vifgm00030 Guide to the Mary Elsie Fox photograph collection, 1935-1959 Mary Elsie Fox photograph C0067 FINDING AID AUTHOR George Mason University Libraries 2006 By George Mason University Libraries. All rights reserved. Machine-readable finding aid derived from being created directly into EAD, created by FINDING AID ENCODER, FINDING AID ENCODED DATE Description is in English 2013-11-21 Converted to schema conforming EAD by dtd2schema.vh.xsl. A Guide to the Mary Elsie Fox photograph collection A Collection in Special Collections and Archives C0067

George Mason University Libraries 2011 Special Collections and Archives Staff Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University Descriptive Summary George Mason University. Special Collections and Archives. Mary Elsie Fox Mary Elsie Fox photograph collection 1935-1959 C0067 1 linear feet (3 boxes) English This collection contains approximately 100 black and white photographs from the discarded scrapbook of Mary Elsie Fox found after her death. The photographs are mostly 3x4" snapshots of Fox, her husband, and their close friends and document domestic life in the postwar Washington, D.C. area. The photographs range in size from 1x2" to 8x10". Administrative Information Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Preferred Citation

Mary Elsie Fox photogaph collection, Collection #C0067, Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University.

Acquisition Information

Collection donated by Tish Como in 2006.

Processing Information

Processed by Kate Norman in March 2010. EAD markup completed by Kate Norman in March 2010.

Biographical Information

Mary Elsie Fox, a resident of Hinton, West Virginia, served as executive secretary for a number of generals of the U.S. Air Force and later in the office of Vice President Spiro T. Agnew. Born in 1923, Mary Elsie Fox spent most of her adult life in Washington, D.C. before her death in 1994.

Scope and Content

This collection contains about 100 black and white photographs from the discarded scrapbook of Mary Elsie Fox found after her death. The photographs are mostly 3x4" snapshots of Fox, her brother, and their close friends and document domestic life in the postwar Washington, D.C. area. The photographs range in size from 1x2" to 8x10".

The collection includes photographs of parties, dinners, outdoor recreation, children, American military, a friend's time abroad in Norway, and general portrait photographs. The collection also includes photographs of DC monuments and important buildings, ranging from the Pentagon to the Carnegie Library. Many of these photographs have writing on the back, especially those taken in Norway.

The first series includes small photographs from 1935-1959. Spanning two boxes and about 100 pages, this series contains photographs from parties, domestic life, outdoor recreation, American military personnel, Washington, D.C., Norway, and children. The second series contains medium photographs taken during the 1940s. This series contains photographs of Turkey, American military personnel, parties, and leisure. The third series contains large photographs taken during the 1940s. This series consists mainly of photographs of the Pentagon but also includes images of weddings, leisure activities, and American military personnel.

Arrangement

Organized into three series.

Series 1: Small Photographs, 1935-1959 (Boxes 1-2) Series 2: Medium Photographs, 1940s (Box 2) Series 3: Large Photographs, 1940s (Boxes 2-3) Adjunct Descriptive Data Related Material

Special Collections and Archives also holds the John Rapp, Jr. photograph collection and the Larkin family photograph collection.

Index Terms Persons: Fox, Mary Elsie, 1923-1994. Subjects: Domestic life--Washington (D.C.)--20th century--Photographs. Leisure--Washington (D.C.)--20th century--Photographs. Document Types: Group portraits. Photographic prints. Portrait photographs. Contents List Series 1: Small Photographs, 1935-1959 (1.5 boxes)

This series contains small photographs ranging in size from 1 1/4x2 1/4" to 5x4"

1 1-4 Captain Jordan's Party, June 22, 1946

Mrs. Liston, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Studervant, Theda Portir, Major Tourdlau, Mrs. Stancook, Mrs. Pat Redd

