Anne Washington Hopkins Collection

Archive

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Jefferson County Museum

Name/Title

Anne Washington Hopkins Collection

Entry/Object ID

ARC380

Scope and Content

Inventory of papers mostly belonging to the donor's grandmother, Anne Washington Hopkins Folder 1: Correspondence and miscellaneous papers -Feb. 21, 1885. Framed invitation to Miss Annie M. Washington to dedication of Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., on February 21, 1885. -Jan 7, 1926, letter from D.H. Blair, Commissioner (Bureau of Internal Revenue), to Anne Washington Hopkins, Income Tax Unit, concerning her travel to Salt Lake City, Utah -Jun 7, 1929, letter from H. M. Cordell (Secretary's office), Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Mich., to Anne W. Hopkins, regarding price of two candelabra [a photo shows prisms (now missing) on one]; candelabra given to JCM and cataloged PP1169 -May 2, 1932, letter from Sol Bloom (Associate Director) of U.S. George Washington Bicentennial Commission to Anne Washington Hopkins requesting her to establish her direct line of descent so that a record will be established in formation of Society of the Washington Family in America (3 copies of letter; chart not included) -Jul 28, 1933, letter from A. W. Hopkins to Hon. Park Trammell, U.S. Senate, concerning her work as a reviewer for the Internal Revenue Bureau -Apr 14 , 1934, letter form Internal Revenue Agent in Charge, Salt Lake City, Utah (not identified by name) to J. R. Baradel, Agent in Charge, New York City, N.Y., regarding Anne Washington Hopkins and her work in Utah; she transferred to the New York location May 1, 1934 -Undated autobiography of Anne Washington Hopkins -Mar 5, 1935, designation of beneficiary of Anne Washington Hopkins to the U.S. Civil Service Commission, Washington, DC -Undated typed information by Hannah J. Howell regarding Charles Town and Jefferson County, W.Va. -Sep 4, 1970, Washington Post article on the sale of George Washington's (sic) historic country estate to become a new community known as Claymont Chase Folder 2: Photographs 1) Mounted on cardboard, 12" x 10", photograph of 10 people; handwritten on the back is "R. S. B. Washington and 'in-laws'"; the donor's inventory describes the photograph as "The 'Mexican family' of Blackburn Washington, ca. 1920s" 2,3) Copies of two photographs of (2) Anne Washington Hopkins (donor's grandmother) and her mother, (3) Katherine Blackburn Washington, first wife of Bushrod Corbin Washington II 4) Color photograph of Claymount Court, 8" x 10", ca. 1960s 5,6) Two 8" x 10" cabinet photographs: (5) Bushrod Corbin Washington II and (6) Emma Willis Washington, second wife of Bushrod Corbin Washington II, ca. 1880-1890 7,8) Two unframed photographs perhaps by same photographer: (7) Bushrod Corbin Washington II - Funk's Co., Charles Town and (8) Peachey Ryland Washington 9) Copy of photograph of Bushrod Corbin Washington II 10) Richard Blackburn Washington of Harewood, Charles Town, W. Va., 89 years old, 6 1/2" x 8" 11) Claymont Court, ca. 1900 12) Richard Scott Blackburn Washington, New York, 1890 (?6) Folder 3: Travel brochures 1940s to 1960s: West Virginia, Virginia -West Virginia Vacation Album published by West Virginia Industrial and Publicity Commission (WVIPC) -Jul 1949 West Virginia travel calendar published by West Virginia Industrial and Publicity Commission -West Virginia Hotel and Restaurant Guide brochure -Monongahela National Forest and South Branch Valley in W.Va.; brochure published by (WVIPC) -1949 highway map of West Virginia -West Virginia's Apple Country published by (WVIPC) -Letter from WVIPC, Robert W. McKinnon (Executive Director) regarding West Virginia as a vacation spot (recipient unknown) -"Grand Cavers" Grottoes, Virginia brochure -"The Beautiful Caverns of Luray" Luray, Virginia brochure -"Shenandoah Caverns" brochure -"Endless Caverns" New Market, Virginia brochure Folder 4: Books -Sunday School Teacher's Bible, copyright 1892, with "Anne Washington 1900" handwritten on 2nd blank page -Leather bound Illustrated Floral Text Book (Birthday Book) given to Annie Washington by an aunt; names of people written on their birth dates, photographs, clippings of obituaries of Bushrod Corbin Washington In original inventory--not in ARC380 folders -IMG329: Photograph mounted on cardboard, 8" x 6" of Bushrod Corbin Washington in Confederate uniform. See PP record for location. -Missing: Tin-type in circular frame, 1 1/2", women with hand raised to face -Missing: Obituary of Anne Washington Hopkins Inventory also attached in Media.

Acquisition

Accession

299

Source or Donor

Hopkins, Grover P.

Acquisition Method

Gift

Archive Details

Creator

Anne Washingon Hopkins

Date(s) of Creation

circa 1880 - circa 1960