Loeb Photography Collection (MS363)

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], Loeb Photography Collection, MS363, Alexandria Library, Local History and Special Collections, Alexandria, Virginia.

Summary

Extent:
3.05 Linear Feet 8 boxes, 320 folders
Creator:
Loeb, Morris, 1878-1969
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

[item identification], Loeb Photography Collection, MS363, Alexandria Library, Local History and Special Collections, Alexandria, Virginia.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection contains photographs and negatives predominantly of historic Alexandria buildings and civic life from the 1910's to the 1940's. A small number of prints are from the late 19th century. The collection is made up of black and white prints and acetate negatives, with a small number of glass plate negatives and glass lantern slides. The collection has been split into two series.

411 Prince Street.

1605 Cameron Street.

607 Cameron Street.

210 Duke Street.

700 Duke Street.

1300 Russell Road.

209 Prince Street.

611 Cameron Street.

317 S. St. Asaph Street.

207 Prince Street.

125 S. Pitt Street.

212 S. Fairfax Street.

207 Prince, 209 Prince, and 211 Prince Street.

428 N. Washington Street.

207 Prince, 209 Prince, and 211 Prince Street.

619 S. Lee Street.

429 Washington Street.

216 Washington Street.

115 S. Lee Street.

505 S. Lee and 509 S. Lee Street.

207 Prince Street.

This series contains glass plate negatives, lantern slides, and acetate negatives. The content and numbers correspond with Series 1. The negatives are predominantly centered around historic buildings within Alexandria, and are chiefly from the 1920's and 1930's.

Biographical / historical:

Morris Loeb was a photographer in Alexandria for 55 years on 418 King street. Born Morris Leibowitz in Russia, April 1st 1878, Morris was trained in photography before coming to America with his wife Dora in 1906 and was naturalized in 1914. Morris worked with the Harris and Ewing photography studio in Washington D.C. before opening his own studio in Alexandria in 1909. He retired in 1864, and died July 31st, 1969 in Harrisburg, PA at the age of 91. He was a member of the Washington Masonic Lodge No. 22, the Alexandria Scottish Rite Temple, a charter member of the Kena Temple Shrine, and a founding member of the Agudas Achim Congregation. He had four children: Eva Cohn, Sara Hamburger, Jennebelle Weinstein, and Joseph Loeb.

Physical description:
Glass plates are fragile, and paper copies should be used when possible. If necessary, photos and negatives are to be handled with untreated nitrile or latex gloves.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard