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1950s
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PG 218: Ernest E. Johnson Photograph Collection, 1948-1955 (52)
PG 246, Francis Copeland Negatives (59)
RG 3: Arlington Hall, Collected Materials, 1929-1993 (2)
RG 11: The Papers of Edmond C. Fleet, Collector, 1812-1984 (4)
RG 13: Samuel Milner National Airport Research Papers (2)
RG 17: Records of the Organized Women Voters (6)
RG 19: Personal Papers of Elizabeth Pfohl Campbell, 1942-1991 (2)
RG 21: Department of Health Annual Report Photographs, 1938-1973 (1)
RG 29: Arlington County Public Library Department Records (16)
RG 44: Records of the League of Women Voters of Arlington, VA, Inc., 1945-2001 (4)
RG 97: Records of Church Women United of Arlington, 1944-2001 (1)
RG 111: Arlington Outdoor Education Association Records, 1947-2017 (3)
RG 158: Ruby Lee Minar Family Papers, 1923-1979 (3)
RG 196: Records of the Syphax Family, 1920-1993 (1)
RG 307: George Melvin Richardson Collection, 1951-2013 (2)
RG 322: Arlington Woman's Club Collection, 1934-1969 (1)
RG 332: Overlee Preschool Records (26)
RG 338: The Personal Papers of Birdie and Mable Alston, 1905-2019 (2)
and 11 more
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Images (127)
Texts (13)
location
Arlington County (Va.) (121)
Arlington View (Arlington, Va.) (1)
Aurora Hills (Arlington, Va.) (1)
Ballston-Virginia Square (Arlington, Va.) (55)
Cherrydale (Arlington, Va.) (2)
Columbia Pike (Arlington, Va.) (6)
Hall's Hill-High View Park (Arlington, Va.) (2)
McBee (S.C.) (1)
Miami Springs (Fla.) (1)
Washington (D.C.) (2)
Washington, D.C. (1)
and 4 more
person
United States Naval Academy (1)
Arlington Public Library (Arlington County, Va.) (15)
Bolter, Louise (2)
Buchholz, Leone, 1892-1980 (1)
Burtner, Marceline G., 1908-1989 (1)
Center for Local History, Arlington Public Library (141)
Central Branch, Arlington Public Library (1)
Cherrydale Branch, Arlington Public Library (2)
Arlington Woman's Club (1)
Virginia General Federation of Women's Clubs (1)
Columbia Pike Branch, Arlington Public Library (6)
Dixon, Laura, 1888-1959 (1)
Duncan, Pauline, 1888-1973 (3)
Ekstrand, Virginia, 1910-2003 (1)
Fields, Cora, 1876-1959 (1)
Fleet, Edmond C., Jr., 1902-1983 (2)
Green, Anna, 1882-1961 (2)
Hagan, Marian B., 1902-1986 (1)
Harris, Fred (3)
Holley, Nelle, 1903-1984 (1)
Johnson, Ernest E., 1908-1992 (1)
Kay Dee Photographers, Portraits and Commercial (1)
Kelley, May, 1880-1980 (1)
Lowell, Ruth P., 1886-1963 (1)
Marcey, Ruth, 1892-1961 (1)
Nida, Jane Bolster, 1918-2003 (1)
Payne, Louise, 1893-1971 (1)
Peck, Dorothy (Abbott), 1912-2006 (1)
Power, Rev. J. G., 1921-2011 (1)
Roberts, Jessie L., 1892-1976 (1)
Roebuck, Mildred Y. (Walker), 1917-2006 (1)
Arlington County (Va.). Parks and Recreation Department. Negro Recreation Section (26)
Simmonds, Jeane, 1922-1987 (2)
Simpson, Eddie, 1877-1971 (2)
Simpson, Ruby, 1895-1960 (1)
Snyder, Mary Perkins, 1875-1958 (2)
Stone, Kathryn H., 1906-1995 (1)
Sutton, Edith G., 1887-1967 (1)
Syphax, Margarite Reed, 1923- (1)
Syphax, William Thomas, 1920-1989 (1)
Tapp, Margaret, 1878-1955 (2)
Thompson, Corinne (1)
Twynham, Miriam (Isaacs), 1908-1998 (1)
Westover Branch, Arlington Public Library (3)
Whitties, Marlene, 1940- (1)
and 38 more
term
Accordions (1)
African American life (31)
Arlington Hall (1)
Banquets (1)
Black life (31)
Cars (22)
Construction and development (57)
Construction sites (55)
Construction workers (1)
Elections (1)
Homes (6)
Houses (6)
Jackson, Marlene Emily Stevenson (Whitties), 1940-2009 (1)
Johnson, Ernest E., 1908-1992 (1)
Knipling, Dr. Phoebe Rebecca (Hall), 1909-1998 (2)
Libraries (2)
Parkington Shopping Center (53)
Parties (1)
People (1)
Playgrounds (11)
Richardson, George Melvin, 1913-2015 (1)
Shopping centers (1)
Signs (1)
Slides (4)
Swing sets (1)
Tricycles (1)
and 19 more
year
1950 (13)
1951 (54)
1952 (5)
1953 (10)
1954 (7)
1955 (10)
1956 (5)
1957 (4)
1958 (14)
1959 (21)
and 3 more