Alexandria Scrapbook Collection (MS003)

Location of collection:

Alexandria Library

Alexandria Library

Local History/Special Collections

717 Queen Street

Alexandria, VA 22314

Contact for questions and access:

POC: Patricia Walker, Branch Manager

Email: pwalker@alexlibraryva.org

Phone: (703) 746-1719

Email: lhsc@alexandria.lib.va.us

Phone: (703) 838-4577

Fax: (703) 706-3912

Web: alexlibraryva.org/lhsc

Preferred citation:

[item identification], Alexandria Scrapbook Collection, MS003, Alexandria Library, Local History and Special Collections, Alexandria, Virginia.

Summary

Extent:

.42 Linear Feet

Language:

English .

Preferred citation:

[item identification], Alexandria Scrapbook Collection, MS003, Alexandria Library, Local History and Special Collections, Alexandria, Virginia.

Background

Scope and content:

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.

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Scrapbooks.
Theater and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Ford's Opera House (Washington, D. C.)
Poetry.

Places:

Plays.