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

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

Mary Elsie Fox photograph


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FINDING AID AUTHOR

Repository
George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections Research Center
Identification
C0067
Title
Mary Elsie Fox photograph collection 1935-1959
URL:
http://sca.gmu.edu/finding_aids/fox.html
Quantity
1 Linear Feet, (3 boxes)
General Physical Description note
(3 boxes)
Creator
Fox, Mary Elsie, 1923-1994
Language
English .
Abstract
This collection contains 423 photographs and one document from the discarded scrapbook of Mary Elsie Fox found after her death. The photographs are mostly 3x4" snapshots of Fox and her close friends and document the domestic life of Pentagon employees and members of the military in the 1940s Washington, D.C. area. The photographs range in size from 1x2" to 8x10".

Administrative Information

Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Alternative Form Available

Digitized photographs from this collection can be found in the Mary Elsie Fox photograph collection.

Preferred Citation

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

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 423 photographs and one document from the discarded scrapbook of Mary Elsie Fox found after her death. The photographs are mostly 3x4" snapshots of Fox and her close friends and document the domestic life of Pentagon employees and members of the military in the 1940s 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 D.C. 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 to 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.

Missing Title 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.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

  • Domestic life
  • Leisure
  • Norway
  • Pentagon (Va.)
  • Pentagon -- Photographs
  • Photographic prints
  • Photographs
  • Portrait photographs
  • Portraits, Group
  • United States -- Armed Forces -- Military life
  • Washington (D.C.)

Significant Persons Associated With the Collection

  • Fox, Mary Elsie, 1923-1994
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Significant Places Associated With the Collection

  • Norway
  • United States -- Armed Forces -- Military life
  • Washington (D.C.)
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Container List

Series 1: Small Photographs
1935-1959
(1.5 boxes)
Scope and Contents note

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

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 1-3
    Captain Jordan's Party
    June 22, 1946
    Scope and Contents note

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

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 4-7
    Leisure
    October, 1945
    Scope and Contents note

    Mary Elsie Fox, Elayne Scott

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 7-11
    Leisure
    June 10, 1947
    Scope and Contents note

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

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 11-13
    Leisure
    April, 1947
    Scope and Contents note

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

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 13-14
    Group Portraits
    October 19, 1947
    Scope and Contents note

    Mary Elsie Fox, Dick Perlman, Helen Krawchuk Perlman

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 14-17
    Leisure and Group Portraits
    July, 1945
    Scope and Contents note

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

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 17-18
    City and Town Life
    March 23, 1947
    Scope and Contents note

    Mary Elsie Fox, Mary Sevcik

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 18-20
    Leisure
    May, 1947
    Scope and Contents note

    Edna Earle Whitt, Mary Elsie Fox, Mary Sevcik

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 20-21
    New Jersey
    March, 1943
    Scope and Contents note

    New Jersey shore, sailors.

    Mary Elsie Fox, Elayne Scott, Mary Sevcik

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 22-23
    Leisure and Picnics
    March, 1945
    Scope and Contents note

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

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 24-25
    Group Portraits
    May, 1947
    Scope and Contents note

    Janice Rigler Stoops, Marion W. Stoops

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 25-26
    Portrait Photographs
    July, 1944
    Scope and Contents note

    Mary Elsie Fox, Jo-Ann Maddy

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 26-27
    Group Portraits and Leisure
    1940s
    Scope and Contents note

    Mary Elsie Fox, Elayne Scott, Edna Earle Whitt

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 28-30
    Portrait Photographs and Leisure
    1940s
    Scope and Contents note

    Mary Elsie Fox

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 30-34
    Portrait Photographs and Leisure
    1940s
    Scope and Contents note

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

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 34-36
    Leisure and Domestic Life
    1940s
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 36-37
    Group Portraits and Leisure
    1940s
    Scope and Contents note

    Mary Elsie Fox

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 37-38
    Group Portraits and Military Personnel
    September 28, 1942
    Scope and Contents note

    Processed by Peoples Drugstores

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 39-40
    Portrait Photographs
    1940s
    Scope and Contents note

    Mary Elsie Fox

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 40-41
    Portrait Photographs and Leisure
    1940s
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 41
    City and Town Life
    1940s
    Scope and Contents note

    Mary Sevcik

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 42
    Group Portraits
    November, 1941
    Scope and Contents note

    Mary Sevcik, Jan Sevcik, Ann Sevcik

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 42
    Group Portraits
    1940s
    Scope and Contents note

    Mary Sevcik

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 43
    Group Portraits and Parties
    1940s
    Scope and Contents note

    Mary Elsie Fox, Edna Earle Whitt, Elayne Scott

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 43
    Recreation and Portraits Photographs
    1940s
    Scope and Contents note

    Thelma Tefler

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 44
    City and Town Life
    1940s
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 44
    Travel
    1950s
    Scope and Contents note

    Color photos of Mary Elsie Fox

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 45
    Travel and Leisure
    1940s
    Scope and Contents note

    Jan Sevick

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 45
    North Carolina
    1942
    Scope and Contents note

