This series includes advertisements and circulars, agreements and deeds, Bible records, clippings, correspondence, genealogical notes and charts, invitations, ledgers, notebooks, obituaries, publications, receipts, and wills of the Clark, Gaunt, Harryman, Klipstein, and Taylor families of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia.

Included are agreements and deeds for slaves in Culpeper County, Virginia; land in Fauquier, Prince William, and Shendandoah Counties and Alexandria, Virginia, and Kanawha County and Charleston, West Virginia; cemetery lots in Baltimore, Maryland; Circuit Court judgements in Washington, DC; and agreements for the firm of C.M. and F. Taylor in Alexandria, Virginia. Also included are notes, receipts, and report cards for Rebecca Taylor Klipstein while attending the Alexandria Female Seminary and a constitution, correspondence, resolutions, and history of the Alexandria Hospital in Alexandria, Virginia. Clippings are included on the Klipstein, Ruffner, and Taylor families.

The correspondence, 1795-1952, includes topics relating to social and family life, division of estates, sale of slaves, local politics in Virginia and West Virginia, national politics, business ventures, weather observations, farms in Page and Shenandoah Counties, Virginia, and Charleston, West Virginia. Also noted are family health, births and deaths, and wedding announcements. Correspondents include Charles T. Clark, Lewis Cooper, William Klipstein, Eleanor Marye, George T. Marye, William Marye, David Ruffner, Joel Ruffner, John Sibert, Charles M. Taylor, George R. Taylor, Mary Ann Taylor, and Rebecca Taylor.

Of note are letters, 1832 and 1834, regarding cholorea outbreaks in Fredericksburg and Norfolk, Virginia. Also of note are letters, 21 and 25 February 1836, from William M. Robertson, Richmond, to William Marye, Page County, Virginia, regarding issues before the Virginia House of Delegates, national politics, and tension between northern and southern states. Included is a letter, 5 May 1867, from William Tecumseh Sherman, Headquarters Military Division of the Missouri, to George R. Taylor, President of the Pacific Railroad, regarding a rail pass for a group. Includes letters, 1872-1881, from David Joel Ruffner, in Kentucky, to and from his wife, Frances Ruffner, in Kanawha County, West Virginia, while he was surveying land in Kentucky. Also included are numerous cards and postcards.

Included are several in-depth genealogical charts and notes on the Ball, Gaunt, Harryman, Klipstein, Lyle, Maris, Marll, Marye, Morrison, Ruffner, and Taylor families. Also included is a catalogue and lecture tickets for Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, attended by George T. Klipstein, and numerous invitations for dinner parties, graduations, social gatherings, and weddings addressed to Charles M. Taylor and the Ruffner family. The ledgers include family accounts of the Klipstein and Taylor families, along with medical ledgers of Dr. George T. Klipstein, 1917-1918; household expense account of Mary Ann Taylor Klipstein, 1900-1908; school notebook and ledger, 1840-1844, of William B. Klipstein; and various ledgers, 1850-1883, of Charles M. Taylor, including rent account books for property owned by Taylor. Included are memoirs written by various Ruffner family members and a memoir of Sampson Sanders Simmons, father of Naomi Simmons Klipstein. Also included are obituaries, arranged alphabetically by last name and a patient log and prescriptions, 1898-1918, written by Dr. George T. Klipstein.

The publications include a book on Alexandria Houses, Gardening and MCV magazines, Historical Guide to Albemarle County, a history of Charleston, West Virginia, medical and religious pamphlets, and genealogical books on the Lyle and Maris families. Publications that duplicate copies that exist in the Library holdings were not filmed. The receipts include mostly receipts but also accounts and promissory notes for the Klipstein, Marye, Reiche, Ruffner, and Taylor families. Included are receipts for goods purchased, taxes, medical services of Dr. George and William Klipstein, estate accounts, house repairs, and educational expenses. Included are receipts relating to the Grove property (called both Aspen or Peyton Grove), a house in Alexandria owned by James B. McNair and Charles M. Taylor. They purchased the lot together at auction 1 May 1850. Includes letter, 1862 August 17, from George R. Taylor, Pacific Rail Road, to Brigadier General Sturgis, Alexandria, Virginia, asking the Army to compensate Taylor for damage caused to the house by the occupation of troops. Also included are an inventory of house, insurance papers, accounts and account books, work specifications and agreements, taxes paid, correpondence, and receipts.

The collection also includes report cards from the Wentworth Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia, Jefferson Medical College, and Charleston Female School in West Virginia; signature book, 1834-1850, of Mary Ann Taylor Klipstein, and class tickets of William B. Klipstein, while attending University of New York and the New York Hospital, 1842-1844; and wedding announcements and wills.

This series includes photographs, ca. 1850-1976 (bulk 1880-1920), of the Clark, Gaunt, Harryman, Klipstein, Morrison, Ruffner, and Taylor families. A number of the photographs, ca. 1850-1900, were taken in studios in Alexandria, Lynchburg, and Richmond, Virginia; and Baltimore, Maryland; St. Louis, Missouri; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Included are images depicting social gatherings, family, church, and school events, vacations, parks, and houses.Of note is an album from Rebecca Taylor Klipstein's automobile trip to California, 1920, from Alexandria, Virginia. Also included are numerous photographs of the Ruffner family, including Richard Laidley Ruffner I, in soldier's uniform World War I, with family, friends, vacations in Europe, and electrical breakers and transformers, possibly in West Virginia, ca. 1895-1960. Also included are photographs of Richard Laidley Ruffner, II, family and school life, and with his sister, Rebecca Mary Ruffner. The collection also includes a number of daugerrotypes.