being something to add . Yours of Mar2ndcame some time ago. As to China –forests \u0026amp;lumber –I am sending you \"Science\" with a condensation of a more or less recent Presidential message (Please return the Science when done with.) I have made marginal notes, mostly in the form of numbers which refer to comments under the same numbers regularly jotted down \u0026amp; enclosed with this. I also have added a few remarks of my own on subjects beyond the message's scope. I don't know if this is any use. As to the real state of the country you may say \"Veni Vidi\"39\u0026amp; can perhaps give more information by word of mouth that I can in writing. You have seen typical N. China. So what I have written in the notes I may add that if the climate here is changing now, it can have little connection with the clearing of the forests which must have been as complete asnow more than 6000 years ago.40Teddy41is a great energetic man, but liable to talk rot. Read for yourself \u0026amp; see if it not a written caricature.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI suppose Meyers report referred to is published, but don't know, if any particularized information is wanted, let me know what it is \u0026amp; I will get it if there is still time. The doubt you raise about Effie McCambies \"status\" (horrible word) is certainly a grave one. I looked at her last letter to me, thanking me for congratulations \u0026amp; she there speaks of his meeting her in Bombay (I think) \u0026amp; that they would go off together. You throw a horrid doubt too over the possible meaning of the reference to notmarrying one's cook. Does she possibly mean that one should (Good Heavens!) as Carlyle would say. And things are decidedly peculiar in the East too. I happen to know a man in Peking –a very notable man too, does all the German loans. His wife is, on some scruple of conscience that I don't understand about, not legally his wife though all the children are legitimatised according to German law! No wonder the bridegroom elect was afraid of you! Tis horrid, surely, of the highly virtuous E. McC. to do such a thing. Sounds like getting wedding presents by false pretenses too. On that score 10/642each lets us out cheap I think. Many thanks (in advance) for the Pagan Papers which I have often meant to ger for myself, but never have. I don't know why. Letter with handkershiefs may be considered definitely \"lost.\" Always register anybulky important letters as P.O. here (Tientsin) is very unreliable. Several letters to me, all fat, have been lost. All except one had the senders name and address on the outside, but they neither came to me nor went back. I am much amused by Miss Cornwall's remarks about the Responsibility43. Gently encourage her, if you have time \u0026amp; inclination, to go a little into ways \u0026amp; means. If \u0026amp; when I can manage it I should like her to go to America \u0026amp; (more or less) the sooner the better. I say more of less because I consider the experimental stage not to be finally over. She had a rather bad start \u0026amp; I was assured on many levels that I must fail. I want to see definitely that I have succeeded –that is in point of character. Then she must know a little English to start with \u0026amp; there remains the financial question. The school at present may succeed in pouring knowledge into her, but won't get much further. She cannot be moulded by machinery, but only by hand \u0026amp; that a hand that she is attached to or prepared to be attached to. You may as well tell Miss Cornwall that I should not approve of my daughter going buggy riding with young Chinese with whom I am am not personally acquainted. Not much fear, anyhow, as your local lot will all be Cantonese, I presume, as would the young lady in white satin. I have had another young woman much on my mind of late. I only discovered about a week ago (by the C in C'sdirect confession) that the elder girl's feet were bound. In the new house I don't see as muc of them as in Chumanfu. I remonstrated, gently but firmly. We had only come out of hospital for the day \u0026amp; were back that evening. Next day I saw the child \u0026amp; saw that my words had had an effect. I thereupon sent for her mother \u0026amp; jumped down her silly throat, boots \u0026amp; breeches \u0026amp; all. I have won \u0026amp; the feet are now unbound, but I had to risk a good deal as my one standing ground was that I simply would not allow it in my house, it being forbidden by the Emperor, which I admitted that of course in the country districts of China no Emperor counted for a tuppenny damn. Of coure, the plea is Cannot help it –no small feet, no husband. I want the child to join my Responsibility in Peking next term. I had antoher ride yesterday. I found a village with food houses in it –whether any to let I cannot say. It is to get society that I propose moving into a village. The Chinese town here is like London for knowing ones neighbours \u0026amp; except for the German whose horse I rode, I have no foreigners at all near. For them I shall be no more our of the way than at present. Meantime I have dug up some bricks \u0026amp; sown what I hope is good seed \u0026amp; may have some English flowers this summer if I stay in this house. I wishI lived in Peking, which isin China. There is just a faint chance that I may ultimately get a job there. Ihave been quietly cultivating it for six months or more. Believe me, Yr affectionate brother, Alfred TingleAp. 11thNothing to add to this. I think things are very quiet just now.44Yrs AT.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ec/o No 5 P.O. Ho Pei, Tientsin City. April 26th/ 09\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMy dear Lilian\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eJust after I last wrote you came the Pagan Papers45. I have still 2 or three to read I think. They are excellent. I found the avuncular portion by instinct. Of course my position in the matter is a delicate one. I have an uncle \u0026amp; also amone46to say nothing of being a guardian. As to what should be done to my own there cannot be two opinions, \u0026amp; I am trying to give as little offfense as possible in my more active capacity. I was pretty busy 11th–18thinst, one little thing \u0026amp; another, but on 17thwent to an awfully poor show (mostly Japs) with another man. On 19thI went to Peking after finishing up, the 20thbeing a holiday, but hust before starting received your of Mar 21st\u0026amp; its enclosure about Wn \u0026amp; the han-fool with which I convulsed one or two people in Peking. I stayed there in the German Bank. Also saw the youngster who is well but pretty homesick –does not seem to make friends. Female in charge says she wants to be a Christian. I shall enquire into this at length during the holiday, for while I give a 'free hand' I will have no leg-pulling \u0026amp; I won't countenance her being raked into missionary educational methods. Present school is best that can be done\u0026amp; I don't say official (native) schools are worse. But the missionaries are trying to do too much on an utterly inadequate basis. On the train I met an ex-student of mine from New York. I had had him in private tuition extra, but never got a thing into him as he admits. He avowed (with shame, I'm glad to say) that he had been teaching chemistry amongst other things at a mission college, one of the best in Sufante (?)too! I should have come home on Wed. (21st) but missed the train, so got home on Thurs noon only to find (1) that I was not needed, the Mint having closed protem \u0026amp; (2) that my guts were working twistedly. Result I went to bed \u0026amp; disciplined the unruly members with magnesium sulphate, lead \u0026amp; opium \u0026amp; milk. If present symptoms continue I shall tomorrow get up \u0026amp; go onto full diet having learned there to be toads. Last night Eggeling, the German Bank man, came down, leaving again today. He reported he \u0026amp; Careles the other man at the Bank had both had a little trouble also. Their well pump was out of order \u0026amp; it seems as though the fish pond had been resorted to to help out the water supply. As to your letter, I hope you are not overdoing things. Ease up on letters to me if you can do nothing else. I presume you not understand that Japan is quite out of the question for me this year at least. At present I have to hold on here with teeth \u0026amp; claws, while swinging my tail towards Peking in hopes of twisting it round something there.I have added to my family today. Yesterday arrived the mother of the Responsibility, who had come in the train of some tai-tai, taking the chance to see the R. I wanted her any how (1) because I can get her a better job here than she had in Chunanfu\u0026amp; she being here the R can come home for her holidays without the disapproval of the Methodist element. I have not pointed out to the latter that inf act \u0026amp; in Chinese eyes the mother now counts for nothing except in just so far as she may still have persuasive powers. It is useless to try to meet everybody's ideas. It was pointed our by a Chinese (who has seen the old lady) that if I sent for her \u0026amp; had her under my roof, being unmarried, a scandal could be created. Now she is 45 gone\u0026amp; has had a very hard life which shows in her face –you know these country-women faces. Appropriately dressed she might pass if not for my grandmother at least for my grand-mother-in-law! As she has come without being sent for Providence evidently intends me to face the scandal out. Believe me, Yr affectionate brother, Alfred Tingle.\u003c/p\u003e"],"collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viw_repositories_2_resources_8328","ead_ssi":"viw_repositories_2_resources_8328","_root_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_8328","_nest_parent_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_8328","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/WM/repositories_2_resources_8328.xml","title_filing_ssi":"Tingle, Alfred Letters to Lillian Tingle","title_ssm":["Alfred Tingle Letters to Lillian Tingle"],"title_tesim":["Alfred Tingle Letters to Lillian Tingle"],"unitdate_ssm":["1909 Jan 3- April 26"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1909 Jan 3- April 26"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["SC 01592","/repositories/2/resources/8328"],"text":["SC 01592","/repositories/2/resources/8328","Alfred Tingle Letters to Lillian Tingle","China--History--20th century","Chemistry--Study and teaching","Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","The following biographical information has been generously provided by Alastair H. Thomas, Professor Emeritus, Leyland, UK.  ","John Bishop Tingle (1866-1918), Lilian Ella Tingle (1872-1951) and Alfred Tingle (1876-1955) were the children of Mary Elizabeth Bishop (1846-1891) and her husband, Alfred Tingle (1832-1877), a miller and grocer in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. Mary's brothers were John and Joseph. Dr John Bishop (1841-86) was a pioneer with Joseph Lister of antiseptic surgery, and married Isabella Bird, the much-published travel writer. Joseph Thomas Ford Bishop (1843-1925) was a chemical industry entrepreneur and Secretary of Manchester Chemical Club.","John Bishop Tingle obtained his BSc in Manchester and his Chemistry PhD in Munich, Germany, then taught in high schools in Bristol and Aberdeen, Scotland, to secure his brother Alfred's education. In 1898 he moved to USA to lecture on Chemistry at the Lewis Institute, Chicago; from 1907 was Professor of Chemistry at McMaster University, Toronto. Lilian Tingle learned Domestic Economy in Aberdeen and taught this and German at the State Manual Training School, Ellendale, North Dakota, 1899-1905. She then moved to Portland, Oregon, to become Director of the School of Domestic Science, later called the Girls' Polytechnic School. She also wrote on Home Economics and travel topics for The Oregonian, as mentioned in the letters. In 1917 she moved to Eugene to found the Dept. of Household Arts in the University of Oregon, which holds three albums of carte-de-visite photographs of Tingle family members and others.","Alfred Tingle attended Aberdeen University and obtained his Chemistry PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1898. In 1904 he was appointed as a professor at the Shantung Provincial College in China and remained in China, living in Tientsin (Tianjin), until 1912 as a Chemistry consultant, working some of the time at the Imperial Chinese Pei Yang Mint. He returned to USA/Canada in 1912 when China transitioned from the Imperial Manchu Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China.","Letters in the collection span only January to April 1909. Alfred wrote regularly to Lilian but many letters did not arrive. His comments are very guarded on politics but mention mess-room gossip about impending trouble in distant Afghanistan. His advances in chemistry are referenced obliquely (and presumably published in scientific journals). Lilian had earlier visited him in China and met some of his acquaintances, on whom he comments. He had taken on the care and education of a young Chinese girl, referred to as 'the Responsibility' or 'R' or 'the youngster' and she is mentioned recurrently. She appears to have stayed in China when he left for the USA.","Additional genealogical information is available within the collection. ","Eight letters from brother in Tientsin, China to his sister in Oregon, both of whom expatriated from Britain.  Both were British ex-patriots. Alfred was a chemist and working for the Imperial Chinese Mint at the time of this letters. Lillian was a food columnist for the Oregonian newspaper. Alfred writes about current events in his area, the ousting of all of the Japanese from his region, activities in Afghanistan, work progress, some of his publications in scientific journals, and of his charge, a small girl whom he is determined to have learn English and become a teacher of such.  As a last resort he would allow her to become a missionary.  Alfred also comments in most of his letters how infrequently he receives letters from his sister, and how often they seem to get lost while en route to him.","Transcripts of the Alfred Tingle letters were written by Alastair H. Thomas, Professor Emeritus, Leyland, UK. ","? P.O. Ho Pei,Tientsin Jan 3rd/ 09 ","My dear Lilian","The fates have sent no letter from either John or you this fortnight, but yesterday came the Derby-shire for which I already gave thanks beforehand, which thanks are now redoubled. It is cut \u0026 glanced at –already. I have duly noted the reference to our dear bard \u0026 have grieved over the sum-mary dismissal of Allan \u0026 Clara –how much less romantic \"Enry, my Enery!\" is than \"Allan my Al-lan!\" I can see that much is unto is in this book. Since I wrote things have been broken up a bit, Leang En being recalled to be examined before, as we hope, being sent abroad. I had an Xmas party of him, Kwang, the youngster \u0026 myself. She is becoming quite satisfied to go to Peking but announc-es that she will reserve $2 of her pocket money \u0026 if you come here she will run away, pay her train rare down here \u0026 so manage to see you. Incidentally she wasn't to take a photo of you to Peking. Her ambition has been satisfied in another direction by having become the \"mother\" of a doll which opens and shuts its eyes and moves its head etc! I found one could be got in Shanghai at a reasonable price. I don't think they will make much of a Christian of her in Peking. She has no religious instinct seemingly. One of my idols33has come in for great luck. The translator of the Mint34was in here on business lately. We are good friends beginning from both being friends of Kwang with whom he was at school in the U.S. He admired my collection \u0026 then asked me to give or sell him one. I said \"Certainly\" and then he explained by saying \"My old woman \u0026 the children always kowtow during the 12th moon \u0026 especially at New Year and as they have nothing better they put up my tablet and kowtow to that. I don't like it but if they had one they could kowtow to that instead.\" He made his choice and carried it off, subject to approval. Next day I enquired whether it gave satisfaction. He said \"No. My wife reac-quired hers. She was a very bad woman who was sent to the lowest hell \u0026 only got out by the help of her son who let below a chain to her from heaven. My wife says she wasn't a respectable character \u0026 she won't kowtow to her.\" I offered to exchange it for another, but he came back empty handed \u0026 said that after all his wife had burned incense to the lady \u0026 had asked her to dinner that day: however I sent along another guaranteed to be a person of irreproachable morals. The matter was to be re-ferred to a nearby priest. Yesterday the moral lady returned \u0026 the one of doubtful morals (we will hope reformed completely) has been taken into the family \u0026 is getting a regular supply of rations. I have not yet heard how it was worked, as I have not seen the husband since he just came back.By the by the youngster, when the book came from you yesterday promptly reproached me for not having sent you anything Chinese for a long time, so I must send you something, but at present I don't quite know what. She is also planning to send you something, but we don't yet know what it is to be. I have had no routine work to do \u0026 so have got off a little note and about 6M.S.pp. via John, cal-culated to put a limit to some wild statements by a Belgian made some years back \u0026 stored away by me for future (use?).Tomorrow I begin a campaign by which I hope to vindicate my favourite meth-od of determining iron, on which a more recent slur has been cast. Believe me, Yr affectionate brother, Alfred Tingle.","Don't address letters here AT. Imperial Chinese Pei Yang Mint, Tientsin, Jan 19th, 1909.","My dear Lilian,","The enclosed was take at the same time as the last lab, but got overlooked. We are much occupied in preparations for going to school after the New Year which is Friday next. We should like not to go, if it were possible, but I see no other really good way, specially as we have \"growed\" so.The original idol has been kept by the lady to whom it was sent, on the advice of a priest, who re-ported the alternative one to be an image of the North Star \u0026agoddess of no importance. Talking of disreputable characters such as this goddess reminds me that C Quincey has come up here \u0026 reports the settlement much built up, a theatre opened opposite \"my\" door 7 all the city ladies of the same ancient profession as this goddess transferred to this settlement. I'm glad I don't have to keep order there now –I think it would cast too much in new riding whips. Quincey isdigging out for Shanghai. Goodall gone, Li (Frenchman) going, Husband going, Whittick to be married very soon(the young-ster says the girl who is going to marry him can never have seen him). Said youngster cannot be Chi-nese. I recently bought some cheese –the first I have had in the house since you were there, I think. She asked what it was, tasted it and promptly asked for more! The like never happened with a Chi-nese before, their version being that cheese is a filthy concoction much appreciated by rats, foreign devils \u0026 a few enterprising Chinese of strong stomach who have gradually \u0026 perseveringly learnt the habit. Please excuse more. I'm very tires \u0026 have been bedevilled for 12 days past by some opium reme-dies, for the analysis of which I have to use brain matter in place of more usual reagents \u0026 apparatus. Believe me, Yr affectionate brother, Alfred Tingle.","c/oNo 8 P.O. Ho Pei Tientsin City Jan 31st/ 09","My dear Lilian","Yours of Dec 12thcame recently, with its cutting enclosed. The latter are quite too funny. The Illsley35marriage is a queer go:71-25=46. I presume she decided it was better to be an old man's dar-ling than her mother's slave. Though it might have been better if both bride and groom had spun around three times on their heels and mutually cried No! No!! No!!! I cannot bring to mind any recol-lections of the bride \u0026 any of her sisters for that matter. They are \u0026 always have been amorphous to me. As to the McCambie marriage, what is Mr Effie McCambie's Christian name, not Jabez or Joseph I hope. I have refrained from replying re marriage with her (chile fu?).I am glad to hear that you are on the regular Oregonian staff again, but I hope you will not overdo it. I will see about the flint \u0026 steel etc. in due course. It is all a question of making up a parcel worth sending. If my stuff doesn't take on, simply withdraw it from circulation. I'm too busy, for writing, on the whole these days \u0026 in no mood for it. Anyhow I don't feel inclined to put myself out of the way about it. If the Public care for what I care to write so, \u0026 if not so, let them do the writing themselves, but not being dependent on it is not ...(end of page; letter is incomplete.)c/o No 8 P.O. Ho Pei Tientsin City. ","Feb 14th/ 09","My dear Lilian ","The day after I last wrotei.e. on the 1st, I took the Responsibility up to Peking \u0026 planted her at the school there. I hope the experiment is going to succeed. The impediment to my mind is the school-mistress element, with its materialistic sense that a promise is only a promise as long as is convenient, \u0026 alas the female-missionary lack of appreciation of the lines of Chinese thought. Anyhow fees are paid for a year \u0026 it is to be hope we shall be O.K. We are going to learn English (avances?), parallel with our Chinese. Finding nearly everyone away from Peking \u0026 being very uncomfortable at the hotel which was too hot \u0026 there the food was vile, I came back next day. Last week end the Peking mes-senger of Deutsche Asia Bank who hails from Edinburgh, came down \u0026 stayed with me waking me up in a very effectual manner –in fact on Sat I didn't get home till morning \u0026 barely got there then for there was a jubilation at the German Club, we had to go there hunting a man \u0026 didn't get away till after 4 am with a 3 or 4 mile walk before us, \u0026 I had to be up at 8 am to take my man to the hint, again on business. It was strenuous and I have barely recovered, not being assisted to do so by the sudden plunge into extreme solitude. There is no doubt I miss the Responsibility extremely –much more than I thought I should: However that –that is, is \u0026 I have no more news except that I saw the father of \"Admiral Togo\" on the street yesterday. He had been here some days but was going away last night. He says that by Sept he \u0026 all the Japs we know will have evacuated Chumanfu.I am sorry for a rather stupid letter but I have a very stupid 9 days behind me and behind that noth-ing much. I expect to be in regular harness tomorrow when a new coin sampling system of my invention comes into force. Believe me, Yr affectionate brother, Alfred Tingle.","c/o No 8 Post Office. Ho Pei, Tientsin City, Feb 28th/ 09","My dear Lilian ","I have no letters of yours to reply to, which may be because you have not had time to write, but also may be because your letters have been getting stolen. Either supposition is a reasonable one, the latter in view of the fact that the one you spoke of as having a handkerchief or two enclosed has never ar-rived on my side \u0026 I have very little to tell you. I have had a light time at the laboratory, for my rou-tine work is now reduced to a system. I have been carrying on a research in a somewhat tentative way only, because want of materials \u0026 apparatus came as a pretty heavy handicap on such. The particular thing in question has been on my mind for years\u0026 a preliminary canter with it may result in the pro-duction of compounds which can be identified without analysis, or, if analysis is necessary they can be sent to John. The materials are necessarily limited to what I have in hand. Meanwhile I am acquiring Fame. In recent journals a Scotchman has presented further indirect evidence in favour of a constitu-tional formula assigned by Japp36\u0026 Tingle (I thought it dead and buried) \u0026 a German has with due acknowledgement been employing a reaction first investigated by A Tingle. This reaction had also seemed dead these seven years past. Meanwhile I have not really enough work to keep me from being rather bored. I recently found some cardboard in which to send the photos of the Responsibility over with Mrs Hu \u0026 the others with Miss Hu. Hu, himself, is in hospital but going strong. He has to lie still \u0026 eat as little as possible. He can afford to starve a while, as I think you will agree. Properly he should be on a purely milk diet, but he likes milk about as much as I do castor oil, so semi-starvation is the alternative. I have a letter from Peking of most optimistic nature dealing with the Responsibility. It is too opti-mistic to suit me. Conduct all that could be desired –which I can well believe \u0026 she wants nothing which I cannot. It isn't in nature for a schoolgirl to want nothing when asked, but it is to refuse to put her wants through the medium of a new (and therefore distrusted) head teacher. However I shall be in Peking soon –perhaps next weekend –\u0026 can perhaps see for myself. I am only waiting for Harri-son to get leave. I want a talk with him. The female at the School I distrust myself. In one respect already she has gone back on her own word \u0026 agreement with me \"because she thinks best\" etc.\u0026 after the matter was pretty well thrashed out. More than once she has in the blandest manner sug-gested that I should (for the best of motives of course) go back on my own promises to that\u0026 the other. Being a Methodist she would be shocked to be called a Jesuit. The Point at issue is the teaching of English, \u0026 on this point I must screw her up. The general sense of the meeting is that the R's best chance is to be turned as completely as possible into a foreign devil (Quincey pattern with improve-ments so to say) in which case her earlier history becomes entirely absorbed. Also she can make more money by teaching English that Chinese. I don't for obvious reasons know how much I can do for her, but she will repay an effort –that is generally conceded. I have a pattern herein the shape of Dr. Kim –did I tell you about her? Chinese woman who speaks perfect English \u0026 would be clever \u0026 notable woman in home surroundings, I think.I am afraid this letter is very stupid, but there is nothing really to write about. I am wrong, though, for it is since my last letter that Iwas taken to see amateur performance of the \"Sorcerer\". Leading lady \u0026 gentleman were dreadful sticks, but J.W. Wells himself was admirable. The Rector was pretty good too \u0026 the chorus admirably drilled. I had never seen it on the stage before. The early part –be-fore JW Wells comes on–drags, \u0026 that badly where the leaders are fools.