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Preferred Citation

Edwin W. Lynch panoramic photographs, C0520, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries

Acquisition Information

Donated by Steven Etkn on October 17, 2018.

Processing Information

Processing and finding aid completed by Meghan Glasbrenner in July 2024.

Biographical and Historical Information

Edwin Williams Lynch was born in Annandale, Virginia on January 11, 1913. In 1936 he married Helen Mae Webb (born on November 16, 1916) and served as Fairfax County delegate to the Virginia General Assembly from 1945-1947 and again from 1949-1954. Edwin also served as a George Mason University Foundation trustee and helped found the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (ICAR), now known as the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution. Edwin passed away on March 17, 2004 at the age of 91. Helen passed away at the age of 89 on June 18, 2006. They are both buried in Fairfax County's Annandale United Methodist Church Cemetery.

Located on the corner of Duke Street and South Quaker Lane in Fairfax County, Virginia, Lee-Jackson High School was built in 1925 and opened for the 1926-1927 school year. At the time it was one of only five high schools in the county, and the only one in the southeastern portion. In 1939, Lee-Jackson ceased operations as a high school, folowing construction and opening of Mount Vernon High School, and was turned into an elementary school. In the 1950s, the name was changed to Stonewall Jackson Elementary School and in 1961 a new school building was constructed on Quaker Lane behind the original building, which closed entirely by the end of the 1960s and was later demolished.

Scope and Content

Three panoramic photographs, two of Edwin Lynch and members of the Virginia House of Delegates and one of Helen Lynch and other students in front of Lee-Jackson High School in Fairfax County, Virginia.

The two Virginia House of Delegates photographs feature members posing together in the House of Delegates Chamber inside the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, Virginia on January 24, 1950 and January 30, 1952 and are attributed to Foster Studio. The photograph of students in front of Lee-Jackson High School has a handwritten inscription on the back that reads "Taken February 14, 1931" and a stamp in the bottom right corner reading "Rideout, 525 11th Street, Washington, D.C.," possibly indicating the photograph was taken by H.H. Rideout.

Edwin and Helen Lynch are not clearly labeled in their respective photographs.

Arrangement

This is a single folder collection.

Related Material

The Special Collections Research Center also holds the Edwin W. Lynch Vietnam War protest collection , as well as other panoramic photographs and other collections related to Virginia politics and government .

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Lee-Jackson High School (Alexandria, Va.)
• Legislators -- United States
• Lynch, Helen Mae, 1916-2006
• Panoramic photographs
• Photographs
• Public schools -- Virginia
• Virginia -- Politics and government
• Virginia -- Politics and government -- 20th century
• Virginia, Northern
• Virginia, Northern -- Politics and government
• Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates