Peabody Room
Vertical File Subject Headings
These files include newspaper clippings from the major dailies past and present, brochures, pamphlets, documents, and magazine articles. The files cover all subjects related to Georgetown--social, economic, cultural, recreational, political, and historical.
ABC (Alcoholic Beverage Control) Board
Additions (see also Land Grants)
Beatty & Hawkins Purchaser List
Deakins, Lee & Casnave 1813
Aged Womens’ Homes
Air Pollution
Alleys
Analostan Island
Agricultural Activities
ANCs - Advisory Neighborhood Commissions
1976-1997
1998-1999
2000-
Animals
Archaeology
Architecture
Arts (see also Music)
Assembly (and other dances)
Assessments
18th Century
1800 – 1900
20th Century (see also Real Estate Sales)
21st Century
Authors
Awards - PCA
Bicentennial (Georgetown 1751-1951)
Bicentennial Celebration (Citizen’s Association Correspondence)
Bicycles
Biographies (of various Georgetowners thru history – brief)
Blacks (see also Churches – Black, Soc. & Org. – Rock Creek))
19th Century
Black Residential Patterns in Georgetown 1860-1900
1900-1969
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
Bloggers
Boathouses
Boone, Daniel (plaque)
Bridges
19th Century
31st
Aqueduct
Chain
Constitution Avenue (Roosevelt)
Key
M
P
Que
Rock Creek
Three Sisters
Wisconsin
Burleith
Businesses
Antiques
Art Galleries/Craft Shops
Banks
Bars (includes under-aged drinking) (see also Georgetown
University - Students - Drinking Issues)
Beauty Parlors/Barbers/Spas
Book Sellers
Clothing/Dress
Design
Food/Drugs/Liquors
Furniture/Home Furnishings
Gasoline
General
Lodgings
Motion Picture Theaters
Restaurants - General
Restaurants - not M St or Wisconsin Avenue
A-M
N-Z
Restaurants - M St east of Wisconsin Avenue
A-M
N-Z
Restaurants - M St west of Wisconsin Avenue
A-M
N-Z
Restaurants - Wisconsin Avenue
A-L
M-Z
Retail, Misc.
1930-1959
1960-1969
1970-1979
1980-1999
2000-
Retail/Service
Shipping
Businesses Records Guide - Julie Abell
Call Box Project
Canals
Alexandria
Barges
Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O)
Description
History - General
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
Pictures
1916, 1930-1959
1960-1969
1970-1979
1980-
Towpath
1940-1959
1960-1969
1970-1979
1980-1999
2000-
Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O) Park & Parkway
1930-1949
1950-1959
1960-1979
1980-
Maps
Potomac
Cartoons
Cemeteries
Holy Rood
Mt. Zion
Oak Hill
General
Newsletters
Others
Presbyterian
List of Plots
Volta Place Playground
Union Baptist/Union Burial Ground
Children
Christmas
Churches
Baptist
Alexander Memorial
First Baptist
Georgetown Baptist (formerly West Washington Baptist)
Jerusalem
Black
Catholic
Epiphany
Holy Trinity
General
1930s-1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
Our Lady of Victory
St. Stephen Martyr
Divine Science
Episcopal
Christ
19th Century & General
1900-1940s
1950s-1960s
1970s-1980s
1990s-
Episcopal Heritage Center, Christ the King Parish
General
Grace
18th Century & General
1900-1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s-1990s
2000s-
St. John’s
Early Years
1930s-1940s
1950s-1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
General
Georgetown Community
Georgetown Ministry Center
Lutheran
Georgetown Lutheran
Methodist
General
Congress Street
Dumbarton Street
Mt. Zion
Presbyterian
Spiritualist
Church of the Two Worlds
Cicadas
Citizens Associations (see also Societies & Organizations)
City Council (see Wards)
Civil War
Cleanup Campaigns
“Clifton” (see Georgetown Heights – “Elverson House”)
Commissioners - DC & Georgetown
Congressional Act for Formation of “Old Georgetown,” 9/22/1950
Craftsmen (in antebellum Georgetown)
Crime & Police
19th Century
1910s
1920s
1930s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
Starbucks Slayings
2000s
Customs House (see also Post Office)
Deeds
Diplomatic Corps.
Drugs
Dumbarton House
Dumbarton Oaks (see also 2715 Q St.)
