Box 44

Scope and Contents Approximately 80 items from the papers of Philadelphia businessman John W. Field and his wife Eliza Willing Spring Peters Field, including letters, calling cards, drawings, and other ephemera in English, French, and Italian. Correspondents are largely artists and intellectuals, including writer Graham Balfour (1858-1929), Italian actress Adelaide Ristoni (1822-1906) and her family, and composer and pianist Giovanni Sgambati (1841-1914), while the content of the letters is generally personal...

Scope and Contents A typescript of National Parks Service historian George J. Olszewski’s unpublished study A History of the Old Georgetown Market, Georgetown, D.C. (August 1966), 70 pages including a variety of inserts, maps and photographs, in a black pressboard binder. The document provides a short history of the Old Georgetown Market building, located at 3276 M Street in NW Washington DC from the construction of the first structure in 1795 through 1966 when the building was due to be renovated. Along with...