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Mary Bahlman Blum Collection

Stewart Bell Jr. Archives
Handley Regional Library
Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society

P.O. Box 58, Winchester, VA 22604
(540) 662-9041 ext. 17
archives@handleyregional.org
www.handleyregional.org

977 WFCHS

SCOPE AND CONTENT: This collection contains the memoir Three Generations in Winchester, Virginia by Mary Bahlman Blum. The book is the memoir of Mary Bahlman Blum who was born in Winchester, VA in 1906 and died in Atlanta, GA in 1988. The collection also contains news clippings, and other material relating to the Bahlman family and others mentioned in her reminiscences.

(1 box) Last updated 2/2012.

BIOGRAPHICAL/HISTORICAL: Mary Bahlman Blum was born in 1906 and was raised in Winchester, VA during the early 20th century. She graduated from Fort Loudoun Seminary and Bernard College. She also completed graduate work in history and taught school. She died in Atlanta, GA in 1988. Her daughter, Judy Blum Greenberg, typed and edited these memoirs.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Taken from the collection

CITE AS: Mary Bahlman Blum Collection 977, Stewart Bell Jr. Archives, Handley Regional Library, Winchester, VA, USA.

ORGANIZATION:

BOX 1

Three Generations in Winchester, Virginia by Mary Bahlman Blum, 190 leaves, typescript

Census Records – Virginia 1920 and 1930 for Frederick County (not a complete census, just the pages for the families of Mrs. Blum’s book), 4 leaves, manuscript (photocopy)

News Clippings