(Much encored on person-al grounds. The business kept me up late but \"shuk me up\" \u0026 did good generally. I was a Press dead-head taking Editorial Wife, Editor being ill in bed. Believe me, Yr affectionate brother, Alfred Tingle.","c/o No. 8P.O. Ho Pei,Tientsin City: March 14th/ 09","My Dear Lilian,","There has again been no letter from you, \u0026 I can only infer your continued existence as such from the arrival of the Sheffield Univ magazine which had passed through your hands. I hope you are not overdoing things because, while I should much like to have you come out here this summer I have no blessed tree for you to repose under if you do. I'm living in diminishing hope that I may yet find a kind of local Wu Li Kan where I may be able to pitch a moving tent \u0026 live more in the style that my heart loves. I'm hoping that I may hear before long what your prospects of coming are any how.Be under no mistake I have ample room only no tree \u0026 no prophet. I have had a desperate time this last two weeks getting orders for new chemical equipment put through \u0026 failing to do so, \u0026 all the rest of it, but I think there is nothing very interesting or exciting. Last night I was out of dinner at a local editors –quite small but a rather amusing company, to wit a French officer \u0026 wife, the deputy-commissioner of customs \u0026 wife\u0026 an officer of the Punjabi Regt. As bearing on the E.M.C. ques-tions I pricked up ears when the latter spoke of a bit turnup in India in a little while, but the whole idea of that is Afghan37trouble, it being stated that the Ameer is about on his last legs \u0026 things will happen soon on a large scaleup there. Of course that is only mess gossip with probably much wish as father to the thought. I didn't get home till morning \u0026 have a head today. On Thurs. I woke up to heavy snow, after very mild weather the day before. Snow again today. Good for the wheat. But it has put off some riding I might otherwise have got. My German neighbour, engineer in chief of the north section of the Tientsin Nanking Ry. has 4 ponies who don't have any work except when he goes on tour \u0026 then break down for lack of previous exercise he says, though I suspect it is too muchee squeeze –pidgin on the part of the mafuthat makes them crumple. I astonished him when I told him how much I had covered ground on Saul. However, I can give them some exercise, I think, when weather is a little better. Do you remember Kwang? He came here soon after me. Has now gota job on the Yangtse. His wife \u0026 family follow him shortly. It was one of his daughters who was reported to have a face like a plum pudding that had been trodden on. Poor oppressed Chinese women. My colleague at the Mint reports that his wife is going to her house to see after family affairs –took her ticket \u0026 went to her people to meet her without consult-ing him at all. He has to look after the children at home. There is, however some chance that she may bring him a (lioz?)to attend to his wants on her return. As, by the by, a sign of the times I may men-tion that he asserts that he is not going to get husbands for his daughters(one of whom is marriageable but at Normal School) he is going to \"educate them to make their own living, \u0026 if they want to marry that is their look-out\"! The Viceroy38seems to have made himself fairly solid with the new regime in Peking. He had a present lately of some of the late Emperor sold clothes, which means continued favour for the time being. All the better for me. Believe me, Yr affectionate brother, Alfred Tingle. \nIn case you are coming here I may observe that the Nippon Yusen Kaisha have a trans-Pacific service \u0026 also many coasting services, amongst others boats from Kobe to Tientsin. If times suited you might save by taking their boat from Japan at least \u0026 coming direct, not via Shanghai. On the other hand Shanghai-Tientsin boats sail almost daily \u0026most are better boats than these others.","c/o No 8P.O. Ho Pei, Tientsin City. April 7th/ 09","My dear Lilian","This is not my regular writing day, but it as happens that I have not much else to do for which I have any inclination. I shall keep the letter open till Tuesday, however on the off chance of there being something to add . Yours of Mar2ndcame some time ago. As to China –forests \u0026lumber –I am sending you \"Science\" with a condensation of a more or less recent Presidential message (Please return the Science when done with.) I have made marginal notes, mostly in the form of numbers which refer to comments under the same numbers regularly jotted down \u0026 enclosed with this. I also have added a few remarks of my own on subjects beyond the message's scope. I don't know if this is any use. As to the real state of the country you may say \"Veni Vidi\"39\u0026 can perhaps give more information by word of mouth that I can in writing. You have seen typical N. China. So what I have written in the notes I may add that if the climate here is changing now, it can have little connection with the clearing of the forests which must have been as complete asnow more than 6000 years ago.40Teddy41is a great energetic man, but liable to talk rot. Read for yourself \u0026 see if it not a written caricature.","I suppose Meyers report referred to is published, but don't know, if any particularized information is wanted, let me know what it is \u0026 I will get it if there is still time. The doubt you raise about Effie McCambies \"status\" (horrible word) is certainly a grave one. I looked at her last letter to me, thanking me for congratulations \u0026 she there speaks of his meeting her in Bombay (I think) \u0026 that they would go off together. You throw a horrid doubt too over the possible meaning of the reference to notmarrying one's cook. Does she possibly mean that one should (Good Heavens!) as Carlyle would say. And things are decidedly peculiar in the East too. I happen to know a man in Peking –a very notable man too, does all the German loans. His wife is, on some scruple of conscience that I don't understand about, not legally his wife though all the children are legitimatised according to German law! No wonder the bridegroom elect was afraid of you! Tis horrid, surely, of the highly virtuous E. McC. to do such a thing. Sounds like getting wedding presents by false pretenses too. On that score 10/642each lets us out cheap I think. Many thanks (in advance) for the Pagan Papers which I have often meant to ger for myself, but never have. I don't know why. Letter with handkershiefs may be considered definitely \"lost.\" Always register anybulky important letters as P.O. here (Tientsin) is very unreliable. Several letters to me, all fat, have been lost. All except one had the senders name and address on the outside, but they neither came to me nor went back. I am much amused by Miss Cornwall's remarks about the Responsibility43. Gently encourage her, if you have time \u0026 inclination, to go a little into ways \u0026 means. If \u0026 when I can manage it I should like her to go to America \u0026 (more or less) the sooner the better. I say more of less because I consider the experimental stage not to be finally over. She had a rather bad start \u0026 I was assured on many levels that I must fail. I want to see definitely that I have succeeded –that is in point of character. Then she must know a little English to start with \u0026 there remains the financial question. The school at present may succeed in pouring knowledge into her, but won't get much further. She cannot be moulded by machinery, but only by hand \u0026 that a hand that she is attached to or prepared to be attached to. You may as well tell Miss Cornwall that I should not approve of my daughter going buggy riding with young Chinese with whom I am am not personally acquainted. Not much fear, anyhow, as your local lot will all be Cantonese, I presume, as would the young lady in white satin. I have had another young woman much on my mind of late. I only discovered about a week ago (by the C in C'sdirect confession) that the elder girl's feet were bound. In the new house I don't see as muc of them as in Chumanfu. I remonstrated, gently but firmly. We had only come out of hospital for the day \u0026 were back that evening. Next day I saw the child \u0026 saw that my words had had an effect. I thereupon sent for her mother \u0026 jumped down her silly throat, boots \u0026 breeches \u0026 all. I have won \u0026 the feet are now unbound, but I had to risk a good deal as my one standing ground was that I simply would not allow it in my house, it being forbidden by the Emperor, which I admitted that of course in the country districts of China no Emperor counted for a tuppenny damn. Of coure, the plea is Cannot help it –no small feet, no husband. I want the child to join my Responsibility in Peking next term. I had antoher ride yesterday. I found a village with food houses in it –whether any to let I cannot say. It is to get society that I propose moving into a village. The Chinese town here is like London for knowing ones neighbours \u0026 except for the German whose horse I rode, I have no foreigners at all near. For them I shall be no more our of the way than at present. Meantime I have dug up some bricks \u0026 sown what I hope is good seed \u0026 may have some English flowers this summer if I stay in this house. I wishI lived in Peking, which isin China. There is just a faint chance that I may ultimately get a job there. Ihave been quietly cultivating it for six months or more. Believe me, Yr affectionate brother, Alfred TingleAp. 11thNothing to add to this. I think things are very quiet just now.44Yrs AT.","c/o No 5 P.O. Ho Pei, Tientsin City. April 26th/ 09","My dear Lilian","Just after I last wrote you came the Pagan Papers45. I have still 2 or three to read I think. They are excellent. I found the avuncular portion by instinct. Of course my position in the matter is a delicate one. I have an uncle \u0026 also amone46to say nothing of being a guardian. As to what should be done to my own there cannot be two opinions, \u0026 I am trying to give as little offfense as possible in my more active capacity. I was pretty busy 11th–18thinst, one little thing \u0026 another, but on 17thwent to an awfully poor show (mostly Japs) with another man. On 19thI went to Peking after finishing up, the 20thbeing a holiday, but hust before starting received your of Mar 21st\u0026 its enclosure about Wn \u0026 the han-fool with which I convulsed one or two people in Peking. I stayed there in the German Bank. Also saw the youngster who is well but pretty homesick –does not seem to make friends. Female in charge says she wants to be a Christian. I shall enquire into this at length during the holiday, for while I give a 'free hand' I will have no leg-pulling \u0026 I won't countenance her being raked into missionary educational methods. Present school is best that can be done\u0026 I don't say official (native) schools are worse. But the missionaries are trying to do too much on an utterly inadequate basis. On the train I met an ex-student of mine from New York. I had had him in private tuition extra, but never got a thing into him as he admits. He avowed (with shame, I'm glad to say) that he had been teaching chemistry amongst other things at a mission college, one of the best in Sufante (?)too! I should have come home on Wed. (21st) but missed the train, so got home on Thurs noon only to find (1) that I was not needed, the Mint having closed protem \u0026 (2) that my guts were working twistedly. Result I went to bed \u0026 disciplined the unruly members with magnesium sulphate, lead \u0026 opium \u0026 milk. If present symptoms continue I shall tomorrow get up \u0026 go onto full diet having learned there to be toads. Last night Eggeling, the German Bank man, came down, leaving again today. He reported he \u0026 Careles the other man at the Bank had both had a little trouble also. Their well pump was out of order \u0026 it seems as though the fish pond had been resorted to to help out the water supply. As to your letter, I hope you are not overdoing things. Ease up on letters to me if you can do nothing else. I presume you not understand that Japan is quite out of the question for me this year at least. At present I have to hold on here with teeth \u0026 claws, while swinging my tail towards Peking in hopes of twisting it round something there.I have added to my family today. Yesterday arrived the mother of the Responsibility, who had come in the train of some tai-tai, taking the chance to see the R. I wanted her any how (1) because I can get her a better job here than she had in Chunanfu\u0026 she being here the R can come home for her holidays without the disapproval of the Methodist element. I have not pointed out to the latter that inf act \u0026 in Chinese eyes the mother now counts for nothing except in just so far as she may still have persuasive powers. It is useless to try to meet everybody's ideas. It was pointed our by a Chinese (who has seen the old lady) that if I sent for her \u0026 had her under my roof, being unmarried, a scandal could be created. Now she is 45 gone\u0026 has had a very hard life which shows in her face –you know these country-women faces. Appropriately dressed she might pass if not for my grandmother at least for my grand-mother-in-law! As she has come without being sent for Providence evidently intends me to face the scandal out. Believe me, Yr affectionate brother, Alfred Tingle.","Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.","Special Collections Research Center","Read 'Em Again Books","Tingle, Alfred","English"],"unitid_tesim":["SC 01592","/repositories/2/resources/8328"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Alfred Tingle Letters to Lillian Tingle"],"collection_title_tesim":["Alfred Tingle Letters to Lillian Tingle"],"collection_ssim":["Alfred Tingle Letters to Lillian Tingle"],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"geogname_ssm":["China--History--20th century"],"geogname_ssim":["China--History--20th century"],"creator_ssm":["Tingle, Alfred","Read 'Em Again Books"],"creator_ssim":["Tingle, Alfred","Read 'Em Again Books"],"creator_persname_ssim":["Tingle, Alfred"],"creator_corpname_ssim":["Read 'Em Again Books"],"creators_ssim":["Tingle, Alfred","Read 'Em Again Books"],"places_ssim":["China--History--20th century"],"access_terms_ssm":["Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Purchased from Read 'Em Again Books with funds from the Maurine and William Dulin Fund, 2018."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Chemistry--Study and teaching"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Chemistry--Study and teaching"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"extent_ssm":["0.01 Linear Feet"],"extent_tesim":["0.01 Linear Feet"],"date_range_isim":[1909],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to all researchers. 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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe following biographical information has been generously provided by Alastair H. Thomas, Professor Emeritus, Leyland, UK.  \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eJohn Bishop Tingle (1866-1918), Lilian Ella Tingle (1872-1951) and Alfred Tingle (1876-1955) were the children of Mary Elizabeth Bishop (1846-1891) and her husband, Alfred Tingle (1832-1877), a miller and grocer in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. Mary's brothers were John and Joseph. Dr John Bishop (1841-86) was a pioneer with Joseph Lister of antiseptic surgery, and married Isabella Bird, the much-published travel writer. Joseph Thomas Ford Bishop (1843-1925) was a chemical industry entrepreneur and Secretary of Manchester Chemical Club.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eJohn Bishop Tingle obtained his BSc in Manchester and his Chemistry PhD in Munich, Germany, then taught in high schools in Bristol and Aberdeen, Scotland, to secure his brother Alfred's education. In 1898 he moved to USA to lecture on Chemistry at the Lewis Institute, Chicago; from 1907 was Professor of Chemistry at McMaster University, Toronto. Lilian Tingle learned Domestic Economy in Aberdeen and taught this and German at the State Manual Training School, Ellendale, North Dakota, 1899-1905. She then moved to Portland, Oregon, to become Director of the School of Domestic Science, later called the Girls' Polytechnic School. She also wrote on Home Economics and travel topics for The Oregonian, as mentioned in the letters. In 1917 she moved to Eugene to found the Dept. of Household Arts in the University of Oregon, which holds three albums of carte-de-visite photographs of Tingle family members and others.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAlfred Tingle attended Aberdeen University and obtained his Chemistry PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1898. In 1904 he was appointed as a professor at the Shantung Provincial College in China and remained in China, living in Tientsin (Tianjin), until 1912 as a Chemistry consultant, working some of the time at the Imperial Chinese Pei Yang Mint. He returned to USA/Canada in 1912 when China transitioned from the Imperial Manchu Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLetters in the collection span only January to April 1909. Alfred wrote regularly to Lilian but many letters did not arrive. His comments are very guarded on politics but mention mess-room gossip about impending trouble in distant Afghanistan. His advances in chemistry are referenced obliquely (and presumably published in scientific journals). Lilian had earlier visited him in China and met some of his acquaintances, on whom he comments. He had taken on the care and education of a young Chinese girl, referred to as 'the Responsibility' or 'R' or 'the youngster' and she is mentioned recurrently. She appears to have stayed in China when he left for the USA.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAdditional genealogical information is available within the collection. \u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["The following biographical information has been generously provided by Alastair H. Thomas, Professor Emeritus, Leyland, UK.  ","John Bishop Tingle (1866-1918), Lilian Ella Tingle (1872-1951) and Alfred Tingle (1876-1955) were the children of Mary Elizabeth Bishop (1846-1891) and her husband, Alfred Tingle (1832-1877), a miller and grocer in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. Mary's brothers were John and Joseph. Dr John Bishop (1841-86) was a pioneer with Joseph Lister of antiseptic surgery, and married Isabella Bird, the much-published travel writer. Joseph Thomas Ford Bishop (1843-1925) was a chemical industry entrepreneur and Secretary of Manchester Chemical Club.","John Bishop Tingle obtained his BSc in Manchester and his Chemistry PhD in Munich, Germany, then taught in high schools in Bristol and Aberdeen, Scotland, to secure his brother Alfred's education. In 1898 he moved to USA to lecture on Chemistry at the Lewis Institute, Chicago; from 1907 was Professor of Chemistry at McMaster University, Toronto. Lilian Tingle learned Domestic Economy in Aberdeen and taught this and German at the State Manual Training School, Ellendale, North Dakota, 1899-1905. She then moved to Portland, Oregon, to become Director of the School of Domestic Science, later called the Girls' Polytechnic School. She also wrote on Home Economics and travel topics for The Oregonian, as mentioned in the letters. In 1917 she moved to Eugene to found the Dept. of Household Arts in the University of Oregon, which holds three albums of carte-de-visite photographs of Tingle family members and others.","Alfred Tingle attended Aberdeen University and obtained his Chemistry PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1898. In 1904 he was appointed as a professor at the Shantung Provincial College in China and remained in China, living in Tientsin (Tianjin), until 1912 as a Chemistry consultant, working some of the time at the Imperial Chinese Pei Yang Mint. He returned to USA/Canada in 1912 when China transitioned from the Imperial Manchu Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China.","Letters in the collection span only January to April 1909. Alfred wrote regularly to Lilian but many letters did not arrive. His comments are very guarded on politics but mention mess-room gossip about impending trouble in distant Afghanistan. His advances in chemistry are referenced obliquely (and presumably published in scientific journals). Lilian had earlier visited him in China and met some of his acquaintances, on whom he comments. He had taken on the care and education of a young Chinese girl, referred to as 'the Responsibility' or 'R' or 'the youngster' and she is mentioned recurrently. She appears to have stayed in China when he left for the USA.","Additional genealogical information is available within the collection. "],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAlfred Tingle Letters to Lillian Tingle, Special Collections Research Center, William \u0026amp; Mary Libraries.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Alfred Tingle Letters to Lillian Tingle, Special Collections Research Center, William \u0026 Mary Libraries."],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Eight letters from brother in Tientsin, China to his sister in Oregon, both of whom expatriated from Britain.  Both were British ex-patriots. Alfred was a chemist and working for the Imperial Chinese Mint at the time of this letters. Lillian was a food columnist for the Oregonian newspaper. Alfred writes about current events in his area, the ousting of all of the Japanese from his region, activities in Afghanistan, work progress, some of his publications in scientific journals, and of his charge, a small girl whom he is determined to have learn English and become a teacher of such.  As a last resort he would allow her to become a missionary.  Alfred also comments in most of his letters how infrequently he receives letters from his sister, and how often they seem to get lost while en route to him.","Transcripts of the Alfred Tingle letters were written by Alastair H. Thomas, Professor Emeritus, Leyland, UK. ","? P.O. Ho Pei,Tientsin Jan 3rd/ 09 ","My dear Lilian","The fates have sent no letter from either John or you this fortnight, but yesterday came the Derby-shire for which I already gave thanks beforehand, which thanks are now redoubled. It is cut \u0026 glanced at –already. I have duly noted the reference to our dear bard \u0026 have grieved over the sum-mary dismissal of Allan \u0026 Clara –how much less romantic \"Enry, my Enery!\" is than \"Allan my Al-lan!\" I can see that much is unto is in this book. Since I wrote things have been broken up a bit, Leang En being recalled to be examined before, as we hope, being sent abroad. I had an Xmas party of him, Kwang, the youngster \u0026 myself. She is becoming quite satisfied to go to Peking but announc-es that she will reserve $2 of her pocket money \u0026 if you come here she will run away, pay her train rare down here \u0026 so manage to see you. Incidentally she wasn't to take a photo of you to Peking. Her ambition has been satisfied in another direction by having become the \"mother\" of a doll which opens and shuts its eyes and moves its head etc! I found one could be got in Shanghai at a reasonable price. I don't think they will make much of a Christian of her in Peking. She has no religious instinct seemingly. One of my idols33has come in for great luck. The translator of the Mint34was in here on business lately. We are good friends beginning from both being friends of Kwang with whom he was at school in the U.S. He admired my collection \u0026 then asked me to give or sell him one. I said \"Certainly\" and then he explained by saying \"My old woman \u0026 the children always kowtow during the 12th moon \u0026 especially at New Year and as they have nothing better they put up my tablet and kowtow to that. I don't like it but if they had one they could kowtow to that instead.\" He made his choice and carried it off, subject to approval. Next day I enquired whether it gave satisfaction. He said \"No. My wife reac-quired hers. She was a very bad woman who was sent to the lowest hell \u0026 only got out by the help of her son who let below a chain to her from heaven. My wife says she wasn't a respectable character \u0026 she won't kowtow to her.\" I offered to exchange it for another, but he came back empty handed \u0026 said that after all his wife had burned incense to the lady \u0026 had asked her to dinner that day: however I sent along another guaranteed to be a person of irreproachable morals. The matter was to be re-ferred to a nearby priest. Yesterday the moral lady returned \u0026 the one of doubtful morals (we will hope reformed completely) has been taken into the family \u0026 is getting a regular supply of rations. I have not yet heard how it was worked, as I have not seen the husband since he just came back.By the by the youngster, when the book came from you yesterday promptly reproached me for not having sent you anything Chinese for a long time, so I must send you something, but at present I don't quite know what. She is also planning to send you something, but we don't yet know what it is to be. I have had no routine work to do \u0026 so have got off a little note and about 6M.S.pp. via John, cal-culated to put a limit to some wild statements by a Belgian made some years back \u0026 stored away by me for future (use?).Tomorrow I begin a campaign by which I hope to vindicate my favourite meth-od of determining iron, on which a more recent slur has been cast. Believe me, Yr affectionate brother, Alfred Tingle.","Don't address letters here AT. Imperial Chinese Pei Yang Mint, Tientsin, Jan 19th, 1909.","My dear Lilian,","The enclosed was take at the same time as the last lab, but got overlooked. We are much occupied in preparations for going to school after the New Year which is Friday next. We should like not to go, if it were possible, but I see no other really good way, specially as we have \"growed\" so.The original idol has been kept by the lady to whom it was sent, on the advice of a priest, who re-ported the alternative one to be an image of the North Star \u0026agoddess of no importance. Talking of disreputable characters such as this goddess reminds me that C Quincey has come up here \u0026 reports the settlement much built up, a theatre opened opposite \"my\" door 7 all the city ladies of the same ancient profession as this goddess transferred to this settlement. I'm glad I don't have to keep order there now –I think it would cast too much in new riding whips. Quincey isdigging out for Shanghai. Goodall gone, Li (Frenchman) going, Husband going, Whittick to be married very soon(the young-ster says the girl who is going to marry him can never have seen him). Said youngster cannot be Chi-nese. I recently bought some cheese –the first I have had in the house since you were there, I think. She asked what it was, tasted it and promptly asked for more! The like never happened with a Chi-nese before, their version being that cheese is a filthy concoction much appreciated by rats, foreign devils \u0026 a few enterprising Chinese of strong stomach who have gradually \u0026 perseveringly learnt the habit. Please excuse more. I'm very tires \u0026 have been bedevilled for 12 days past by some opium reme-dies, for the analysis of which I have to use brain matter in place of more usual reagents \u0026 apparatus. Believe me, Yr affectionate brother, Alfred Tingle.","c/oNo 8 P.O. Ho Pei Tientsin City Jan 31st/ 09","My dear Lilian","Yours of Dec 12thcame recently, with its cutting enclosed. The latter are quite too funny. The Illsley35marriage is a queer go:71-25=46. I presume she decided it was better to be an old man's dar-ling than her mother's slave. Though it might have been better if both bride and groom had spun around three times on their heels and mutually cried No! No!! No!!! I cannot bring to mind any recol-lections of the bride \u0026 any of her sisters for that matter. They are \u0026 always have been amorphous to me. As to the McCambie marriage, what is Mr Effie McCambie's Christian name, not Jabez or Joseph I hope. I have refrained from replying re marriage with her (chile fu?).I am glad to hear that you are on the regular Oregonian staff again, but I hope you will not overdo it. I will see about the flint \u0026 steel etc. in due course. It is all a question of making up a parcel worth sending. If my stuff doesn't take on, simply withdraw it from circulation. I'm too busy, for writing, on the whole these days \u0026 in no mood for it. Anyhow I don't feel inclined to put myself out of the way about it. If the Public care for what I care to write so, \u0026 if not so, let them do the writing themselves, but not being dependent on it is not ...(end of page; letter is incomplete.)c/o No 8 P.O. Ho Pei Tientsin City. ","Feb 14th/ 09","My dear Lilian ","The day after I last wrotei.e. on the 1st, I took the Responsibility up to Peking \u0026 planted her at the school there. I hope the experiment is going to succeed. The impediment to my mind is the school-mistress element, with its materialistic sense that a promise is only a promise as long as is convenient, \u0026 alas the female-missionary lack of appreciation of the lines of Chinese thought. Anyhow fees are paid for a year \u0026 it is to be hope we shall be O.K. We are going to learn English (avances?), parallel with our Chinese. Finding nearly everyone away from Peking \u0026 being very uncomfortable at the hotel which was too hot \u0026 there the food was vile, I came back next day. Last week end the Peking mes-senger of Deutsche Asia Bank who hails from Edinburgh, came down \u0026 stayed with me waking me up in a very effectual manner –in fact on Sat I didn't get home till morning \u0026 barely got there then for there was a jubilation at the German Club, we had to go there hunting a man \u0026 didn't get away till after 4 am with a 3 or 4 mile walk before us, \u0026 I had to be up at 8 am to take my man to the hint, again on business. It was strenuous and I have barely recovered, not being assisted to do so by the sudden plunge into extreme solitude. There is no doubt I miss the Responsibility extremely –much more than I thought I should: However that –that is, is \u0026 I have no more news except that I saw the father of \"Admiral Togo\" on the street yesterday. He had been here some days but was going away last night. He says that by Sept he \u0026 all the Japs we know will have evacuated Chumanfu.I am sorry for a rather stupid letter but I have a very stupid 9 days behind me and behind that noth-ing much. I expect to be in regular harness tomorrow when a new coin sampling system of my invention comes into force. Believe me, Yr affectionate brother, Alfred Tingle.","c/o No 8 Post Office. Ho Pei, Tientsin City, Feb 28th/ 09","My dear Lilian ","I have no letters of yours to reply to, which may be because you have not had time to write, but also may be because your letters have been getting stolen. Either supposition is a reasonable one, the latter in view of the fact that the one you spoke of as having a handkerchief or two enclosed has never ar-rived on my side \u0026 I have very little to tell you. I have had a light time at the laboratory, for my rou-tine work is now reduced to a system. I have been carrying on a research in a somewhat tentative way only, because want of materials \u0026 apparatus came as a pretty heavy handicap on such. The particular thing in question has been on my mind for years\u0026 a preliminary canter with it may result in the pro-duction of compounds which can be identified without analysis, or, if analysis is necessary they can be sent to John. The materials are necessarily limited to what I have in hand. Meanwhile I am acquiring Fame. In recent journals a Scotchman has presented further indirect evidence in favour of a constitu-tional formula assigned by Japp36\u0026 Tingle (I thought it dead and buried) \u0026 a German has with due acknowledgement been employing a reaction first investigated by A Tingle. This reaction had also seemed dead these seven years past. Meanwhile I have not really enough work to keep me from being rather bored. I recently found some cardboard in which to send the photos of the Responsibility over with Mrs Hu \u0026 the others with Miss Hu. Hu, himself, is in hospital but going strong. He has to lie still \u0026 eat as little as possible. He can afford to starve a while, as I think you will agree. Properly he should be on a purely milk diet, but he likes milk about as much as I do castor oil, so semi-starvation is the alternative. I have a letter from Peking of most optimistic nature dealing with the Responsibility. It is too opti-mistic to suit me. Conduct all that could be desired –which I can well believe \u0026 she wants nothing which I cannot. It isn't in nature for a schoolgirl to want nothing when asked, but it is to refuse to put her wants through the medium of a new (and therefore distrusted) head teacher. However I shall be in Peking soon –perhaps next weekend –\u0026 can perhaps see for myself. I am only waiting for Harri-son to get leave. I want a talk with him. The female at the School I distrust myself. In one respect already she has gone back on her own word \u0026 agreement with me \"because she thinks best\" etc.\u0026 after the matter was pretty well thrashed out. More than once she has in the blandest manner sug-gested that I should (for the best of motives of course) go back on my own promises to that\u0026 the other. Being a Methodist she would be shocked to be called a Jesuit. The Point at issue is the teaching of English, \u0026 on this point I must screw her up. The general sense of the meeting is that the R's best chance is to be turned as completely as possible into a foreign devil (Quincey pattern with improve-ments so to say) in which case her earlier history becomes entirely absorbed. Also she can make more money by teaching English that Chinese. I don't for obvious reasons know how much I can do for her, but she will repay an effort –that is generally conceded. I have a pattern herein the shape of Dr. Kim –did I tell you about her? Chinese woman who speaks perfect English \u0026 would be clever \u0026 notable woman in home surroundings, I think.I am afraid this letter is very stupid, but there is nothing really to write about. I am wrong, though, for it is since my last letter that Iwas taken to see amateur performance of the \"Sorcerer\". Leading lady \u0026 gentleman were dreadful sticks, but J.W. Wells himself was admirable. The Rector was pretty good too \u0026 the chorus admirably drilled. I had never seen it on the stage before. The early part –be-fore JW Wells comes on–drags, \u0026 that badly where the leaders are fools.(Much encored on person-al grounds. The business kept me up late but \"shuk me up\" \u0026 did good generally. I was a Press dead-head taking Editorial Wife, Editor being ill in bed. Believe me, Yr affectionate brother, Alfred Tingle.","c/o No. 8P.O. Ho Pei,Tientsin City: March 14th/ 09","My Dear Lilian,","There has again been no letter from you, \u0026 I can only infer your continued existence as such from the arrival of the Sheffield Univ magazine which had passed through your hands. I hope you are not overdoing things because, while I should much like to have you come out here this summer I have no blessed tree for you to repose under if you do. I'm living in diminishing hope that I may yet find a kind of local Wu Li Kan where I may be able to pitch a moving tent \u0026 live more in the style that my heart loves. I'm hoping that I may hear before long what your prospects of coming are any how.Be under no mistake I have ample room only no tree \u0026 no prophet. I have had a desperate time this last two weeks getting orders for new chemical equipment put through \u0026 failing to do so, \u0026 all the rest of it, but I think there is nothing very interesting or exciting. Last night I was out of dinner at a local editors –quite small but a rather amusing company, to wit a French officer \u0026 wife, the deputy-commissioner of customs \u0026 wife\u0026 an officer of the Punjabi Regt. As bearing on the E.M.C. ques-tions I pricked up ears when the latter spoke of a bit turnup in India in a little while, but the whole idea of that is Afghan37trouble, it being stated that the Ameer is about on his last legs \u0026 things will happen soon on a large scaleup there. Of course that is only mess gossip with probably much wish as father to the thought. I didn't get home till morning \u0026 have a head today. On Thurs. I woke up to heavy snow, after very mild weather the day before. Snow again today. Good for the wheat. But it has put off some riding I might otherwise have got. My German neighbour, engineer in chief of the north section of the Tientsin Nanking Ry. has 4 ponies who don't have any work except when he goes on tour \u0026 then break down for lack of previous exercise he says, though I suspect it is too muchee squeeze –pidgin on the part of the mafuthat makes them crumple. I astonished him when I told him how much I had covered ground on Saul. However, I can give them some exercise, I think, when weather is a little better. Do you remember Kwang? He came here soon after me. Has now gota job on the Yangtse. His wife \u0026 family follow him shortly. It was one of his daughters who was reported to have a face like a plum pudding that had been trodden on. Poor oppressed Chinese women. My colleague at the Mint reports that his wife is going to her house to see after family affairs –took her ticket \u0026 went to her people to meet her without consult-ing him at all. He has to look after the children at home. There is, however some chance that she may bring him a (lioz?)to attend to his wants on her return. As, by the by, a sign of the times I may men-tion that he asserts that he is not going to get husbands for his daughters(one of whom is marriageable but at Normal School) he is going to \"educate them to make their own living, \u0026 if they want to marry that is their look-out\"! The Viceroy38seems to have made himself fairly solid with the new regime in Peking. He had a present lately of some of the late Emperor sold clothes, which means continued favour for the time being. All the better for me. Believe me, Yr affectionate brother, Alfred Tingle. \nIn case you are coming here I may observe that the Nippon Yusen Kaisha have a trans-Pacific service \u0026 also many coasting services, amongst others boats from Kobe to Tientsin. If times suited you might save by taking their boat from Japan at least \u0026 coming direct, not via Shanghai. On the other hand Shanghai-Tientsin boats sail almost daily \u0026most are better boats than these others.","c/o No 8P.O. Ho Pei, Tientsin City. April 7th/ 09","My dear Lilian","This is not my regular writing day, but it as happens that I have not much else to do for which I have any inclination. I shall keep the letter open till Tuesday, however on the off chance of there being something to add . Yours of Mar2ndcame some time ago. As to China –forests \u0026lumber –I am sending you \"Science\" with a condensation of a more or less recent Presidential message (Please return the Science when done with.) I have made marginal notes, mostly in the form of numbers which refer to comments under the same numbers regularly jotted down \u0026 enclosed with this. I also have added a few remarks of my own on subjects beyond the message's scope. I don't know if this is any use. As to the real state of the country you may say \"Veni Vidi\"39\u0026 can perhaps give more information by word of mouth that I can in writing. You have seen typical N. China. So what I have written in the notes I may add that if the climate here is changing now, it can have little connection with the clearing of the forests which must have been as complete asnow more than 6000 years ago.40Teddy41is a great energetic man, but liable to talk rot. Read for yourself \u0026 see if it not a written caricature.","I suppose Meyers report referred to is published, but don't know, if any particularized information is wanted, let me know what it is \u0026 I will get it if there is still time. The doubt you raise about Effie McCambies \"status\" (horrible word) is certainly a grave one. I looked at her last letter to me, thanking me for congratulations \u0026 she there speaks of his meeting her in Bombay (I think) \u0026 that they would go off together. You throw a horrid doubt too over the possible meaning of the reference to notmarrying one's cook. Does she possibly mean that one should (Good Heavens!) as Carlyle would say. And things are decidedly peculiar in the East too. I happen to know a man in Peking –a very notable man too, does all the German loans. His wife is, on some scruple of conscience that I don't understand about, not legally his wife though all the children are legitimatised according to German law! No wonder the bridegroom elect was afraid of you! Tis horrid, surely, of the highly virtuous E. McC. to do such a thing. Sounds like getting wedding presents by false pretenses too. On that score 10/642each lets us out cheap I think. Many thanks (in advance) for the Pagan Papers which I have often meant to ger for myself, but never have. I don't know why. Letter with handkershiefs may be considered definitely \"lost.\" Always register anybulky important letters as P.O. here (Tientsin) is very unreliable. Several letters to me, all fat, have been lost. All except one had the senders name and address on the outside, but they neither came to me nor went back. I am much amused by Miss Cornwall's remarks about the Responsibility43. Gently encourage her, if you have time \u0026 inclination, to go a little into ways \u0026 means. If \u0026 when I can manage it I should like her to go to America \u0026 (more or less) the sooner the better. I say more of less because I consider the experimental stage not to be finally over. She had a rather bad start \u0026 I was assured on many levels that I must fail. I want to see definitely that I have succeeded –that is in point of character. Then she must know a little English to start with \u0026 there remains the financial question. The school at present may succeed in pouring knowledge into her, but won't get much further. She cannot be moulded by machinery, but only by hand \u0026 that a hand that she is attached to or prepared to be attached to. You may as well tell Miss Cornwall that I should not approve of my daughter going buggy riding with young Chinese with whom I am am not personally acquainted. Not much fear, anyhow, as your local lot will all be Cantonese, I presume, as would the young lady in white satin. I have had another young woman much on my mind of late. I only discovered about a week ago (by the C in C'sdirect confession) that the elder girl's feet were bound. In the new house I don't see as muc of them as in Chumanfu. I remonstrated, gently but firmly. We had only come out of hospital for the day \u0026 were back that evening. Next day I saw the child \u0026 saw that my words had had an effect. I thereupon sent for her mother \u0026 jumped down her silly throat, boots \u0026 breeches \u0026 all. I have won \u0026 the feet are now unbound, but I had to risk a good deal as my one standing ground was that I simply would not allow it in my house, it being forbidden by the Emperor, which I admitted that of course in the country districts of China no Emperor counted for a tuppenny damn. Of coure, the plea is Cannot help it –no small feet, no husband. I want the child to join my Responsibility in Peking next term. I had antoher ride yesterday. I found a village with food houses in it –whether any to let I cannot say. It is to get society that I propose moving into a village. The Chinese town here is like London for knowing ones neighbours \u0026 except for the German whose horse I rode, I have no foreigners at all near. For them I shall be no more our of the way than at present. Meantime I have dug up some bricks \u0026 sown what I hope is good seed \u0026 may have some English flowers this summer if I stay in this house. I wishI lived in Peking, which isin China. There is just a faint chance that I may ultimately get a job there. Ihave been quietly cultivating it for six months or more. Believe me, Yr affectionate brother, Alfred TingleAp. 11thNothing to add to this. I think things are very quiet just now.44Yrs AT.","c/o No 5 P.O. Ho Pei, Tientsin City. April 26th/ 09","My dear Lilian","Just after I last wrote you came the Pagan Papers45. I have still 2 or three to read I think. They are excellent. I found the avuncular portion by instinct. Of course my position in the matter is a delicate one. I have an uncle \u0026 also amone46to say nothing of being a guardian. As to what should be done to my own there cannot be two opinions, \u0026 I am trying to give as little offfense as possible in my more active capacity. I was pretty busy 11th–18thinst, one little thing \u0026 another, but on 17thwent to an awfully poor show (mostly Japs) with another man. On 19thI went to Peking after finishing up, the 20thbeing a holiday, but hust before starting received your of Mar 21st\u0026 its enclosure about Wn \u0026 the han-fool with which I convulsed one or two people in Peking. I stayed there in the German Bank. Also saw the youngster who is well but pretty homesick –does not seem to make friends. Female in charge says she wants to be a Christian. I shall enquire into this at length during the holiday, for while I give a 'free hand' I will have no leg-pulling \u0026 I won't countenance her being raked into missionary educational methods. Present school is best that can be done\u0026 I don't say official (native) schools are worse. But the missionaries are trying to do too much on an utterly inadequate basis. On the train I met an ex-student of mine from New York. I had had him in private tuition extra, but never got a thing into him as he admits. He avowed (with shame, I'm glad to say) that he had been teaching chemistry amongst other things at a mission college, one of the best in Sufante (?)too! I should have come home on Wed. (21st) but missed the train, so got home on Thurs noon only to find (1) that I was not needed, the Mint having closed protem \u0026 (2) that my guts were working twistedly. Result I went to bed \u0026 disciplined the unruly members with magnesium sulphate, lead \u0026 opium \u0026 milk. If present symptoms continue I shall tomorrow get up \u0026 go onto full diet having learned there to be toads. Last night Eggeling, the German Bank man, came down, leaving again today. He reported he \u0026 Careles the other man at the Bank had both had a little trouble also. Their well pump was out of order \u0026 it seems as though the fish pond had been resorted to to help out the water supply. As to your letter, I hope you are not overdoing things. Ease up on letters to me if you can do nothing else. I presume you not understand that Japan is quite out of the question for me this year at least. At present I have to hold on here with teeth \u0026 claws, while swinging my tail towards Peking in hopes of twisting it round something there.I have added to my family today. Yesterday arrived the mother of the Responsibility, who had come in the train of some tai-tai, taking the chance to see the R. I wanted her any how (1) because I can get her a better job here than she had in Chunanfu\u0026 she being here the R can come home for her holidays without the disapproval of the Methodist element. I have not pointed out to the latter that inf act \u0026 in Chinese eyes the mother now counts for nothing except in just so far as she may still have persuasive powers. It is useless to try to meet everybody's ideas. It was pointed our by a Chinese (who has seen the old lady) that if I sent for her \u0026 had her under my roof, being unmarried, a scandal could be created. Now she is 45 gone\u0026 has had a very hard life which shows in her face –you know these country-women faces. Appropriately dressed she might pass if not for my grandmother at least for my grand-mother-in-law! As she has come without being sent for Providence evidently intends me to face the scandal out. Believe me, Yr affectionate brother, Alfred Tingle."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"names_coll_ssim":["Read 'Em Again Books"],"names_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","Read 'Em Again Books","Tingle, Alfred"],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","Read 'Em Again Books"],"persname_ssim":["Tingle, Alfred"],"language_ssim":["English"],"descrules_ssm":["Describing Archives: A Content Standard"],"total_component_count_is":1,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T09:01:07.323Z","scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eEight letters from brother in Tientsin, China to his sister in Oregon, both of whom expatriated from Britain.  Both were British ex-patriots. Alfred was a chemist and working for the Imperial Chinese Mint at the time of this letters. Lillian was a food columnist for the Oregonian newspaper. Alfred writes about current events in his area, the ousting of all of the Japanese from his region, activities in Afghanistan, work progress, some of his publications in scientific journals, and of his charge, a small girl whom he is determined to have learn English and become a teacher of such.  As a last resort he would allow her to become a missionary.  Alfred also comments in most of his letters how infrequently he receives letters from his sister, and how often they seem to get lost while en route to him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTranscripts of the Alfred Tingle letters were written by Alastair H. Thomas, Professor Emeritus, Leyland, UK. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e? P.O. Ho Pei,Tientsin Jan 3rd/ 09 \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMy dear Lilian\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe fates have sent no letter from either John or you this fortnight, but yesterday came the Derby-shire for which I already gave thanks beforehand, which thanks are now redoubled. It is cut \u0026amp; glanced at –already. I have duly noted the reference to our dear bard \u0026amp; have grieved over the sum-mary dismissal of Allan \u0026amp; Clara –how much less romantic \"Enry, my Enery!\" is than \"Allan my Al-lan!\" I can see that much is unto is in this book. Since I wrote things have been broken up a bit, Leang En being recalled to be examined before, as we hope, being sent abroad. I had an Xmas party of him, Kwang, the youngster \u0026amp; myself. She is becoming quite satisfied to go to Peking but announc-es that she will reserve $2 of her pocket money \u0026amp; if you come here she will run away, pay her train rare down here \u0026amp; so manage to see you. Incidentally she wasn't to take a photo of you to Peking. Her ambition has been satisfied in another direction by having become the \"mother\" of a doll which opens and shuts its eyes and moves its head etc! I found one could be got in Shanghai at a reasonable price. I don't think they will make much of a Christian of her in Peking. She has no religious instinct seemingly. One of my idols33has come in for great luck. The translator of the Mint34was in here on business lately. We are good friends beginning from both being friends of Kwang with whom he was at school in the U.S. He admired my collection \u0026amp; then asked me to give or sell him one. I said \"Certainly\" and then he explained by saying \"My old woman \u0026amp; the children always kowtow during the 12th moon \u0026amp; especially at New Year and as they have nothing better they put up my tablet and kowtow to that. I don't like it but if they had one they could kowtow to that instead.\" He made his choice and carried it off, subject to approval. Next day I enquired whether it gave satisfaction. He said \"No. My wife reac-quired hers. She was a very bad woman who was sent to the lowest hell \u0026amp; only got out by the help of her son who let below a chain to her from heaven. My wife says she wasn't a respectable character \u0026amp; she won't kowtow to her.\" I offered to exchange it for another, but he came back empty handed \u0026amp; said that after all his wife had burned incense to the lady \u0026amp; had asked her to dinner that day: however I sent along another guaranteed to be a person of irreproachable morals. The matter was to be re-ferred to a nearby priest. Yesterday the moral lady returned \u0026amp; the one of doubtful morals (we will hope reformed completely) has been taken into the family \u0026amp; is getting a regular supply of rations. I have not yet heard how it was worked, as I have not seen the husband since he just came back.By the by the youngster, when the book came from you yesterday promptly reproached me for not having sent you anything Chinese for a long time, so I must send you something, but at present I don't quite know what. She is also planning to send you something, but we don't yet know what it is to be. I have had no routine work to do \u0026amp; so have got off a little note and about 6M.S.pp. via John, cal-culated to put a limit to some wild statements by a Belgian made some years back \u0026amp; stored away by me for future (use?).Tomorrow I begin a campaign by which I hope to vindicate my favourite meth-od of determining iron, on which a more recent slur has been cast. Believe me, Yr affectionate brother, Alfred Tingle.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eDon't address letters here AT. Imperial Chinese Pei Yang Mint, Tientsin, Jan 19th, 1909.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMy dear Lilian,\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe enclosed was take at the same time as the last lab, but got overlooked. We are much occupied in preparations for going to school after the New Year which is Friday next. We should like not to go, if it were possible, but I see no other really good way, specially as we have \"growed\" so.The original idol has been kept by the lady to whom it was sent, on the advice of a priest, who re-ported the alternative one to be an image of the North Star \u0026amp;agoddess of no importance. Talking of disreputable characters such as this goddess reminds me that C Quincey has come up here \u0026amp; reports the settlement much built up, a theatre opened opposite \"my\" door 7 all the city ladies of the same ancient profession as this goddess transferred to this settlement. I'm glad I don't have to keep order there now –I think it would cast too much in new riding whips. Quincey isdigging out for Shanghai. Goodall gone, Li (Frenchman) going, Husband going, Whittick to be married very soon(the young-ster says the girl who is going to marry him can never have seen him). Said youngster cannot be Chi-nese. I recently bought some cheese –the first I have had in the house since you were there, I think. She asked what it was, tasted it and promptly asked for more! The like never happened with a Chi-nese before, their version being that cheese is a filthy concoction much appreciated by rats, foreign devils \u0026amp; a few enterprising Chinese of strong stomach who have gradually \u0026amp; perseveringly learnt the habit. Please excuse more. I'm very tires \u0026amp; have been bedevilled for 12 days past by some opium reme-dies, for the analysis of which I have to use brain matter in place of more usual reagents \u0026amp; apparatus. Believe me, Yr affectionate brother, Alfred Tingle.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ec/oNo 8 P.O. Ho Pei Tientsin City Jan 31st/ 09\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMy dear Lilian\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eYours of Dec 12thcame recently, with its cutting enclosed. The latter are quite too funny. The Illsley35marriage is a queer go:71-25=46. I presume she decided it was better to be an old man's dar-ling than her mother's slave. Though it might have been better if both bride and groom had spun around three times on their heels and mutually cried No! No!! No!!! I cannot bring to mind any recol-lections of the bride \u0026amp; any of her sisters for that matter. They are \u0026amp; always have been amorphous to me. As to the McCambie marriage, what is Mr Effie McCambie's Christian name, not Jabez or Joseph I hope. I have refrained from replying re marriage with her (chile fu?).I am glad to hear that you are on the regular Oregonian staff again, but I hope you will not overdo it. I will see about the flint \u0026amp; steel etc. in due course. It is all a question of making up a parcel worth sending. If my stuff doesn't take on, simply withdraw it from circulation. I'm too busy, for writing, on the whole these days \u0026amp; in no mood for it. Anyhow I don't feel inclined to put myself out of the way about it. If the Public care for what I care to write so, \u0026amp; if not so, let them do the writing themselves, but not being dependent on it is not ...(end of page; letter is incomplete.)c/o No 8 P.O. Ho Pei Tientsin City. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFeb 14th/ 09\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMy dear Lilian \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe day after I last wrotei.e. on the 1st, I took the Responsibility up to Peking \u0026amp; planted her at the school there. I hope the experiment is going to succeed. The impediment to my mind is the school-mistress element, with its materialistic sense that a promise is only a promise as long as is convenient, \u0026amp; alas the female-missionary lack of appreciation of the lines of Chinese thought. Anyhow fees are paid for a year \u0026amp; it is to be hope we shall be O.K. We are going to learn English (avances?), parallel with our Chinese. Finding nearly everyone away from Peking \u0026amp; being very uncomfortable at the hotel which was too hot \u0026amp; there the food was vile, I came back next day. Last week end the Peking mes-senger of Deutsche Asia Bank who hails from Edinburgh, came down \u0026amp; stayed with me waking me up in a very effectual manner –in fact on Sat I didn't get home till morning \u0026amp; barely got there then for there was a jubilation at the German Club, we had to go there hunting a man \u0026amp; didn't get away till after 4 am with a 3 or 4 mile walk before us, \u0026amp; I had to be up at 8 am to take my man to the hint, again on business. It was strenuous and I have barely recovered, not being assisted to do so by the sudden plunge into extreme solitude. There is no doubt I miss the Responsibility extremely –much more than I thought I should: However that –that is, is \u0026amp; I have no more news except that I saw the father of \"Admiral Togo\" on the street yesterday. He had been here some days but was going away last night. He says that by Sept he \u0026amp; all the Japs we know will have evacuated Chumanfu.I am sorry for a rather stupid letter but I have a very stupid 9 days behind me and behind that noth-ing much. I expect to be in regular harness tomorrow when a new coin sampling system of my invention comes into force. Believe me, Yr affectionate brother, Alfred Tingle.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ec/o No 8 Post Office. Ho Pei, Tientsin City, Feb 28th/ 09\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMy dear Lilian \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI have no letters of yours to reply to, which may be because you have not had time to write, but also may be because your letters have been getting stolen. Either supposition is a reasonable one, the latter in view of the fact that the one you spoke of as having a handkerchief or two enclosed has never ar-rived on my side \u0026amp; I have very little to tell you. I have had a light time at the laboratory, for my rou-tine work is now reduced to a system. I have been carrying on a research in a somewhat tentative way only, because want of materials \u0026amp; apparatus came as a pretty heavy handicap on such. The particular thing in question has been on my mind for years\u0026amp; a preliminary canter with it may result in the pro-duction of compounds which can be identified without analysis, or, if analysis is necessary they can be sent to John. The materials are necessarily limited to what I have in hand. Meanwhile I am acquiring Fame. In recent journals a Scotchman has presented further indirect evidence in favour of a constitu-tional formula assigned by Japp36\u0026amp; Tingle (I thought it dead and buried) \u0026amp; a German has with due acknowledgement been employing a reaction first investigated by A Tingle. This reaction had also seemed dead these seven years past. Meanwhile I have not really enough work to keep me from being rather bored. I recently found some cardboard in which to send the photos of the Responsibility over with Mrs Hu \u0026amp; the others with Miss Hu. Hu, himself, is in hospital but going strong. He has to lie still \u0026amp; eat as little as possible. He can afford to starve a while, as I think you will agree. Properly he should be on a purely milk diet, but he likes milk about as much as I do castor oil, so semi-starvation is the alternative. I have a letter from Peking of most optimistic nature dealing with the Responsibility. It is too opti-mistic to suit me. Conduct all that could be desired –which I can well believe \u0026amp; she wants nothing which I cannot. It isn't in nature for a schoolgirl to want nothing when asked, but it is to refuse to put her wants through the medium of a new (and therefore distrusted) head teacher. However I shall be in Peking soon –perhaps next weekend –\u0026amp; can perhaps see for myself. I am only waiting for Harri-son to get leave. I want a talk with him. The female at the School I distrust myself. In one respect already she has gone back on her own word \u0026amp; agreement with me \"because she thinks best\" etc.\u0026amp; after the matter was pretty well thrashed out. More than once she has in the blandest manner sug-gested that I should (for the best of motives of course) go back on my own promises to that\u0026amp; the other. Being a Methodist she would be shocked to be called a Jesuit. The Point at issue is the teaching of English, \u0026amp; on this point I must screw her up. The general sense of the meeting is that the R's best chance is to be turned as completely as possible into a foreign devil (Quincey pattern with improve-ments so to say) in which case her earlier history becomes entirely absorbed. Also she can make more money by teaching English that Chinese. I don't for obvious reasons know how much I can do for her, but she will repay an effort –that is generally conceded. I have a pattern herein the shape of Dr. Kim –did I tell you about her? Chinese woman who speaks perfect English \u0026amp; would be clever \u0026amp; notable woman in home surroundings, I think.I am afraid this letter is very stupid, but there is nothing really to write about. I am wrong, though, for it is since my last letter that Iwas taken to see amateur performance of the \"Sorcerer\". Leading lady \u0026amp; gentleman were dreadful sticks, but J.W. Wells himself was admirable. The Rector was pretty good too \u0026amp; the chorus admirably drilled. I had never seen it on the stage before. The early part –be-fore JW Wells comes on–drags, \u0026amp; that badly where the leaders are fools.(Much encored on person-al grounds. The business kept me up late but \"shuk me up\" \u0026amp; did good generally. I was a Press dead-head taking Editorial Wife, Editor being ill in bed. Believe me, Yr affectionate brother, Alfred Tingle.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ec/o No. 8P.O. Ho Pei,Tientsin City: March 14th/ 09\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMy Dear Lilian,\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThere has again been no letter from you, \u0026amp; I can only infer your continued existence as such from the arrival of the Sheffield Univ magazine which had passed through your hands. I hope you are not overdoing things because, while I should much like to have you come out here this summer I have no blessed tree for you to repose under if you do. I'm living in diminishing hope that I may yet find a kind of local Wu Li Kan where I may be able to pitch a moving tent \u0026amp; live more in the style that my heart loves. I'm hoping that I may hear before long what your prospects of coming are any how.Be under no mistake I have ample room only no tree \u0026amp; no prophet. I have had a desperate time this last two weeks getting orders for new chemical equipment put through \u0026amp; failing to do so, \u0026amp; all the rest of it, but I think there is nothing very interesting or exciting. Last night I was out of dinner at a local editors –quite small but a rather amusing company, to wit a French officer \u0026amp; wife, the deputy-commissioner of customs \u0026amp; wife\u0026amp; an officer of the Punjabi Regt. As bearing on the E.M.C. ques-tions I pricked up ears when the latter spoke of a bit turnup in India in a little while, but the whole idea of that is Afghan37trouble, it being stated that the Ameer is about on his last legs \u0026amp; things will happen soon on a large scaleup there. Of course that is only mess gossip with probably much wish as father to the thought. I didn't get home till morning \u0026amp; have a head today. On Thurs. I woke up to heavy snow, after very mild weather the day before. Snow again today. Good for the wheat. But it has put off some riding I might otherwise have got. My German neighbour, engineer in chief of the north section of the Tientsin Nanking Ry. has 4 ponies who don't have any work except when he goes on tour \u0026amp; then break down for lack of previous exercise he says, though I suspect it is too muchee squeeze –pidgin on the part of the mafuthat makes them crumple. I astonished him when I told him how much I had covered ground on Saul. However, I can give them some exercise, I think, when weather is a little better. Do you remember Kwang? He came here soon after me. Has now gota job on the Yangtse. His wife \u0026amp; family follow him shortly. It was one of his daughters who was reported to have a face like a plum pudding that had been trodden on. Poor oppressed Chinese women. My colleague at the Mint reports that his wife is going to her house to see after family affairs –took her ticket \u0026amp; went to her people to meet her without consult-ing him at all. He has to look after the children at home. There is, however some chance that she may bring him a (lioz?)to attend to his wants on her return. As, by the by, a sign of the times I may men-tion that he asserts that he is not going to get husbands for his daughters(one of whom is marriageable but at Normal School) he is going to \"educate them to make their own living, \u0026amp; if they want to marry that is their look-out\"! The Viceroy38seems to have made himself fairly solid with the new regime in Peking. He had a present lately of some of the late Emperor sold clothes, which means continued favour for the time being. All the better for me. Believe me, Yr affectionate brother, Alfred Tingle. \nIn case you are coming here I may observe that the Nippon Yusen Kaisha have a trans-Pacific service \u0026amp; also many coasting services, amongst others boats from Kobe to Tientsin. If times suited you might save by taking their boat from Japan at least \u0026amp; coming direct, not via Shanghai. On the other hand Shanghai-Tientsin boats sail almost daily \u0026amp;most are better boats than these others.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ec/o No 8P.O. Ho Pei, Tientsin City. April 7th/ 09\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMy dear Lilian\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThis is not my regular writing day, but it as happens that I have not much else to do for which I have any inclination. I shall keep the letter open till Tuesday, however on the off chance of there being something to add . Yours of Mar2ndcame some time ago. As to China –forests \u0026amp;lumber –I am sending you \"Science\" with a condensation of a more or less recent Presidential message (Please return the Science when done with.) I have made marginal notes, mostly in the form of numbers which refer to comments under the same numbers regularly jotted down \u0026amp; enclosed with this. I also have added a few remarks of my own on subjects beyond the message's scope. I don't know if this is any use. As to the real state of the country you may say \"Veni Vidi\"39\u0026amp; can perhaps give more information by word of mouth that I can in writing. You have seen typical N. China. So what I have written in the notes I may add that if the climate here is changing now, it can have little connection with the clearing of the forests which must have been as complete asnow more than 6000 years ago.40Teddy41is a great energetic man, but liable to talk rot. Read for yourself \u0026amp; see if it not a written caricature.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eI suppose Meyers report referred to is published, but don't know, if any particularized information is wanted, let me know what it is \u0026amp; I will get it if there is still time. The doubt you raise about Effie McCambies \"status\" (horrible word) is certainly a grave one. I looked at her last letter to me, thanking me for congratulations \u0026amp; she there speaks of his meeting her in Bombay (I think) \u0026amp; that they would go off together. You throw a horrid doubt too over the possible meaning of the reference to notmarrying one's cook. Does she possibly mean that one should (Good Heavens!) as Carlyle would say. And things are decidedly peculiar in the East too. I happen to know a man in Peking –a very notable man too, does all the German loans. His wife is, on some scruple of conscience that I don't understand about, not legally his wife though all the children are legitimatised according to German law! No wonder the bridegroom elect was afraid of you! Tis horrid, surely, of the highly virtuous E. McC. to do such a thing. Sounds like getting wedding presents by false pretenses too. On that score 10/642each lets us out cheap I think. Many thanks (in advance) for the Pagan Papers which I have often meant to ger for myself, but never have. I don't know why. Letter with handkershiefs may be considered definitely \"lost.\" Always register anybulky important letters as P.O. here (Tientsin) is very unreliable. Several letters to me, all fat, have been lost. All except one had the senders name and address on the outside, but they neither came to me nor went back. I am much amused by Miss Cornwall's remarks about the Responsibility43. Gently encourage her, if you have time \u0026amp; inclination, to go a little into ways \u0026amp; means. If \u0026amp; when I can manage it I should like her to go to America \u0026amp; (more or less) the sooner the better. I say more of less because I consider the experimental stage not to be finally over. She had a rather bad start \u0026amp; I was assured on many levels that I must fail. I want to see definitely that I have succeeded –that is in point of character. Then she must know a little English to start with \u0026amp; there remains the financial question. The school at present may succeed in pouring knowledge into her, but won't get much further. She cannot be moulded by machinery, but only by hand \u0026amp; that a hand that she is attached to or prepared to be attached to. You may as well tell Miss Cornwall that I should not approve of my daughter going buggy riding with young Chinese with whom I am am not personally acquainted. Not much fear, anyhow, as your local lot will all be Cantonese, I presume, as would the young lady in white satin. I have had another young woman much on my mind of late. I only discovered about a week ago (by the C in C'sdirect confession) that the elder girl's feet were bound. In the new house I don't see as muc of them as in Chumanfu. I remonstrated, gently but firmly. We had only come out of hospital for the day \u0026amp; were back that evening. Next day I saw the child \u0026amp; saw that my words had had an effect. I thereupon sent for her mother \u0026amp; jumped down her silly throat, boots \u0026amp; breeches \u0026amp; all. I have won \u0026amp; the feet are now unbound, but I had to risk a good deal as my one standing ground was that I simply would not allow it in my house, it being forbidden by the Emperor, which I admitted that of course in the country districts of China no Emperor counted for a tuppenny damn. Of coure, the plea is Cannot help it –no small feet, no husband. I want the child to join my Responsibility in Peking next term. I had antoher ride yesterday. I found a village with food houses in it –whether any to let I cannot say. It is to get society that I propose moving into a village. The Chinese town here is like London for knowing ones neighbours \u0026amp; except for the German whose horse I rode, I have no foreigners at all near. For them I shall be no more our of the way than at present. Meantime I have dug up some bricks \u0026amp; sown what I hope is good seed \u0026amp; may have some English flowers this summer if I stay in this house. I wishI lived in Peking, which isin China. There is just a faint chance that I may ultimately get a job there. Ihave been quietly cultivating it for six months or more. Believe me, Yr affectionate brother, Alfred TingleAp. 11thNothing to add to this. I think things are very quiet just now.44Yrs AT.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ec/o No 5 P.O. Ho Pei, Tientsin City. April 26th/ 09\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eMy dear Lilian\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eJust after I last wrote you came the Pagan Papers45. I have still 2 or three to read I think. They are excellent. I found the avuncular portion by instinct. Of course my position in the matter is a delicate one. I have an uncle \u0026amp; also amone46to say nothing of being a guardian. As to what should be done to my own there cannot be two opinions, \u0026amp; I am trying to give as little offfense as possible in my more active capacity. I was pretty busy 11th–18thinst, one little thing \u0026amp; another, but on 17thwent to an awfully poor show (mostly Japs) with another man. On 19thI went to Peking after finishing up, the 20thbeing a holiday, but hust before starting received your of Mar 21st\u0026amp; its enclosure about Wn \u0026amp; the han-fool with which I convulsed one or two people in Peking. I stayed there in the German Bank. Also saw the youngster who is well but pretty homesick –does not seem to make friends. Female in charge says she wants to be a Christian. I shall enquire into this at length during the holiday, for while I give a 'free hand' I will have no leg-pulling \u0026amp; I won't countenance her being raked into missionary educational methods. Present school is best that can be done\u0026amp; I don't say official (native) schools are worse. But the missionaries are trying to do too much on an utterly inadequate basis. On the train I met an ex-student of mine from New York. I had had him in private tuition extra, but never got a thing into him as he admits. He avowed (with shame, I'm glad to say) that he had been teaching chemistry amongst other things at a mission college, one of the best in Sufante (?)too! I should have come home on Wed. (21st) but missed the train, so got home on Thurs noon only to find (1) that I was not needed, the Mint having closed protem \u0026amp; (2) that my guts were working twistedly. Result I went to bed \u0026amp; disciplined the unruly members with magnesium sulphate, lead \u0026amp; opium \u0026amp; milk. If present symptoms continue I shall tomorrow get up \u0026amp; go onto full diet having learned there to be toads. Last night Eggeling, the German Bank man, came down, leaving again today. He reported he \u0026amp; Careles the other man at the Bank had both had a little trouble also. Their well pump was out of order \u0026amp; it seems as though the fish pond had been resorted to to help out the water supply. As to your letter, I hope you are not overdoing things. Ease up on letters to me if you can do nothing else. I presume you not understand that Japan is quite out of the question for me this year at least. At present I have to hold on here with teeth \u0026amp; claws, while swinging my tail towards Peking in hopes of twisting it round something there.I have added to my family today. Yesterday arrived the mother of the Responsibility, who had come in the train of some tai-tai, taking the chance to see the R. I wanted her any how (1) because I can get her a better job here than she had in Chunanfu\u0026amp; she being here the R can come home for her holidays without the disapproval of the Methodist element. I have not pointed out to the latter that inf act \u0026amp; in Chinese eyes the mother now counts for nothing except in just so far as she may still have persuasive powers. It is useless to try to meet everybody's ideas. It was pointed our by a Chinese (who has seen the old lady) that if I sent for her \u0026amp; had her under my roof, being unmarried, a scandal could be created. Now she is 45 gone\u0026amp; has had a very hard life which shows in her face –you know these country-women faces. Appropriately dressed she might pass if not for my grandmother at least for my grand-mother-in-law! As she has come without being sent for Providence evidently intends me to face the scandal out. 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This collection contains materials relating to the significant contributions Al Gross made in the advancement of wireless technology. The collection provides a detailed look at the evolution of the walkie-talkie from a weapon against the Axis Powers in World War II to its functional and convenient purposes today. Throughout the progression of wireless technology, Al Gross remained an integral part of designing and updating wireless devices such as cellular phones and pagers to its now diminutive form using microminituarization and other scientific methods.","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viblbv_repositories_2_resources_2145#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"viblbv_repositories_2_resources_2145","ead_ssi":"viblbv_repositories_2_resources_2145","_root_":"viblbv_repositories_2_resources_2145","_nest_parent_":"viblbv_repositories_2_resources_2145","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/VT/repositories_2_resources_2145.xml","title_filing_ssi":"Gross, Al, Papers","title_ssm":["Al Gross Papers"],"title_tesim":["Al Gross Papers"],"unitdate_ssm":["1909-2000"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1909-2000"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Ms.2001.011"],"text":["Ms.2001.011","Al Gross Papers","Science and Technology","Collection is open to research.","This collection is arranged according to subject matter.","Al Gross was born in Toronto, Ontario, but was raised in Cleveland, Ohio. Known as the father of wireless communications, Gross invented the walkie-talkie in 1938 at age 20 and by 1941 the Office of Strategic Services (now known as the CIA) was eager to develop a lightweight, portable communications system for air-to-ground contact. The OSS recruited Gross and he devised the \"Joan-Eleanor System\" using Hertzian radio waves which were virtually impossible to intercept even from behind emeny lines. Gross' invention was a huge success and was praised by the US Joint Chiefs of Staff as being one of the most successful wireless intelligence gathering methods ever employed.","After the war, Gross formed the Citizens Radio Corporation and sold his units to the public, mostly to farmers and the US Coast Guard. In 1949 Gross had another breakthrough invention, the telephone pager. That same year Gross attended a medical conference in Philadelphia to introduce the pager system to doctors. Unfortunately, many of the doctors were apprehensive of the device stating it would interfere with their leisure time or upset their patients. The pager never caught on for Gross, proving he was decades ahead of his time.","Gross continued to invent for his entire lifespan, compiling 12 patents. But Gross' patents expired long before the world was ready for pagers, cell phones, and CB radio. Instead of reaping the monetary benefits of his inventions, Gross is rich in awards and recognitions. Most recently, Gross became the sixth person to be awarded the Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. Eight months later on December 28, 2000, Gross died at his Arizona home.","The guide to the Gross, Al Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).","The Al Gross papers are comprised of the following series: Employment, Publications, Inventions and Patents, Awards and Achievements, Personal Material, Technical Data, Radio Material, Government, Subject Files, and Oversize Materials. The collection also includes Gross' book collection and electronic parts. This collection contains materials relating to the significant contributions Al Gross made in the advancement of wireless technology. The collection provides a detailed look at the evolution of the walkie-talkie from a weapon against the Axis Powers in World War II to its functional and convenient purposes today. Throughout the progression of wireless technology, Al Gross remained an integral part of designing and updating wireless devices such as cellular phones and pagers to its now diminutive form using microminituarization and other scientific methods.","The Employment series (1944-81, n.d.) contains detailed materials from his first companies such as the Citizens Radio Corporation, Gross Communications, and Royalcall - the first telephone pager company ever. With his contributions in the wireless field, Al Gross became well known worldwide in the wireless front and companies such as True Temper and GTE Sylvania hired Gross not only for his engineering skill but for public relations as well. One example is Gross appearing on the popular television show \"To Tell the Truth\" while he worked for True Temper. Photographs of Gross on \"To Tell the Truth\" are located in the Personal Material series (1918-2000, n.d.) which also includes material spanning from Gross' Junior High School to notes on retirement. Also included are correspondence letters, resumes, and personal certificates.","The Publications series (1945-2000, n.d.) contains a comprehensive list of articles written about Gross and his work as well as articles written by Gross himself. Other publications used primarily for reference are found in the Technical Data series (1943-99, n.d.). Highlighting the series are technical diagrams, charts, and manuals. More information on the work of Al Gross can be found in the Inventions and Patents series (1909-2000, n.d.). Included in the series is a comprehensive photo collection and early drawings of inventions such as the Antenna, Citizens Transceiver, and the wrist-watch walkie-talkie. Complementing the material are photocopied patents with descriptions.","The Government series (1937-90, n.d.) includes materials from the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), which recruited Gross and his walkie-talkies in World War II. Also included are five folders from the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) which gave Gross the rights to the first \"Citizens Radio Service\" after World War II. The FCC also served as the distributor of radio licenses. Original and photocopied licenses of Gross can be found in the Radio Material series (1934-86, n.d.) which also includes material from his amateur radio station W8PAL such as a station log and data book.","Complementing his lifetime of work in the wireless field is a vast collection of recognitions found in the Awards, Achievements series (1959-2000, n.d.). The series includes eighteen different awards and recognitions Al Gross received including awards from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) of which he was a Fellow member. Other awards of Gross are found in boxes 16, 17, and 21. More information on the IEEE can be found in the Subject Files series (1947-96, n.d.) which includes theses, stock certificates, and material highlighting Gross' visit to Virginia Tech.","The Oversize Materials series consists of items such as his awards, blueprints, and original documents which were pulled from the other series as they were too large for inclusion with other items in the series. Key items highlighting the inventor's career are on permanent exhibit in Torgerson Hall.","Publications list CB Illustrierte (March-April 1980) Germany Weekly Hibernia (March 3, 1980) Ireland Break-Break (July-August, 1980) The Netherlands NEI Bruce Peebles Newsletter (September, 1980) United Kingdom The Standard (November 2, 1981) London, England Daily Express (November 3, 1981) London, England The Daily Telegraph (November 3, 1981) London, England Sunday Independent (October 25, 1981) Dublin, Ireland Correo C.B. (1993) Spain","Publications list The Saturday Evening Post (July 28, 1945) The \"10-2\" Copy (March 1977) The \"10-2\" Copy (April, 1977) Link/Gross - draft (July 13, 1978) Electronic Distributing Magazine (August, 1978) CB Magazine (October, 1978) CB Times (November, 1978) CB Magazine (June, 1979) Quarterly Journal - Radio Club of America (May, 1980) The Cannon Report (September, 1984) ITT Courier Dataline (February 8, 1985) Sperry Star (September, 1985) Western \u0026 Eastern Treasures (September, 1985) IEEE Spectrum (September, 1987) Mobile Radio Technology (November, 1991)","Publications list Basic Elements for High Effeciency VHF Oscillator (September 15, 1944) \"Hints and Kinks of Relic Restoration,\" North South Trader (March-April, 1979) CB Radio and its First Cousins (original draft) (February 22, 1984) \"Not Quite Flying Machines\" (n.d.) \"Earth Batteries\" (n.d.)","Publications list \"Strange but True Football Stories\" (1967) Electronics (April, 1946) Radio News Magazine (February, 1948) Civil War Times Illustrated (October, 1973) Civil War Times Illustrated (February, 1975) CB Views Newsletter (January, 1977) Consumer Electronics Show Daily (January 14, 1977) CB Scene (Popular Electronics, May 1977) CB Radio (July, 1977) Electronic Distributing (April, 1978) Electronic Distributing (April, 1979) Radio Electronics (October, 1979) FIR CB (Italy) (1984) Personal Communications (September, 1985) Western \u0026 Eastern Treasures (September, 1985) Popular Communications (June, 1991) Mobile Radio Technology (November 1991) Communications for Wireless Communications Professionals (September 1995) QCWA Journal (Fall 2000)","Publications list \"Equivalent Circuits and Discontinuities in Transmission Lines\" (February, 1944) \"Coxial-Line Discontinuities\" (November, 1944) \"A Wide-Band Wattmeter for Wave Guide\" Proceedings of the IRE and Wave and Electrons (October, 1946) \"Printed Inductors and Capacitors\" Tele-Tech \u0026 Electronic Industries (December, 1955) \"Some Broad-Band Transformers\" Proceedings of the IRE (August, 1959) \"Let's standardize linear ICs\" The Electronic Engineer (January, 1968) \"A Practical Expanded Scale Milliohmmeter\" Popular Electronics (October, 1970) \"Ferromagnetic Loop Aerials\" Wireless Engineer (April 27, 1971) \"The Operational Amplifier\" Popular Electronics (August, 1971) \"Bill Orr on Antennas\" (August, 1976) \"How to Predict CB Radio Range\" Popular Electronics (December 1976) \"Build Three Low Cost CB Test Meters\" Radio-Electronics (October, 1977) \"Cellular System Design Using the Expansion Cell Layout Method\" IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (May, 1984) \"Small, High Efficiency Loop Antennas\" (June, 1986) \"Modular Design of Passive Components Improves System Performance\" MSN \u0026 CT (February, 1986) \"A Coordinate Conversion and SWR Nomogram\" RF Design (April, 1986) \"A High Performance VHF Crystal Oscillator Circuit\" RF Design (March, 1987) \"A Printed Circuit Stub Tuner for Microwave Integrated Circuits\" IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (March, 1987) \"Stable LC Oscillators\" RF Design (March, 1987) \"Analyzer Improvements Make Real-Time Antenna Tests Practical\" MSN \u0026 CT (May 1987) \"Gunn Sweepers for U and E Bands\" MSN \u0026 CT (May, 1987) \"Microstrip Low Pass Filter Design\" (June, 1987) Electronic Tube Engineering Bulletin, General Electric (n.d.) Inductive and Reactive Effects in Straight Wires *Includes notes (n.d.) RC Timing Circuit Considerations (n.d.) \"The Fusible Link - A Method of Protecting Primary Wiring Under Short Circuit Conditions\" (n.d.) \"Radiation Characteristics of a Triangular Microstrip Antenna\" by Inder J. Bahl (n.d.) Military Standard - Connectors, Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) Filter Pin Contact - Department of Defense (n.d.)","51 total.","July-August, 1990  January-February, 1991 *Includes note.","Contents World War II Joan/Eleanor OSS Walkie-Talkie (1965-81) Proximity Fuse (1968-69) Battery Operated Walkie-Talkie (1938) Al Gross with his Inventions (1984) Group Photos of Walkie-Talkies, Pagers, and Proximity Fuses (n.d.)","Contents Radio Tuning Apparatus (August 21, 1956) Radio Frequency Oscillator Mounting (August 21, 1956) Bracket Means for Joining Printed Circuit Panels - description only (February 24, 1959)","Achievements list FOPA member, Fraternal Order of Police Associates of Ohio (May 1, 1971) Member, Citizens Radio Federation of Virginia, Inc. (November 14, 1978) Certificate, Drexel University and IEEE (1979) Honorary Chairman, International Convention of CB'ers, Inc. (1979) Fellow Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2 pictures (1981) Member, Who's Who in Technology Today, 4th edition (May 18, 1984) Nomination, National Inventor's Hall of Fame (1984) Member, Who's Who in America, 44th edition (1985) Member, Who's Who in Frontiers of Science and Technology, 2nd edition (1985) Recipient, Fred M. Link Award, Radio Club of America, 3 pictures (November 20, 1992) Member, Quarter Century Wireless Association, Inc. (April 13, 1995) Permanent Honorary Membership, International Telecommunications Union (ITU), 2 pictures only (May 21, 1995) Recipient, Vladimir Karapetoff Eminent Members' Award (1998) Lifetime Achievement Award, Lemelson-MIT Program (April 27, 2000) Recipient, Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award, IEEE (June 19, 2000) Certificate, Federal Communications Commission (n.d.) Citation of Merit, Cuyahoga County Council for Civilian Defense (n.d.) Recipient, Avante Garde award, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, article only (n.d.) Professional Leadership Award, IEEE United States Activities Board, note only (n.d.)","Awards list Program, National Convention on Military Electronics (1959) Privileged Information, Nomination for National Technology Medal (1984) Program, IEEE Honors Ceremony (June 28, 1997) Program, IEEE Awards Presentation (June 19, 2000)","Contents Permit to leave Canada - Nathan Gross (original) (1918) Alexander Hamilton Junior High School (certificate, pictures) (1932-33) John Adams High School Track Photo (1934) Cleveland pictures (1918-1931)","Publications list UHF Antennas, Converters, \u0026 Tuners (March, 1953) Radio Receiver R390-A/URR (January 16, 1961) CB Radio Handbook (1977) CB Citizens Band Radio Service Rules (1978) Lloyd's Accumatic 999 Microelectronic Slide Rule Calculator (n.d.) Fisher M-Scope VLF 440 Series (n.d.) RHO-Tector VSWR Detector (n.d.) Ultrascan Scanning Electron Microscope (n.d.)","\"Why has Nation Lagged in Field of Solar Energy?\" (May 5, 1974)  The Sun Motor (nd)","Contents National Archives - 1994-95 Publications Souvenir Program - Illinois State Amateur Roller Skating Championships (1950) Cleveland Electronics Conference Manual (1961) Sun City 79'ers Lions Club Newsletter (1982) Identification Cards and Membership Cards (1983-87)","Includes correspondence letters between Jeanne Allen and Al Gross.","Publications list Sterling, George E. The Radio Manual: For Radio Engineers, Inspectors, Students, Operators, and Radio Fans. 3rd ed. New York: Van Norstrand, 1938. Henney, Keith. Radio Engineers' Handbook. 3rd ed. New York: McGraw- Hill, 1941. Cooke, Nelson M. Mathematics for Electricians and Radiomen. 1st ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1942. Terman, Frederick Emmons. Radio Engineers' Handbook. 1st ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1943. Dietz, David. Atomic Energy in the Coming Era. New York: Avon, 1945. Kraus, John D. Antennas. Electrical and Electronic Engineering Series. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1950. Marconi, Degna. My Father, Marconi. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962. Jolly, W.P. Marconi. New York: Stein and Day, 1972. Box 13 Kahn, David. The Code Breakers: The Story of Secret Writing. New York: Macmillan, 1967. Brown, Anthony Cave. The Secret War Report of the OSS. New York: Berkley Publishing Corp., 1976. Price, Alfred. The History of US Electronic Warfare. Vol. I. 1st ed. The Association of Old Crows, n.p., 1984. Young, Harry E. Wireless Basics. Chicago: Intertec, 1992. Nebeker, Frederik. Sparks of Genius: Portraits of Electrical Engineering Excellence. New York: IEEE, 1993. Roosevelt, Kermit. The Overseas Targets: War Report of the OSS. Vol. II. New York: Walker, 1976. Moyer, Albert E. Joseph Henry: The Rise of an American Scientist. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997.","Contents True Temper Fiberglass CB Antenna advertising and sales notebook (1978) Metal Detector, blue Motorola HT 220 Handie-Talkie FM Radio Samsung CDMA Phone Motorola Bravo Pager Pickett slide rule in leather case International Rectifier in small leather case Slide Rule in brown plastic case Compass (4) in black leather pouch Motorola Micro TAC Prototype Cell Phone Ledger, I.A. Gross Electronics, Inc. Negatives (11 small boxes) Tapes - 3 cassette tapes and 2 microcassette tapes Videocassettes (5) White plastic ruler, labeled \"983.5 MHZ .000000001SEC\" Mile-O-Graph mileage measurer in red box Nametag - Al Gross W8PAL Cases for walkie-talkies (4). Three green leather cases and one blue felt soft case Frequency Spectrum Chart (2) Small picture frame, gray Antenna, white Funnel attached by chain to small scoop, brass Box 15 Several unidentified electronical parts in small black suitcase (n.d.)","2-40 millimeter and 2-20 millimeter bullets.","Awards list Election to the Senior Member of the IEEE, framed certificate (November 1952) Election to Life Fellow of the IEEE, framed certificate (n.d.) IEEE Third Millenium Medal, paper certificate (n.d.) \"To Al from his good buddies in London\" handwritten note in wooden frame (February 11, 1982) Commission as Captain in the Navy of the Confederate States of America, framed certificate (November 25, 1964) Oversize Box 20 \"Presented In Appreciation to Al Gross on the Occasion of His Centennial Seminar...\" commemorative plaque (October 1992) Election as a Fellow of the IEEE, laminated paper on wood (January 1, 1982) Election to the Board of Directors and a Fellow of the Radio Club of America, certificate on laminated wood (November 1980)","Contents Blueprints (1949-78, n.d.) Publications, Awards (1952-80) Article \"Phone Me by Air\" The Saturday Evening Post, original (July 28, 1945) Al Gross Patents (4) - original copies (1952-56) Montgomery Ward Blanket Order Form - Citizens Radio Corporation (original)(June 9, 1948) Amateur Radio Operator License (original) (November 26, 1935) Photocopied images from the Virginia Tech Imagebase (n.d.) Photo, Symposium Internacional de Electronica (March 1996) Cloth sign, \"Presented to Mr. A. Gross by Dundalk C.B. Club\" (1980) Cloth sign, \"Europa Burger Band\" (n.d.) Drexel University and IEEE, framed certificate (Fall 1979) Letter confirming Al Gross as an IEEE Fellow (December 7, 1981) The Cleveland Press Victory Edition (WWII) (August 15, 1945)","The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form:  http://bit.ly/scuareproduction . Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form:  http://bit.ly/scuapublication . Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.","The Al Gross papers are comprised of the following series: Employment, Publications, Inventions and Patents, Awards and Achievements, Personal Material, Technical Data, Radio Material, Government, Subject Files, and Oversize Materials. The collection also includes Gross' book collection and electronic parts. This collection contains materials relating to the significant contributions Al Gross made in the advancement of wireless technology. The collection provides a detailed look at the evolution of the walkie-talkie from a weapon against the Axis Powers in World War II to its functional and convenient purposes today. Throughout the progression of wireless technology, Al Gross remained an integral part of designing and updating wireless devices such as cellular phones and pagers to its now diminutive form using microminituarization and other scientific methods.","Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech","Gross, Al, d.2000","The materials in the collection are in English."],"unitid_tesim":["Ms.2001.011"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Al Gross Papers"],"collection_title_tesim":["Al Gross Papers"],"collection_ssim":["Al Gross Papers"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University"],"creator_ssm":["Gross, Al, d.2000"],"creator_ssim":["Gross, Al, d.2000"],"creator_persname_ssim":["Gross, Al, d.2000"],"creators_ssim":["Gross, Al, d.2000"],"access_terms_ssm":["The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. 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Known as the father of wireless communications, Gross invented the walkie-talkie in 1938 at age 20 and by 1941 the Office of Strategic Services (now known as the CIA) was eager to develop a lightweight, portable communications system for air-to-ground contact. The OSS recruited Gross and he devised the \"Joan-Eleanor System\" using Hertzian radio waves which were virtually impossible to intercept even from behind emeny lines. Gross' invention was a huge success and was praised by the US Joint Chiefs of Staff as being one of the most successful wireless intelligence gathering methods ever employed.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAfter the war, Gross formed the Citizens Radio Corporation and sold his units to the public, mostly to farmers and the US Coast Guard. In 1949 Gross had another breakthrough invention, the telephone pager. That same year Gross attended a medical conference in Philadelphia to introduce the pager system to doctors. Unfortunately, many of the doctors were apprehensive of the device stating it would interfere with their leisure time or upset their patients. The pager never caught on for Gross, proving he was decades ahead of his time.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGross continued to invent for his entire lifespan, compiling 12 patents. But Gross' patents expired long before the world was ready for pagers, cell phones, and CB radio. Instead of reaping the monetary benefits of his inventions, Gross is rich in awards and recognitions. Most recently, Gross became the sixth person to be awarded the Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. Eight months later on December 28, 2000, Gross died at his Arizona home.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical Note"],"bioghist_tesim":["Al Gross was born in Toronto, Ontario, but was raised in Cleveland, Ohio. Known as the father of wireless communications, Gross invented the walkie-talkie in 1938 at age 20 and by 1941 the Office of Strategic Services (now known as the CIA) was eager to develop a lightweight, portable communications system for air-to-ground contact. The OSS recruited Gross and he devised the \"Joan-Eleanor System\" using Hertzian radio waves which were virtually impossible to intercept even from behind emeny lines. Gross' invention was a huge success and was praised by the US Joint Chiefs of Staff as being one of the most successful wireless intelligence gathering methods ever employed.","After the war, Gross formed the Citizens Radio Corporation and sold his units to the public, mostly to farmers and the US Coast Guard. In 1949 Gross had another breakthrough invention, the telephone pager. That same year Gross attended a medical conference in Philadelphia to introduce the pager system to doctors. Unfortunately, many of the doctors were apprehensive of the device stating it would interfere with their leisure time or upset their patients. The pager never caught on for Gross, proving he was decades ahead of his time.","Gross continued to invent for his entire lifespan, compiling 12 patents. But Gross' patents expired long before the world was ready for pagers, cell phones, and CB radio. Instead of reaping the monetary benefits of his inventions, Gross is rich in awards and recognitions. Most recently, Gross became the sixth person to be awarded the Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. Eight months later on December 28, 2000, Gross died at his Arizona home."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe guide to the Gross, Al Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (\u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/\"\u003ehttps://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/\u003c/a\u003e).\u003c/p\u003e"],"odd_heading_ssm":["Rights Statement for Archival Description"],"odd_tesim":["The guide to the Gross, Al Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ )."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eResearchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Gross, Al Papers, Ms2001-011, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Gross, Al Papers, Ms2001-011, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Al Gross papers are comprised of the following series: Employment, Publications, Inventions and Patents, Awards and Achievements, Personal Material, Technical Data, Radio Material, Government, Subject Files, and Oversize Materials. The collection also includes Gross' book collection and electronic parts. This collection contains materials relating to the significant contributions Al Gross made in the advancement of wireless technology. The collection provides a detailed look at the evolution of the walkie-talkie from a weapon against the Axis Powers in World War II to its functional and convenient purposes today. Throughout the progression of wireless technology, Al Gross remained an integral part of designing and updating wireless devices such as cellular phones and pagers to its now diminutive form using microminituarization and other scientific methods.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Employment series (1944-81, n.d.) contains detailed materials from his first companies such as the Citizens Radio Corporation, Gross Communications, and Royalcall - the first telephone pager company ever. With his contributions in the wireless field, Al Gross became well known worldwide in the wireless front and companies such as True Temper and GTE Sylvania hired Gross not only for his engineering skill but for public relations as well. One example is Gross appearing on the popular television show \"To Tell the Truth\" while he worked for True Temper. Photographs of Gross on \"To Tell the Truth\" are located in the Personal Material series (1918-2000, n.d.) which also includes material spanning from Gross' Junior High School to notes on retirement. Also included are correspondence letters, resumes, and personal certificates.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Publications series (1945-2000, n.d.) contains a comprehensive list of articles written about Gross and his work as well as articles written by Gross himself. Other publications used primarily for reference are found in the Technical Data series (1943-99, n.d.). Highlighting the series are technical diagrams, charts, and manuals. More information on the work of Al Gross can be found in the Inventions and Patents series (1909-2000, n.d.). Included in the series is a comprehensive photo collection and early drawings of inventions such as the Antenna, Citizens Transceiver, and the wrist-watch walkie-talkie. Complementing the material are photocopied patents with descriptions.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Government series (1937-90, n.d.) includes materials from the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), which recruited Gross and his walkie-talkies in World War II. Also included are five folders from the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) which gave Gross the rights to the first \"Citizens Radio Service\" after World War II. The FCC also served as the distributor of radio licenses. Original and photocopied licenses of Gross can be found in the Radio Material series (1934-86, n.d.) which also includes material from his amateur radio station W8PAL such as a station log and data book.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eComplementing his lifetime of work in the wireless field is a vast collection of recognitions found in the Awards, Achievements series (1959-2000, n.d.). The series includes eighteen different awards and recognitions Al Gross received including awards from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) of which he was a Fellow member. Other awards of Gross are found in boxes 16, 17, and 21. More information on the IEEE can be found in the Subject Files series (1947-96, n.d.) which includes theses, stock certificates, and material highlighting Gross' visit to Virginia Tech.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Oversize Materials series consists of items such as his awards, blueprints, and original documents which were pulled from the other series as they were too large for inclusion with other items in the series. Key items highlighting the inventor's career are on permanent exhibit in Torgerson Hall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003clist type=\"ordered\"\u003e\u003chead\u003ePublications list\u003c/head\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eCB Illustrierte (March-April 1980) Germany\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eWeekly Hibernia (March 3, 1980) Ireland\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eBreak-Break (July-August, 1980) The Netherlands\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eNEI Bruce Peebles Newsletter (September, 1980) United Kingdom\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eThe Standard (November 2, 1981) London, England\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eDaily Express (November 3, 1981) London, England\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eThe Daily Telegraph (November 3, 1981) London, England\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eSunday Independent (October 25, 1981) Dublin, Ireland\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCorreo C.B. (1993) Spain\u003c/item\u003e\u003c/list\u003e","\u003clist type=\"ordered\"\u003e\u003chead\u003ePublications list\u003c/head\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eThe Saturday Evening Post (July 28, 1945)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eThe \"10-2\" Copy (March 1977)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eThe \"10-2\" Copy (April, 1977)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eLink/Gross - draft (July 13, 1978)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eElectronic Distributing Magazine (August, 1978)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCB Magazine (October, 1978)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCB Times (November, 1978)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCB Magazine (June, 1979)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eQuarterly Journal - Radio Club of America (May, 1980)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eThe Cannon Report (September, 1984)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eITT Courier Dataline (February 8, 1985)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eSperry Star (September, 1985)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eWestern \u0026amp; Eastern Treasures (September, 1985)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eIEEE Spectrum (September, 1987)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eMobile Radio Technology (November, 1991)\u003c/item\u003e\u003c/list\u003e","\u003clist type=\"ordered\"\u003e\u003chead\u003ePublications list\u003c/head\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eBasic Elements for High Effeciency VHF Oscillator (September 15, 1944)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"Hints and Kinks of Relic Restoration,\" North South Trader (March-April, 1979)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCB Radio and its First Cousins (original draft) (February 22, 1984)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"Not Quite Flying Machines\" (n.d.)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"Earth Batteries\" (n.d.)\u003c/item\u003e\u003c/list\u003e","\u003clist type=\"ordered\"\u003e\u003chead\u003ePublications list\u003c/head\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\"Strange but True Football Stories\" (1967)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eElectronics (April, 1946)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eRadio News Magazine (February, 1948)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCivil War Times Illustrated (October, 1973)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCivil War Times Illustrated (February, 1975)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCB Views Newsletter (January, 1977)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eConsumer Electronics Show Daily (January 14, 1977)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCB Scene (Popular Electronics, May 1977)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCB Radio (July, 1977)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eElectronic Distributing (April, 1978)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eElectronic Distributing (April, 1979)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eRadio Electronics (October, 1979)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eFIR CB (Italy) (1984)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003ePersonal Communications (September, 1985)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eWestern \u0026amp; Eastern Treasures (September, 1985)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003ePopular Communications (June, 1991)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eMobile Radio Technology (November 1991)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCommunications for Wireless Communications Professionals (September 1995)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eQCWA Journal (Fall 2000)\u003c/item\u003e\u003c/list\u003e","\u003clist type=\"ordered\"\u003e\u003chead\u003ePublications list\u003c/head\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\"Equivalent Circuits and Discontinuities in Transmission Lines\" (February, 1944)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"Coxial-Line Discontinuities\" (November, 1944)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"A Wide-Band Wattmeter for Wave Guide\" Proceedings of the IRE and Wave and Electrons (October, 1946)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"Printed Inductors and Capacitors\" Tele-Tech \u0026amp; Electronic Industries (December, 1955)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"Some Broad-Band Transformers\" Proceedings of the IRE (August, 1959)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"Let's standardize linear ICs\" The Electronic Engineer (January, 1968)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"A Practical Expanded Scale Milliohmmeter\" Popular Electronics (October, 1970)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"Ferromagnetic Loop Aerials\" Wireless Engineer (April 27, 1971)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"The Operational Amplifier\" Popular Electronics (August, 1971)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"Bill Orr on Antennas\" (August, 1976)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"How to Predict CB Radio Range\" Popular Electronics (December 1976)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"Build Three Low Cost CB Test Meters\" Radio-Electronics (October, 1977)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"Cellular System Design Using the Expansion Cell Layout Method\" IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (May, 1984)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"Small, High Efficiency Loop Antennas\" (June, 1986)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"Modular Design of Passive Components Improves System Performance\" MSN \u0026amp; CT (February, 1986)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"A Coordinate Conversion and SWR Nomogram\" RF Design (April, 1986)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"A High Performance VHF Crystal Oscillator Circuit\" RF Design (March, 1987)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"A Printed Circuit Stub Tuner for Microwave Integrated Circuits\" IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (March, 1987)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"Stable LC Oscillators\" RF Design (March, 1987)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"Analyzer Improvements Make Real-Time Antenna Tests Practical\" MSN \u0026amp; CT (May 1987)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"Gunn Sweepers for U and E Bands\" MSN \u0026amp; CT (May, 1987)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"Microstrip Low Pass Filter Design\" (June, 1987)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eElectronic Tube Engineering Bulletin, General Electric (n.d.)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eInductive and Reactive Effects in Straight Wires *Includes notes (n.d.)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eRC Timing Circuit Considerations (n.d.)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"The Fusible Link - A Method of Protecting Primary Wiring Under Short Circuit Conditions\" (n.d.)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"Radiation Characteristics of a Triangular Microstrip Antenna\" by Inder J. Bahl (n.d.)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eMilitary Standard - Connectors, Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) Filter Pin Contact - Department of Defense (n.d.)\u003c/item\u003e\u003c/list\u003e","\u003cp\u003e51 total.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJuly-August, 1990 \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJanuary-February, 1991 *Includes note.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003clist type=\"ordered\"\u003e\u003chead\u003eContents\u003c/head\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eWorld War II Joan/Eleanor OSS Walkie-Talkie (1965-81)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eProximity Fuse (1968-69)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eBattery Operated Walkie-Talkie (1938)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eAl Gross with his Inventions (1984)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eGroup Photos of Walkie-Talkies, Pagers, and Proximity Fuses (n.d.)\u003c/item\u003e\u003c/list\u003e","\u003clist type=\"ordered\"\u003e\u003chead\u003eContents\u003c/head\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eRadio Tuning Apparatus (August 21, 1956)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eRadio Frequency Oscillator Mounting (August 21, 1956)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eBracket Means for Joining Printed Circuit Panels - description only (February 24, 1959)\u003c/item\u003e\u003c/list\u003e","\u003clist type=\"ordered\"\u003e\u003chead\u003eAchievements list\u003c/head\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eFOPA member, Fraternal Order of Police Associates of Ohio (May 1, 1971)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eMember, Citizens Radio Federation of Virginia, Inc. (November 14, 1978)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCertificate, Drexel University and IEEE (1979)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eHonorary Chairman, International Convention of CB'ers, Inc. (1979)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eFellow Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2 pictures (1981)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eMember, Who's Who in Technology Today, 4th edition (May 18, 1984)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eNomination, National Inventor's Hall of Fame (1984)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eMember, Who's Who in America, 44th edition (1985)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eMember, Who's Who in Frontiers of Science and Technology, 2nd edition (1985)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eRecipient, Fred M. Link Award, Radio Club of America, 3 pictures (November 20, 1992)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eMember, Quarter Century Wireless Association, Inc. (April 13, 1995)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003ePermanent Honorary Membership, International Telecommunications Union (ITU), 2 pictures only (May 21, 1995)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eRecipient, Vladimir Karapetoff Eminent Members' Award (1998)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eLifetime Achievement Award, Lemelson-MIT Program (April 27, 2000)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eRecipient, Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award, IEEE (June 19, 2000)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCertificate, Federal Communications Commission (n.d.) Citation of Merit, Cuyahoga County Council for Civilian Defense (n.d.)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eRecipient, Avante Garde award, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, article only (n.d.)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eProfessional Leadership Award, IEEE United States Activities Board, note only (n.d.)\u003c/item\u003e\u003c/list\u003e","\u003clist type=\"ordered\"\u003e\u003chead\u003eAwards list\u003c/head\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eProgram, National Convention on Military Electronics (1959)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003ePrivileged Information, Nomination for National Technology Medal (1984)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eProgram, IEEE Honors Ceremony (June 28, 1997)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eProgram, IEEE Awards Presentation (June 19, 2000)\u003c/item\u003e\u003c/list\u003e","\u003clist type=\"ordered\"\u003e\u003chead\u003eContents\u003c/head\u003e\n\u003citem\u003ePermit to leave Canada - Nathan Gross (original) (1918)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eAlexander Hamilton Junior High School (certificate, pictures) (1932-33)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eJohn Adams High School Track Photo (1934)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCleveland pictures (1918-1931)\u003c/item\u003e\u003c/list\u003e","\u003clist type=\"ordered\"\u003e\u003chead\u003ePublications list\u003c/head\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eUHF Antennas, Converters, \u0026amp; Tuners (March, 1953)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eRadio Receiver R390-A/URR (January 16, 1961)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCB Radio Handbook (1977)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCB Citizens Band Radio Service Rules (1978)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eLloyd's Accumatic 999 Microelectronic Slide Rule Calculator (n.d.)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eFisher M-Scope VLF 440 Series (n.d.)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eRHO-Tector VSWR Detector (n.d.)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eUltrascan Scanning Electron Microscope (n.d.)\u003c/item\u003e\u003c/list\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Why has Nation Lagged in Field of Solar Energy?\" (May 5, 1974) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eThe Sun Motor (nd)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003clist type=\"ordered\"\u003e\u003chead\u003eContents\u003c/head\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eNational Archives - 1994-95 Publications\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eSouvenir Program - Illinois State Amateur Roller Skating Championships (1950)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCleveland Electronics Conference Manual (1961)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eSun City 79'ers Lions Club Newsletter (1982)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eIdentification Cards and Membership Cards (1983-87)\u003c/item\u003e\u003c/list\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence letters between Jeanne Allen and Al Gross.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003clist type=\"ordered\"\u003e\u003chead\u003ePublications list\u003c/head\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eSterling, George E. The Radio Manual: For Radio Engineers, Inspectors, Students, Operators, and Radio Fans. 3rd ed. New York: Van Norstrand, 1938.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eHenney, Keith. Radio Engineers' Handbook. 3rd ed. New York: McGraw- Hill, 1941.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCooke, Nelson M. Mathematics for Electricians and Radiomen. 1st ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1942.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eTerman, Frederick Emmons. Radio Engineers' Handbook. 1st ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1943.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eDietz, David. Atomic Energy in the Coming Era. New York: Avon, 1945.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eKraus, John D. Antennas. Electrical and Electronic Engineering Series. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1950.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eMarconi, Degna. My Father, Marconi. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eJolly, W.P. Marconi. New York: Stein and Day, 1972.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eBox 13\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eKahn, David. The Code Breakers: The Story of Secret Writing. New York: Macmillan, 1967.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eBrown, Anthony Cave. The Secret War Report of the OSS. New York: Berkley Publishing Corp., 1976.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003ePrice, Alfred. The History of US Electronic Warfare. Vol. I. 1st ed. The Association of Old Crows, n.p., 1984.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eYoung, Harry E. Wireless Basics. Chicago: Intertec, 1992.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eNebeker, Frederik. Sparks of Genius: Portraits of Electrical Engineering Excellence. New York: IEEE, 1993. Roosevelt, Kermit. The Overseas Targets: War Report of the OSS. Vol. II. New York: Walker, 1976.