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Abraham Anson papers

12.5 linear feet (31 boxes)
The collection includes aerial photographs, publications, newspapers, magazines, correspondence, notebooks, color slides, glass slides, and maps.
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Abraham Anson papers 12.5 linear feet (31 boxes)

Anson, Abraham, 1912-2005
The collection includes aerial photographs, publications, newspapers, magazines, correspondence, notebooks, color slides, glass slides, and maps.
Alexandria Library

Anne Lewis Jones Collection (MS010)

.02375 Cubic Feet 5 folders.

This collection includes travel records, embarkation orders, pay voucher, letters written to her mother and Aunt Cora, and her own remembrances of her time spent in France.

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Anne Lewis Jones Collection (MS010) .02375 Cubic Feet 5 folders.

Jones, Anne Lewis, 1882-1967

This collection includes travel records, embarkation orders, pay voucher, letters written to her mother and Aunt Cora, and her own remembrances of her time spent in France.

Alexandria Library

Chapman-Southerland Collection (MS409)

.21 Linear Feet 1 box .23 Cubic Feet 1 box

This Collection contains roughly 55 letters. It includes letters written by or to Helen Mary Chapman, Helen Pearson Chapman, Arthur Leigh Southerland, and Robert Mitchell Weir along with other family and business letters.

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Assorted Letters Box 1, Folder 5

This folder contains 15 miscellaneous letters mostly sent to either Helen M. Chapman Southerland or her husband Arthur L. Southerland. Authors include various banks such as the Home Savings Bank, Clarendon Trust Company, and Industrial Savings and Loan, V. Marcinkowski along with Arthur's labor union the Order of Railroad Telegraphers, lawyer C. W. Ford, a letter containing a note from John E. Wade along with a second letter from George J. Mueller to B. Matthews, Thomas Somerville, and sons, W. A. Smoot, and the International Bible-Study Association and Watch Tower Society.

Chapman-Southerland Collection (MS409) .21 Linear Feet 1 box .23 Cubic Feet 1 box

Southerland, Arthur L. (Arthur Leigh), 1872-1950

This Collection contains roughly 55 letters. It includes letters written by or to Helen Mary Chapman, Helen Pearson Chapman, Arthur Leigh Southerland, and Robert Mitchell Weir along with other family and business letters.

Correspondence Between Arthur L. Southerland and Helen M. Chapman Box 1, Folder 3

This folder contains 10 letters written between future spouses Arthur L. Southerland and Helen M. Chapman. The letters are marked by courtship and span up until their marriage in the summer of 1900.

Alexandria Library

Boush/Asher Family Collection (MS234)

.33 Linear Feet 1 box

Nathaniel's papers related to business and to the New York Life Insurance Company. There are also letters from Nathaniel to Samuel during the Civil War years. Letters to Samuel from relatives, including his sisters Effie and Fannie and his mother Jane, contain commentary on the Civil War. At different times during the war Samuel was in New Orleans, Manassas and Petersburg. There are Confederate passes among his papers. There is also an 1865 letter from Samuel to his mother about his return home. Samuel's correspondence from his friend Maurice Hurley mentions that Hurley was exiled to Canada to avoid taking the "oath to President Lincoln" in 1864. Correspondence of Nathalie Boush Asher and her husband G. Gordon Asher make up the remainder of the collection. There is also an 1893 Alexandria Female Institute report card for Nathalie. Most of her correspondence is personal letters, sympathy notes, and some letters on House of Representatives stationary. Her interest in politics is indicated by the latter plus newspapers that she saved relating to the candidacy of C.C. Carlin and E.B. White for the 1918 Virginia Eighth District election for the U.S. House of Representatives. There are several pieces of business and personal correspondence to G. Gordon Asher.

