ArchivesSpace Public Interface

Scope and Contents

Secret history of the Rebellion.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Sydney H. L. Washington papers consist of manuscript and typescript letters and notes written between 1928 and 1951, pertaining principally to Washington and Lee genealogies. Included in the collection are several manuscript and typescript copies of Washington’s works, generally incomplete. Private papers, both personal and financial correspondence, 1917-1951, are also included in this collection, as is a series of family photographs, negatives, and printers' blocks.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Group:

Chiefly letters of Lizzie D. R. Atkinson and John⁹ Atkinson.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains documents of Kenneth Thomas Alford (1914-1980) and his wife Clarissa Teacora (Brown) Alford (1913-1992). The documents include correspondence, deeds, photographs, estate papers, and copies of vital statistic certificates. There are also items documenting Kenneth's education at West Virginia State College, military service in the U.S. Marines 1943-1946, and 1972 retirement as a civilian computer operator working at L. G. Hanscom Field (Bedford, Mass.). The deeds...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains documents of Kenneth Thomas Alford (1914-1980) and his wife Clarissa Teacora (Brown) Alford (1913-1992). The documents include correspondence, deeds, photographs, estate papers, and copies of vital statistic certificates. There are also items documenting Kenneth's education at West Virginia State College, military service in the U.S. Marines 1943-1946, and 1972 retirement as a civilian computer operator working at L. G. Hanscom Field (Bedford, Mass.). The deeds...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains documents of Kenneth Thomas Alford (1914-1980) and his wife Clarissa Teacora (Brown) Alford (1913-1992). The documents include correspondence, deeds, photographs, estate papers, and copies of vital statistic certificates. There are also items documenting Kenneth's education at West Virginia State College, military service in the U.S. Marines 1943-1946, and 1972 retirement as a civilian computer operator working at L. G. Hanscom Field (Bedford, Mass.). The deeds...

Scope and Content From the Collection: The Adams, Fisher, and Hallett family papers is comprised of a wide range of original documents including correspondence, a bible record, deeds, diaries, family registers, marriage intentions, newspaper clippings, photographs, probate records, recipes, receipts and wills. There are numerous poems, stories, lectures and addresses written by various family members. The photographs, many of which are identified, include daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes. There is also a painted miniature...

Scope and Contents

Also royal ancestry of some American families.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Charles Carleton Coffin Papers have been divided into two parts. The first consists of manuscripts of Coffin’s own works, chiefly speeches delivered before various patriotic gatherings in the 1870s and 1880s. The second consists of souvenirs of his reporting days during the Civil War, most particularly papers which he found in the streets of Richmond when it fell on April 3, 1865.In the first part are thirty-seven patriotic addresses, delivered at different times over the...

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Sydney H. L. Washington papers consist of manuscript and typescript letters and notes written between 1928 and 1951, pertaining principally to Washington and Lee genealogies. Included in the collection are several manuscript and typescript copies of Washington’s works, generally incomplete. Private papers, both personal and financial correspondence, 1917-1951, are also included in this collection, as is a series of family photographs, negatives, and printers' blocks.