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eMoyer, Albert E. Joseph Henry: The Rise of an American Scientist. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997.\u003c/item\u003e\u003c/list\u003e","\u003clist type=\"ordered\"\u003e\u003chead\u003eContents\u003c/head\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eTrue Temper Fiberglass CB Antenna advertising and sales notebook (1978)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eMetal Detector, blue\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eMotorola HT 220 Handie-Talkie FM Radio\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eSamsung CDMA Phone\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eMotorola Bravo Pager\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003ePickett slide rule in leather case\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eInternational Rectifier in small leather case\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eSlide Rule in brown plastic case\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCompass (4) in black leather pouch\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eMotorola Micro TAC Prototype Cell Phone\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eLedger, I.A. Gross Electronics, Inc.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eNegatives (11 small boxes)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eTapes - 3 cassette tapes and 2 microcassette tapes\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eVideocassettes (5)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eWhite plastic ruler, labeled \"983.5 MHZ .000000001SEC\"\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eMile-O-Graph mileage measurer in red box\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eNametag - Al Gross W8PAL\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCases for walkie-talkies (4). Three green leather cases and one blue felt soft case\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eFrequency Spectrum Chart (2)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eSmall picture frame, gray\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eAntenna, white\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eFunnel attached by chain to small scoop, brass\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eBox 15\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eSeveral unidentified electronical parts in small black suitcase (n.d.)\u003c/item\u003e\u003c/list\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2-40 millimeter and 2-20 millimeter bullets.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003clist type=\"ordered\"\u003e\u003chead\u003eAwards list\u003c/head\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eElection to the Senior Member of the IEEE, framed certificate (November 1952)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eElection to Life Fellow of the IEEE, framed certificate (n.d.)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eIEEE Third Millenium Medal, paper certificate (n.d.)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"To Al from his good buddies in London\" handwritten note in wooden frame (February 11, 1982)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCommission as Captain in the Navy of the Confederate States of America, framed certificate (November 25, 1964)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eOversize Box 20\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"Presented In Appreciation to Al Gross on the Occasion of His Centennial Seminar...\" commemorative plaque (October 1992)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eElection as a Fellow of the IEEE, laminated paper on wood (January 1, 1982)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eElection to the Board of Directors and a Fellow of the Radio Club of America, certificate on laminated wood (November 1980)\u003c/item\u003e\u003c/list\u003e","\u003clist type=\"ordered\"\u003e\u003chead\u003eContents\u003c/head\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eBlueprints (1949-78, n.d.)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003ePublications, Awards (1952-80)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eArticle \"Phone Me by Air\" The Saturday Evening Post, original (July 28, 1945)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eAl Gross Patents (4) - original copies (1952-56)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eMontgomery Ward Blanket Order Form - Citizens Radio Corporation (original)(June 9, 1948)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eAmateur Radio Operator License (original) (November 26, 1935)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003ePhotocopied images from the Virginia Tech Imagebase (n.d.)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003ePhoto, Symposium Internacional de Electronica (March 1996)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCloth sign, \"Presented to Mr. A. Gross by Dundalk C.B. Club\" (1980)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCloth sign, \"Europa Burger Band\" (n.d.) Drexel University and IEEE, framed certificate (Fall 1979)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eLetter confirming Al Gross as an IEEE Fellow (December 7, 1981)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eThe Cleveland Press Victory Edition (WWII) (August 15, 1945)\u003c/item\u003e\u003c/list\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Al Gross papers are comprised of the following series: Employment, Publications, Inventions and Patents, Awards and Achievements, Personal Material, Technical Data, Radio Material, Government, Subject Files, and Oversize Materials. The collection also includes Gross' book collection and electronic parts. This collection contains materials relating to the significant contributions Al Gross made in the advancement of wireless technology. The collection provides a detailed look at the evolution of the walkie-talkie from a weapon against the Axis Powers in World War II to its functional and convenient purposes today. Throughout the progression of wireless technology, Al Gross remained an integral part of designing and updating wireless devices such as cellular phones and pagers to its now diminutive form using microminituarization and other scientific methods.","The Employment series (1944-81, n.d.) contains detailed materials from his first companies such as the Citizens Radio Corporation, Gross Communications, and Royalcall - the first telephone pager company ever. With his contributions in the wireless field, Al Gross became well known worldwide in the wireless front and companies such as True Temper and GTE Sylvania hired Gross not only for his engineering skill but for public relations as well. One example is Gross appearing on the popular television show \"To Tell the Truth\" while he worked for True Temper. Photographs of Gross on \"To Tell the Truth\" are located in the Personal Material series (1918-2000, n.d.) which also includes material spanning from Gross' Junior High School to notes on retirement. Also included are correspondence letters, resumes, and personal certificates.","The Publications series (1945-2000, n.d.) contains a comprehensive list of articles written about Gross and his work as well as articles written by Gross himself. Other publications used primarily for reference are found in the Technical Data series (1943-99, n.d.). Highlighting the series are technical diagrams, charts, and manuals. More information on the work of Al Gross can be found in the Inventions and Patents series (1909-2000, n.d.). Included in the series is a comprehensive photo collection and early drawings of inventions such as the Antenna, Citizens Transceiver, and the wrist-watch walkie-talkie. Complementing the material are photocopied patents with descriptions.","The Government series (1937-90, n.d.) includes materials from the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), which recruited Gross and his walkie-talkies in World War II. Also included are five folders from the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) which gave Gross the rights to the first \"Citizens Radio Service\" after World War II. The FCC also served as the distributor of radio licenses. Original and photocopied licenses of Gross can be found in the Radio Material series (1934-86, n.d.) which also includes material from his amateur radio station W8PAL such as a station log and data book.","Complementing his lifetime of work in the wireless field is a vast collection of recognitions found in the Awards, Achievements series (1959-2000, n.d.). The series includes eighteen different awards and recognitions Al Gross received including awards from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) of which he was a Fellow member. Other awards of Gross are found in boxes 16, 17, and 21. More information on the IEEE can be found in the Subject Files series (1947-96, n.d.) which includes theses, stock certificates, and material highlighting Gross' visit to Virginia Tech.","The Oversize Materials series consists of items such as his awards, blueprints, and original documents which were pulled from the other series as they were too large for inclusion with other items in the series. Key items highlighting the inventor's career are on permanent exhibit in Torgerson Hall.","Publications list CB Illustrierte (March-April 1980) Germany Weekly Hibernia (March 3, 1980) Ireland Break-Break (July-August, 1980) The Netherlands NEI Bruce Peebles Newsletter (September, 1980) United Kingdom The Standard (November 2, 1981) London, England Daily Express (November 3, 1981) London, England The Daily Telegraph (November 3, 1981) London, England Sunday Independent (October 25, 1981) Dublin, Ireland Correo C.B. (1993) Spain","Publications list The Saturday Evening Post (July 28, 1945) The \"10-2\" Copy (March 1977) The \"10-2\" Copy (April, 1977) Link/Gross - draft (July 13, 1978) Electronic Distributing Magazine (August, 1978) CB Magazine (October, 1978) CB Times (November, 1978) CB Magazine (June, 1979) Quarterly Journal - Radio Club of America (May, 1980) The Cannon Report (September, 1984) ITT Courier Dataline (February 8, 1985) Sperry Star (September, 1985) Western \u0026 Eastern Treasures (September, 1985) IEEE Spectrum (September, 1987) Mobile Radio Technology (November, 1991)","Publications list Basic Elements for High Effeciency VHF Oscillator (September 15, 1944) \"Hints and Kinks of Relic Restoration,\" North South Trader (March-April, 1979) CB Radio and its First Cousins (original draft) (February 22, 1984) \"Not Quite Flying Machines\" (n.d.) \"Earth Batteries\" (n.d.)","Publications list \"Strange but True Football Stories\" (1967) Electronics (April, 1946) Radio News Magazine (February, 1948) Civil War Times Illustrated (October, 1973) Civil War Times Illustrated (February, 1975) CB Views Newsletter (January, 1977) Consumer Electronics Show Daily (January 14, 1977) CB Scene (Popular Electronics, May 1977) CB Radio (July, 1977) Electronic Distributing (April, 1978) Electronic Distributing (April, 1979) Radio Electronics (October, 1979) FIR CB (Italy) (1984) Personal Communications (September, 1985) Western \u0026 Eastern Treasures (September, 1985) Popular Communications (June, 1991) Mobile Radio Technology (November 1991) Communications for Wireless Communications Professionals (September 1995) QCWA Journal (Fall 2000)","Publications list \"Equivalent Circuits and Discontinuities in Transmission Lines\" (February, 1944) \"Coxial-Line Discontinuities\" (November, 1944) \"A Wide-Band Wattmeter for Wave Guide\" Proceedings of the IRE and Wave and Electrons (October, 1946) \"Printed Inductors and Capacitors\" Tele-Tech \u0026 Electronic Industries (December, 1955) \"Some Broad-Band Transformers\" Proceedings of the IRE (August, 1959) \"Let's standardize linear ICs\" The Electronic Engineer (January, 1968) \"A Practical Expanded Scale Milliohmmeter\" Popular Electronics (October, 1970) \"Ferromagnetic Loop Aerials\" Wireless Engineer (April 27, 1971) \"The Operational Amplifier\" Popular Electronics (August, 1971) \"Bill Orr on Antennas\" (August, 1976) \"How to Predict CB Radio Range\" Popular Electronics (December 1976) \"Build Three Low Cost CB Test Meters\" Radio-Electronics (October, 1977) \"Cellular System Design Using the Expansion Cell Layout Method\" IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (May, 1984) \"Small, High Efficiency Loop Antennas\" (June, 1986) \"Modular Design of Passive Components Improves System Performance\" MSN \u0026 CT (February, 1986) \"A Coordinate Conversion and SWR Nomogram\" RF Design (April, 1986) \"A High Performance VHF Crystal Oscillator Circuit\" RF Design (March, 1987) \"A Printed Circuit Stub Tuner for Microwave Integrated Circuits\" IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (March, 1987) \"Stable LC Oscillators\" RF Design (March, 1987) \"Analyzer Improvements Make Real-Time Antenna Tests Practical\" MSN \u0026 CT (May 1987) \"Gunn Sweepers for U and E Bands\" MSN \u0026 CT (May, 1987) \"Microstrip Low Pass Filter Design\" (June, 1987) Electronic Tube Engineering Bulletin, General Electric (n.d.) Inductive and Reactive Effects in Straight Wires *Includes notes (n.d.) RC Timing Circuit Considerations (n.d.) \"The Fusible Link - A Method of Protecting Primary Wiring Under Short Circuit Conditions\" (n.d.) \"Radiation Characteristics of a Triangular Microstrip Antenna\" by Inder J. Bahl (n.d.) Military Standard - Connectors, Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) Filter Pin Contact - Department of Defense (n.d.)","51 total.","July-August, 1990  January-February, 1991 *Includes note.","Contents World War II Joan/Eleanor OSS Walkie-Talkie (1965-81) Proximity Fuse (1968-69) Battery Operated Walkie-Talkie (1938) Al Gross with his Inventions (1984) Group Photos of Walkie-Talkies, Pagers, and Proximity Fuses (n.d.)","Contents Radio Tuning Apparatus (August 21, 1956) Radio Frequency Oscillator Mounting (August 21, 1956) Bracket Means for Joining Printed Circuit Panels - description only (February 24, 1959)","Achievements list FOPA member, Fraternal Order of Police Associates of Ohio (May 1, 1971) Member, Citizens Radio Federation of Virginia, Inc. (November 14, 1978) Certificate, Drexel University and IEEE (1979) Honorary Chairman, International Convention of CB'ers, Inc. (1979) Fellow Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2 pictures (1981) Member, Who's Who in Technology Today, 4th edition (May 18, 1984) Nomination, National Inventor's Hall of Fame (1984) Member, Who's Who in America, 44th edition (1985) Member, Who's Who in Frontiers of Science and Technology, 2nd edition (1985) Recipient, Fred M. Link Award, Radio Club of America, 3 pictures (November 20, 1992) Member, Quarter Century Wireless Association, Inc. (April 13, 1995) Permanent Honorary Membership, International Telecommunications Union (ITU), 2 pictures only (May 21, 1995) Recipient, Vladimir Karapetoff Eminent Members' Award (1998) Lifetime Achievement Award, Lemelson-MIT Program (April 27, 2000) Recipient, Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award, IEEE (June 19, 2000) Certificate, Federal Communications Commission (n.d.) Citation of Merit, Cuyahoga County Council for Civilian Defense (n.d.) Recipient, Avante Garde award, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, article only (n.d.) Professional Leadership Award, IEEE United States Activities Board, note only (n.d.)","Awards list Program, National Convention on Military Electronics (1959) Privileged Information, Nomination for National Technology Medal (1984) Program, IEEE Honors Ceremony (June 28, 1997) Program, IEEE Awards Presentation (June 19, 2000)","Contents Permit to leave Canada - Nathan Gross (original) (1918) Alexander Hamilton Junior High School (certificate, pictures) (1932-33) John Adams High School Track Photo (1934) Cleveland pictures (1918-1931)","Publications list UHF Antennas, Converters, \u0026 Tuners (March, 1953) Radio Receiver R390-A/URR (January 16, 1961) CB Radio Handbook (1977) CB Citizens Band Radio Service Rules (1978) Lloyd's Accumatic 999 Microelectronic Slide Rule Calculator (n.d.) Fisher M-Scope VLF 440 Series (n.d.) RHO-Tector VSWR Detector (n.d.) Ultrascan Scanning Electron Microscope (n.d.)","\"Why has Nation Lagged in Field of Solar Energy?\" (May 5, 1974)  The Sun Motor (nd)","Contents National Archives - 1994-95 Publications Souvenir Program - Illinois State Amateur Roller Skating Championships (1950) Cleveland Electronics Conference Manual (1961) Sun City 79'ers Lions Club Newsletter (1982) Identification Cards and Membership Cards (1983-87)","Includes correspondence letters between Jeanne Allen and Al Gross.","Publications list Sterling, George E. The Radio Manual: For Radio Engineers, Inspectors, Students, Operators, and Radio Fans. 3rd ed. New York: Van Norstrand, 1938. Henney, Keith. Radio Engineers' Handbook. 3rd ed. New York: McGraw- Hill, 1941. Cooke, Nelson M. Mathematics for Electricians and Radiomen. 1st ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1942. Terman, Frederick Emmons. Radio Engineers' Handbook. 1st ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1943. Dietz, David. Atomic Energy in the Coming Era. New York: Avon, 1945. Kraus, John D. Antennas. Electrical and Electronic Engineering Series. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1950. Marconi, Degna. My Father, Marconi. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962. Jolly, W.P. Marconi. New York: Stein and Day, 1972. Box 13 Kahn, David. The Code Breakers: The Story of Secret Writing. New York: Macmillan, 1967. Brown, Anthony Cave. The Secret War Report of the OSS. New York: Berkley Publishing Corp., 1976. Price, Alfred. The History of US Electronic Warfare. Vol. I. 1st ed. The Association of Old Crows, n.p., 1984. Young, Harry E. Wireless Basics. Chicago: Intertec, 1992. Nebeker, Frederik. Sparks of Genius: Portraits of Electrical Engineering Excellence. New York: IEEE, 1993. Roosevelt, Kermit. The Overseas Targets: War Report of the OSS. Vol. II. New York: Walker, 1976. Moyer, Albert E. Joseph Henry: The Rise of an American Scientist. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997.","Contents True Temper Fiberglass CB Antenna advertising and sales notebook (1978) Metal Detector, blue Motorola HT 220 Handie-Talkie FM Radio Samsung CDMA Phone Motorola Bravo Pager Pickett slide rule in leather case International Rectifier in small leather case Slide Rule in brown plastic case Compass (4) in black leather pouch Motorola Micro TAC Prototype Cell Phone Ledger, I.A. Gross Electronics, Inc. Negatives (11 small boxes) Tapes - 3 cassette tapes and 2 microcassette tapes Videocassettes (5) White plastic ruler, labeled \"983.5 MHZ .000000001SEC\" Mile-O-Graph mileage measurer in red box Nametag - Al Gross W8PAL Cases for walkie-talkies (4). Three green leather cases and one blue felt soft case Frequency Spectrum Chart (2) Small picture frame, gray Antenna, white Funnel attached by chain to small scoop, brass Box 15 Several unidentified electronical parts in small black suitcase (n.d.)","2-40 millimeter and 2-20 millimeter bullets.","Awards list Election to the Senior Member of the IEEE, framed certificate (November 1952) Election to Life Fellow of the IEEE, framed certificate (n.d.) IEEE Third Millenium Medal, paper certificate (n.d.) \"To Al from his good buddies in London\" handwritten note in wooden frame (February 11, 1982) Commission as Captain in the Navy of the Confederate States of America, framed certificate (November 25, 1964) Oversize Box 20 \"Presented In Appreciation to Al Gross on the Occasion of His Centennial Seminar...\" commemorative plaque (October 1992) Election as a Fellow of the IEEE, laminated paper on wood (January 1, 1982) Election to the Board of Directors and a Fellow of the Radio Club of America, certificate on laminated wood (November 1980)","Contents Blueprints (1949-78, n.d.) Publications, Awards (1952-80) Article \"Phone Me by Air\" The Saturday Evening Post, original (July 28, 1945) Al Gross Patents (4) - original copies (1952-56) Montgomery Ward Blanket Order Form - Citizens Radio Corporation (original)(June 9, 1948) Amateur Radio Operator License (original) (November 26, 1935) Photocopied images from the Virginia Tech Imagebase (n.d.) Photo, Symposium Internacional de Electronica (March 1996) Cloth sign, \"Presented to Mr. A. Gross by Dundalk C.B. Club\" (1980) Cloth sign, \"Europa Burger Band\" (n.d.) Drexel University and IEEE, framed certificate (Fall 1979) Letter confirming Al Gross as an IEEE Fellow (December 7, 1981) The Cleveland Press Victory Edition (WWII) (August 15, 1945)"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. 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Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form:  http://bit.ly/scuareproduction . Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form:  http://bit.ly/scuapublication . Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_4705b01ad0a8f0bc957e95d98bd1bf8f\" label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThe Al Gross papers are comprised of the following series: Employment, Publications, Inventions and Patents, Awards and Achievements, Personal Material, Technical Data, Radio Material, Government, Subject Files, and Oversize Materials. The collection also includes Gross' book collection and electronic parts. This collection contains materials relating to the significant contributions Al Gross made in the advancement of wireless technology. The collection provides a detailed look at the evolution of the walkie-talkie from a weapon against the Axis Powers in World War II to its functional and convenient purposes today. Throughout the progression of wireless technology, Al Gross remained an integral part of designing and updating wireless devices such as cellular phones and pagers to its now diminutive form using microminituarization and other scientific methods.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["The Al Gross papers are comprised of the following series: Employment, Publications, Inventions and Patents, Awards and Achievements, Personal Material, Technical Data, Radio Material, Government, Subject Files, and Oversize Materials. The collection also includes Gross' book collection and electronic parts. This collection contains materials relating to the significant contributions Al Gross made in the advancement of wireless technology. The collection provides a detailed look at the evolution of the walkie-talkie from a weapon against the Axis Powers in World War II to its functional and convenient purposes today. Throughout the progression of wireless technology, Al Gross remained an integral part of designing and updating wireless devices such as cellular phones and pagers to its now diminutive form using microminituarization and other scientific methods."],"names_ssim":["Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech","Gross, Al, d.2000"],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech"],"persname_ssim":["Gross, Al, d.2000"],"language_ssim":["The materials in the collection are in English."],"descrules_ssm":["Describing Archives: A Content Standard"],"total_component_count_is":116,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T02:25:59.576Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viblbv_repositories_2_resources_2145","ead_ssi":"viblbv_repositories_2_resources_2145","_root_":"viblbv_repositories_2_resources_2145","_nest_parent_":"viblbv_repositories_2_resources_2145","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/VT/repositories_2_resources_2145.xml","title_filing_ssi":"Gross, Al, Papers","title_ssm":["Al Gross Papers"],"title_tesim":["Al Gross Papers"],"unitdate_ssm":["1909-2000"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1909-2000"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Ms.2001.011"],"text":["Ms.2001.011","Al Gross Papers","Science and Technology","Collection is open to research.","This collection is arranged according to subject matter.","Al Gross was born in Toronto, Ontario, but was raised in Cleveland, Ohio. Known as the father of wireless communications, Gross invented the walkie-talkie in 1938 at age 20 and by 1941 the Office of Strategic Services (now known as the CIA) was eager to develop a lightweight, portable communications system for air-to-ground contact. The OSS recruited Gross and he devised the \"Joan-Eleanor System\" using Hertzian radio waves which were virtually impossible to intercept even from behind emeny lines. Gross' invention was a huge success and was praised by the US Joint Chiefs of Staff as being one of the most successful wireless intelligence gathering methods ever employed.","After the war, Gross formed the Citizens Radio Corporation and sold his units to the public, mostly to farmers and the US Coast Guard. In 1949 Gross had another breakthrough invention, the telephone pager. That same year Gross attended a medical conference in Philadelphia to introduce the pager system to doctors. Unfortunately, many of the doctors were apprehensive of the device stating it would interfere with their leisure time or upset their patients. The pager never caught on for Gross, proving he was decades ahead of his time.","Gross continued to invent for his entire lifespan, compiling 12 patents. But Gross' patents expired long before the world was ready for pagers, cell phones, and CB radio. Instead of reaping the monetary benefits of his inventions, Gross is rich in awards and recognitions. Most recently, Gross became the sixth person to be awarded the Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. Eight months later on December 28, 2000, Gross died at his Arizona home.","The guide to the Gross, Al Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).","The Al Gross papers are comprised of the following series: Employment, Publications, Inventions and Patents, Awards and Achievements, Personal Material, Technical Data, Radio Material, Government, Subject Files, and Oversize Materials. The collection also includes Gross' book collection and electronic parts. This collection contains materials relating to the significant contributions Al Gross made in the advancement of wireless technology. The collection provides a detailed look at the evolution of the walkie-talkie from a weapon against the Axis Powers in World War II to its functional and convenient purposes today. Throughout the progression of wireless technology, Al Gross remained an integral part of designing and updating wireless devices such as cellular phones and pagers to its now diminutive form using microminituarization and other scientific methods.","The Employment series (1944-81, n.d.) contains detailed materials from his first companies such as the Citizens Radio Corporation, Gross Communications, and Royalcall - the first telephone pager company ever. With his contributions in the wireless field, Al Gross became well known worldwide in the wireless front and companies such as True Temper and GTE Sylvania hired Gross not only for his engineering skill but for public relations as well. One example is Gross appearing on the popular television show \"To Tell the Truth\" while he worked for True Temper. Photographs of Gross on \"To Tell the Truth\" are located in the Personal Material series (1918-2000, n.d.) which also includes material spanning from Gross' Junior High School to notes on retirement. Also included are correspondence letters, resumes, and personal certificates.","The Publications series (1945-2000, n.d.) contains a comprehensive list of articles written about Gross and his work as well as articles written by Gross himself. Other publications used primarily for reference are found in the Technical Data series (1943-99, n.d.). Highlighting the series are technical diagrams, charts, and manuals. More information on the work of Al Gross can be found in the Inventions and Patents series (1909-2000, n.d.). Included in the series is a comprehensive photo collection and early drawings of inventions such as the Antenna, Citizens Transceiver, and the wrist-watch walkie-talkie. Complementing the material are photocopied patents with descriptions.","The Government series (1937-90, n.d.) includes materials from the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), which recruited Gross and his walkie-talkies in World War II. Also included are five folders from the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) which gave Gross the rights to the first \"Citizens Radio Service\" after World War II. The FCC also served as the distributor of radio licenses. Original and photocopied licenses of Gross can be found in the Radio Material series (1934-86, n.d.) which also includes material from his amateur radio station W8PAL such as a station log and data book.","Complementing his lifetime of work in the wireless field is a vast collection of recognitions found in the Awards, Achievements series (1959-2000, n.d.). The series includes eighteen different awards and recognitions Al Gross received including awards from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) of which he was a Fellow member. Other awards of Gross are found in boxes 16, 17, and 21. More information on the IEEE can be found in the Subject Files series (1947-96, n.d.) which includes theses, stock certificates, and material highlighting Gross' visit to Virginia Tech.","The Oversize Materials series consists of items such as his awards, blueprints, and original documents which were pulled from the other series as they were too large for inclusion with other items in the series. Key items highlighting the inventor's career are on permanent exhibit in Torgerson Hall.","Publications list CB Illustrierte (March-April 1980) Germany Weekly Hibernia (March 3, 1980) Ireland Break-Break (July-August, 1980) The Netherlands NEI Bruce Peebles Newsletter (September, 1980) United Kingdom The Standard (November 2, 1981) London, England Daily Express (November 3, 1981) London, England The Daily Telegraph (November 3, 1981) London, England Sunday Independent (October 25, 1981) Dublin, Ireland Correo C.B. (1993) Spain","Publications list The Saturday Evening Post (July 