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Document of the Month

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2007 - 2008

 

November-- Potomac River Mapping

October-- Card files

September-- McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Brochure, c. 1882

August-- McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Brochure, c. 1882

July-- Mona Lisa Letter, 1963.

June-- Mexican War Muster Roll, June 1847, Montgomery Dent Corse Papers.

May -- Needlework Guild of America, Account Book and Minutes, 1898-1938.

April-- Northwest Alexandria Perspective View, A.M. Gorman, c. 1894.

March-- “Curtiss Flying Boat Aviation Log," an early “hydro-aeroplane” or seaplane

November -- “Around the Potomac: Verses about Places and People I Love" by William Dickman

August -- “Virginia in the Revolution” by John Esten Cooke, June to November 1876
2006

January -- Alexandria Library Company, Membership Records, Subscription Book, 1794-1798

February -- Roberts Memorial United Methodist Church, Sunday School Record, 1887

March -- Records of the R.H. Lancaster Lodge, No. 1370, Grand United Order of Odd Fellows of the State of Virginia, 1890-1910

April -- Register of Freedmen, Camp Barker, 1862-65, Records of Contraband Camp

May -- Diary of a Student in Alexandria, Virginia, May 1849-April 1850

June -- Grand Southern Mail Route and Passenger Line Map, 1869

July -- A Medicinal Dictionary (Volume I) Written by R. James, MD and Owned by George Washington, 1743

August -- Letter from Thomas G. Russell to Eliza Eaches Fendall, August 17, 1866

October -- Registers of Free Negroes, 1797-1865

November -- Presbyterian Cemetery, 1890, 1939 and Burial Ground of St. Paul's Church, 1945

December -- Response To A Request by Free African Americans for Religious Liberty, February 25, 1841
2005

January -- Charges for Street Cleaning and Repair, July 21, 1877

February -- Roll of Honor. Names of Soldiers, Victims of the Rebellion, Buried in the National Cemetery at Alexandria, Virginia, January 27, 1866

March -- Stock Certificate for the Northern Virginia Hotel Corporation, 1920s

April -- Jeremiah Harwood's Release from Duty at Slave Pen, January 19, 1866

May -- Alexandria Plat Maps from 19th Century Chancery Suits

June -- Letter from William Robinson to Thomson Francis Mason Retaining His Services in the Matter of a Runaway Slave, November 21, 1818

July -- Broadside Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society, New York, 1836

August -- Letter from Robert E. Lee to Messrs. Green & Bro. About Furniture, November 29, 1872

September -- Parker-Gray High School Yearbook, 1961

October -- Alexandria Herald, October 25, 1824

November -- Letter from Alice J. Green to Sophie Ford Tackett, August 13, 1903

December -- Stage Coach Manifest, Alexandria to Winchester, January 6, 1837

2004

January -- Payment to Bushrod Washington for Executed Slave, November 4, 1823

February -- Letter from Samuel W. Tucker to Alexandria Library, February 13, 1940

March -- Virginia Midland Railway Company, Local Freight Tariff, 1882

April -- Slave Manifest Including Captives from the Pearl, May 2, 1848

May -- Alexandria Water Company, Property Book, 1867

June -- Consumer Ration Coupons, U.S. Office of Price Administration, 1945

July -- R.E. Lee Camp, Confederate Veterans, Alexandria, Virginia, 1973

August -- Evening Cruise on the Potomac River, July 10, 1877

September -- Transcribed Deed Conveying Ownership of Property to Methodist Protestant Church, May 15, 1899

October -- Alexandria Office of Sheriff Jail Records, 1891-1948

November -- Permission for Julia Barker, Free Woman of Color, to Reside in the City, July 17, 1822

December -- "A Western Lawyer's Plea Against the Fact," July 9, 1869



2003

July -- The People's Advocate, May 6, 1876

August -- Tercentennial Souvenir, 1907

September -- Alexandria City Directory, 1907

October -- 1884 Map of Alexandria, Virginia by Student

November -- Document of Indenture to Study Medicine & Apothecary, 1764

December -- Letter from Townshend Dade Fendall to Aunt Mary Dade, December 28, 1861

2002

January -- "Memorial from Electors of Elections in Alexandria," March 7, 1867

February -- Minutes of the Washington Society of Alexandria, February 9, 1813

March -- An early petition for retrocession, January 18, 1841

April -- Advertisement for Jamieson and Hill, 1872

May -- Congratulatory letter from President Theodore Roosevelt to Kate Waller Barrett, March 12, 1903

June -- Travel pass, February 23, 1864

2001

April -- Lottery tickets and circulars, 1847

May -- Letter from James Downey to his brother about his experiences in the Spanish American War, May 15, 1898

June -- Invitation to the "First Hop of the Season," December 6, 1867

July -- Building permit for 1456 Duke Street, October 20, 1924

August -- Letter from M. Porterfield to a friend about the former's opium addiction, ca. 1850

September -- Currency from the Bank of the Old Dominion, ca. 1851

November -- Registration form for the schooner, Maria, May 24, 1796

December -- Complaint about mail service from Gus V. Wilson to John J. McCormick, Esq., April 24, 1861


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