Alexandria Library -- Special Collections -- Document of the Month -- January 2005

Alexandria Library -- Special Collections

Document of the Month

January 2005

Charges for Street Cleaning and Repair, July 21, 1877

This document is taken from Manuscript Box 19G, Auditor -- Superintendent of Police -- Street Cleaning Accounts. According to the finding aid, the 64 boxes associated with this collection (#19A - 19OOO, 19.1A-LLL, 19.2A-P) "contain reports, correspondence, account books, minutes, warrants, court orders, vouchers, bills to be paid and to be collected, some printed matter, stocks and bonds, petitions, election returns .... dating from 1785 to 1983, predominately 1825-1875. Topics include the city auditor and the city treasurer records of receipts and expenditures for many city functions -- the poor house, the police, employee pay records, etc."

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G. M. Hopkins. City Atlas of Alexandria, Virginia, 1877, From Official Records, Private Plans and Actual Surveys Based Upon Plans Deposited in the Department of Surveys
Suellen M. Hoy and Michael C. Robinson (eds). Public Works History in the United States: A Guide to the Literature
Robert Fleming Hunter. The Turnpike Movement in Virginia, 1816-1860
Beth Mitchell. Fairfax County Road Orders, 1749-1800
Nathaniel Mason Pawlett. A Brief History of the Roads of Virginia, 1607-1840
Philip Terrie. The Development of A Road System Around Alexandria, Virginia, 1770-1820

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