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Washington (D.C.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 304 Collections and/or Records:

Mary Ellen Hombs papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS2025
Abstract Collection contains correspondence, reports, photographs, articles, flyers, and court documents. The material dates from 1971-86. The collection includes material typical of an organization especially one involved with promoting itself and the issues it found most compelling. A good portion of the material in this collection appear to have served as publicity for the work done by the Community for Creative Non-violence (CCNV) including newspaper articles about the group and form letters they...
Dates: 1971-1986

Mathematics Department records

 Collection
Identifier: RG0074
Abstract

Materials for this collection include the National mathematics awareness week celebrations at GWU (1990), schedules, brochures, flyers, articles, trustees' roll, questionnaire results, correspondence, press releases, and the Department of Mathematics website. They concern colloquia, seminars, the Mathematics Department, faculty information, areas of study, graduate programs, courses, and lectures. They range in date from 1990-2004.

Dates: 1990-2004

Medical Center Public Relations records

 Collection
Identifier: RG0045
Abstract

Collection includes biographical files, photographs, slides, videotapes, press kits, publications, books, and artifacts.

Dates: 1913-1999; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1991

Medical Center records

 Collection
Identifier: RG0007
Abstract

Collection includes personnel files, minutes, correspondence, yearbooks, newsletters, publications, photographs, scrapbooks, telephone directories, films, and videotapes.

Dates: 1825-2011

Metropolitan Dance Association records

 Collection
Identifier: MS2098
Abstract

Collection contains newsletters dated from 1978-86. The newsletter of the Metropolitan Dance Association provided information for dance professionals and enthusiasts.

Dates: 1978-1986

Mitch Snyder papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS2018
Abstract Mitch Snyder (1943-1990) was a radical Catholic, advocate for the rights of homeless people, and leader of the Community for Creative Non-Violence (CCNV) in Washington, D.C. CCNV began as an anti-war group and became an advocacy group for the homeless. The largest part of the collection, Series I, 1970-1972, concerns Snyder’s prison term during which he became a radical Catholic and non-violent social activist. Contains a diary kept by Snyder, correspondence with his sister Roberta Peters...
Dates: 1970-1991

Mount Vernon Seminary and College collection of biographical materials and correspondence with Marjorie Merriweather Post

 Collection
Identifier: MVC0017-MS
Abstract Marjorie Merriweather Post, Founder of the General Foods Corporation, was the First Alumna Trustee of Mount Vernon Seminary and College. She gave untiringly to Mount Vernon Seminary and College, and maintained a lifelong relationship with the school that kept her in constant communication with George Lloyd and later Peter Pelham, Presidents of Mount Vernon Seminary and College. This collection contains correspondence, photographs, newspaper articles, invitations, speeches and memorabilia,...
Dates: 1901-1999; Majority of material found within 1937 - 1973

Multicultural Student Services Center records

 Collection
Identifier: RG0056
Abstract The Multicultural Student Services Center (MSSC or “The Center”) addresses the needs of underrepresented undergraduate students who are racial-, ethnic- and identity-based minority students. This collection contains annual reports, program files, publications, student files, correspondence, memos, and memorial materials, which document the wide range of programs, events, and activities administered by the MSSC. The material dates from 1962 to 2016, with the bulk of the material dating from...
Dates: 1969-2016; Majority of material found within 1980-1990

Murray Frank papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS2073
Abstract

This collection consists of manuscript and lecture notes, and one speech and is dated from 1919-1971. Murray Frank had a varied career that included writing and teaching. Most of his work related to Jewish issues.

Dates: 1919-1971

Murray Stein artifact collection on computer history

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS0656-UA
Abstract

Collection contains an assortment of old computer parts, calculators, reel-to-reel information tape. Examples of the development of wafers and the computer chip, a board from the 1952 Univac, mounted exhibit of the evolution of tubes (used before resisters and compactors), and other physical examples of the evolution of the computer.

Dates: circa 1940-circa 1990

Museum Studies Department records

 Collection
Identifier: RG0092
Abstract

Collection includes departmental history, sample exams, reports, course proposals, meeting minutes, syllabi.

Dates: 1976-2002

Music Department records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG0075
Abstract

Collection includes programs, photographs, scrapbooks, correspondence, posters, meeting minutes, by-laws.

Dates: 1898-2005

Myles Glasgow papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS2155
Abstract

Collection contains correspondence, reports, notes, photographs, and transcripts from 1967-1998 relating to the civic work of Myles Glasgow and covers such topics as zoning, bridge safety, Adams Morgan, and transportation.

