George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections Research Center
Fenwick Library, MS2FL4400 University Dr.
Fairfax, Virginia 22030
Business Number: 703-993-2220
Fax Number: 703-993-8911
speccoll@gmu.edu
URL: https://scrc.gmu.edu
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 Research Center, 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 Places Associated With the Collection
- Norway
- United States -- Armed Forces -- Military life
- Washington (D.C.)
Container List
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 PartyJune 22, 1946Scope 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
LeisureOctober, 1945Scope and Contents note
Mary Elsie Fox, Elayne Scott
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 7-11
LeisureJune 10, 1947Scope and Contents note
Mary Sevcik, Mary Elsie Fox, Bob Rancine, Tim Donovan
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 11-13
LeisureApril, 1947Scope and Contents note
Mary Elsie Fox, Dave O'Connel, Ann Sevcik O'Connel
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 13-14
Group PortraitsOctober 19, 1947Scope and Contents note
Mary Elsie Fox, Dick Perlman, Helen Krawchuk Perlman
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 14-17
Leisure and Group PortraitsJuly, 1945Scope and Contents note
Edna Earle Whitt, Mary Elsie, Fox, Janice Rigler Stoops
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 17-18
City and Town LifeMarch 23, 1947Scope and Contents note
Mary Elsie Fox, Mary Sevcik
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 18-20
LeisureMay, 1947Scope and Contents note
Edna Earle Whitt, Mary Elsie Fox, Mary Sevcik
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 20-21
New JerseyMarch, 1943Scope and Contents note
New Jersey shore, sailors.
Mary Elsie Fox, Elayne Scott, Mary Sevcik
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 22-23
Leisure and PicnicsMarch, 1945Scope and Contents note
Mary Elsie Fox, Mary Sevcik, Tony Pecar, Ted Palmerine, Elayne Scott
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 24-25
Group PortraitsMay, 1947Scope and Contents note
Janice Rigler Stoops, Marion W. Stoops
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 25-26
Portrait PhotographsJuly, 1944Scope and Contents note
Mary Elsie Fox, Jo-Ann Maddy
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 26-27
Group Portraits and Leisure1940sScope and Contents note
Mary Elsie Fox, Elayne Scott, Edna Earle Whitt
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 28-30
Portrait Photographs and Leisure1940sScope and Contents note
Mary Elsie Fox
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 30-34
Portrait Photographs and Leisure1940sScope and Contents note
Mary Elsie Fox, Mary Sevcik, Ann Sevcik O'Connel, Jan Sevcik
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 34-36
Leisure and Domestic Life1940sScope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 36-37
Group Portraits and Leisure1940sScope and Contents note
Mary Elsie Fox
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 37-38
Group Portraits and Military PersonnelSeptember 28, 1942Scope and Contents note
Processed by Peoples Drugstores
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 39-40
Portrait Photographs1940sScope and Contents note
Mary Elsie Fox
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 40-41
Portrait Photographs and Leisure1940sScope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 41
City and Town Life1940sScope and Contents note
Mary Sevcik
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 42
Group PortraitsNovember, 1941Scope and Contents note
Mary Sevcik, Jan Sevcik, Ann Sevcik
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 42
Group Portraits1940sScope and Contents note
Mary Sevcik
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 43
Group Portraits and Parties1940sScope and Contents note
Mary Elsie Fox, Edna Earle Whitt, Elayne Scott
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 43
Recreation and Portraits Photographs1940sScope and Contents note
Thelma Tefler
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 44
City and Town Life1940sScope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 44
Travel1950sScope and Contents note
Color photos of Mary Elsie Fox
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 45
Travel and Leisure1940sScope and Contents note
Jan Sevick
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 45
North Carolina1942Scope and Contents note
Mrs. McNeer, Anna Mae McNeer
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 46
Mercy Hospital, PittsburghAugust, 1942Scope and Contents note
Mary K. Sevcik
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 46
Portrait Photograph1943Scope and Contents note
Mary K. Sevcik
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 46
Portrait1945Scope and Contents note
Ann Sevcik O'Connel
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 46
City and Town Life1940sScope and Contents note
Ann Sevcik O'Connel, Jan Sevcik
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 47
Graduation1940sScope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 47
Group Portrait1940sScope and Contents note
Mary Elsie Fox
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 47
2510 Cliffbourne Pl.1942Scope and Contents note
Mary Elsie Fox
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 47
Portrait Photograph and LeisureAugust, 1945Scope and Contents note
Mary Elsie Fox
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 48
LeisureDecember, 1959Scope and Contents note
Mary Elsie Fox
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 48
HorseJune 13, 1943Scope and Contents note
Jan Sevcik, "Smarty"
Writing on back of photograph
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 48
Hinton1935Scope and Contents note
House after a snowstorm
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 48
Police Officer1940sScope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 49
Group Portrait1940sScope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 49
Portrait Photograph1940sScope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 49-52
Domestic Life and PartiesMarch 15, 1946Scope 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 PortraitsFebruary, 1946Scope and Contents note
Mary Elsie Fox, Dick Perlman, Helen Krawchuk Perlman
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 54-58
Domestic Life and PartiesJanuary 19, 1947Scope 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 PartiesOctober, 1947Scope 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 PartiesJune 10, 1947Scope and Contents note
Mary Elsie Fox, Tim Donovan, Mary Sevcik, Bob Rancine
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 62-63
Domestic Life and Parties1940sScope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 63
Domestic Life and Portrait PhotographOctober 19, 1947Scope and Contents note
Dick Perlman
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 63
Weekend Party at Captain Jordan's FarmApril 7, 1946Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 63
Portrait Photograph1947Scope and Contents note
Mary Sevcik
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 64
Domestic Life1950sScope and Contents note
Mary Elsie Fox
Color Photograph
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 64
Portrait Photograph1940sScope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 64
Washington, D.C.May, 1942Scope 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 TheatreJuly 5, 1942Scope and Contents note
Mary Elsie Fox, Dempsey Fox
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 65
Washington, D.C.September 15, 1947Scope 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, 1947Scope and Contents note
Washington Presbyterian Church
Mary Elsie Fox
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 65-67
Washington, D.C.1940sScope 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, 1946Scope 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 monthsMay, 1947Scope and Contents note
Diane Miller
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 73-75
Diane - 1 yr. OldFebruary 13, 1948Scope and Contents note
Diane Miller
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 75-76
ChildrenDecember 25, 1947Scope and Contents note
Diane Miller
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 77
ChildrenSeptember, 1947Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 77
Children1940sScope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 77
Children1940sScope and Contents note
Writing on back of photograph
- Mixed Materials box: 1 page: 77
Children and Leisure1945Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 1
Portrait and Military1940sScope and Contents note
Tim Donovan
- Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 1
Portrait photograph and Military1940sScope and Contents note
Tim Donovan
Writing on back of photograph
- Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 1
Group portrait and Military1945Scope and Contents note
Tim Donovan
- Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 1
MilitaryDecember 13, 1945Scope and Contents note
Tim Donovan
- Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 2
Military Personnel1944Scope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 2
Military PersonnelSeptember 28, 1942Scope and Contents note
Developed by Peoples Drug Stores
- Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 2
Paris1945Scope and Contents note
Major Mulford, Major Flynn
- Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 2
Military1940sScope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 3-8
Norway1945-1947Scope and Contents note
Mary Sevcik
Skiing Photographs. Some developed by Nerlien.
- Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 8-11
Norway1945-1947Scope and Contents note
Mary Sevcik, Jan Sevcik
Outdoor Photographs
- Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 12-14
Oslo, Norway1946Scope and Contents note
Mike Riley, Charlie La Cour
- Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 14-15
Jeunaker, NorwayDecember, 1945Scope and Contents note
Mary Sevcik, Elsa Beach
Writing on back of photographs
- Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 16
Norway1945-1947Scope and Contents note
Mary Sevcik, Jan Sevcik
- Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 16-17
Oslo, NorwayApril, 1946Scope and Contents note
Mary Sevcik, Bill Shiflet
Writing on back of photographs
- Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 17
Kornsjo, SwedenJanuary, 1945Scope and Contents note
Mary Sevcik, Dorothy Smith, Eric Karl Hellstrom, Fritiof Falkstrand
Writing on back of photographs
- Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 18
Oslo, NorwayDecember, 1945Scope and Contents note
Writing on back of photographs
- Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 18
Oslo, NorwayJanuary, 1946Scope and Contents note
Bob Berg, Mrs. Berg
Writing on back of photographs
- Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 19
New Year Eve in NorwayDecember 31, 1945Scope 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, 1945Scope and Contents note
Writing on back of photographs
- Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 20
Oslo, Norway1946Scope and Contents note
Mary Sevcik
- Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 20
Oslo, NorwayFebruary 22, 1946Scope and Contents note
Mary Sevcik
- Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 20
Oslo, Norway and Children1945-1947Scope and Contents note
Mary Sevcik
Writing on back of photograph
- Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 21
Oslo, NorwayJanuary, 1947Scope and Contents note
Mike Riley
- Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 21
The Day Mary Came Home from NorwayMarch 17, 1947Scope and Contents note
Mary Elsie Fox, Mary Sevcik
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, Turkey1940sScope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 24
Group PortraitJune 22, 1946Scope 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, 1947Scope and Contents note
Mary Elsie Fox, Dempsey Fox
- Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 26
Portrait Photographs and LeisureJune 8, 1946Scope and Contents note
Mary Elsie Fox
- Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 27
Edna's BirthdaySeptember 17, 1947Scope and Contents note
Edna Earle Whitt, Jerry Whitt, Mary Elsie Fox
- Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 28
Group Portrait and LeisureFebruary, 1946Scope and Contents note
Elayne Scott, Mary Elsie Fox
- Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 28
Portrait1940sScope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 29
Pentagon BldgJune, 1946Scope 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 Personnel1940sScope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 31
Military PersonnelApril, 1946Scope and Contents note
Captain Joe Schieferly
- Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 31
Portrait Photograph and Leisure1940sScope and Contents note
Tim Donovan
Writing on back of photograph
- Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 32
Portrait and Children1940sScope and Contents note
This series contains large photographs ranging in size from 1 1/2x9" to 8x10".
- Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 33
Military Personnel1940sScope and Contents note
Captain Joe Schieferly
Writing on front of photograph
- Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 34
Portrait1940sScope and Contents note
- Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 35
Domestic Life and Parties1945-1947Scope 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
Wedding1940sScope and Contents note
Mary Elsie Fox
Hessler Photography, Washington, DC
- Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 37
Edna and Jerry's WeddingJanuary 14, 1948Scope and Contents note
Edna Earle Whitt, Paul Taylor, Mary Elsie Fox
Underwood and Underwood Photography, Washington
- Mixed Materials box: 2 page: 38
ChildrenDecember 25, 1947Scope and Contents note
Diane Miller
- Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 1
Portrait Photograph and LeisureOctober, 1945Scope and Contents note
Mary Elsie Fox
- Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 2
Portrait Photograph and LeisureOctober, 1945Scope and Contents note
Mary Elsie Fox
- Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 3
Group Portrait and PartiesApril 7, 1946Scope and Contents note
Elayne Scott, Edna Earle Whitt, Mary Elsie Fox
- Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 4
Military Personnel and Office1940sScope and Contents note
Captain Joe Schieferly, Alma Chalk
- Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 5
Washington, DC1940sScope and Contents note
Pentagon, Washington Monument, Jefferson Memorial, Capitol Building
- Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 6
Pentagon1940sScope and Contents note
Signal Corps Photograph
- Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 7
Pentagon1940sScope and Contents note
Signal Corps Photograph
- Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 8
Pentagon1940sScope and Contents note
Signal Corps Photograph
- Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 9
Pentagon1940sScope and Contents note
Signal Corps Photograph
- Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 10
Pentagon1940sScope and Contents note
Signal Corps Photograph