Ashton McKenney Photo Collection (MS327)

Access and use

Location of collection:
Alexandria Library
Alexandria Library
Local History/Special Collections
717 Queen Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Patricia Walker, Branch Manager
Phone: (703) 746-1719
Phone: (703) 838-4577
Fax: (703) 706-3912
Preferred citation:

[item identification], Ashton McKenney Photo Collection, MS327, Alexandria Library, Local History and Special Collections, Alexandria, Virginia.

Summary

Extent:
.20 Cubic Feet 1 box
Creator:
McKenney, Ashton N. (Mike), 1921-2005
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

[item identification], Ashton McKenney Photo Collection, MS327, Alexandria Library, Local History and Special Collections, Alexandria, Virginia.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains several photos arranged by subject, some original and some copy prints. There are photos of ships, various Alexandria streets, people, and the Alexandria waterfront.

Photos in folder:

1 Copy photo of Tubby Sisson driving his horse-drawn fish waggon down an Alexandria street.

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2 Copy photo of people standing in the snow at the 400 block of King Street, in front of Arnold Bros.

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5 Aerial photo of the Masonic temple and surrounding neighborhood.

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7 Copy photo of the Alexandria Light Infantry Drum and Bugle Corps. "Mr. Mansfield" is in front row, holding a drum. Photo taken in front of Armory Hall on S. Royal Street.

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11 Copy photo soldiers in front of the slave pen of Price, Birch, and Co. at 1315 Duke Street around 1863.

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13 Copy photo of people working in the Express Spark Plug Factory. The glass negative has been digitized and lives at the Library of Congress.

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16 Photo of the Jones Point Lighthouse.

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17 Photo of flooding on King Street in Alexandria.

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18 Photo of an unknown group of people in front of Washington's Mount Vernon.

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19 Photo of a fire pump going by in a parade.

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22 Photograph of a car full of men with top hats going by in a parade.

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24A Copy photo of Prince Street Dock after a snow storm.

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25 Photo of a sidewheeler ship called the Mayflower, docked in Alexandria.

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31 Photo of kids playing on the sidewalk of the 100 block of S. Royal Street after the snow storm of 1922.

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34 A family standing outside of Priest Grocery Store in Old Town Alexandira.

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40 Reproduction photo of 9 A. B. and W. buses parked in a lot.

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41 Reproduction photo of the 200 block of Strand Street after a snow storm.

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49 Page from a magazine or book, featuring a photo of the "coloured quarters" in Alexandria.

Biographical / historical:

Ashton "Mike" McKenney was a long time member of the Alexandria Volunteer Fire Department, starting in 1940. Later in his career, he worked as the historian for the AFD and wrote A History of the Relief Truck and Engine Company No. 1 of the Alexandria Fire Department (1788-1958). He retired in 1972 from the Dulles International Airport Fire Department, and moved to Colonial Beach where he was a charter member of the Colonial Yacht Club before his death in 2005.

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