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Alexandria Library

Milton Penn Collection (MS267), 1794/1893

.46 Cubic Feet 2 boxes

The papers in this collection cover all of the Alexandria Fire Department's business and legal transactions over a span of one hundred years. The canceled checks show the many expenditures necessary to outfit, maintain, and operate the volunteer fire companies. There are also many receipts from commercial firms who provisioned, repaired, serviced and supplied the volunteer fire companies. The Alexandria Common Council appropriated money each year to cover the entire Fire Department.

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Milton Penn Collection (MS267), 1794/1893 .46 Cubic Feet 2 boxes

The papers in this collection cover all of the Alexandria Fire Department's business and legal transactions over a span of one hundred years. The canceled checks show the many expenditures necessary to outfit, maintain, and operate the volunteer fire companies. There are also many receipts from commercial firms who provisioned, repaired, serviced and supplied the volunteer fire companies. The Alexandria Common Council appropriated money each year to cover the entire Fire Department.

Alexandria Library

Robert H. McNulty Papers (MS282), 1970/1991

.85 Cubic Feet 2 boxes

This collection consists of Mr. McNulty's Alexandria research notes and related documentation. Materials include photocopies of his notes from Alexandria Gazette; photocopied and hand-drawn maps of the areas under consideration; photocopies of deeds and other legal records; correspondence; and other research materials.

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Alexandria Library Company Records (MS002), 1794/2007

8.10 Cubic Feet 13 boxes, 2 oversize boxes, 1 record carton

The 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.

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Alexandria Library Company Records (MS002), 1794/2007 8.10 Cubic Feet 13 boxes, 2 oversize boxes, 1 record carton

Alexandria Library Company

The 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.

Series IV: Meetings, 1794/2003

The meetings series consists chiefly of bound and unbound minutes from the Alexandria Library Company and its successors.

Alexandria Library

Ethelyn Cox Collection (MS287), 1956/1980

22.33 Linear Feet 56 boxes

This collection consists of Mrs. Cox's research files and manuscripts, as well as papers from her membership in HAF. Research files contain typed and handwritten notes, news clippings, and correspondence. The main focus of the collection is in support of "Street by Street". Included are the Historic American Building Survey inventories of Worth Baily. Also in the collection are manuscripts and notes of several projects that Mrs. Cox assisted on, and pamphlets related to Alexandria History or Historic Preservation and Restoration.

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Alexandria Scrapbook Collection (MS003), 1830/1893

.42 Linear Feet

This collection consists of 2 books that have been converted to scrapbooks by gluing playbills, poems, articles, drawings, and religious materials onto the pages. The scrapbook in folder 1 contains religious articles, poetry, and images pasted into a book on agricultural reports. The scrapbook in folder 2 contains playbills and concert programs from the National Theater, Ford's Opera House, the Alexandria Musical Association, the Vocal Society of the Assembly Presbyterian Church, etc.

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Alexandria Scrapbook Collection (MS003), 1830/1893 .42 Linear Feet

This collection consists of 2 books that have been converted to scrapbooks by gluing playbills, poems, articles, drawings, and religious materials onto the pages. The scrapbook in folder 1 contains religious articles, poetry, and images pasted into a book on agricultural reports. The scrapbook in folder 2 contains playbills and concert programs from the National Theater, Ford's Opera House, the Alexandria Musical Association, the Vocal Society of the Assembly Presbyterian Church, etc.

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Alexandria, Virginia City Records (MS019), 1750/1983, bulk 1825/1875

30.48 Cubic Feet 73 Boxes

The collection contains reports, correspondence, account books, minutes, warrants, court orders, vouchers, bills to be paid and to be collected, some printed matter, stocks and bonds, petitions, election returns, and poll books, ranging in date from 1750 to 1983, predominately 1825-1875. Topics include both the city auditor and the city treasurer records of receipts and expenditures for many city functions--the poor house, the police, employee pay records, etc.--, election results, the issuance of Corporation stocks and bonds, railroads, and canals.

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Alexandria, Virginia City Records (MS019), 1750/1983, bulk 1825/1875 30.48 Cubic Feet 73 Boxes

Alexandria (Va.) (1749-)

The collection contains reports, correspondence, account books, minutes, warrants, court orders, vouchers, bills to be paid and to be collected, some printed matter, stocks and bonds, petitions, election returns, and poll books, ranging in date from 1750 to 1983, predominately 1825-1875. Topics include both the city auditor and the city treasurer records of receipts and expenditures for many city functions--the poor house, the police, employee pay records, etc.--, election results, the issuance of Corporation stocks and bonds, railroads, and canals.

West Virginia and Regional History Center

Alfred Beckley (1802-1888) Papers, 1832/1856

0.01 Linear Feet Summary: 1/4 in. (1 folder)

Correspondence of General Alfred Beckley and his wife Emily Craig. Several of the letters are by Beckley's mother from Lexington, Kentucky and comment on the Presidential election of 1832 in that state, the reception of President Jackson's in Lexington, 1832 the Cholera scourge, and local social affairs. The rest of the letters are concerned with family matters.

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Alfred Beckley (1802-1888) Papers, 1832/1856 0.01 Linear Feet Summary: 1/4 in. (1 folder)

Beckley, Alfred, 1802-1888

Correspondence of General Alfred Beckley and his wife Emily Craig. Several of the letters are by Beckley's mother from Lexington, Kentucky and comment on the Presidential election of 1832 in that state, the reception of President Jackson's in Lexington, 1832 the Cholera scourge, and local social affairs. The rest of the letters are concerned with family matters.

College of William and Mary

Cook-Luttrell Papers, 1848/1890

1.50 Linear Feet

Correspondence, business, tax and legal records, primarily 1848-1890, of various members of the Cook and Luttrell Families of Culpeper and Rappahannock Counties, Virginia.

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Washington and Lee University, Leyburn Library

duPont family papers, 1767/1982

33 Linear Feet
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Jessie Ball duPont papers, 1767/1982, bulk 1921/1970

The Jessie Ball duPont papers comprise the largest part of the collection. The papers consists of 115 linear feet of records dating from 1767-1982 with the bulk dating between 1921-1970. They contain correspondence, photographs, printed materials, legal and financial documents, and diaries.

Washington and Lee University, Leyburn Library

Alfred Leyburn Papers, 1823/1899, bulk 1830/1839

.2 Linear Feet

Contains c.55 items, of Dr. Alfred Leyburn and the Leyburn family of Lexington, Va., including 22 letters between Leyburn and his wife, Ann Eliza, 1835-36; patents of Edward J. Leyburn.

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Alfred Leyburn Papers, 1823/1899, bulk 1830/1839 .2 Linear Feet

Leyburn, Alfred

Contains c.55 items, of Dr. Alfred Leyburn and the Leyburn family of Lexington, Va., including 22 letters between Leyburn and his wife, Ann Eliza, 1835-36; patents of Edward J. Leyburn.

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