Bacon, Virginia Murray, 1890-1980

Scope and Contents This collection is currently unprocessed and access to it may therefore be limited. Researchers are advised to contact the Booth Family Center for Special Collections for more information on access to this collection.The collection consists of the personal and professional papers of U.S. Congressman Robert Low and his wife, Washington D.C. socialite Virginia Murray Bacon. It includes correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, subject files, printed...

Scope and Contents The collection consists of three philatelic items that were removed from other collections. It includes a United States 1893 Columbian Exposition Issue's 1-dollar stamp (Queen Isabella) on an auction card which was sent from H.R. Harmer to Virginia Murrary Bacon in 1946. The item was purchased by Robert Low Bacon.It also includes a postcard, franked with a United States $1.30 Graf Zeppelin stamp, sent to Robert F. Wagner by O.J. Butler depicting an airship over the...