Hoffman-Boston High School was one of the African-American schools in Arlington County's segregated school system, and closed after desegregation due to redictricting. RG 7B contains a mix of textual and visual materials that were originally compiled into a scrapbook by Ophelia Taylor Pinkard, a former teacher at Hoffman-Boston High School.

RG 33 houses records that document the Branch's activities including executive board and general meeting minutes, bylaws, financial records, correspondence, yearbooks and bulletins, reports to the regional and national AAUW, photographs, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and other memorabilia.

RG 9 houses the scattered records of the citizen's committee for school improvement for the periods of 1946-1954 and 1956-1969. The records include the Committee's constitution, by-laws, minutes, correspondence files, resolutions, membership lists, press releases, radio scripts, and photographs. In addition, the collection relates information about the School Board candidates, the school lunch program, local bond issues, and the establishment of public...

RG 144 includes a mixture of materials Louise Chestnut collected about many issues with which she was involved. The materials are from organzations such as Save Our Open Spaces, the Coalition for Optimum Growth, Center for Urban Education,a nd the Arlington Outdoor Education Association and topics such as Gyspy Moth control, the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, and the Greathouse Tract Palisades.

The records within Record Group 35 reflect Arlington citizens' concerns about women's rights in the 1970s through the 1990s and tell about the ongoing work of this commission. The records include documents such as agendas, minutes, reports from the committee and its subcommittee, background material specifically on sex descrimination, the Mary Marshall Scholarship, Annual Women's History Month dinners, and the notable women of Arlington biography...

This collection includes the organizational records of the Arlington Outdoor Education Association including financial records, meeting minutes, correspondence, newspaper articles, fundraising activities, and the history of this impressive organization.

RG 140 has collection material related to Tom and Torrill's work with the Arlington community. These subjects include education, housing, and community organizations. Within these subjects are materials they gathered such as reports, meeting minutes, newspaper articles, newsletters, and correspondence.

The Arlington Hall Record Group covers the history of the Arlington Hall Junior College from 1927 through the 1990s. Most of the materials come from the alumnae and are in the form of yearbooks, newsletters, college catalogs, scrapbooks, photographs and assorted ephemera relecting the use of Arlington Hall as a college.