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Guide to the Mary Elsie Fox photograph collection, 1935-1959 Mary Elsie Fox photograph C0067

Guide to the Mary Elsie Fox photograph collection, 1935-1959

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Special Collections and Archives
Collection Number C0067


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Repository
George Mason University. Special Collections and Archives.
Collection number
C0067
Title
Mary Elsie Fox photograph collection 1935-1959
URL:
http://sca.gmu.edu/finding_aids/
Physical Characteristics
1 linear feet (3 boxes)
Creator
Mary Elsie Fox
Language
English
Abstract
This collection contains approximately 100 black and white photographs from the discarded scrapbook of Mary Elsie Fox found after her death. The photographs are mostly 3x4" snapshots of Fox, her husband, and their close friends and document domestic life in the postwar Washington, D.C. area. The photographs range in size from 1x2" to 8x10".

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Preferred Citation

Mary Elsie Fox photogaph collection, Collection #C0067, Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University.

Acquisition Information

Collection donated by Tish Como in 2006.

Processing Information

Processed by Kate Norman in March 2010. EAD markup completed by Kate Norman in March 2010.

Biographical Information

Mary Elsie Fox, a resident of Hinton, West Virginia, served as executive secretary for a number of generals of the U.S. Air Force and later in the office of Vice President Spiro T. Agnew. Born in 1923, Mary Elsie Fox spent most of her adult life in Washington, D.C. before her death in 1994.

Scope and Content

This collection contains about 100 black and white photographs from the discarded scrapbook of Mary Elsie Fox found after her death. The photographs are mostly 3x4" snapshots of Fox, her brother, and their close friends and document domestic life in the postwar Washington, D.C. area. The photographs range in size from 1x2" to 8x10".

The collection includes photographs of parties, dinners, outdoor recreation, children, American military, a friend's time abroad in Norway, and general portrait photographs. The collection also includes photographs of DC monuments and important buildings, ranging from the Pentagon to the Carnegie Library. Many of these photographs have writing on the back, especially those taken in Norway.

The first series includes small photographs from 1935-1959. Spanning two boxes and about 100 pages, this series contains photographs from parties, domestic life, outdoor recreation, American military personnel, Washington, D.C., Norway, and children. The second series contains medium photographs taken during the 1940s. This series contains photographs of Turkey, American military personnel, parties, and leisure. The third series contains large photographs taken during the 1940s. This series consists mainly of photographs of the Pentagon but also includes images of weddings, leisure activities, and American military personnel.

Arrangement

Organized into three series.

Series 1: Small Photographs, 1935-1959 (Boxes 1-2) Series 2: Medium Photographs, 1940s (Box 2) Series 3: Large Photographs, 1940s (Boxes 2-3)

Related Material

Special Collections and Archives also holds the John Rapp, Jr. photograph collection and the Larkin family photograph collection .

Index Terms

    Persons:

  • Fox, Mary Elsie, 1923-1994.

    • Subjects:

  • Domestic life--Washington (D.C.)--20th century--Photographs.
  • Leisure--Washington (D.C.)--20th century--Photographs.

    • Document Types:

  • Group portraits.
  • Photographic prints.
  • Portrait photographs.

Adjunct Descriptive Data

Significant Persons Associated With the Collection

  • Fox, Mary Elsie, 1923-1994.
  • Mary Elsie Fox
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Contents List

Series 1: Small Photographs,
1935-1959
(1.5 boxes)

This series contains small photographs ranging in size from 1 1/4x2 1/4" to 5x4"

  • box: 1 Page: 1-4
    Captain Jordan's Party,
    June 22, 1946

    Mrs. Liston, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Studervant, Theda Portir, Major Tourdlau, Mrs. Stancook, Mrs. Pat Redd

