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District of Columbia Society, National Society of the Daughters of the American Colonists Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 112
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of yearbooks and programs

Dates: 1923-1961

District of Columbia Statehood Commission Records

 Collection
Identifier: 048
Scope and Contents This collection contains materials produced or collected by the D.C. Statehood/Compact Commission (Commission) from 1978 to 1994. The materials include correspondence; reports; clippings; press releases; financial materials; meeting minutes; legislative testimony and bills; Commission publications; pamphlets; brochures; articles; speeches; memorabilia; videos; audiotapes; and photographs. Significant items, activities, and topics covered by the materials include: Commission activities...
Dates: 1788-1994; Majority of material found within 1978 - 1994

Arrington Dixon Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 132
Scope and Contents

The Arrington Dixon Papers Collection contains materials including campaign ephemera; correspondence; newspaper clippings and publications; photographs; pamphlets; and other documents related to Dixon’s political campaigns, work in city government (especially for the District of Columbia City Council), and personal life. The bulk of the collection covers 1953 to 1989.

Dates: 1935-2008; Majority of material found within 1953 - 1989

Downtown Progress Records

 Collection
Identifier: 025
Scope and Contents

The collection contains correspondence, meeting minutes, committee reports, memoranda, legal papers, and general office files of Downtown Progress. Also included are photographs, sketches, maps, architectural drawings, street diagrams, and slides of buildings and streetscapes located in the downtown urban renewal area of Washington, D.C.

Dates: 1960-1977

Dr. Arthur A. Snyder Personal Receipts and Georgetown Assembly Collection

 Collection
Identifier: PBY057
Scope and Contents This small collection (one box) contains seven files arranged chronologically by year (1878-1899) of business receipts issued to Arthur A. Snyder. Additionally, nine files arranged chronologically by season (1885-1897) contain business records and ephemera related to the Georgetown Assembly, of which Snyder was secretary. The Georgetown Assembly materials were originally in scrapbook format but the majority of ephemera pieces had become unattached from their original backing pages and had...
Dates: 1878 - 1897

Charles B. Dulcan Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 078
Scope and Contents

This collection contains clippings, photographs, correspondence, organizational information, and 78 RPM records related to Charles B. Dulcan and the Hecht Company.

Dates: 1912-1952

Lee Dunlap Slide Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 167
Scope and Contents

Collection consists of 440 commercially produced and/or reproductions of other photographers images of various prominent/celebrity African Americans collected by the donor.

Dates: 1916 - 1990

Dupont Circle Community Association Records

 Collection
Identifier: 106
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of meeting minutes, legal documents, clippings, and correspondence related to the Dupont Circle Community Association.

Dates: 1972-1978

Dupont Circle - "Slices of the Pie" Oral History Project

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: OHP010
Scope and Contents Between 1984 and 1985, Mara Cherkasky, then a graduate student at The George Washington University, conducted 35 oral history interviews with longtime Dupont Circle residents. The interviews were conducted as a part of her master's thesis research about the changes to the northwest neighborhood. Here thesis is entitled "Slices of the Pie: Black and White Dupont Circle from the 1920s to the 1950s." Topics include Dupont Circle from the 1920s to the 1950s, childhood experiences, work and life...
Dates: 1984 - 1985

Dupont Park Civic Association Records

 Collection
Identifier: 023
Scope and Contents

The collection contains correspondence, by-laws, newsletters, and monthly meeting minutes of the Dupont Park Civic Association. Significant items in the collection include monthly crime reports issued by the Sixth District, Jesse Jackson’s 1988 speech to seek the Democratic nomination for President of the United States, and the Far Northeast Council of Civic Association’s proposal for community action against poverty.

Dates: 1950-1980

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The People's Archive, MLK Library 278
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District of Columbia. Public Library 8
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WAMU-FM (Radio station : Washington, D.C.) 3
DC Public Library, Special Collections 2
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Hopkinson, Natalie 2
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Women's City Club (Washington, D.C.) 2
Abracadabra Club 1
Adams Morgan Better Neighborhood Conference 1
Adams-Morgan Community Council 1
Advisory Neighborhood Commissions (ANCs) of Washington, D.C. 1
Alba, Joaquin de 1
American Association of University Women. Washington Branch 1
American Society for Public Administration. National Capital Area Chapter 1
American Society of Landscape Architects. Potomac Chapter 1
American Society of Music and Fine Arts 1
Arts Club of Washington (Washington, D.C.) 1
Association of Liberated Librarians 1
Atwood, Albert W. (Albert William), 1879-1975 1
BYT Media Inc. 1
Bachrach Studios 1
Barber, Lucy G. (Lucy Grace), 1964- 1
Bateman, Grace 1
Beacon College (Leesburg, Fla.) 1
Benjamin Franklin University (Washington, D.C.) 1
Berryman, Clifford Kennedy, 1869-1949 1
Black Nurses Association 1
Black in Space 1
Bloom, George 1
Braxton, Frank E., Sr., 1915-2015 1
Bray, Howard 1
Burgess, Robert 1
Burrows family 1
Butler, Josephine 1
Calvin Coolidge High School 1
Capital Bicycle Club 1
Capitol Hill History Club 1
Capozzi, John J., Jr. 1
Cardozo Senior High School 1
Cayton, Hannah 1
Center for Inspired Teaching 1
Central High School 1
Check It Enterprises, LLC 1
Chillum Heights Citizens' Association 1
Cleveland Park Garden Club 1
Colonial School for Girls 1
Columbian Newspaper 1
Congress Heights Historic Building Survey 1
Connolly, Cynthia 1
Cook, Verla R. 1
Cooke, Paul P. 1
Cooper, Margaret 1
Council of Jewish Women (U.S.) 1
Cragin family 1
Crain, Darrell Clayton, Jr., Dr. 1
Crutchfield, Edith Amanda, 1936- 1
Curtis, Joseph Owen 1
D.C. Citizens for Better Public Education 1
D.C. Federation of Civic Associations 1
DC Community Humanities Council 1
Daughters of the American Colonists. District of Columbia Society 1
Daughters of the American Revolution. District of Columbia 1
Davidson family 1
Davis, John 1
District of Columbia Civil War Centennial Commission 1
District of Columbia Library Association 1
District of Columbia Special Library Association 1
District of Columbia Statehood Commission 1
District of Columbia. Department of Transportation 1
District of Columbia. Historic Preservation Division 1
District of Columbia. Militia 1
District of Columbia. Militia. National Rifles 1
District of Columbia. Police Department 1
District of Columbia. Water and Sewer Authority 1
Dixon, Arrington 1
Downtown Progress 1
Dupont Circle Community Association 1
Dupont Park Civic Association 1
Eistophos Science Club 1
Ellis, Sarah E. 1
Emergency Committee on the Transportation Crisis 1
Enoch Pratt Free Library 1
Evening Star Newspaper Co.. Washington Star, The 1
Farnsboro Tenants Association 1
Faul, Jan W., 1945- 1
Federation of Citizens Associations of the District of Columbia 1
Fenning, Karl, 1881-1963 1
Figall, Frederick 1
First Capital Realty (Firm) 1
Foggy Bottom Association 1
Foxall family 1
Frank W. Ballou Senior High School (Washington, D.C.) 1
Frank, Madeline Harriet 1
Friends of Eastern Market 1
Friendship Citizens Association 1
George Washington University. Center for Washington Area Studies 1
Goodman, Harry 1
Greg Reynold Dance Quintet 1
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