    Mrs. McNeer, Anna Mae McNeer

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 46
    Mercy Hospital, Pittsburgh
    August, 1942
    Scope and Contents note

    Mary K. Sevcik

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 46
    Portrait Photograph
    1943
    Scope and Contents note

    Mary K. Sevcik

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 46
    Portrait
    1945
    Scope and Contents note

    Ann Sevcik O'Connel

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 46
    City and Town Life
    1940s
    Scope and Contents note

    Ann Sevcik O'Connel, Jan Sevcik

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 47
    Graduation
    1940s
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 47
    Group Portrait
    1940s
    Scope and Contents note

    Mary Elsie Fox

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 47
    2510 Cliffbourne Pl.
    1942
    Scope and Contents note

    Mary Elsie Fox

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 47
    Portrait Photograph and Leisure
    August, 1945
    Scope and Contents note

    Mary Elsie Fox

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 48
    Leisure
    December, 1959
    Scope and Contents note

    Mary Elsie Fox

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 48
    Horse
    June 13, 1943
    Scope and Contents note

    Jan Sevcik, "Smarty"

    Writing on back of photograph

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 48
    Hinton
    1935
    Scope and Contents note

    House after a snowstorm

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 48
    Police Officer
    1940s
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 49
    Group Portrait
    1940s
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 49
    Portrait Photograph
    1940s
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 49-52
    Domestic Life and Parties
    March 15, 1946
    Scope and Contents note

    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

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 52-54
    Domestic Life and Group Portraits
    February, 1946
    Scope and Contents note

    Mary Elsie Fox, Dick Perlman, Helen Krawchuk Perlman

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 54-58
    Domestic Life and Parties
    January 19, 1947
    Scope and Contents note

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

    One outdoor portrait photograph of Edna Earle Whitt

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 58-60
    Domestic Life and Parties
    October, 1947
    Scope and Contents note

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

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 60-62
    Domestic Life and Parties
    June 10, 1947
    Scope and Contents note

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

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 62-63
    Domestic Life and Parties
    1940s
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 63
    Domestic Life and Portrait Photograph
    October 19, 1947
    Scope and Contents note

    Dick Perlman

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 63
    Weekend Party at Captain Jordan's Farm
    April 7, 1946
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 63
    Portrait Photograph
    1947
    Scope and Contents note

    Mary Sevcik

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 64
    Domestic Life
    1950s
    Scope and Contents note

    Mary Elsie Fox

    Color Photograph

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 64
    Portrait Photograph
    1940s
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 64
    Washington, D.C.
    May, 1942
    Scope and Contents note

    View of Jefferson Memorial through cherry blossoms; bridge

    Developed By Brown Photo Service, Minneapolis, MN

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 65
    In Front of the Capitol Theatre
    July 5, 1942
    Scope and Contents note

    Mary Elsie Fox, Dempsey Fox

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 65
    Washington, D.C.
    September 15, 1947
    Scope and Contents note

    In front of the Capitol Theatre

    Mary Elsie Fox, Dempsey Fox

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 65
    Washington, D.C.
    March 23, 1947
    Scope and Contents note

    Washington Presbyterian Church

    Mary Elsie Fox

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 65-67
    Washington, D.C.
    1940s
    Scope and Contents note

    Jefferson Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, cherry blossoms

    Mary Elsie Fox

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 68-71
    Washington, D.C.
    April, 1946
    Scope and Contents note

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

    Captain Schieferly, Captain Miles

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 72-73
    Diane - Age 4 months
    May, 1947
    Scope and Contents note

    Diane Miller

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 73-75
    Diane - 1 yr. Old
    February 13, 1948
    Scope and Contents note

    Diane Miller

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 75-76
    Children
    December 25, 1947
    Scope and Contents note

    Diane Miller

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 77
    Children
    September, 1947
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 77
    Children
    1940s
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 77
    Children
    1940s
    Scope and Contents note

    Writing on back of photograph

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 77
    Children and Leisure
    1945
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 1
    Portrait and Military
    1940s
    Scope and Contents note

    Tim Donovan

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 1
    Portrait photograph and Military
    1940s
    Scope and Contents note

    Tim Donovan

    Writing on back of photograph

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 1
    Group portrait and Military
    1945
    Scope and Contents note

    Tim Donovan

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 1
    Military
    December 13, 1945
    Scope and Contents note

    Tim Donovan

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 2
    Military Personnel
    1944
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 2
    Military Personnel
    September 28, 1942
    Scope and Contents note

    Developed by Peoples Drug Stores

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 2
    Paris
    1945
    Scope and Contents note

    Major Mulford, Major Flynn

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 2
    Military
    1940s
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 3-8
    Norway
    1945-1947
    Scope and Contents note

    Mary Sevcik

    Skiing Photographs. Some developed by Nerlien.