  • box: 1 Page: 4-7
    Leisure,
    October, 1945

    Mary Elsie Fox, Elayne Scott

  • box: 1 Page: 7-11
    Leisure,
    June 10, 1947

    Mary Sevcik, Mary Elsie Fox, Bob Rancine, Tim Donovan

  • box: 1 Page: 11-13
    Leisure,
    April, 1947

    Mary Elsie Fox, Dave O'Connel, Ann Sevcik O'Connel

  • box: 1 Page: 13-14
    Group Portraits,
    October 19, 1947

    Mary Elsie Fox, Dick Perlman, Helen Krawchuk Perlman

  • box: 1 Page: 14-17
    Leisure and Group Portraits,
    July, 1945

    Edna Earle Whitt, Mary Elsie, Fox, Janice Rigler Stoops

  • box: 1 Page: 17-18
    City and Town Life,
    March 23, 1947

    Mary Elsie Fox, Mary Sevcik

  • box: 1 Page: 18-20
    Leisure,
    May, 1947

    Edna Earle Whitt, Mary Elsie Fox, Mary Sevcik

  • box: 1 Page: 20-21
    New Jersey,
    March, 1943

    New Jersey shore, sailors.

    Mary Elsie Fox, Elayne Scott, Mary Sevcik

  • box: 1 Page: 22-23
    Leisure and Picnics,
    March, 1945

    Mary Elsie Fox, Mary Sevcik, Tony Pecar, Ted Palmerine, Elayne Scott

  • box: 1 Page: 24-25
    Group Portraits,
    May, 1947

    Janice Rigler Stoops, Marion W. Stoops

  • box: 1 Page: 25-26
    Portrait Photographs,
    July, 1944

    Mary Elsie Fox, Jo-Ann Maddy

  • box: 1 Page: 26-27
    Group Portraits and Leisure,
    1940s

    Mary Elsie Fox, Elayne Scott, Edna Earle Whitt

  • box: 1 Page: 28-30
    Portrait Photographs and Leisure,
    1940s

    Mary Elsie Fox

  • box: 1 Page: 30-34
    Portrait Photographs and Leisure,
    1040s

    Mary Elsie Fox, Mary Sevcik, Ann Sevcik O'Connel, Jan Sevcik

  • box: 1 Page: 34-36
    Leisure and Domestic Life,
    1940s
  • box: 1 Page: 36-37
    Group Portraits and Leisure,
    1940s

    Mary Elsie Fox

  • box: 1 Page: 37-38
    Group Portraits and Military Personnel,
    September 28, 1942

    Processed by Peoples Drugstores

  • box: 1 Page: 39-40
    Portrait Photographs,
    1940s

    Mary Elsie Fox

  • box: 1 Page: 40-41
    Portrait Photographs and Leisure,
    1940s
  • box: 1 Page: 41
    City and Town Life,
    1940s

    Mary Sevcik

  • box: 1 Page: 42
    Group Portraits,
    November, 1941

    Mary Sevcik, Jan Sevcik, Ann Sevcik

  • box: 1 Page: 42
    Group Portraits,
    1940s

    Mary Sevcik

  • box: 1 Page: 43
    Group Portraits and Parties,
    1940s

    Mary Elsie Fox, Edna Earle Whitt, Elayne Scott

  • box: 1 Page: 43
    Recreation and Portraits Photographs,
    1940s

    Thelma Tefler

  • box: 1 Page: 44
    City and Town Life,
    1940s
  • box: 1 Page: 44
    Travel,
    1950s

    Color photos of Mary Elsie Fox

  • box: 1 Page: 45
    Travel and Leisure,
    1940s

    Jan Sevick

  • box: 1 Page: 45
    North Carolina,
    1942

    Mrs. McNeer, Anna Mae McNeer

  • box: 1 Page: 46
    Mercy Hospital, Pittsburgh,
    August, 1942

    Mary K. Sevcik

  • box: 1 Page: 46
    Portrait Photograph,
    1943

    Mary K. Sevcik

  • box: 1 Page: 46
    Portrait,
    1945

    Ann Sevcik O'Connel

  • box: 1 Page: 46
    City and Town Life,
    1940s

    Ann Sevcik O'Connel, Jan Sevcik

  • box: 1 Page: 47
    Graduation,
    1940s
  • box: 1 Page: 47
    Group Portrait,
    1940s

