LeRoy Halsey Photograph Album
name: label: Collector
content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Work and Industry
topic: label: Topic
content: Automobiles
label: Topic
content: Boats
label: Topic
content: Drivers' licenses
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection donated by Cornelia Bryant, on behalf of Quay W. Parrott, Jr., grand nephew of LeRoy Halsey, 1979.
setName: label: See more items in
content: LeRoy Halsey Photograph Album
bioghist: label: Biography of LeRoy Halsey
content: LeRoy Halsey was born on October 12, 1884, in Charleston, South Carolina. He married Decca Coles Singleton on May 14, 1908, and they had three children: Leroy Bartlett Halsey, Decca Singleton Halsey, and Richard Singleton Halsey. In the 1930s, LeRoy Halsey and Decca Halsey moved to Atlanta, Georgia. He was employed by the Department of the Navy for over 40 years, mainly at the Division of Inspection. At the time of his death, he was the civilian director of their Southern Regional Office. He was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, being the great-grandson of Captain Stephen Olney of North Providence, Rhode Island. LeRoy Halsey died on June 19, 1981, in DeKalb, Georgia.

Sources

1940 United States Federal Census, Year: 1940, Census Place: Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, Roll: m-t0627-00729, Page: 1A, Enumeration District: 160-128

Ancestry.com, U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970

Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia, June 22, 1981, "Leroy Halsey Rites Monday"

Georgia Health Department, Office of Vital Records, Georgia, USA, Indexes of Vital Records for Georgia: Deaths, 1919-1998, Certificate Number: 020771

William B. Coles, The Coles family of Virginia, its numerous connections from the emigration to America to the year 1915, 1931, page 491
physdesc: label: Extent
content: .25 Cubic feet (1 box)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1897-1976
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Collection transferred to the Archives Center by the Division of Work and Industry, 2024.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1643
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Invoices
label: Type
content: Photograph albums
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Collection consists of a single item,  a photograph album.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Processed by Joshua Insel, intern, 2025.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Invoices -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Photograph albums
scopecontent: label: Content Description
content: Photograph album of 19 automobiles and boats (rowboats and motorboats) owned and used by LeRoy Halsey of Charleston, South Carolina and Atlanta, Georgia, between 1897 and 1976. In addition to both black and white and color photographs, this album contains driver's permits and licenses, car registrations and bills of sale, credit cards from oil companies, gasoline ration cards from World War II, car key tags with license plate numbers, and other paraphernalia.