28, 1945) The \"10-2\" Copy (March 1977) The \"10-2\" Copy (April, 1977) Link/Gross - draft (July 13, 1978) Electronic Distributing Magazine (August, 1978) CB Magazine (October, 1978) CB Times (November, 1978) CB Magazine (June, 1979) Quarterly Journal - Radio Club of America (May, 1980) The Cannon Report (September, 1984) ITT Courier Dataline (February 8, 1985) Sperry Star (September, 1985) Western \u0026 Eastern Treasures (September, 1985) IEEE Spectrum (September, 1987) Mobile Radio Technology (November, 1991)","Publications list Basic Elements for High Effeciency VHF Oscillator (September 15, 1944) \"Hints and Kinks of Relic Restoration,\" North South Trader (March-April, 1979) CB Radio and its First Cousins (original draft) (February 22, 1984) \"Not Quite Flying Machines\" (n.d.) \"Earth Batteries\" (n.d.)","Publications list \"Strange but True Football Stories\" (1967) Electronics (April, 1946) Radio News Magazine (February, 1948) Civil War Times Illustrated (October, 1973) Civil War Times Illustrated (February, 1975) CB Views Newsletter (January, 1977) Consumer Electronics Show Daily (January 14, 1977) CB Scene (Popular Electronics, May 1977) CB Radio (July, 1977) Electronic Distributing (April, 1978) Electronic Distributing (April, 1979) Radio Electronics (October, 1979) FIR CB (Italy) (1984) Personal Communications (September, 1985) Western \u0026 Eastern Treasures (September, 1985) Popular Communications (June, 1991) Mobile Radio Technology (November 1991) Communications for Wireless Communications Professionals (September 1995) QCWA Journal (Fall 2000)","Publications list \"Equivalent Circuits and Discontinuities in Transmission Lines\" (February, 1944) \"Coxial-Line Discontinuities\" (November, 1944) \"A Wide-Band Wattmeter for Wave Guide\" Proceedings of the IRE and Wave and Electrons (October, 1946) \"Printed Inductors and Capacitors\" Tele-Tech \u0026 Electronic Industries (December, 1955) \"Some Broad-Band Transformers\" Proceedings of the IRE (August, 1959) \"Let's standardize linear ICs\" The Electronic Engineer (January, 1968) \"A Practical Expanded Scale Milliohmmeter\" Popular Electronics (October, 1970) \"Ferromagnetic Loop Aerials\" Wireless Engineer (April 27, 1971) \"The Operational Amplifier\" Popular Electronics (August, 1971) \"Bill Orr on Antennas\" (August, 1976) \"How to Predict CB Radio Range\" Popular Electronics (December 1976) \"Build Three Low Cost CB Test Meters\" Radio-Electronics (October, 1977) \"Cellular System Design Using the Expansion Cell Layout Method\" IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (May, 1984) \"Small, High Efficiency Loop Antennas\" (June, 1986) \"Modular Design of Passive Components Improves System Performance\" MSN \u0026 CT (February, 1986) \"A Coordinate Conversion and SWR Nomogram\" RF Design (April, 1986) \"A High Performance VHF Crystal Oscillator Circuit\" RF Design (March, 1987) \"A Printed Circuit Stub Tuner for Microwave Integrated Circuits\" IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (March, 1987) \"Stable LC Oscillators\" RF Design (March, 1987) \"Analyzer Improvements Make Real-Time Antenna Tests Practical\" MSN \u0026 CT (May 1987) \"Gunn Sweepers for U and E Bands\" MSN \u0026 CT (May, 1987) \"Microstrip Low Pass Filter Design\" (June, 1987) Electronic Tube Engineering Bulletin, General Electric (n.d.) Inductive and Reactive Effects in Straight Wires *Includes notes (n.d.) RC Timing Circuit Considerations (n.d.) \"The Fusible Link - A Method of Protecting Primary Wiring Under Short Circuit Conditions\" (n.d.) \"Radiation Characteristics of a Triangular Microstrip Antenna\" by Inder J. Bahl (n.d.) Military Standard - Connectors, Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) Filter Pin Contact - Department of Defense (n.d.)","51 total.","July-August, 1990  January-February, 1991 *Includes note.","Contents World War II Joan/Eleanor OSS Walkie-Talkie (1965-81) Proximity Fuse (1968-69) Battery Operated Walkie-Talkie (1938) Al Gross with his Inventions (1984) Group Photos of Walkie-Talkies, Pagers, and Proximity Fuses (n.d.)","Contents Radio Tuning Apparatus (August 21, 1956) Radio Frequency Oscillator Mounting (August 21, 1956) Bracket Means for Joining Printed Circuit Panels - description only (February 24, 1959)","Achievements list FOPA member, Fraternal Order of Police Associates of Ohio (May 1, 1971) Member, Citizens Radio Federation of Virginia, Inc. (November 14, 1978) Certificate, Drexel University and IEEE (1979) Honorary Chairman, International Convention of CB'ers, Inc. (1979) Fellow Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2 pictures (1981) Member, Who's Who in Technology Today, 4th edition (May 18, 1984) Nomination, National Inventor's Hall of Fame (1984) Member, Who's Who in America, 44th edition (1985) Member, Who's Who in Frontiers of Science and Technology, 2nd edition (1985) Recipient, Fred M. Link Award, Radio Club of America, 3 pictures (November 20, 1992) Member, Quarter Century Wireless Association, Inc. (April 13, 1995) Permanent Honorary Membership, International Telecommunications Union (ITU), 2 pictures only (May 21, 1995) Recipient, Vladimir Karapetoff Eminent Members' Award (1998) Lifetime Achievement Award, Lemelson-MIT Program (April 27, 2000) Recipient, Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award, IEEE (June 19, 2000) Certificate, Federal Communications Commission (n.d.) Citation of Merit, Cuyahoga County Council for Civilian Defense (n.d.) Recipient, Avante Garde award, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, article only (n.d.) Professional Leadership Award, IEEE United States Activities Board, note only (n.d.)","Awards list Program, National Convention on Military Electronics (1959) Privileged Information, Nomination for National Technology Medal (1984) Program, IEEE Honors Ceremony (June 28, 1997) Program, IEEE Awards Presentation (June 19, 2000)","Contents Permit to leave Canada - Nathan Gross (original) (1918) Alexander Hamilton Junior High School (certificate, pictures) (1932-33) John Adams High School Track Photo (1934) Cleveland pictures (1918-1931)","Publications list UHF Antennas, Converters, \u0026 Tuners (March, 1953) Radio Receiver R390-A/URR (January 16, 1961) CB Radio Handbook (1977) CB Citizens Band Radio Service Rules (1978) Lloyd's Accumatic 999 Microelectronic Slide Rule Calculator (n.d.) Fisher M-Scope VLF 440 Series (n.d.) RHO-Tector VSWR Detector (n.d.) Ultrascan Scanning Electron Microscope (n.d.)","\"Why has Nation Lagged in Field of Solar Energy?\" (May 5, 1974)  The Sun Motor (nd)","Contents National Archives - 1994-95 Publications Souvenir Program - Illinois State Amateur Roller Skating Championships (1950) Cleveland Electronics Conference Manual (1961) Sun City 79'ers Lions Club Newsletter (1982) Identification Cards and Membership Cards (1983-87)","Includes correspondence letters between Jeanne Allen and Al Gross.","Publications list Sterling, George E. The Radio Manual: For Radio Engineers, Inspectors, Students, Operators, and Radio Fans. 3rd ed. New York: Van Norstrand, 1938. Henney, Keith. Radio Engineers' Handbook. 3rd ed. New York: McGraw- Hill, 1941. Cooke, Nelson M. Mathematics for Electricians and Radiomen. 1st ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1942. Terman, Frederick Emmons. Radio Engineers' Handbook. 1st ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1943. Dietz, David. Atomic Energy in the Coming Era. New York: Avon, 1945. Kraus, John D. Antennas. Electrical and Electronic Engineering Series. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1950. Marconi, Degna. My Father, Marconi. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962. Jolly, W.P. Marconi. New York: Stein and Day, 1972. Box 13 Kahn, David. The Code Breakers: The Story of Secret Writing. New York: Macmillan, 1967. Brown, Anthony Cave. The Secret War Report of the OSS. New York: Berkley Publishing Corp., 1976. Price, Alfred. The History of US Electronic Warfare. Vol. I. 1st ed. The Association of Old Crows, n.p., 1984. Young, Harry E. Wireless Basics. Chicago: Intertec, 1992. Nebeker, Frederik. Sparks of Genius: Portraits of Electrical Engineering Excellence. New York: IEEE, 1993. Roosevelt, Kermit. The Overseas Targets: War Report of the OSS. Vol. II. New York: Walker, 1976. Moyer, Albert E. Joseph Henry: The Rise of an American Scientist. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997.","Contents True Temper Fiberglass CB Antenna advertising and sales notebook (1978) Metal Detector, blue Motorola HT 220 Handie-Talkie FM Radio Samsung CDMA Phone Motorola Bravo Pager Pickett slide rule in leather case International Rectifier in small leather case Slide Rule in brown plastic case Compass (4) in black leather pouch Motorola Micro TAC Prototype Cell Phone Ledger, I.A. Gross Electronics, Inc. Negatives (11 small boxes) Tapes - 3 cassette tapes and 2 microcassette tapes Videocassettes (5) White plastic ruler, labeled \"983.5 MHZ .000000001SEC\" Mile-O-Graph mileage measurer in red box Nametag - Al Gross W8PAL Cases for walkie-talkies (4). Three green leather cases and one blue felt soft case Frequency Spectrum Chart (2) Small picture frame, gray Antenna, white Funnel attached by chain to small scoop, brass Box 15 Several unidentified electronical parts in small black suitcase (n.d.)","2-40 millimeter and 2-20 millimeter bullets.","Awards list Election to the Senior Member of the IEEE, framed certificate (November 1952) Election to Life Fellow of the IEEE, framed certificate (n.d.) IEEE Third Millenium Medal, paper certificate (n.d.) \"To Al from his good buddies in London\" handwritten note in wooden frame (February 11, 1982) Commission as Captain in the Navy of the Confederate States of America, framed certificate (November 25, 1964) Oversize Box 20 \"Presented In Appreciation to Al Gross on the Occasion of His Centennial Seminar...\" commemorative plaque (October 1992) Election as a Fellow of the IEEE, laminated paper on wood (January 1, 1982) Election to the Board of Directors and a Fellow of the Radio Club of America, certificate on laminated wood (November 1980)","Contents Blueprints (1949-78, n.d.) Publications, Awards (1952-80) Article \"Phone Me by Air\" The Saturday Evening Post, original (July 28, 1945) Al Gross Patents (4) - original copies (1952-56) Montgomery Ward Blanket Order Form - Citizens Radio Corporation (original)(June 9, 1948) Amateur Radio Operator License (original) (November 26, 1935) Photocopied images from the Virginia Tech Imagebase (n.d.) Photo, Symposium Internacional de Electronica (March 1996) Cloth sign, \"Presented to Mr. A. Gross by Dundalk C.B. Club\" (1980) Cloth sign, \"Europa Burger Band\" (n.d.) Drexel University and IEEE, framed certificate (Fall 1979) Letter confirming Al Gross as an IEEE Fellow (December 7, 1981) The Cleveland Press Victory Edition (WWII) (August 15, 1945)","The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form:  http://bit.ly/scuareproduction . Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form:  http://bit.ly/scuapublication . Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.","The Al Gross papers are comprised of the following series: Employment, Publications, Inventions and Patents, Awards and Achievements, Personal Material, Technical Data, Radio Material, Government, Subject Files, and Oversize Materials. The collection also includes Gross' book collection and electronic parts. This collection contains materials relating to the significant contributions Al Gross made in the advancement of wireless technology. The collection provides a detailed look at the evolution of the walkie-talkie from a weapon against the Axis Powers in World War II to its functional and convenient purposes today. Throughout the progression of wireless technology, Al Gross remained an integral part of designing and updating wireless devices such as cellular phones and pagers to its now diminutive form using microminituarization and other scientific methods.","Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech","Gross, Al, d.2000","The materials in the collection are in English."],"unitid_tesim":["Ms.2001.011"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Al Gross Papers"],"collection_title_tesim":["Al Gross Papers"],"collection_ssim":["Al Gross Papers"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University"],"creator_ssm":["Gross, Al, d.2000"],"creator_ssim":["Gross, Al, d.2000"],"creator_persname_ssim":["Gross, Al, d.2000"],"creators_ssim":["Gross, Al, d.2000"],"access_terms_ssm":["The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. 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Known as the father of wireless communications, Gross invented the walkie-talkie in 1938 at age 20 and by 1941 the Office of Strategic Services (now known as the CIA) was eager to develop a lightweight, portable communications system for air-to-ground contact. The OSS recruited Gross and he devised the \"Joan-Eleanor System\" using Hertzian radio waves which were virtually impossible to intercept even from behind emeny lines. Gross' invention was a huge success and was praised by the US Joint Chiefs of Staff as being one of the most successful wireless intelligence gathering methods ever employed.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAfter the war, Gross formed the Citizens Radio Corporation and sold his units to the public, mostly to farmers and the US Coast Guard. In 1949 Gross had another breakthrough invention, the telephone pager. That same year Gross attended a medical conference in Philadelphia to introduce the pager system to doctors. Unfortunately, many of the doctors were apprehensive of the device stating it would interfere with their leisure time or upset their patients. The pager never caught on for Gross, proving he was decades ahead of his time.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eGross continued to invent for his entire lifespan, compiling 12 patents. But Gross' patents expired long before the world was ready for pagers, cell phones, and CB radio. Instead of reaping the monetary benefits of his inventions, Gross is rich in awards and recognitions. Most recently, Gross became the sixth person to be awarded the Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. Eight months later on December 28, 2000, Gross died at his Arizona home.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical Note"],"bioghist_tesim":["Al Gross was born in Toronto, Ontario, but was raised in Cleveland, Ohio. Known as the father of wireless communications, Gross invented the walkie-talkie in 1938 at age 20 and by 1941 the Office of Strategic Services (now known as the CIA) was eager to develop a lightweight, portable communications system for air-to-ground contact. The OSS recruited Gross and he devised the \"Joan-Eleanor System\" using Hertzian radio waves which were virtually impossible to intercept even from behind emeny lines. Gross' invention was a huge success and was praised by the US Joint Chiefs of Staff as being one of the most successful wireless intelligence gathering methods ever employed.","After the war, Gross formed the Citizens Radio Corporation and sold his units to the public, mostly to farmers and the US Coast Guard. In 1949 Gross had another breakthrough invention, the telephone pager. That same year Gross attended a medical conference in Philadelphia to introduce the pager system to doctors. Unfortunately, many of the doctors were apprehensive of the device stating it would interfere with their leisure time or upset their patients. The pager never caught on for Gross, proving he was decades ahead of his time.","Gross continued to invent for his entire lifespan, compiling 12 patents. But Gross' patents expired long before the world was ready for pagers, cell phones, and CB radio. Instead of reaping the monetary benefits of his inventions, Gross is rich in awards and recognitions. Most recently, Gross became the sixth person to be awarded the Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. Eight months later on December 28, 2000, Gross died at his Arizona home."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe guide to the Gross, Al Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (\u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/\"\u003ehttps://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/\u003c/a\u003e).\u003c/p\u003e"],"odd_heading_ssm":["Rights Statement for Archival Description"],"odd_tesim":["The guide to the Gross, Al Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ )."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eResearchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Gross, Al Papers, Ms2001-011, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Gross, Al Papers, Ms2001-011, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Al Gross papers are comprised of the following series: Employment, Publications, Inventions and Patents, Awards and Achievements, Personal Material, Technical Data, Radio Material, Government, Subject Files, and Oversize Materials. The collection also includes Gross' book collection and electronic parts. This collection contains materials relating to the significant contributions Al Gross made in the advancement of wireless technology. The collection provides a detailed look at the evolution of the walkie-talkie from a weapon against the Axis Powers in World War II to its functional and convenient purposes today. Throughout the progression of wireless technology, Al Gross remained an integral part of designing and updating wireless devices such as cellular phones and pagers to its now diminutive form using microminituarization and other scientific methods.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Employment series (1944-81, n.d.) contains detailed materials from his first companies such as the Citizens Radio Corporation, Gross Communications, and Royalcall - the first telephone pager company ever. 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More information on the work of Al Gross can be found in the Inventions and Patents series (1909-2000, n.d.). Included in the series is a comprehensive photo collection and early drawings of inventions such as the Antenna, Citizens Transceiver, and the wrist-watch walkie-talkie. Complementing the material are photocopied patents with descriptions.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Government series (1937-90, n.d.) includes materials from the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), which recruited Gross and his walkie-talkies in World War II. Also included are five folders from the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) which gave Gross the rights to the first \"Citizens Radio Service\" after World War II. The FCC also served as the distributor of radio licenses. Original and photocopied licenses of Gross can be found in the Radio Material series (1934-86, n.d.) which also includes material from his amateur radio station W8PAL such as a station log and data book.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eComplementing his lifetime of work in the wireless field is a vast collection of recognitions found in the Awards, Achievements series (1959-2000, n.d.). The series includes eighteen different awards and recognitions Al Gross received including awards from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) of which he was a Fellow member. Other awards of Gross are found in boxes 16, 17, and 21. More information on the IEEE can be found in the Subject Files series (1947-96, n.d.) which includes theses, stock certificates, and material highlighting Gross' visit to Virginia Tech.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe Oversize Materials series consists of items such as his awards, blueprints, and original documents which were pulled from the other series as they were too large for inclusion with other items in the series. Key items highlighting the inventor's career are on permanent exhibit in Torgerson Hall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003clist type=\"ordered\"\u003e\u003chead\u003ePublications list\u003c/head\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eCB Illustrierte (March-April 1980) Germany\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eWeekly Hibernia (March 3, 1980) Ireland\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eBreak-Break (July-August, 1980) The Netherlands\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eNEI Bruce Peebles Newsletter (September, 1980) United Kingdom\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eThe Standard (November 2, 1981) London, England\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eDaily Express (November 3, 1981) London, England\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eThe Daily Telegraph (November 3, 1981) London, England\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eSunday Independent (October 25, 1981) Dublin, Ireland\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCorreo C.B. (1993) Spain\u003c/item\u003e\u003c/list\u003e","\u003clist type=\"ordered\"\u003e\u003chead\u003ePublications list\u003c/head\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eThe Saturday Evening Post (July 28, 1945)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eThe \"10-2\" Copy (March 1977)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eThe \"10-2\" Copy (April, 1977)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eLink/Gross - draft (July 13, 1978)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eElectronic Distributing Magazine (August, 1978)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCB Magazine (October, 1978)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCB Times (November, 1978)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCB Magazine (June, 1979)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eQuarterly Journal - Radio Club of America (May, 1980)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eThe Cannon Report (September, 1984)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eITT Courier Dataline (February 8, 1985)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eSperry Star (September, 1985)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eWestern \u0026amp; Eastern Treasures (September, 1985)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eIEEE Spectrum (September, 1987)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eMobile Radio Technology (November, 1991)\u003c/item\u003e\u003c/list\u003e","\u003clist type=\"ordered\"\u003e\u003chead\u003ePublications list\u003c/head\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eBasic Elements for High Effeciency VHF Oscillator (September 15, 1944)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"Hints and Kinks of Relic Restoration,\" North South Trader (March-April, 1979)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCB Radio and its First Cousins (original draft) (February 22, 1984)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"Not Quite Flying Machines\" (n.d.)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"Earth Batteries\" (n.d.)\u003c/item\u003e\u003c/list\u003e","\u003clist type=\"ordered\"\u003e\u003chead\u003ePublications list\u003c/head\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\"Strange but True Football Stories\" (1967)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eElectronics (April, 1946)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eRadio News Magazine (February, 1948)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCivil War Times Illustrated (October, 1973)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCivil War Times Illustrated (February, 1975)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCB Views Newsletter (January, 1977)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eConsumer Electronics Show Daily (January 14, 1977)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCB Scene (Popular Electronics, May 1977)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCB Radio (July, 1977)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eElectronic Distributing (April, 1978)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eElectronic Distributing (April, 1979)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eRadio Electronics (October, 1979)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eFIR CB (Italy) (1984)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003ePersonal Communications (September, 1985)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eWestern \u0026amp; Eastern Treasures (September, 1985)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003ePopular Communications (June, 1991)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eMobile Radio Technology (November 1991)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCommunications for Wireless Communications Professionals (September 1995)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eQCWA Journal (Fall 2000)\u003c/item\u003e\u003c/list\u003e","\u003clist type=\"ordered\"\u003e\u003chead\u003ePublications list\u003c/head\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\"Equivalent Circuits and Discontinuities in Transmission Lines\" (February, 1944)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"Coxial-Line Discontinuities\" (November, 1944)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"A Wide-Band Wattmeter for Wave Guide\" Proceedings of the IRE and Wave and Electrons (October, 1946)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"Printed Inductors and Capacitors\" Tele-Tech \u0026amp; Electronic Industries (December, 1955)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"Some Broad-Band Transformers\" Proceedings of the IRE (August, 1959)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"Let's standardize linear ICs\" The Electronic Engineer (January, 1968)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"A Practical Expanded Scale Milliohmmeter\" Popular Electronics (October, 1970)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"Ferromagnetic Loop Aerials\" Wireless Engineer (April 27, 1971)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"The Operational Amplifier\" Popular Electronics (August, 1971)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"Bill Orr on Antennas\" (August, 1976)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"How to Predict CB Radio Range\" Popular Electronics (December 1976)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"Build Three Low Cost CB Test Meters\" Radio-Electronics (October, 1977)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"Cellular System Design Using the Expansion Cell Layout Method\" IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (May, 1984)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"Small, High Efficiency Loop Antennas\" (June, 1986)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"Modular Design of Passive Components Improves System Performance\" MSN \u0026amp; CT (February, 1986)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"A Coordinate Conversion and SWR Nomogram\" RF Design (April, 1986)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"A High Performance VHF Crystal Oscillator Circuit\" RF Design (March, 1987)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"A Printed Circuit Stub Tuner for Microwave Integrated Circuits\" IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (March, 1987)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"Stable LC Oscillators\" RF Design (March, 1987)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"Analyzer Improvements Make Real-Time Antenna Tests Practical\" MSN \u0026amp; CT (May 1987)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"Gunn Sweepers for U and E Bands\" MSN \u0026amp; CT (May, 1987)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"Microstrip Low Pass Filter Design\" (June, 1987)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eElectronic Tube Engineering Bulletin, General Electric (n.d.)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eInductive and Reactive Effects in Straight Wires *Includes notes (n.d.)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eRC Timing Circuit Considerations (n.d.)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"The Fusible Link - A Method of Protecting Primary Wiring Under Short Circuit Conditions\" (n.d.)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"Radiation Characteristics of a Triangular Microstrip Antenna\" by Inder J. Bahl (n.d.)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eMilitary Standard - Connectors, Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) Filter Pin Contact - Department of Defense (n.d.)\u003c/item\u003e\u003c/list\u003e","\u003cp\u003e51 total.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJuly-August, 1990 \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJanuary-February, 1991 *Includes note.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003clist type=\"ordered\"\u003e\u003chead\u003eContents\u003c/head\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eWorld War II Joan/Eleanor OSS Walkie-Talkie (1965-81)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eProximity Fuse (1968-69)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eBattery Operated Walkie-Talkie (1938)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eAl Gross with his Inventions (1984)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eGroup Photos of Walkie-Talkies, Pagers, and Proximity Fuses (n.d.)