    Mary Elsie Fox

  • box: 1 Page: 47
    2510 Cliffbourne Pl.,
    1942

    Mary Elsie Fox

  • box: 1 Page: 47
    Portrait Photograph and Leisure,
    August, 1945

    Mary Elsie Fox

  • box: 1 Page: 48
    Leisure,
    December, 1959

    Mary Elsie Fox

  • box: 1 Page: 48
    Horse,
    June 13, 1943

    Jan Sevcik, "Smarty"

    Writing on back of photograph

  • box: 1 Page: 48
    Hinton,
    1935

    House after a snowstorm

  • box: 1 Page: 48
    Police Officer,
    1940s

  • box: 1 Page: 49
    Group Portrait,
    1940s
  • box: 1 Page: 49
    Portrait Photograph,
    1940s
  • box: 1 Page: 49-52
    Domestic Life and Parties,
    March 15, 1946

    Mary Elsie Fox, Edna Earle Whitt, Captain Ralph Lewis, Elayne Scott, Captain Mack, Captain Joe Schieferly, Major Sturdevant, Helen Karwchuk Perlman, Captain Ken Jordan, Peggy Hill, Captain Bill Miles

  • box: 1 Page: 52-54
    Domestic Life and Group Portraits,
    February, 1946

    Mary Elsie Fox, Dick Perlman, Helen Krawchuk Perlman

  • box: 1 Page: 54-58
    Domestic Life and Parties,
    January 19, 1947

    Mary Elsie Fox, Edna Earle Whitt, Dick Perlman, Helen Krawchuk Perlman, Ken Ramey

    One outdoor portrait photograph of Edna Earle Whitt

  • box: 1 Page: 58-60
    Domestic Life and Parites,
    October, 1947

    Mary Elsie Fox, Helen Krawchuk Perlman, Dick Perlman, Ken Ramey, Edna Earle Whitt

  • box: 1 Page: 60-62
    Domestic Life and Parties,
    June 10, 1947

    Mary Elsie Fox, Tim Donovan, Mary Sevcik, Bob Rancine

  • box: 1 Page: 62-63
    Domestic Life and Parties,
    1940s
  • box: 1 Page: 63
    Domestic Life and Portrait Photograph,
    October 19, 1947

    Dick Perlman

  • box: 1 Page: 63
    Weekend Party at Captain Jordan's Farm,
    April 7, 1946
  • box: 1 Page: 63
    Portrait Photograph,
    1947

    Mary Sevcik

  • box: 1 Page: 64
    Domestic Life,
    1950s

    Mary Elsie Fox

    Color Photograph

  • box: 1 Page: 64
    Portrait Photograph,
    1940s
  • box: 1 Page: 64
    Washington, D.C.,
    May, 1942

    View of Jefferson Memorial through cherry blossoms; bridge

    Deveolped By Brown Photo Service, Minnepolis, MN

  • box: 1 Page: 65
    In Front of the Capitol Theatre,
    July 5, 1942

    Mary Elsie Fox, Dempsey Fox

  • box: 1 Page: 65
    Washington, D.C.,
    September 15, 1947

    In front of the Capitol Theatre

    Mary Elsie Fox, Dempsey Fox

  • box: 1 Page: 65
    Washington, D.C.,
    March 23, 1947

    Washington Presbyterian Church

    Mary Elsie Fox

  • box: 1 Page: 65-67
    Washington, D.C.,
    1940s

    Jefferson Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, cherry blossoms

    Mary Elsie Fox

  • box: 1 Page: 68-71
    Washington, D.C.,
    April, 1946

    Capitol Building, Pentagon, Lincoln Memorial, White House, Jefferson Memorial, Carnegie Library, National Gallery of Art

