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George Mason University

2400 Fenwick Library
Special Collections Research Center
Fenwick Library MS2FL
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA 22030
Primary Collecting Areas:
SCRC collects materials related to George Mason University, Northern Virginia, performing arts, transportation and planning, and photography. SCRC collects oral histories pertaining to Northern Virginia; the Federal Theatre Project; Reston, Virginia; and George Mason University's history. It currently conducts an active oral history program.
Description:
Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) is the unit within the University Libraries charged with acquiring, documenting, preserving, and providing access to primary research collections and documents. SCRC also manages the non-current and archival records of George Mason University, is responsible for the preservation and access to the University's theses and dissertations, and undertakes, through its Oral History program, the creation of audiovisual documentary resources. SCRC services, collections, and programs support the teaching and research activities of George Mason University and also serve the community at large.
POC: Mieko Palazzo
Phone: (703) 993-2220
Fax: (703) 993-2669
Start Over Repository George Mason University Subjects Automobile travel
George Mason University

Beardwood and Whipple family travel photograph albums

.5 Linear Feet 8 albums
Content warning: Racist language. Seven photograph albums created by Olive Whipple Peabody Beardwood and her mother, Grace M. Whipple from 1929 - 1931, documenting their travels with family across the Eastern, Southeastern, and Southern United States, as well as Europe. The majority of the albums seems to have been compiled by Olive for herself and her mother, with one album likely compiled by Grace. There is one outlier album from the 1890s.
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Beardwood and Whipple family travel photograph albums .5 Linear Feet 8 albums

Beardwood, Olive Peabody, 1886-1969
Content warning: Racist language. Seven photograph albums created by Olive Whipple Peabody Beardwood and her mother, Grace M. Whipple from 1929 - 1931, documenting their travels with family across the Eastern, Southeastern, and Southern United States, as well as Europe. The majority of the albums seems to have been compiled by Olive for herself and her mother, with one album likely compiled by Grace. There is one outlier album from the 1890s.
George Mason University

"California or Bust" travel scrapbook

.25 Linear Feet 1 scrapbook
Content Warning: One of the photograph descriptions in this album contains a racial slur. Black scrapbook album created circa August 1956 to document a trip from New York to California and other Midwest, West, and Southwest states taken by a group of five women friends. The trip lasted from August 4, 1956 - August 27, 1956. The scrapbook contains black and white photographs pasted onto the pages with commentary and information written in white ink.
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"California or Bust" travel scrapbook .25 Linear Feet 1 scrapbook

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections Research Center
Content Warning: One of the photograph descriptions in this album contains a racial slur. Black scrapbook album created circa August 1956 to document a trip from New York to California and other Midwest, West, and Southwest states taken by a group of five women friends. The trip lasted from August 4, 1956 - August 27, 1956. The scrapbook contains black and white photographs pasted onto the pages with commentary and information written in white ink.
George Mason University

Western family travel photograph album

.25 Linear Feet 1 album
Family photograph album depicting a trip to the Midwestern and Western United States, 1923 - 1924.
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Western family travel photograph album .25 Linear Feet 1 album

George Mason University
Family photograph album depicting a trip to the Midwestern and Western United States, 1923 - 1924.

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