1 4-7 Leisure, October, 1945

Mary Elsie Fox, Elayne Scott

1 7-11 Leisure, June 10, 1947

Mary Sevcik, Mary Elsie Fox, Bob Rancine, Tim Donovan

1 11-13 Leisure, April, 1947

Mary Elsie Fox, Dave O'Connel, Ann Sevcik O'Connel

1 13-14 Group Portraits, October 19, 1947

Mary Elsie Fox, Dick Perlman, Helen Krawchuk Perlman

1 14-17 Leisure and Group Portraits, July, 1945

Edna Earle Whitt, Mary Elsie, Fox, Janice Rigler Stoops

1 17-18 City and Town Life, March 23, 1947

Mary Elsie Fox, Mary Sevcik

1 18-20 Leisure, May, 1947

Edna Earle Whitt, Mary Elsie Fox, Mary Sevcik

1 20-21 New Jersey, March, 1943

New Jersey shore, sailors.

Mary Elsie Fox, Elayne Scott, Mary Sevcik

1 22-23 Leisure and Picnics, March, 1945

Mary Elsie Fox, Mary Sevcik, Tony Pecar, Ted Palmerine, Elayne Scott

1 24-25 Group Portraits, May, 1947

Janice Rigler Stoops, Marion W. Stoops

1 25-26 Portrait Photographs, July, 1944

Mary Elsie Fox, Jo-Ann Maddy

1 26-27 Group Portraits and Leisure, 1940s

Mary Elsie Fox, Elayne Scott, Edna Earle Whitt

1 28-30 Portrait Photographs and Leisure, 1940s

Mary Elsie Fox

1 30-34 Portrait Photographs and Leisure, 1040s

Mary Elsie Fox, Mary Sevcik, Ann Sevcik O'Connel, Jan Sevcik

1 34-36 Leisure and Domestic Life, 1940s 1 36-37 Group Portraits and Leisure, 1940s

Mary Elsie Fox

1 37-38 Group Portraits and Military Personnel, September 28, 1942

Processed by Peoples Drugstores

1 39-40 Portrait Photographs, 1940s

Mary Elsie Fox

1 40-41 Portrait Photographs and Leisure, 1940s 1 41 City and Town Life, 1940s

Mary Sevcik

1 42 Group Portraits, November, 1941

Mary Sevcik, Jan Sevcik, Ann Sevcik

1 42 Group Portraits, 1940s

Mary Sevcik

1 43 Group Portraits and Parties, 1940s

Mary Elsie Fox, Edna Earle Whitt, Elayne Scott

1 43 Recreation and Portraits Photographs, 1940s

Thelma Tefler

1 44 City and Town Life, 1940s 1 44 Travel, 1950s

Color photos of Mary Elsie Fox

1 45 Travel and Leisure, 1940s

Jan Sevick

1 45 North Carolina, 1942

Mrs. McNeer, Anna Mae McNeer

1 46 Mercy Hospital, Pittsburgh, August, 1942

Mary K. Sevcik

1 46 Portrait Photograph, 1943

Mary K. Sevcik

1 46 Portrait, 1945

Ann Sevcik O'Connel

1 46 City and Town Life, 1940s

Ann Sevcik O'Connel, Jan Sevcik

1 47 Graduation, 1940s 1 47 Group Portrait, 1940s

Mary Elsie Fox

1 47 2510 Cliffbourne Pl., 1942

Mary Elsie Fox

1 47 Portrait Photograph and Leisure, August, 1945

Mary Elsie Fox

1 48 Leisure, December, 1959

Mary Elsie Fox

1 48 Horse, June 13, 1943

Jan Sevcik, "Smarty"

Writing on back of photograph

1 48 Hinton, 1935

House after a snowstorm

1 48 Police Officer, 1940s

1 49 Group Portrait, 1940s 1 49 Portrait Photograph, 1940s 1 49-52 Domestic Life and Parties, March 15, 1946

Mary Elsie Fox, Edna Earle Whitt, Captain Ralph Lewis, Elayne Scott, Captain Mack, Captain Joe Schieferly, Major Sturdevant, Helen Karwchuk Perlman, Captain Ken Jordan, Peggy Hill, Captain Bill Miles

1 52-54 Domestic Life and Group Portraits, February, 1946

Mary Elsie Fox, Dick Perlman, Helen Krawchuk Perlman

1 54-58 Domestic Life and Parties, January 19, 1947

Mary Elsie Fox, Edna Earle Whitt, Dick Perlman, Helen Krawchuk Perlman, Ken Ramey

One outdoor portrait photograph of Edna Earle Whitt

1 58-60 Domestic Life and Parites, October, 1947

Mary Elsie Fox, Helen Krawchuk Perlman, Dick Perlman, Ken Ramey, Edna Earle Whitt

1 60-62 Domestic Life and Parties, June 10, 1947

Mary Elsie Fox, Tim Donovan, Mary Sevcik, Bob Rancine

1 62-63 Domestic Life and Parties, 1940s 1 63 Domestic Life and Portrait Photograph, October 19, 1947

Dick Perlman

1 63 Weekend Party at Captain Jordan's Farm, April 7, 1946 1 63 Portrait Photograph, 1947

Mary Sevcik

1 64 Domestic Life, 1950s

Mary Elsie Fox

Color Photograph

1 64 Portrait Photograph, 1940s 1 64 Washington, D.C., May, 1942

View of Jefferson Memorial through cherry blossoms; bridge

Deveolped By Brown Photo Service, Minnepolis, MN

1 65 In Front of the Capitol Theatre, July 5, 1942

Mary Elsie Fox, Dempsey Fox

1 65 Washington, D.C., September 15, 1947

In front of the Capitol Theatre

Mary Elsie Fox, Dempsey Fox

1 65 Washington, D.C., March 23, 1947

Washington Presbyterian Church

Mary Elsie Fox

1 65-67 Washington, D.C., 1940s

Jefferson Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, cherry blossoms

Mary Elsie Fox

1 68-71 Washington, D.C., April, 1946

Capitol Building, Pentagon, Lincoln Memorial, White House, Jefferson Memorial, Carnegie Library, National Gallery of Art

Captain Schieferly, Captain Miles

1 72-73 Diane - Age 4 months, May, 1947

Diane Miller

1 73-75 Diane - 1 yr. Old, February 13, 1948

Diane Miller

1 75-76 Children, December 25, 1947

Diane Miller

1 77 Children, September, 1947 1 77 Children, 1940s 1 77 Children, 1940s

Writing on back of photograph

1 77 Children and Leisure, 1945 2 1 Portrait and Military, 1940s

Tim Donovan

2 1 Portrait photograph and Military, 1940s

Tim Donovan

Writing on back of photograph

2 1 Group portrait and Military, 1945

Tim Donovan

2 77 Military, December 13, 1945

Tim Donovan

2 2 Military Personnel, 1944 2 2 Military Personnel, September 28, 1942

Developed by Peoples Drug Stores

2 2 Paris, 1945

Major Mulford, Major Flynn

2 2 Military, 1940s 2 3-8 Norway, 1945-1947

Mary Sevcik

Skiing Photographs. Some developed by Nerlien.