    Captain Schieferly, Captain Miles

  • box: 1 Page: 72-73
    Diane - Age 4 months,
    May, 1947

    Diane Miller

  • box: 1 Page: 73-75
    Diane - 1 yr. Old,
    February 13, 1948

    Diane Miller

  • box: 1 Page: 75-76
    Children,
    December 25, 1947

    Diane Miller

  • box: 1 Page: 77
    Children,
    September, 1947
  • box: 1 Page: 77
    Children,
    1940s
  • box: 1 Page: 77
    Children,
    1940s

    Writing on back of photograph

  • box: 1 Page: 77
    Children and Leisure,
    1945
  • box: 2 Page: 1
    Portrait and Military,
    1940s

    Tim Donovan

  • box: 2 Page: 1
    Portrait photograph and Military,
    1940s

    Tim Donovan

    Writing on back of photograph

  • box: 2 Page: 1
    Group portrait and Military,
    1945

    Tim Donovan

  • box: 2 Page: 77
    Military,
    December 13, 1945

    Tim Donovan

  • box: 2 Page: 2
    Military Personnel,
    1944
  • box: 2 Page: 2
    Military Personnel,
    September 28, 1942

    Developed by Peoples Drug Stores

  • box: 2 Page: 2
    Paris,
    1945

    Major Mulford, Major Flynn

  • box: 2 Page: 2
    Military,
    1940s
  • box: 2 Page: 3-8
    Norway,
    1945-1947

    Mary Sevcik

    Skiing Photographs. Some developed by Nerlien.

  • box: 2 Page: 8-11
    Norway,
    1945-1947

    Mary Sevcik, Jan Sevcik

    Outdoor Photographs

  • box: 2 Page: 12-14
    Oslo, Norway,
    1946

    Mike Riley, Charlie La Cour

  • box: 2 Page: 14-15
    Jeunaker, Norway,
    December, 1945

    Mary Sevcik, Elsa Beach

    Writing on back of photographs

  • box: 2 Page: 15
    Norway,
    1945-1947

    Mary Sevcik, Jan Sevcik

  • box: 2 Page: 15-16
    Oslo, Norway,
    April, 1946

    Mary Sevcik, Bill Shiflet

    Writing on back of photographs

  • box: 2 Page: 16
    Kornsjo, Sweden,
    January, 1945

    Mary Sevcik, Dorothy Smith, Eric Karl Hellstrom, Fritiof Falkstrand

    Writing on back of photographs

  • box: 2 Page: 17
    Oslo, Norway,
    December, 1945

    Writing on back of photographs

  • box: 2 Page: 17
    Oslo, Norway,
    January, 1946

    Bob Berg, Mrs. Berg

    Writing on back of photographs

  • box: 2 Page: 18
    New Year Eve in Norway,
    December 31, 1945

    Joe Moline, Mary Sevcik, Major Scully

    Writing on back of photographs

  • box: 2 Page: 18
    Smorbroad and the Troll (witch),
    December, 1945

    Writing on back of photographs

  • box: 2 Page: 19
    Oslo, Norway,
    1946

    Mary Sevcik

  • box: 2 Page: 19
    Oslo, Norway,
    February 22, 1946

    Mary Sevcik

  • box: 2 Page: 19
    Oslo, Norway and Children,
    1945-1947

    Mary Sevcik

    Writing on back of photograph

  • box: 2 Page: 20
    Oslo, Norway,
    January, 1947

    Mike Riley

  • box: 2 Page: 20
    The Day Mary Came Home from Norway
    March 17, 1947

    Mary Elsie Fox, Mary Sevcik

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Series 2: Medium Photographs,
1940s
(11 pages)

This series contains medium photographs ranging in size from 5 3/4x2 1/2" to 7 1/4x5 1/4".

