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Ruffin/Jones Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 145
Scope and Contents The Ruffin/Jones Family Collection contains photographs, cassette tapes with audio recordings of interviews, and printed material such as articles and publications, brochures and programs, school-related items, letters, and research files and notes pertaining to C. Bernard Ruffin, III and members of his family. The life and work of his aunt, Louise Jones Hubbard, is particularly well-documented; material related to her makes up a large portion of the collection. The collection is...
Dates: 1842 - 1999 (bulk 1920s - 1999); Majority of material found within 1920 - 1999
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library

Saving a Community's Recollections: Takoma Park Oral History Project

 Collection — external hard drive: DIG_00006
Identifier: OHP021
Scope and Contents

In 2001 the Oral History Committee of Historic Takoma received a grant from Montgomery County's Historic Preservation Commission to conduct interviews with three longtime residents of Takoma Park, Maryland. Topics include public schools, World War II, architecture, real estate development, transportation, the African-American community, race relations, churches, and recreation in the neighborhood and metropolitan area. All interviews were conducted Eilene McGuckian.

Dates: 2001
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library

Savoy Family Genealogical Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 150
Scope and Contents This collection consists of genealogical information related to the Savoy family of Washington, DC, obtained from family members’ records and research. It documents members of the Savoy family born between the years of 1794 and 2009; however, most of the material and information within the collection pertains to Savoy family ancestors born between 1794 and 1912. The life of Edward Augustine Savoy (1855 - 1943) is particularly well-documented. The collection includes materials such as...
Dates: 1836-2013
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library

Self-Determination for D.C. (SDDC) Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 003
Scope and Contents The collection consists of office files documenting the activities of the Self-Determination for D.C. Coalition in support of home rule and voting rights issues. In particular, the collection consists of testimony, legislation, lobbying packets, correspondence, and media lists regarding its lobbying efforts in support of Congressional legislation passed in 1973 granting D.C. home rule (D.C. Self-Government and Reorganization Act). The records also contain materials compiled by the coalition...
Dates: 1970-1980
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library

Rachel Sengers Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 173
Scope and Contents

The collection contains promotional flyers, zines, newspaper clippings, and a single page of correspondence.

Dates: 1980 - 2001
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library

Service Workers Union - SEIU Local 82 Oral History Project

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: OHP014
Scope and Contents

Between 1993 and 1997, Service Employees International Union Local 82, the DC branch of a union representing mainly custodial workers, conducted a total of 13 oral history interviews with union members as part of the Service Workers’ Oral History and Education Project. Interviewees were current and former union members of all ages, some who had taken part in union leadership. Topics include work experiences, union politics, interviewee experiences in union leadership, and health.

Dates: 1993 - 1997
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library

Sewage Disposal Plant Photograph Collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier:  P028
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of eighty-four 8x10 images that detail the construction of the District’s Sewage Disposal Plant between 1903 and 1906. The plant was located at the foot of New Jersey Avenue near the corner of 2nd and N Streets in Southeast D.C. The plant pumps collect sanitary sewage and some stormwater from the city’s sewer system to the Potomac River discharge point at Blue Plains, the southernmost point of the District.

Dates: 1903-1906
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library

Ryan Shepard Collection

 Collection
Identifier: PUNK009
Dates: 1977-2006
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library

Shubert-Garrick-Belasco Theatre Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 072
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of five bound volumes of financial records from the Shubert-Garrick Theatre and the Shubert-Belasco Theatre. These records show the expenses and financial reports for various productions from 1918 to 1934.

Dates: 1918-1934
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library

Slave Contract Between George Broom and Ignatius Livers

 Collection
Identifier: PBY091
Scope and Contents

One box housing 1 manuscript sheet, size 7 13/16” x 12 13/16”.

Dates: 1808
Found in: The Peabody Room at Georgetown Neighborhood Library

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