History by the Block is an educational design seeking to strengthen the teaching of history in the Arlington Public Schools by focusing attention on the role of architecture and the design process in American social history. This unit, Block Study: Learning about your Local Community, uses a block of houses in the neighborhood of Swanson Intermediate School to demonstrate how people live, what they value, and how they are influenced by their neighbors....

PG 500 houses images of historic homes in Arlington. The photographs were taken during historical house tours conducted by the Arlington Historical Society sometime between 1964 and 1987. The photogaphs do not represent a comprehensive collection of all the buildings toured over these years. Most of the images are unidentified and undated.

PG 201 contains images of structures, mostly houses in the Ballston area, built in the 1930s. Redevelopment has claimed many of them. Also included are pictures of two schools, Thomas Nelson Page and the Old Ballston School.