2 8-11 Norway, 1945-1947

Mary Sevcik, Jan Sevcik

Outdoor Photographs

2 12-14 Oslo, Norway, 1946

Mike Riley, Charlie La Cour

2 14-15 Jeunaker, Norway, December, 1945

Mary Sevcik, Elsa Beach

Writing on back of photographs

2 15 Norway, 1945-1947

Mary Sevcik, Jan Sevcik

2 15-16 Oslo, Norway, April, 1946

Mary Sevcik, Bill Shiflet

Writing on back of photographs

2 16 Kornsjo, Sweden, January, 1945

Mary Sevcik, Dorothy Smith, Eric Karl Hellstrom, Fritiof Falkstrand

Writing on back of photographs

2 17 Oslo, Norway, December, 1945

Writing on back of photographs

2 17 Oslo, Norway, January, 1946

Bob Berg, Mrs. Berg

Writing on back of photographs

2 18 New Year Eve in Norway, December 31, 1945

Joe Moline, Mary Sevcik, Major Scully

Writing on back of photographs

2 18 Smorbroad and the Troll (witch), December, 1945

Writing on back of photographs

2 19 Oslo, Norway, 1946

Mary Sevcik

2 19 Oslo, Norway, February 22, 1946

Mary Sevcik

2 19 Oslo, Norway and Children, 1945-1947

Mary Sevcik

Writing on back of photograph

2 20 Oslo, Norway, January, 1947

Mike Riley

2 20 The Day Mary Came Home from Norway March 17, 1947

Mary Elsie Fox, Mary Sevcik

Series 2: Medium Photographs, 1940s (11 pages)

This series contains medium photographs ranging in size from 5 3/4x2 1/2" to 7 1/4x5 1/4".

2 21-22 Ankara and Istanbul, Turkey, 1940s 2 23 Group Portrait, June 22, 1946

Edna Earle Whitt, Mary Elsie Fox, Elayne Scott, Peggy Hill, Captain Ken Jordan, Captain Joe Schieferly, Captain Bill Miles, Captain Ralph Lewis

2 24 Wabans - Washington, D.C., September 15, 1947

Mary Elsie Fox, Dempsey Fox

2 25 Portrait Photographs and Leisure, June 8, 1946

Mary Elsie Fox

2 26 Edna's Birthday, September 17, 1947

Edna Earle Whitt, Jerry Whitt, Mary Elsie Fox

2 27 Group Portrait and Leisure, February, 1946

Elayne Scott, Mary Elsie Fox

2 27 Portrait, 1940s 2 28 Pentagon Bldg, June, 1946

Elayne Scott, Mary Elsie Fox, Edna Earle Whitt, Myrtle Parker, Lee Parnell, Myrtle Lacy, Dorothy Rupert, JoAnn Srubb, Ruth Anderson, Mrs. Attaway

2 28-29 Military Personnel, 1940s 2 29 Portrait Photograph and Leisure, 1940s

Tim Donovan

Writing on back of photograph

2 30 Military Personnel, April, 1946

Captain Joe Schieferly

2 30 Military Personnel, 1946 2 31 Portrait and Children, 1940s Series 3: Large Photographs, 1940s (1.5 boxes)

This series contains large photographs ranging in size from 1 1/2x9" to 8x10".

2 32 Military Personnel, 1940s

Captain Joe Schieferly

Writing on front of photograph

2 33 Portrait, 1940s 2 34 Domestic Life and Parties, 1945-1947

Mr. and Mrs. James Miller, Dick Bennett, Mike Riley, Charlie La Cour, Bill and Sonja Malberg, Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Fay-Schojle, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Farbe, Bobbie Robahan, Ingrid Galtung, Pei Wan, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Slack, Mary Sevcik

2 35 Wedding, 1940s

Mary Elsie Fox

Hessler Photography, Washington, DC

2 36 Edna and Jerry's Wedding, January 14, 1948

Edna Earle Whitt, Paul Taylor, Mary Elsie Fox

Underwood and Underwood Photography, Washington

2 37 Children, December 25, 1947

Diane Miller

3 1 Portrait Photograph and Leisure, October, 1945

Mary Elsie Fox

3 2 Portrait Photograph and Leisure, October, 1945

Mary Elsie Fox

3 3 Group Portrait and Parties, April 7, 1946

Elayne Scott, Edna Earle Whitt, Mary Elsie Fox

3 4 Military Personnel and Office, 1940s

Captain Joe Schieferly, Alma Chalk

3 5 Washington, DC, 1940s

Pentagon, Washington Monument, Jefferson Memorial, Capitol Building

3 6 Pentagon, 1940s

Signal Corps Photograph

3 7 Pentagon, 1940s

Signal Corps Photograph

3 8 Pentagon, 1940s

Signal Corps Photograph

3 9 Pentagon, 1940s

Signal Corps Photograph

3 10 Pentagon, 1940s

Signal Corps Photograph