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Ad for the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad and the Washington Southern Railway lines, the primary means of travel and shipping for Alexandria.

Exterior of Robert F Downham's house. In the late 18th and early 19th century Edmund Jennings Lee, a prominent politician and correspondent with George Washington, lived here. Today the home call the Lee-Fendall House, a historic house museum on the…

Exterior of S F Dyson and Bro's books stationary store

Exterior of Alexandria's Second Presbyterian Church, the dominant Presbyterian church in Alexandria after the original Old Presbyterian Church closed in 1899.

Exterior and group photo for St. Mary's academy, an all-girls school in Alexandria. Over 250 girls attended the school, established in 1869 by the Sisters of the Holy Cross.

Exterior of St. Mary's Catholic Church, established in 1795 and the oldest of its kind in Virginia.

Exterior of the Swan brother's Alexandria Branch, established in 1899. The Swan brothers moved to Alexandria from Waynesboro in Augusta County Virginia and also opened a dry goods store in Washington DC.

Exterior of Thomas B Murphy's home. Murphy ran a prominent lumber company in North Carolina.

Exterior of W E Bain's hardware store.