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Boush/Asher Family Collection (MS234) .33 Linear Feet 1 box

Nathaniel's papers related to business and to the New York Life Insurance Company. There are also letters from Nathaniel to Samuel during the Civil War years. Letters to Samuel from relatives, including his sisters Effie and Fannie and his mother Jane, contain commentary on the Civil War. At different times during the war Samuel was in New Orleans, Manassas and Petersburg. There are Confederate passes among his papers. There is also an 1865 letter from Samuel to his mother about his return home. Samuel's correspondence from his friend Maurice Hurley mentions that Hurley was exiled to Canada to avoid taking the "oath to President Lincoln" in 1864. Correspondence of Nathalie Boush Asher and her husband G. Gordon Asher make up the remainder of the collection. There is also an 1893 Alexandria Female Institute report card for Nathalie. Most of her correspondence is personal letters, sympathy notes, and some letters on House of Representatives stationary. Her interest in politics is indicated by the latter plus newspapers that she saved relating to the candidacy of C.C. Carlin and E.B. White for the 1918 Virginia Eighth District election for the U.S. House of Representatives. There are several pieces of business and personal correspondence to G. Gordon Asher.

Alexandria Library

Alexandria Antique Arts Association Collection (MS134)

1 Linear Feet 3 boxes

The collection consists of organizational records of the group, including minutes from the monthly meetings and membership rosters. Also included are copies of the newsletter of the American Antique Arts Association, originally named The Quad Anglo and later called The Journal. The collection includes newspaper clippings about the group and its activities, articles written by the group's founder, Orva Heissenbuttel, and articles about antiques and antique collecting. The collection also contains information about tours taken by the group, including pamphlets and brochures from places visited. Additionally, there is a group of photographs depicting members engaged in chapter activities.

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Alexandria Library

Chapman Family Collection (MS274)

.16 Linear Feet 1 box

Family papers, letters, wills, and deeds of the Chapman Family of Maryland and Virginia.

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Chapman Family Collection (MS274) .16 Linear Feet 1 box

Chapman Family

Family papers, letters, wills, and deeds of the Chapman Family of Maryland and Virginia.

Alexandria Library

Royd R. Sayers Collection (MS094)

.17 Linear Feet 1 box

This collection pertains to the house on 607 Oronoco Street. The Sayers opened the house for Garden Week in Virginia, the Tour of Interiors and the Alexandria Garden Club Tour of Five Estates. Included are the pamphlets for the Tour of Interiors of Historic Homes in Alexandria and Garden Week in Virginia and the registers from the Tour of Historic Homes for the 1934 to 1941 period.

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Royd R. Sayers Collection (MS094) .17 Linear Feet 1 box

This collection pertains to the house on 607 Oronoco Street. The Sayers opened the house for Garden Week in Virginia, the Tour of Interiors and the Alexandria Garden Club Tour of Five Estates. Included are the pamphlets for the Tour of Interiors of Historic Homes in Alexandria and Garden Week in Virginia and the registers from the Tour of Historic Homes for the 1934 to 1941 period.

Alexandria Library

Whitton Collection (MS027)

.65 Cubic Feet 2 boxes

This collection contains printed matter such as brochures of George Washington's birthday, the Washington Board of Trade, the Suburban Spectator and others. Additionally, there are limited correspondence, reports of the Historic Alexandria Foundation, annual reports of the Alexandria Library, several booklets, photographs, and postcards.

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Correspondence Box 1, Folder 5

This folder contains a handful of letters written to or by Robert Whitton, his wife, and friends James and Ruth Duncan, among others.

  1. Series II: Correspondence

Historic Alexandria Foundation Box 1, Folder 7

This folder includes materials regarding the Historic Alexandria Foundation including a letter from Ethelyn Cox, and the Alexandria Historical Restoration and Preservation Commission.

  1. Series III: Alexandria

Whitton Collection (MS027) .65 Cubic Feet 2 boxes

Whitton, Robert Goodacre, 1906-1986

This collection contains printed matter such as brochures of George Washington's birthday, the Washington Board of Trade, the Suburban Spectator and others. Additionally, there are limited correspondence, reports of the Historic Alexandria Foundation, annual reports of the Alexandria Library, several booklets, photographs, and postcards.

Alexandria Library

Washington Society Records (MS248)

.5 Linear Feet 2 boxes
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Alexandria Library

Nicholas Colasanto Collection (MS035)

.23 Cubic Feet 1 box

This collection contains letters, political memorabilia, several programs from various organizations, personal photos, and other miscellaneous ephemera.

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Correspondence Box 1, Folder 1

This folder contains several letters, most of which are congratulating Nick Colasanto on elections.

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