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Alexander Haight family collection, 1764/1976 7 Linear Feet 7 boxes, 1 map case

Haight, Alexander Levi, 1891-1981
The Alexander Haight family collection contains correspondence, legal and financial documents, account ledgers, photographs, and other materials created and collected by members of the Haight family of Fairfax County, Virginia, including during their time living and working on Sully Plantation, during and after the Civil War, and into the mid-20th century, including during World War I.
  1. George Mason University

Ann Lettice Murdoch Diary, 1841/1864 0.05 Linear Feet

Murdoch, Ann Lettice, 1785-1865

Diary of Ann Lettice Murdoch (1785-1865) of Frederick County, Maryland. She was the wife of Richard Potts, Jr. (1786-1865), a lawyer and Maryland State senator (1838-1844). The diary contains a lot of entries of religious nature as well as aphorisms. In addition, Ann L. Murdoch frequently recorded deaths of family, friends and community members, including the deaths of Black employees.

  1. College of William and Mary

George B. Holsinger photograph collection, 1860/1910 0.25 Linear Feet 1 box

Holsinger, Geo. B. (George Blackburn), 1857-1908
This collection contains forty photographs including tintypes and cartes de visit mounted on paper backings, taken by unknown photographers, depicting portraits of George B. Holsinger. This collection provides a unique look at a man aging as well as changes in photographic processes through the late 1800s.
  1. George Mason University

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