Conference, 1944
Gardens
Museum & Research Center
Music
Park
Published Materials
Easements
18th Century Buildings
Elderly
Elections 2000 –
“Elverson House” (see Georgetown Heights – “Elverson House”)
Embassies
Ethnic Groups
Ferry
Films
“Exorcist”
Fine Arts Commission
Fire Dept.
Fire Marks
Fires
Flea Markets - Georgetown (see also Safeway)
Flour Mill
“Forrest Hall”
Forts
Freeway
Garden Tours
1960s
2000s
Gays
Georgetown
1890s
1900s
1910s
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
Georgetown Boundaries
Georgetown – Chronology
Georgetown Guide Books
Georgetown Heights – “Elverson House”
Georgetown Misc.
Georgetown Name Origin
Georgetown Park (shopping mall)
Georgetown 250th Anniversary Celebration (2001)
Georgetown University
Alumni
The Arts
Athletics
Bicentennial
Buildings
“Campus Plan 1983 – 2000 and Beyond”
Campus Plan 2000 -
Canal Road Access
Directors - Faculty
Dormitories/Housing Issues
Electrical Co. Generator - Power Plant
Funding
History
19th century
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
Hospital/ Medical Center
Hospital 2000-
Libraries
Medical, Dental & Nursing Schools
Public Relations
ROTC
Sesquicentennial, 1939 & 175th, 1964
Students
Students - Drinking Issues (see also Businesses – Bars)
Ghosts
Glover Park
“Glover Park Gazette”
Graffiti
Gunpowder
HABS - Historic American Buildings Survey
Halloween
Harbor
Health
Heraldry
Historic Georgetown Foundation
Historic Georgetown Inc.
Historic Preservation – Dept. of Consumer & Regulatory Affairs
Holidays
Christmas
Halloween
Mothers’ Day
Homelessness (see also Shelters)
Hopfenmaier (rendering plant, aka slaughter house)
House Tours
(individual VFs for most years starting with 1927)
House Tours People
Humanities Council, DC
Indians
Industrial
Insurance
Jewish (see also Synagogues – Kesher Israel Congregation)
Key Mansion
“Key of all Keys”
“King and I” (connection to Georgetown)
Lamp Lighters
Land Grants
Landmarks
Legislation
Library
Columbian
DC – undated
DC - broken out by decade
Georgetown – misc. undated
Georgetown – broken out by most individual years 1932 to date
Peabody Association
Peabody Room – undated histories
Peabody Room - broken out by most individual years 1936 to date Lime Kilns
Lincoln
Litter (see Cleanup Campaigns)
Lottery
Magazines
Maps
Published by Business & Professional Assoc.
Markets
Markets – Georgetown pre 1960
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
Georgetown Market 1970s legal documents – see archival collection
Masons
Metro Myth
Military School
Militia 1815
Montgomery County 1776
Motion Pictures (see Films)
Music
Navy Registers 1835 & 1842
Neighborhood Names
Newspapers
Courant
Georgetowner
Holdings
Misc.
Times & Patowmack Packet
Nicknames (Georgetown)
“Normanstone”
“Old Georgetown”
Articles
Chronology
Early 20th Century
Especially pre-1895
Houses
Maps
Old Georgetown in Peabody Room, 1951
Williams (Mathilde) & Lyle (Robert) Articles
Old Stone House
Orphans
Paper Mill
Parking
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
Parks (see also Recreation Centers, Youth)
Book Hill
Dumbarton Oaks
Francis Scott Key
1980s
1990s
2000s
Misc.
Montrose
Rock Creek
Rose
Volta
Waterfront Pedestrians
Police (see Crime & Police)
Population
Pre 1950
1950s
1970s
1980s
1990s
Post Office – Georgetown (see also Customs House)
18th century
Potomac River
Accidents
Description
Ecology
Floods
Floods of 1985 & 1996
History
19th century
Parks
Potomac River Heritage Partnership
Pollution
Sports
Preservation
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
“Pretty Prospects” - Pricilla McNeil
Protests
May Day 1971
Public Transportation (see also Railroads, Street Railways, Subways
in Georgetown)
Pumpkins
Railroads (see also Public Transportation, Railroads, Street Railways,
Subways in Georgetown)
Baltimore & Ohio
Rats
Real Estate Sales
Recreation Centers (see also Parks)
Recreation Guide (see also Parks)
Reminiscences
Rent Issues
Residential Sales - 2001
Rock Creek
“Rock of Dumbarton” - Pricilla McNeil
Running Races
Safeway (see also Flea Markets)
Samplers – 19th Century Georgetown
Schools - Private Schools in Georgetown
1795-1845
19th century Ephemera
Early
Female Seminary
Georgetown School of Science and Art
Holy Trinity Grade School
Industrial Home School
Linthicum Institute
Visitation Convent & School
1930-1969
1970-1999
1993-1995 (fire)
2000-
Printed matter 1 of 2
Printed matter 2 of 2
Washington International School/ International Bilingual Primary
Schools -Public Schools in Georgetown
Addison
Chamberlain
Corcoran
Curtis
Duke Ellington High School
Fillmore
General & Misc.
