The John K. Pickens Papers Finding Aid MS057
Local History and Special Collections Branch, Alexandria Library
717 Queen Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
Business Number: 703-746-1791
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Julie Johnson
Repository
Local History and Special Collections Branch, Alexandria Library
Identification MS057
Title John K. Pickens Papers (MS057) 1964-1976
URL: https://alexlibraryva.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/resources/20
Quantity 1.8 Linear Feet, 5 boxes
Creator
Pickens, John K., 1918-1976
Language
English
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Existence and Location of Copies
Alexandria Archaeology has photocopies of this collection.
Preferred Citation
John K. Pickens Papers, MS057, Alexandria Library, Local History/Special Collections, Alexandria, Va.
John K. Pickens, Alexandria lawyer and city councilman, was instrumental in beginning formal archaeological studies in Alexandria.
The studies began in the mid-1960s, under Richard (Dick) Muzzrole of the Smithsonian Institution. In 1975, the Alexandria
Archaeology Commission (the AAC) was formed with John Pickens as chairman. Following Muzzrole's resignation as City Archaeologist
in December 1975, the AAC began a search for his replacement.
The collection contains organizational records of the Alexandria Archaeological Commission as well as correspondence with
the Smithsonian Institution prior to the 1975 formation of the Alexandria Archaeological Commission. Clippings, research notes
and archaeology notes are included as well. Topics include: formation of the Alexandria Archaeology Commission, archaeological
digs along King Street, research on the Henry Piercy family, and area merchants.
The collection is divided into the following series:
Series I: Organizational Records (1964-1976) - Chronological by year
Series II: Clippings (1958-1976) - Chronological by year
Series III: Archaeology notes - Alphabetical by topic
Series IV: Research - Alphabetical by topic
Series V: Subject File - Alphabetical by topic
Series VI: Correspondence - Alphabetical by writer and then chronologically within each
Series VII: Printed Matter - Chronological by year
Series VIII: Miscellaneous
Series IX: Photographs
Restricted subseries of correspondence.
Alexandria Archaeology
Archaeology -- Virginia -- Alexandria.
Muzzrole, Richard
Piercy family
Virginia -- Genealogy.
Voges, Nettie Allen. "Alexandria Digs up its Past, Part 4." Old Alexandria: Where America's Past is Present, McLean, VA: EPM
Publications, 1975.
Pickens, John K., 1918-1976
1964-1976
Arrangement
Chronological by year.
1958-1976
Arrangement
Chronological by year.
Arrangement
Alphabetical by topic
Arrangement
Alphabetical by topic
Text box: 2 folder: 7
Notes and Papers on Apprenticeships
Text box: 2 folder: 8
Notes and Papers on Fires
Text box: 2 folder: 9
Notes on Merchants
1800-1850
Text box: 2 folder: 10
Notes on Merchants
Text box: 2 folder: 11
Notes on Merchants
Text box: 2 folder: 12
Notes on Pages from Early (1806) Merchant's Ledger
1806
Text box: 2 folder: 13
Notes on Old Dominion Glass Works.
Text box: 3 folder: 1
Notes on Piercy and Potters.
Text box: 3 folder: 2
Correspondence on Piercy.
Text box: 3 folder: 3
Notes and Correspondence on Christian Piercy.
Text box: 3 folder: 4
Papers on Henry Piercy
1976
Text box: 3 folder: 5
Notes on Piercy family
Text box: 3 folder: 6
Notes on Piercy family.
Text box: 3 folder: 7
Notes on paper, the press, and printing in Alexandria.
Arrangement
Alphabetical by topic
Text box: 3 folder: 8
Alexandria Gazette.
Text box: 3 folder: 9
Alexandria map, negative copy.
Text box: 3 folder: 10
100 Block North Alfred Street
1973
Text box: 3 folder: 11
Annexation of a Portion of Arlington County
1915
Text box: 3 folder: 12
Archaeology, Canal and Lyceum
1969, 1974
Text box: 3 folder: 13
Richard Arell and Arell's Tavern.
Text box: 3 folder: 14
"Art and Antiques Newsletter" by Bettie Wysor, Town and Country
1972
Text box: 3 folder: 15
Assurance Forms, Royal, King, Fairfax, Prince Streets
1797-1827
Text box: 3 folder: 16
Banking in Alexandria.
Text box: 3 folder: 17
Cabinet Makers
1972
Text box: 3 folder: 18
"The City of Alexandria--One Time Capital of Virginia," by Robert Nelson Anderson.
Text box: 3 folder: 19
Deed Books.
Text box: 3 folder: 20
Disposition Maps.
Text box: 3 folder: 21
Early New England Pottery by Laura Woodside Watkins
1966
Text box: 3 folder: 22
Gadsby's Tavern
1975-1976
Text box: 4 folder: 1
Gunston Hall, Docents' Study Papers.
Text box: 4 folder: 2
Gunston Hall, report by J. Everette Fauber, Jr., AIA.
Text box: 4 folder: 3
Gunston Hall, report by Grigg, Wood & Browne, AIA.
Text box: 4 folder: 4
Gunston Hall, report by Richard Muzzrole.
Text box: 4 folder: 5
Gunston hall, report by Alain C. Outlaw
1973
Text box: 4 folder: 6
Robert H. McNulty reports
1970
Text box: 4 folder: 7
"Pearlware: forgotten milestone of English ceramic history" by Ivor Noel-Hume
1969
Text box: 4 folder: 8
Potters.
Text box: 4 folder: 9
Privies and Wells.
Text box: 4 folder: 10
112 South Royal Street.
Text box: 4 folder: 11
Sailing Ships.
Text box: 4 folder: 12
Sennewald Biography Material.
Text box: 4 folder: 13
Silversmiths.
Arrangement
Alphabetical by writer and then chronologically within each
Arrangement
Chronological by year
Text box: 4 folder: 18
Miscellaneous
1970-1976
Graphic Materials box: 5 folder: 1
Bowls - 3" Britannia
1 photograph
Graphic Materials box: 5 folder: 2
Carlyle House
Scope and Contents
7 photographs
Graphic Materials box: 5 folder: 3
Ceramic Bowl
Scope and Contents
1 photograph
Graphic Materials box: 5 folder: 4
Digging Ceremony and Portrait of Pickens
Scope and Contents
2 photographs
Graphic Materials box: 5 folder: 5
Exhibit at City Hall
Scope and Contents
6 photographs
Graphic Materials box: 5 folder: 6
French Faience Plate
Scope and Contents
1 photograph
Graphic Materials box: 5 folder: 7
400 Block of King Street South
Scope and Contents
30 photographs
Graphic Materials box: 5 folder: 8
Dick Muzzrole at Pottery Site
Scope and Contents
1 photograph
Graphic Materials box: 5 folder: 9
Miscellaneous
Scope and Contents
14 photographs
Graphic Materials box: 5 folder: 10
Dick Muzzrole - skull
Scope and Contents
1 photograph
Graphic Materials box: 5 folder: 11
Old Dominion Glass Factory
Scope and Contents
39 photographs
Graphic Materials box: 5 folder: 12
Old Dominion Glass Display
Scope and Contents
1 photograph
Graphic Materials box: 5 folder: 13
Miscellaneous with People
Scope and Contents
6 photographs
Graphic Materials box: 5 folder: 14
Piercy's Pottery Site
Scope and Contents
7 photographs
Graphic Materials box: 5 folder: 15
SI Exhibit Case
Scope and Contents
1 photograph
Graphic Materials box: 5 folder: 16
Waterfront
Scope and Contents
12 photographs
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