Blair-Janin family papers, 1850-1933.

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Blair-Janin family papers, 1850-1933.

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Correspondence, legal papers, financial records, organizational records, business papers, genealogical material, invitations, date books, recipes, programs, a list of slaves, newsclippings, maps, memorabilia, and photographs.

4 cubic ft.

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eng,

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Historical Society of Washington, D.C.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8047920

Historical Society of Washington, D.C.

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National Society of the Colonial Dames of America

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(Mrs. James Starr, Jr. was the president of the PA chapter and chair of the National Committee for the Preservation of Existing Records) From the description of National Society of the Colonial Dames of America records, 1848-1918. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 232362062 A national organization, founded in 1891, composed of women who are descended from an ancestor who came to reside in an American colony before 1750 and whose services were rendered...

Blair, Mary Jesup, 1826-1914

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Blair House (Washington, D.C.)

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Jesup, Thomas Sidney, 1788-1860

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Quartermaster-general of the U.S. army, 1818-1860. Appointed commander of U.S., Georgia, and Alabama troops fighting the Creeks in Alabama, May 19, 1836, and of the army in Florida during the Second Seminole War, Dec. 6, 1836. From the description of Letter : Tampa Bay, [Fla.], to C.C. Clay, Governor of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Ala., 1836 Nov. 17. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 38110737 Thomas Sidney Jesup was a soldier in the U.S. Army. He rose to the rank of Major Gen...

Jesup, Julia Clark, 1840-

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National Society, Children of the American Revolution.

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Blair, Violet, 1848-1933

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Janin, Albert

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Albert Covington Janin (1844-1928) was a New Orleans attorney and business entrepreneur. Violet Blair (1848-1933) was a socialite from a prominent Washington, DC family. The two married in 1874 and had a highly unconventional marriage for the times. They generally lived in separate places without a shared household, and remained financially independent from one another. For more information about Janin and Blair, see Virginia Jeans Laas's research, especially her book Love and Power in the Ninet...

Blair, Jesup, 1852-1902

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Blair family.

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Janin family.

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