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 8-11
    Norway
    1945-1947
    Scope and Contents note

    Mary Sevcik, Jan Sevcik

    Outdoor Photographs

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 12-14
    Oslo, Norway
    1946
    Scope and Contents note

    Mike Riley, Charlie La Cour

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 14-15
    Jeunaker, Norway
    December, 1945
    Scope and Contents note

    Mary Sevcik, Elsa Beach

    Writing on back of photographs

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 16
    Norway
    1945-1947
    Scope and Contents note

    Mary Sevcik, Jan Sevcik

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 16-17
    Oslo, Norway
    April, 1946
    Scope and Contents note

    Mary Sevcik, Bill Shiflet

    Writing on back of photographs

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 17
    Kornsjo, Sweden
    January, 1945
    Scope and Contents note

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

    Writing on back of photographs

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 18
    Oslo, Norway
    December, 1945
    Scope and Contents note

    Writing on back of photographs

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 18
    Oslo, Norway
    January, 1946
    Scope and Contents note

    Bob Berg, Mrs. Berg

    Writing on back of photographs

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 19
    New Year Eve in Norway
    December 31, 1945
    Scope and Contents note

    Joe Moline, Mary Sevcik, Major Scully

    Writing on back of photographs

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 19
    Smorbroad and the Troll (witch)
    December, 1945
    Scope and Contents note

    Writing on back of photographs

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 20
    Oslo, Norway
    1946
    Scope and Contents note

    Mary Sevcik

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 20
    Oslo, Norway
    February 22, 1946
    Scope and Contents note

    Mary Sevcik

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 20
    Oslo, Norway and Children
    1945-1947
    Scope and Contents note

    Mary Sevcik

    Writing on back of photograph

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 21
    Oslo, Norway
    January, 1947
    Scope and Contents note

    Mike Riley

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 21
    The Day Mary Came Home from Norway
    March 17, 1947
    Scope and Contents note

    Mary Elsie Fox, Mary Sevcik

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Series 2: Medium Photographs
1940s
(11 pages)
Scope and Contents note

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

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 22-23
    Ankara and Istanbul, Turkey
    1940s
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 24
    Group Portrait
    June 22, 1946
    Scope and Contents note

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

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 25
    Wabans - Washington, D.C.
    September 15, 1947
    Scope and Contents note

    Mary Elsie Fox, Dempsey Fox

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 26
    Portrait Photographs and Leisure
    June 8, 1946
    Scope and Contents note

    Mary Elsie Fox

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 27
    Edna's Birthday
    September 17, 1947
    Scope and Contents note

    Edna Earle Whitt, Jerry Whitt, Mary Elsie Fox

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 28
    Group Portrait and Leisure
    February, 1946
    Scope and Contents note

    Elayne Scott, Mary Elsie Fox

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 28
    Portrait
    1940s
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 29
    Pentagon Bldg
    June, 1946
    Scope and Contents note

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

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 29-30
    Military Personnel
    1940s
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 31
    Military Personnel
    April, 1946
    Scope and Contents note

    Captain Joe Schieferly

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 31
    Portrait Photograph and Leisure
    1940s
    Scope and Contents note

    Tim Donovan

    Writing on back of photograph

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 32
    Portrait and Children
    1940s
    Scope and Contents note
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Series 3: Large Photographs
1940s
(1.5 boxes)
Scope and Contents note

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

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 33
    Military Personnel
    1940s
    Scope and Contents note

    Captain Joe Schieferly

    Writing on front of photograph

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 34
    Portrait
    1940s
    Scope and Contents note
  • Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 35
    Domestic Life and Parties
    1945-1947
    Scope and Contents note

    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

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 36
    Wedding
    1940s
    Scope and Contents note

    Mary Elsie Fox

    Hessler Photography, Washington, DC

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 37
    Edna and Jerry's Wedding
    January 14, 1948
    Scope and Contents note

    Edna Earle Whitt, Paul Taylor, Mary Elsie Fox

    Underwood and Underwood Photography, Washington

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 38
    Children
    December 25, 1947
    Scope and Contents note

    Diane Miller

  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 1
    Portrait Photograph and Leisure
    October, 1945
    Scope and Contents note

    Mary Elsie Fox

  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 2
    Portrait Photograph and Leisure
    October, 1945
    Scope and Contents note

    Mary Elsie Fox

  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 3
    Group Portrait and Parties
    April 7, 1946
    Scope and Contents note

    Elayne Scott, Edna Earle Whitt, Mary Elsie Fox

  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 4
    Military Personnel and Office
    1940s
    Scope and Contents note

    Captain Joe Schieferly, Alma Chalk

  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 5
    Washington, DC
    1940s
    Scope and Contents note

    Pentagon, Washington Monument, Jefferson Memorial, Capitol Building

  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 6
    Pentagon
    1940s
    Scope and Contents note

    Signal Corps Photograph

  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 7
    Pentagon
    1940s
    Scope and Contents note

    Signal Corps Photograph

  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 8
    Pentagon
    1940s
    Scope and Contents note

    Signal Corps Photograph

  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 9
    Pentagon
    1940s
    Scope and Contents note

    Signal Corps Photograph

  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 10
    Pentagon
    1940s
    Scope and Contents note

    Signal Corps Photograph

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