Conditions Governing Use

Some parts of this collection are under copyright restrictions. The researcher bears the responsibility of appropriately crediting these resources.

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research during scheduled appointments. Researchers must complete the Washington Library's Special Collections and Archives Registration Form before access is provided. The library reserves the right to restrict access to certain items for preservation purposes.

Biographical / Historical

Biographical information taken from the Alexandria Library website: "Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Edith Moore Kynor Sprouse (1923-2004) was a local historian, author, and preservationist. A graduate of Wellesley College, she worked briefly for the Army Map Service before discovering her true love, Northern Virginia history. Beginning in 1961, Sprouse wrote numerous books and articles about local history and undertook what she regarded as her most important project, indexing and cataloging Fairfax County government records from the 1700s through 1979. Instrumental in founding the Fairfax County Historical Commission, Sprouse served on the board of the Franconia Museum and advised the Friends of Historic Huntley. She was a member of the Northern Virginia Association for History, the Alexandria Historical Society, the Northern Virginia Chapter of the Archaeological Society of Virginia, the Friends of Gunston Hall, Historic Dumfries, at the Alexandria Public Library."

Scope and Contents

This small collection of subject files collected by Edith Sprouse contain mostly news clippings and ephemera related to George Washington and Mount Vernon. The material was collected from the 1960s to the 1980s, with a few items dating back to the 1930s.

Arrangement

Alphabetical by folder title.

Related Material

The Edith Moore Sprouse Papers are located at Alexandria Library https://alexlibraryva.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/resources/29