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Harry Goodman Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 075
Scope and Contents

This collection contains undated photographs of floods in the D.C. area; photographs of the King of England’s visit to D.C. in 1939; inauguration parade, ball, and ceremony materials from 1953 and 1957; White House News Photographers Association programs from 1947-1957; and a handful of historic editions of the Washington Star.

Dates: 1930-1957

Grace Bateman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: PBY102
Scope and Contents

Collection of files assembled by donor while serving as an Georgetown activist in between the years 1989 and 2001. Box list categories devised by donor.

Dates: 1989 - 2001

Grace Glasgow Dunlop Ecker Collection

 Collection
Identifier: PBY019
Scope and Contents One three-ringed binder containing 17 of Mrs. (John Beard) Ecker’s “Old Georgetown” columns that were published weekly in the Georgetown News commencing with the November 3, 1932 issue and ending March 3, 1933. The October 27, 1932 (Vol. 1, #4) Georgetown News front page article “Mrs. Ecker to Write for Georgetown News” indicates that the columns will “…prove both interesting and instructive to one wishing a short history of this old city.” The February 17, 1933 column, which does not...
Dates: 1932 - 1933

Greg Reynolds Dance Quintet Records

 Collection
Identifier: 022
Scope and Contents

The collection contains performance programs, playbills, flyers, press releases, newspaper clippings, musical scores, correspondence, and administrative records primarily of the Greg Reynolds Quintet. Also included are correspondence, memorabilia, and other personal items of Gregory Reynolds.

Dates: 1969-1984

Francis A. Gregory Genealogical Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 005
Scope and Contents The collection was artificially created by the Library and consists of the Shaed and Baltimore family papers; as well materials regarding Elzie Hoffman. It includes photographs, programs, published books, biographies, letters, certificates, diaries, scrapbooks, clippings, and other family memorabilia. The collection has been divided into series by family. Many of the items are related to Washington, D.C. educational institutions that most of the members of the families attended; Dunbar...
Dates: 1902 - 1975

Lawrence Guyot, Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 130
Abstract

The Lawrence Guyot Jr. papers span from 1887 to 2012, with the bulk dating from 1963 to 2006. They document Guyot's involvement in D.C. government, particularly his time serving as Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner in the LeDroit Park neighborhood and as a program monitor for the D.C. Department of Human Services’ Office of Early Childhood Development. The papers address his activism for voting rights as well as neighborhood revitalization.

Dates: 1963-2006

Alice L. Hagemeyer Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 162
Content Description

This collection includes publications, photos, and letters that pertain to Alice Hagermeyer’s advocacy for deaf people and libraries.

Dates: 1974 - 2013

Hambright and Hoachlander Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: P019
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of 30 4x5 inch black and white photographs each with a corresponding negative. In 1987 photographers Anice Hoachlander and Harlan Hambright shot these images to document buildings on the 500 block of 9th Street NW and the 900 block of E Street NW in northwest Washington, D.C. These buildings were torn down to make way for a larger office building.

Dates: 1987

Martha McNeil Hamilton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 089
Scope and Contents

This collection contains Washington Post reporter Martha McNeil Hamilton’s research notes and articles pertaining to the fight for D.C. home rule, as well as related items such as reports, clippings, government documents, hearing transcripts, correspondence and election results.

Dates: 1971-1997

Loretta Carter Hanes Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 081
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of correspondence, notes, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, legal records, and legislative materials related to Loretta Carter Hanes’ work with Reading Is Fundamental and the problem with sewage and water pipe breaks in Washington, D.C.

Dates: 1971-1990

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Atwood, Albert W. (Albert William), 1879-1975 1
BYT Media Inc. 1
Bachrach Studios 1
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Bateman, Grace 1
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Black in Space 1
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Cooke, Paul P. 1
Cooper, Margaret 1
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Ellis, Sarah E. 1
Emergency Committee on the Transportation Crisis 1
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Evening Star Newspaper Co.. Washington Star, The 1
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Faul, Jan W., 1945- 1
Federation of Citizens Associations of the District of Columbia 1
Fenning, Karl, 1881-1963 1
Figall, Frederick 1
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Foxall family 1
Foy, MacKenzie River, 1997- 1
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Frank, Madeline Harriet 1
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George Washington University. Center for Washington Area Studies 1
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