  • box: 2 Page: 21-22
    Ankara and Istanbul, Turkey,
    1940s
  • box: 2 Page: 23
    Group Portrait,
    June 22, 1946

    Edna Earle Whitt, Mary Elsie Fox, Elayne Scott, Peggy Hill, Captain Ken Jordan, Captain Joe Schieferly, Captain Bill Miles, Captain Ralph Lewis

  • box: 2 Page: 24
    Wabans - Washington, D.C.,
    September 15, 1947

    Mary Elsie Fox, Dempsey Fox

  • box: 2 Page: 25
    Portrait Photographs and Leisure,
    June 8, 1946

    Mary Elsie Fox

  • box: 2 Page: 26
    Edna's Birthday,
    September 17, 1947

    Edna Earle Whitt, Jerry Whitt, Mary Elsie Fox

  • box: 2 Page: 27
    Group Portrait and Leisure,
    February, 1946

    Elayne Scott, Mary Elsie Fox

  • box: 2 Page: 27
    Portrait,
    1940s
  • box: 2 Page: 28
    Pentagon Bldg,
    June, 1946

    Elayne Scott, Mary Elsie Fox, Edna Earle Whitt, Myrtle Parker, Lee Parnell, Myrtle Lacy, Dorothy Rupert, JoAnn Srubb, Ruth Anderson, Mrs. Attaway

  • box: 2 Page: 28-29
    Military Personnel,
    1940s
  • box: 2 Page: 29
    Portrait Photograph and Leisure,
    1940s

    Tim Donovan

    Writing on back of photograph

  • box: 2 Page: 30
    Military Personnel,
    April, 1946

    Captain Joe Schieferly

  • box: 2 Page: 30
    Military Personnel,
    1946
  • box: 2 Page: 31
    Portrait and Children,
    1940s
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Series 3: Large Photographs,
1940s
(1.5 boxes)

This series contains large photographs ranging in size from 1 1/2x9" to 8x10".

  • box: 2 Page: 32
    Military Personnel,
    1940s

    Captain Joe Schieferly

    Writing on front of photograph

  • box: 2 Page: 33
    Portrait,
    1940s
  • box: 2 Page: 34
    Domestic Life and Parties,
    1945-1947

    Mr. and Mrs. James Miller, Dick Bennett, Mike Riley, Charlie La Cour, Bill and Sonja Malberg, Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Fay-Schojle, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Farbe, Bobbie Robahan, Ingrid Galtung, Pei Wan, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Slack, Mary Sevcik

  • box: 2 Page: 35
    Wedding,
    1940s

    Mary Elsie Fox

    Hessler Photography, Washington, DC

  • box: 2 Page: 36
    Edna and Jerry's Wedding,
    January 14, 1948

    Edna Earle Whitt, Paul Taylor, Mary Elsie Fox

    Underwood and Underwood Photography, Washington

  • box: 2 Page: 37
    Children,
    December 25, 1947

    Diane Miller

  • box: 3 Folder: 1
    Portrait Photograph and Leisure,
    October, 1945

    Mary Elsie Fox

  • box: 3 Folder: 2
    Portrait Photograph and Leisure,
    October, 1945

    Mary Elsie Fox

  • box: 3 Folder: 3
    Group Portrait and Parties,
    April 7, 1946

    Elayne Scott, Edna Earle Whitt, Mary Elsie Fox

  • box: 3 Folder: 4
    Military Personnel and Office,
    1940s

    Captain Joe Schieferly, Alma Chalk

  • box: 3 Folder: 5
    Washington, DC,
    1940s

    Pentagon, Washington Monument, Jefferson Memorial, Capitol Building

  • box: 3 Folder: 6
    Pentagon,
    1940s

    Signal Corps Photograph

  • box: 3 Folder: 7
    Pentagon,
    1940s

    Signal Corps Photograph

  • box: 3 Folder: 8
    Pentagon,
    1940s

    Signal Corps Photograph

  • box: 3 Folder: 9
    Pentagon,
    1940s

    Signal Corps Photograph

  • box: 3 Folder: 10
    Pentagon,
    1940s

    Signal Corps Photograph

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