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Alexandria Library

Alexandria Library
Local History/Special Collections
717 Queen Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
Primary Collecting Areas:
Alexandria history, Virginia history, Genealogy, U.S. Civil War
Description:
As one of the core research institutions in Alexandria, the Local History and Special Collections Branch (LHSC) is focused on documenting Alexandria from its colonial era to its modern life as a vibrant community of immigrants and cultural attractions.
POC: Patricia Walker, Branch Manager
Phone: (703) 746-1719
Phone: (703) 838-4577
Fax: (703) 706-3912
Start Over Repository Alexandria Library Subjects Railroads -- Virginia
Alexandria Library

Potomac Yard Collection (MS050)

.85 Cubic Feet 12 boxes

Records, correspondences, authorizations for expenditure (AFEs), notebooks, ephemera, and blueprints, all documenting the Potomac Yard rail yard in Alexandria, Virginia.

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Potomac Yard Collection (MS050) .85 Cubic Feet 12 boxes

Potomac Yard (1906-1989)

Records, correspondences, authorizations for expenditure (AFEs), notebooks, ephemera, and blueprints, all documenting the Potomac Yard rail yard in Alexandria, Virginia.

Alexandria Library

Sarah G. Smith vs. Richmond and Danville Railroad Company and the Virginia Midland Railway Company Transcripts (MS239)

.24 Linear Feet

This collection consists of two bound transcripts of the court case filed by Sarah G. Smith against the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company and the Virginia Midland Railway Company.

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Daniel O'Sullivan Collection (MS141)

.23 Cubic Feet 1 Box

The Daniel O'Sullivan collection consists of business records and correspondence related to Daniel Sullivan and his son Michael R. Sullivan who owned and operated a rooming house, and wholesale grocery and liquor store in the 1850s-1940s. Items also include a letter from Jeremiah O'Brien who fought for the 26th Regiment of the New York Volunteer Infantry and writes concerning battles fought during 1861-1862.

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Stray Documents Box 1, Folder 10

This folder contains miscellaneous documents that remain outside the scope of the other series in the collection. It includes an 1871 list of the Board of Supervisors of Oneida County, NY; a playbill for a performance of "The Two Bonnycastles" and "Handy Andy" by the Young Men's Catholic Association at Radford Hall in Yonkers (T. J. O'Sullivan is in the cast of both); a Washington-Virginia Railway Company 52-trip monthly ticket book belonging to one of Daniel's grandson's, J. H. Downey (likely a child of Ella O'Sullivan Downey); An opera program entitled "For the Benefit of the Alexandria Light Infantry, Jaunary 13-14, 1884, in which "The Gypsy Countess" and "Trial by Jury" were performed; 2 raffle tickets to win 10 tickets for the Washington Senators-Boston Red Sox game on April 23, 1914; the November 11, 1889 edition of the Lyceum Fair Journal (ad for Michael O'Sullivan's shop inside).

  1. Series V: Miscellaneous

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