Gordon
Hardy
Jackson
Phillips
Stoddert
Threlkeld
Western High School
1920s and earlier
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
Wormley
Scissors Grinders
Seniors
Sewers
Shelter (see also Homelessness)
Sidewalks
Sewer Caps
Signage
Slavery
“Slip”
Social Conditions
Social List (Green Book)
Societies & Organizations (see also Citizens Associations)
Association of the Oldest Inhabitants of D.C.
Business Improvement District (B.I.D.)
Boy Scouts
Boys & Girls Club
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
2000s
Burleith Citizens Association
Burleith Citizens Association Newsletter
Business & Professional Association of Georgetown
Citizens Association of Georgetown (C.A.G.)
1970s
2007-
2000-2006
Newsletters 12/2000-
Federation of Citizens Association DC
Foundation for Historic Georgetown
Foundation for Historic Georgetown Easements & Application
Forms
Georgetown Business Property Owners Association (1962-63)
Georgetown Canal & Riverside Council
1960s
1970s
Georgetown Children’s House
Georgetown Children’s House Newsletter (1938-40)
Georgetown Citizens Association 1930s-1950s
Georgetown Garden Club
Georgetown Heritage Trust (previously Historic Georgetown Foundation)
Historic Georgetown Inc.
Junior Army-Navy Guild Assoc.
Kiwanis
Lions Club
Neighborhood House
Progressive Citizens Association of Georgetown
Rock Creek Citizens Association (Black)
Spite Houses
Streams
Street Lights
Street Railways (see also Public Transportation, Railroads,
Subway in Georgetown)
1860s
1870s
1880s
1890s
1910s
1930s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
Streets
1790s
1810s
1850s
1860s
1870s
1880s
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
Subway in Georgetown (see also Public Transportation, Railroads,
Street Railways)
Surplus Property
Suter’s Tavern
Synagogues – Kesher Israel Congregation
Taverns
Tax Sale: 1825
Taxes: Special Wartime Tax
Telephones
Television
Television Shows
Terrorism – 9/11/2001
Remembrance
Tobacco
Tour Guides
Tourism
Traffic
Trees
Tudor Place (see House History File – 1644 31st Street, NW)
Tunnels
Utilities
Georgetown Gas Light Co. (1919)
Manhole Cover Blasts 2000 – 2003
Volta Bureau
Walking Tours
Wards
Washington Harbor
Waterfront
1960s and earlier
1970s
Waterfront Inventory - 1972?
1980s
1990s
2000s
Water Supply
Whitehurst Freeway
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
World War II
Writers Who Lived in Georgetown
Youth (see also Parks, Recreation Centers)
1930s & 1940s
1950s to 1970s
Zoning
Missing Vertical Files
The following vertical files were lost during recovery of materials after the April 30, 2007 fire.
Garden Tours
1940s
1950s
1970s
1980s
1990s
Garden Pilgrimages & Tours - to 1945
Newspapers
Georgetown Courier
Parks
Glover Archbold
Societies & Organizations
Georgetown Residents’ Alliance
Georgetown Waterfront Commission
Whitehurst Freeway Corridor System Modification Study
Updated January 4, 2010
For additional information contact Peabody Room special collections librarian
Jerry A. McCoy
202.727.1213
jerry.mccoy@dc.gov
Vertical file materials may be viewed at…
Washingtoniana Division
District of Columbia Public Library
Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library
Room #307
901 G Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001-4599
(202) 727-1213
FAX (202) 727-1032
…until December of 2010 when the collection will be available at the new Georgetown Branch Library!