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The Historical Photograph Collection is largely comprised of materials created by or for the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association. Some of the earliest photographs of the estate were created and sold to visitors by the Association as a means of income. Those efforts helped to establish an important collection of 19th century views. The collection spans the 1850s to 2000s and includes over 140 linear feet of analog material providing a visual history of the Mansion, outbuildings, tombs, grounds, events, visitors, collection objects, personnel, and changes throughout the estate.

Scrapbooks maintained by Charles Carpenter, Grafton, between 1939-1963. Subjects include descriptions of libraries, book and manuscript collections, museums, rare and unusual books, magazines, book reviews, newspapers, and advertisements for books. There are items as early as 1838, 1875, 1898, 1905, 1917, but the mass of the collection is in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Recurrent topics include book auctions, book burnings, the dime novel, the Freedom Train, the Gutenberg Bible, Hyde Park Library, Incunabula, the Library of Congress, "London Times Notes on Sales," The Morgan Library, New York Times magazine and book review, New York Times columnists (Philip Brooks, Edward Larocque Tinker, and Herbert W. Horwill), and stamps. There are also letters concerning books from Charles Carpenter's son. For more detailed description, see inventory sheet.

This collection of 290 items, 1814-1945, contains material pertaining to several Scotch-Irish families from which the donor Warren Coleman,M.D. is descended. The collection chiefly revolves around Robert Houston McEwen(1790-1868) and his wife Henrietta "Hetty" Montgomery Kennedy McEwen(1796-1881).

[Describes how Stribling came to the Chemical Bank & Trust Company, New York, to pick up a copy of a check list of his publications compiled by Stone; says that Stribling promised Stone one of his manuscripts as payment for Stone's labor of love in compiling Stribling's work; says that Stribling talked about his new novel The Parade of The Wooden Soldiershe had just delivered to DoubledayDoran for publication and he got information on investment trust stocks.]

Selected letters and portions of the diary of John P. Kennedy, a Baltimore essayist and novelist. The letters describe Kennedy's many visits to Berkeley Springs and White Sulpher Springs. These items were copied from the originals which are held by the Library of Congress.

Papers of a Baltimore essayist and novelist which include selected materials pertaining to the Berkeley Springs-Martinsburg-Winchester area, visits to Richmond, Salt Sulphur, and White Sulphur Springs, and a journey in 1850 to Philadelphia, New York, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and Louisville from Kennedy's journal, 1848-1855; and his diary, 1829-1832. There are also selected letters and portions of a diary copied from originals in the Library of Congress.

This accession consists of six items, 1897-1908, pertaining to John Warwick Danielof Lynchburg, Virginia, and a telegram, November 14, 1884, addressed to Robert D. Yancey, Lynchburg, Virginia, from Page McCarty, Washington, D.C.The five letters and telegram to Daniel, who served as a U.S. Senator from 1887 to 1910, are primarily requests for assistance. Included are a request to sponsor a bill to increase the pension of a parent whose son died after eating poisoned rations issued by the government; a request for assistance in obtaining the position of secretary and disbursing officer to the Commission to attend the international exhibit in Parisin 1900; a request to speak at a banquet; a thank-you letter; and a letter concerning a controversy over the construction of the Library of Congressbuilding. Correspondents include U.S. Senator Daniel Wolsey Voorhees, A. F. Howard, Hunter N. Kern, Dr. Samuel L. Hammon, Alfred de Zerega, and V. A. Witcher.