Dates: 1967-1998

Nancy Sahli gay rights, Capitol Hill N.O.W, and related Washingtoniana papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS2386
Abstract Donated by historian and archivist Nancy Sahli, this collection contains fliers, newsletters, articles, letters, postcards, and programs. These materials cover several diverse topics all under the overall subject of the history of Washington DC. These topics include women's rights including records of the Capitol Hill National Organization for Women (NOW) and the Sexuality Task Force, a sub-unit of the D.C. NOW chapter, as well as gay rights topics from Title 34 (D.C.'s law against...
Dates: circa 1905 - 1978; Majority of material found within 1974-1978

Nathaniel Moone photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS2115
Abstract Photographs were reproduced from 167 glass-plate negatives discovered by Mr. Moone in a townhouse on Fifth Street, NE, after the structure suffered a fire in 1977. The Gelman Library provided space for the first major exhibit of the photos in 1982. The identity of the photographer remains in question, but evidence indicates that they were likely taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston who was a well known photographer of Washington and its political figures during the period 1889-1910 and beyond....
Dates: 1889-1910

National Cherry Blossom Festival records

 Collection
Identifier: MS2046
Abstract

Collection tells the story of the beginning of the National Cherry Blossom Festival mostly through letters and newspaper articles. In addition, the official festival programs relate the different activities and volunteers. The collection has seven series arranged by type of material.

Dates: 1909-2001

National Intelligencer Newspaper collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS2128
Abstract

This collection contains issues of the National Intelligencer newspaper. These issues date from 1804-1844. This is not a complete run. The periodicals department at Gelman Library has Intelligencer on microfilm from 1800-1810 and 1813-1869.

Dates: 1804-1844

National Law Center records

 Collection
Identifier: RG0014
Abstract

Collection includes the law alumni photographic collection, founder's day celebrations, biographical sketches, articles reports, GW law school yearbooks, 1895 to 1915, bulletins and journals of the Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Research Institute of GW, (1950-1972), copies of the "Advocate," Banners scrapbooks correspondence Alumni reunions, minutes from the Board of Trustees, Research notes, banners, caps and gowns, reports to the Dean Exam questions, and information on Stockton Hall.

Dates: 1865-2005

National Organization for Women Washington D.C. Chapter and Capitol Hill Chapter records

 Collection
Identifier: MS2204
Abstract

The material in this collection document the efforts of two chapters the Washington D.C. Chapter and the Capitol Hill Chapter of the National Organization for Women. The material in the collection dates from ca. 1971 to 2023.

Dates: circa 1971-2023; Majority of material found within 1971 - 2023

National University records

 Collection
Identifier: RG0123
Abstract

Collection of programs, yearbooks, correspondence, student records and grades, agreements, minutes, Senate and House bills, Congressional Records, and published works. The materials cover the dates 1872-1988.

Dates: 1872-1988

Obadiah Bruen Brown Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS2253
Abstract

This collection contains documents related to the family of Obadiah Bruen Brown and the records date from 1807-1941. Brown was the pastor of the First Baptist Church in Washington for more than 40 years. He also served as the first President of the Board of Trustees of Columbian College (now George Washington University). The materials in the collection includes letters, wills, deeds and GW course lecture cards.

Dates: 1807-1941

Office of Admissions records

 Collection
Identifier: RG0053
Abstract

Collection includes application information, statistics, and promotional brochures.

Dates: 1904-2000

Office of Alumni Relations records

 Collection
Identifier: RG0026
Abstract

Collection includes photographs and negatives, office files regarding Alumni Achievement Awards, and memorabilia.

Dates: 1848-2010

Office of Housing and Residence Life records

 Collection
Identifier: RG0051
Abstract

Collection includes manuals, annual reports, rosters, photographs, books, and artifacts.

Dates: 1937-2003

Office of Professional Development records

 Collection
Identifier: RG0099
Abstract

Materials in this collection include programs sponsored by Office of Professional Development and other office records. The collections range in date from 1980-2002 and were transfered to University Archives in 1992.

Dates: 1980-2006

Office of Records and Benefits records

 Collection
Identifier: RG0066
Abstract

Materials in the collection include personnel, fringe benefits, and policy files from 1954 to 1992.

Dates: 1954-1992

Office of Sponsored Research records

 Collection
Identifier: RG0038
Abstract

Collection consists of government contract projects with the U.S. Navy, logistics technical project reports, contracting manuals, sponsored research project files from various schools, departments, and programs.

Dates: 1942-1996

Office of Telecommunications records

 Collection
Identifier: RG0067
Abstract

Collection contains campus directories (including telephone) of students and faculty, system design reports, needs assessments, contracts, correspondence.

Dates: 1896-2007

Office of the Comptroller records

 Collection
Identifier: RG0064
Abstract

Collection includes quarterly appraisals of the university's securities, trust fund ledgers and journals, grants and contracts,schedules of financial statements and annual financial reports.

Dates: 1874-2002

Office of the President records

 Collection
Identifier: RG0002
Abstract Although governed by a Board of Trustees, the president of the university has always been the chief administrative officer for the institution. The collection contains a mixture of personal and family papers, biographical research, and administrative records representing all but one GW President (Howard Lincoln Hodgkins, who served as president ad interim from 1921 to 1923). In addition, it contains a series of scrapbooks containing news clippings maintained by the office of the president...
Dates: 1795-2021; Majority of material found within 1821-2017