\u003c/item\u003e\u003c/list\u003e","\u003clist type=\"ordered\"\u003e\u003chead\u003eContents\u003c/head\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eRadio Tuning Apparatus (August 21, 1956)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eRadio Frequency Oscillator Mounting (August 21, 1956)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eBracket Means for Joining Printed Circuit Panels - description only (February 24, 1959)\u003c/item\u003e\u003c/list\u003e","\u003clist type=\"ordered\"\u003e\u003chead\u003eAchievements list\u003c/head\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eFOPA member, Fraternal Order of Police Associates of Ohio (May 1, 1971)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eMember, Citizens Radio Federation of Virginia, Inc. (November 14, 1978)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCertificate, Drexel University and IEEE (1979)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eHonorary Chairman, International Convention of CB'ers, Inc. (1979)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eFellow Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2 pictures (1981)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eMember, Who's Who in Technology Today, 4th edition (May 18, 1984)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eNomination, National Inventor's Hall of Fame (1984)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eMember, Who's Who in America, 44th edition (1985)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eMember, Who's Who in Frontiers of Science and Technology, 2nd edition (1985)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eRecipient, Fred M. Link Award, Radio Club of America, 3 pictures (November 20, 1992)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eMember, Quarter Century Wireless Association, Inc. (April 13, 1995)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003ePermanent Honorary Membership, International Telecommunications Union (ITU), 2 pictures only (May 21, 1995)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eRecipient, Vladimir Karapetoff Eminent Members' Award (1998)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eLifetime Achievement Award, Lemelson-MIT Program (April 27, 2000)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eRecipient, Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award, IEEE (June 19, 2000)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCertificate, Federal Communications Commission (n.d.) Citation of Merit, Cuyahoga County Council for Civilian Defense (n.d.)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eRecipient, Avante Garde award, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, article only (n.d.)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eProfessional Leadership Award, IEEE United States Activities Board, note only (n.d.)\u003c/item\u003e\u003c/list\u003e","\u003clist type=\"ordered\"\u003e\u003chead\u003eAwards list\u003c/head\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eProgram, National Convention on Military Electronics (1959)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003ePrivileged Information, Nomination for National Technology Medal (1984)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eProgram, IEEE Honors Ceremony (June 28, 1997)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eProgram, IEEE Awards Presentation (June 19, 2000)\u003c/item\u003e\u003c/list\u003e","\u003clist type=\"ordered\"\u003e\u003chead\u003eContents\u003c/head\u003e\n\u003citem\u003ePermit to leave Canada - Nathan Gross (original) (1918)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eAlexander Hamilton Junior High School (certificate, pictures) (1932-33)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eJohn Adams High School Track Photo (1934)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCleveland pictures (1918-1931)\u003c/item\u003e\u003c/list\u003e","\u003clist type=\"ordered\"\u003e\u003chead\u003ePublications list\u003c/head\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eUHF Antennas, Converters, \u0026amp; Tuners (March, 1953)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eRadio Receiver R390-A/URR (January 16, 1961)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCB Radio Handbook (1977)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCB Citizens Band Radio Service Rules (1978)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eLloyd's Accumatic 999 Microelectronic Slide Rule Calculator (n.d.)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eFisher M-Scope VLF 440 Series (n.d.)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eRHO-Tector VSWR Detector (n.d.)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eUltrascan Scanning Electron Microscope (n.d.)\u003c/item\u003e\u003c/list\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Why has Nation Lagged in Field of Solar Energy?\" (May 5, 1974) \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eThe Sun Motor (nd)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003clist type=\"ordered\"\u003e\u003chead\u003eContents\u003c/head\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eNational Archives - 1994-95 Publications\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eSouvenir Program - Illinois State Amateur Roller Skating Championships (1950)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCleveland Electronics Conference Manual (1961)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eSun City 79'ers Lions Club Newsletter (1982)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eIdentification Cards and Membership Cards (1983-87)\u003c/item\u003e\u003c/list\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence letters between Jeanne Allen and Al Gross.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003clist type=\"ordered\"\u003e\u003chead\u003ePublications list\u003c/head\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eSterling, George E. The Radio Manual: For Radio Engineers, Inspectors, Students, Operators, and Radio Fans. 3rd ed. New York: Van Norstrand, 1938.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eHenney, Keith. Radio Engineers' Handbook. 3rd ed. New York: McGraw- Hill, 1941.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCooke, Nelson M. Mathematics for Electricians and Radiomen. 1st ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1942.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eTerman, Frederick Emmons. Radio Engineers' Handbook. 1st ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1943.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eDietz, David. Atomic Energy in the Coming Era. New York: Avon, 1945.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eKraus, John D. Antennas. Electrical and Electronic Engineering Series. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1950.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eMarconi, Degna. My Father, Marconi. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eJolly, W.P. Marconi. New York: Stein and Day, 1972.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eBox 13\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eKahn, David. The Code Breakers: The Story of Secret Writing. New York: Macmillan, 1967.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eBrown, Anthony Cave. The Secret War Report of the OSS. New York: Berkley Publishing Corp., 1976.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003ePrice, Alfred. The History of US Electronic Warfare. Vol. I. 1st ed. The Association of Old Crows, n.p., 1984.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eYoung, Harry E. Wireless Basics. Chicago: Intertec, 1992.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eNebeker, Frederik. Sparks of Genius: Portraits of Electrical Engineering Excellence. New York: IEEE, 1993. Roosevelt, Kermit. The Overseas Targets: War Report of the OSS. Vol. II. New York: Walker, 1976.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eMoyer, Albert E. Joseph Henry: The Rise of an American Scientist. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997.\u003c/item\u003e\u003c/list\u003e","\u003clist type=\"ordered\"\u003e\u003chead\u003eContents\u003c/head\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eTrue Temper Fiberglass CB Antenna advertising and sales notebook (1978)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eMetal Detector, blue\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eMotorola HT 220 Handie-Talkie FM Radio\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eSamsung CDMA Phone\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eMotorola Bravo Pager\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003ePickett slide rule in leather case\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eInternational Rectifier in small leather case\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eSlide Rule in brown plastic case\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCompass (4) in black leather pouch\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eMotorola Micro TAC Prototype Cell Phone\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eLedger, I.A. Gross Electronics, Inc.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eNegatives (11 small boxes)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eTapes - 3 cassette tapes and 2 microcassette tapes\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eVideocassettes (5)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eWhite plastic ruler, labeled \"983.5 MHZ .000000001SEC\"\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eMile-O-Graph mileage measurer in red box\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eNametag - Al Gross W8PAL\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCases for walkie-talkies (4). Three green leather cases and one blue felt soft case\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eFrequency Spectrum Chart (2)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eSmall picture frame, gray\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eAntenna, white\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eFunnel attached by chain to small scoop, brass\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eBox 15\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eSeveral unidentified electronical parts in small black suitcase (n.d.)\u003c/item\u003e\u003c/list\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2-40 millimeter and 2-20 millimeter bullets.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003clist type=\"ordered\"\u003e\u003chead\u003eAwards list\u003c/head\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eElection to the Senior Member of the IEEE, framed certificate (November 1952)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eElection to Life Fellow of the IEEE, framed certificate (n.d.)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eIEEE Third Millenium Medal, paper certificate (n.d.)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"To Al from his good buddies in London\" handwritten note in wooden frame (February 11, 1982)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCommission as Captain in the Navy of the Confederate States of America, framed certificate (November 25, 1964)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eOversize Box 20\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\"Presented In Appreciation to Al Gross on the Occasion of His Centennial Seminar...\" commemorative plaque (October 1992)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eElection as a Fellow of the IEEE, laminated paper on wood (January 1, 1982)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eElection to the Board of Directors and a Fellow of the Radio Club of America, certificate on laminated wood (November 1980)\u003c/item\u003e\u003c/list\u003e","\u003clist type=\"ordered\"\u003e\u003chead\u003eContents\u003c/head\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eBlueprints (1949-78, n.d.)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003ePublications, Awards (1952-80)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eArticle \"Phone Me by Air\" The Saturday Evening Post, original (July 28, 1945)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eAl Gross Patents (4) - original copies (1952-56)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eMontgomery Ward Blanket Order Form - Citizens Radio Corporation (original)(June 9, 1948)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eAmateur Radio Operator License (original) (November 26, 1935)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003ePhotocopied images from the Virginia Tech Imagebase (n.d.)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003ePhoto, Symposium Internacional de Electronica (March 1996)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCloth sign, \"Presented to Mr. A. Gross by Dundalk C.B. Club\" (1980)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eCloth sign, \"Europa Burger Band\" (n.d.) Drexel University and IEEE, framed certificate (Fall 1979)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eLetter confirming Al Gross as an IEEE Fellow (December 7, 1981)\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003eThe Cleveland Press Victory Edition (WWII) (August 15, 1945)\u003c/item\u003e\u003c/list\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content","Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Al Gross papers are comprised of the following series: Employment, Publications, Inventions and Patents, Awards and Achievements, Personal Material, Technical Data, Radio Material, Government, Subject Files, and Oversize Materials. The collection also includes Gross' book collection and electronic parts. This collection contains materials relating to the significant contributions Al Gross made in the advancement of wireless technology. The collection provides a detailed look at the evolution of the walkie-talkie from a weapon against the Axis Powers in World War II to its functional and convenient purposes today. Throughout the progression of wireless technology, Al Gross remained an integral part of designing and updating wireless devices such as cellular phones and pagers to its now diminutive form using microminituarization and other scientific methods.","The Employment series (1944-81, n.d.) contains detailed materials from his first companies such as the Citizens Radio Corporation, Gross Communications, and Royalcall - the first telephone pager company ever. With his contributions in the wireless field, Al Gross became well known worldwide in the wireless front and companies such as True Temper and GTE Sylvania hired Gross not only for his engineering skill but for public relations as well. One example is Gross appearing on the popular television show \"To Tell the Truth\" while he worked for True Temper. Photographs of Gross on \"To Tell the Truth\" are located in the Personal Material series (1918-2000, n.d.) which also includes material spanning from Gross' Junior High School to notes on retirement. Also included are correspondence letters, resumes, and personal certificates.","The Publications series (1945-2000, n.d.) contains a comprehensive list of articles written about Gross and his work as well as articles written by Gross himself. Other publications used primarily for reference are found in the Technical Data series (1943-99, n.d.). Highlighting the series are technical diagrams, charts, and manuals. More information on the work of Al Gross can be found in the Inventions and Patents series (1909-2000, n.d.). Included in the series is a comprehensive photo collection and early drawings of inventions such as the Antenna, Citizens Transceiver, and the wrist-watch walkie-talkie. Complementing the material are photocopied patents with descriptions.","The Government series (1937-90, n.d.) includes materials from the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), which recruited Gross and his walkie-talkies in World War II. Also included are five folders from the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) which gave Gross the rights to the first \"Citizens Radio Service\" after World War II. The FCC also served as the distributor of radio licenses. Original and photocopied licenses of Gross can be found in the Radio Material series (1934-86, n.d.) which also includes material from his amateur radio station W8PAL such as a station log and data book.","Complementing his lifetime of work in the wireless field is a vast collection of recognitions found in the Awards, Achievements series (1959-2000, n.d.). The series includes eighteen different awards and recognitions Al Gross received including awards from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) of which he was a Fellow member. Other awards of Gross are found in boxes 16, 17, and 21. More information on the IEEE can be found in the Subject Files series (1947-96, n.d.) which includes theses, stock certificates, and material highlighting Gross' visit to Virginia Tech.","The Oversize Materials series consists of items such as his awards, blueprints, and original documents which were pulled from the other series as they were too large for inclusion with other items in the series. Key items highlighting the inventor's career are on permanent exhibit in Torgerson Hall.","Publications list CB Illustrierte (March-April 1980) Germany Weekly Hibernia (March 3, 1980) Ireland Break-Break (July-August, 1980) The Netherlands NEI Bruce Peebles Newsletter (September, 1980) United Kingdom The Standard (November 2, 1981) London, England Daily Express (November 3, 1981) London, England The Daily Telegraph (November 3, 1981) London, England Sunday Independent (October 25, 1981) Dublin, Ireland Correo C.B. (1993) Spain","Publications list The Saturday Evening Post (July 28, 1945) The \"10-2\" Copy (March 1977) The \"10-2\" Copy (April, 1977) Link/Gross - draft (July 13, 1978) Electronic Distributing Magazine (August, 1978) CB Magazine (October, 1978) CB Times (November, 1978) CB Magazine (June, 1979) Quarterly Journal - Radio Club of America (May, 1980) The Cannon Report (September, 1984) ITT Courier Dataline (February 8, 1985) Sperry Star (September, 1985) Western \u0026 Eastern Treasures (September, 1985) IEEE Spectrum (September, 1987) Mobile Radio Technology (November, 1991)","Publications list Basic Elements for High Effeciency VHF Oscillator (September 15, 1944) \"Hints and Kinks of Relic Restoration,\" North South Trader (March-April, 1979) CB Radio and its First Cousins (original draft) (February 22, 1984) \"Not Quite Flying Machines\" (n.d.) \"Earth Batteries\" (n.d.)","Publications list \"Strange but True Football Stories\" (1967) Electronics (April, 1946) Radio News Magazine (February, 1948) Civil War Times Illustrated (October, 1973) Civil War Times Illustrated (February, 1975) CB Views Newsletter (January, 1977) Consumer Electronics Show Daily (January 14, 1977) CB Scene (Popular Electronics, May 1977) CB Radio (July, 1977) Electronic Distributing (April, 1978) Electronic Distributing (April, 1979) Radio Electronics (October, 1979) FIR CB (Italy) (1984) Personal Communications (September, 1985) Western \u0026 Eastern Treasures (September, 1985) Popular Communications (June, 1991) Mobile Radio Technology (November 1991) Communications for Wireless Communications Professionals (September 1995) QCWA Journal (Fall 2000)","Publications list \"Equivalent Circuits and Discontinuities in Transmission Lines\" (February, 1944) \"Coxial-Line Discontinuities\" (November, 1944) \"A Wide-Band Wattmeter for Wave Guide\" Proceedings of the IRE and Wave and Electrons (October, 1946) \"Printed Inductors and Capacitors\" Tele-Tech \u0026 Electronic Industries (December, 1955) \"Some Broad-Band Transformers\" Proceedings of the IRE (August, 1959) \"Let's standardize linear ICs\" The Electronic Engineer (January, 1968) \"A Practical Expanded Scale Milliohmmeter\" Popular Electronics (October, 1970) \"Ferromagnetic Loop Aerials\" Wireless Engineer (April 27, 1971) \"The Operational Amplifier\" Popular Electronics (August, 1971) \"Bill Orr on Antennas\" (August, 1976) \"How to Predict CB Radio Range\" Popular Electronics (December 1976) \"Build Three Low Cost CB Test Meters\" Radio-Electronics (October, 1977) \"Cellular System Design Using the Expansion Cell Layout Method\" IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (May, 1984) \"Small, High Efficiency Loop Antennas\" (June, 1986) \"Modular Design of Passive Components Improves System Performance\" MSN \u0026 CT (February, 1986) \"A Coordinate Conversion and SWR Nomogram\" RF Design (April, 1986) \"A High Performance VHF Crystal Oscillator Circuit\" RF Design (March, 1987) \"A Printed Circuit Stub Tuner for Microwave Integrated Circuits\" IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (March, 1987) \"Stable LC Oscillators\" RF Design (March, 1987) \"Analyzer Improvements Make Real-Time Antenna Tests Practical\" MSN \u0026 CT (May 1987) \"Gunn Sweepers for U and E Bands\" MSN \u0026 CT (May, 1987) \"Microstrip Low Pass Filter Design\" (June, 1987) Electronic Tube Engineering Bulletin, General Electric (n.d.) Inductive and Reactive Effects in Straight Wires *Includes notes (n.d.) RC Timing Circuit Considerations (n.d.) \"The Fusible Link - A Method of Protecting Primary Wiring Under Short Circuit Conditions\" (n.d.) \"Radiation Characteristics of a Triangular Microstrip Antenna\" by Inder J. Bahl (n.d.) Military Standard - Connectors, Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) Filter Pin Contact - Department of Defense (n.d.)","51 total.","July-August, 1990  January-February, 1991 *Includes note.","Contents World War II Joan/Eleanor OSS Walkie-Talkie (1965-81) Proximity Fuse (1968-69) Battery Operated Walkie-Talkie (1938) Al Gross with his Inventions (1984) Group Photos of Walkie-Talkies, Pagers, and Proximity Fuses (n.d.)","Contents Radio Tuning Apparatus (August 21, 1956) Radio Frequency Oscillator Mounting (August 21, 1956) Bracket Means for Joining Printed Circuit Panels - description only (February 24, 1959)","Achievements list FOPA member, Fraternal Order of Police Associates of Ohio (May 1, 1971) Member, Citizens Radio Federation of Virginia, Inc. (November 14, 1978) Certificate, Drexel University and IEEE (1979) Honorary Chairman, International Convention of CB'ers, Inc. (1979) Fellow Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2 pictures (1981) Member, Who's Who in Technology Today, 4th edition (May 18, 1984) Nomination, National Inventor's Hall of Fame (1984) Member, Who's Who in America, 44th edition (1985) Member, Who's Who in Frontiers of Science and Technology, 2nd edition (1985) Recipient, Fred M. Link Award, Radio Club of America, 3 pictures (November 20, 1992) Member, Quarter Century Wireless Association, Inc. (April 13, 1995) Permanent Honorary Membership, International Telecommunications Union (ITU), 2 pictures only (May 21, 1995) Recipient, Vladimir Karapetoff Eminent Members' Award (1998) Lifetime Achievement Award, Lemelson-MIT Program (April 27, 2000) Recipient, Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award, IEEE (June 19, 2000) Certificate, Federal Communications Commission (n.d.) Citation of Merit, Cuyahoga County Council for Civilian Defense (n.d.) Recipient, Avante Garde award, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, article only (n.d.) Professional Leadership Award, IEEE United States Activities Board, note only (n.d.)","Awards list Program, National Convention on Military Electronics (1959) Privileged Information, Nomination for National Technology Medal (1984) Program, IEEE Honors Ceremony (June 28, 1997) Program, IEEE Awards Presentation (June 19, 2000)","Contents Permit to leave Canada - Nathan Gross (original) (1918) Alexander Hamilton Junior High School (certificate, pictures) (1932-33) John Adams High School Track Photo (1934) Cleveland pictures (1918-1931)","Publications list UHF Antennas, Converters, \u0026 Tuners (March, 1953) Radio Receiver R390-A/URR (January 16, 1961) CB Radio Handbook (1977) CB Citizens Band Radio Service Rules (1978) Lloyd's Accumatic 999 Microelectronic Slide Rule Calculator (n.d.) Fisher M-Scope VLF 440 Series (n.d.) RHO-Tector VSWR Detector (n.d.) Ultrascan Scanning Electron Microscope (n.d.)","\"Why has Nation Lagged in Field of Solar Energy?\" (May 5, 1974)  The Sun Motor (nd)","Contents National Archives - 1994-95 Publications Souvenir Program - Illinois State Amateur Roller Skating Championships (1950) Cleveland Electronics Conference Manual (1961) Sun City 79'ers Lions Club Newsletter (1982) Identification Cards and Membership Cards (1983-87)","Includes correspondence letters between Jeanne Allen and Al Gross.","Publications list Sterling, George E. The Radio Manual: For Radio Engineers, Inspectors, Students, Operators, and Radio Fans. 3rd ed. New York: Van Norstrand, 1938. Henney, Keith. Radio Engineers' Handbook. 3rd ed. New York: McGraw- Hill, 1941. Cooke, Nelson M. Mathematics for Electricians and Radiomen. 1st ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1942. Terman, Frederick Emmons. Radio Engineers' Handbook. 1st ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1943. Dietz, David. Atomic Energy in the Coming Era. New York: Avon, 1945. Kraus, John D. Antennas. Electrical and Electronic Engineering Series. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1950. Marconi, Degna. My Father, Marconi. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962. Jolly, W.P. Marconi. New York: Stein and Day, 1972. Box 13 Kahn, David. The Code Breakers: The Story of Secret Writing. New York: Macmillan, 1967. Brown, Anthony Cave. The Secret War Report of the OSS. New York: Berkley Publishing Corp., 1976. Price, Alfred. The History of US Electronic Warfare. Vol. I. 1st ed. The Association of Old Crows, n.p., 1984. Young, Harry E. Wireless Basics. Chicago: Intertec, 1992. Nebeker, Frederik. Sparks of Genius: Portraits of Electrical Engineering Excellence. New York: IEEE, 1993. Roosevelt, Kermit. The Overseas Targets: War Report of the OSS. Vol. II. New York: Walker, 1976. Moyer, Albert E. Joseph Henry: The Rise of an American Scientist. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997.","Contents True Temper Fiberglass CB Antenna advertising and sales notebook (1978) Metal Detector, blue Motorola HT 220 Handie-Talkie FM Radio Samsung CDMA Phone Motorola Bravo Pager Pickett slide rule in leather case International Rectifier in small leather case Slide Rule in brown plastic case Compass (4) in black leather pouch Motorola Micro TAC Prototype Cell Phone Ledger, I.A. Gross Electronics, Inc. Negatives (11 small boxes) Tapes - 3 cassette tapes and 2 microcassette tapes Videocassettes (5) White plastic ruler, labeled \"983.5 MHZ .000000001SEC\" Mile-O-Graph mileage measurer in red box Nametag - Al Gross W8PAL Cases for walkie-talkies (4). Three green leather cases and one blue felt soft case Frequency Spectrum Chart (2) Small picture frame, gray Antenna, white Funnel attached by chain to small scoop, brass Box 15 Several unidentified electronical parts in small black suitcase (n.d.)","2-40 millimeter and 2-20 millimeter bullets.","Awards list Election to the Senior Member of the IEEE, framed certificate (November 1952) Election to Life Fellow of the IEEE, framed certificate (n.d.) IEEE Third Millenium Medal, paper certificate (n.d.) \"To Al from his good buddies in London\" handwritten note in wooden frame (February 11, 1982) Commission as Captain in the Navy of the Confederate States of America, framed certificate (November 25, 1964) Oversize Box 20 \"Presented In Appreciation to Al Gross on the Occasion of His Centennial Seminar...\" commemorative plaque (October 1992) Election as a Fellow of the IEEE, laminated paper on wood (January 1, 1982) Election to the Board of Directors and a Fellow of the Radio Club of America, certificate on laminated wood (November 1980)","Contents Blueprints (1949-78, n.d.) Publications, Awards (1952-80) Article \"Phone Me by Air\" The Saturday Evening Post, original (July 28, 1945) Al Gross Patents (4) - original copies (1952-56) Montgomery Ward Blanket Order Form - Citizens Radio Corporation (original)(June 9, 1948) Amateur Radio Operator License (original) (November 26, 1935) Photocopied images from the Virginia Tech Imagebase (n.d.) Photo, Symposium Internacional de Electronica (March 1996) Cloth sign, \"Presented to Mr. A. Gross by Dundalk C.B. Club\" (1980) Cloth sign, \"Europa Burger Band\" (n.d.) Drexel University and IEEE, framed certificate (Fall 1979) Letter confirming Al Gross as an IEEE Fellow (December 7, 1981) The Cleveland Press Victory Edition (WWII) (August 15, 1945)"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/scuareproduction\"\u003ehttp://bit.ly/scuareproduction\u003c/a\u003e. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/scuapublication\"\u003ehttp://bit.ly/scuapublication\u003c/a\u003e. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form:  http://bit.ly/scuareproduction . Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form:  http://bit.ly/scuapublication . Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_4705b01ad0a8f0bc957e95d98bd1bf8f\" label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThe Al Gross papers are comprised of the following series: Employment, Publications, Inventions and Patents, Awards and Achievements, Personal Material, Technical Data, Radio Material, Government, Subject Files, and Oversize Materials. The collection also includes Gross' book collection and electronic parts. This collection contains materials relating to the significant contributions Al Gross made in the advancement of wireless technology. The collection provides a detailed look at the evolution of the walkie-talkie from a weapon against the Axis Powers in World War II to its functional and convenient purposes today. Throughout the progression of wireless technology, Al Gross remained an integral part of designing and updating wireless devices such as cellular phones and pagers to its now diminutive form using microminituarization and other scientific methods.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["The Al Gross papers are comprised of the following series: Employment, Publications, Inventions and Patents, Awards and Achievements, Personal Material, Technical Data, Radio Material, Government, Subject Files, and Oversize Materials. The collection also includes Gross' book collection and electronic parts. This collection contains materials relating to the significant contributions Al Gross made in the advancement of wireless technology. The collection provides a detailed look at the evolution of the walkie-talkie from a weapon against the Axis Powers in World War II to its functional and convenient purposes today. 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