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Radio Days: The Norfolk News Index and A Posting From the Electric Front, 1939-1940

Seventy-five years ago, the media landscape was not nearly so vast, not nearly so individualized. An electronic device was not on your person, it was…

Henry MorseDecember 11, 2015

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Attention Enquiring Minds! Richmond Enquirer now available on Virginia Chronicle

The Virginia Newspaper Project is happy to announce additions to the growing list of newspapers available on Virginia Chronicle, the Library of Virginia’s free, searchable digital newspaper database. Now,…

Kelley EwingDecember 3, 2015

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Horrible Butcheries at Wilmington—The Richmond Planet’s coverage of the 1898 insurrection in Wilmington, North Carolina

On November 10, 1898, in response to the election of a biracial Fusionist government, a group of white Democrats in Wilmington, North Carolina organized a mob, attacking…

Anne McCreryNovember 10, 2015

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A High Altitude Halloween: Searching Monterey’s Highland Recorder, 1920-1929

This photo was peeled off and expanded from Monterey’s Wiki page and presents to the eye a view likely little changed since the decade of…

Henry MorseOctober 30, 2015

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Text Correcting with Virginia Chronicle

Here’s a reminder that as a registered user of Virginia Chronicle, the Library of Virginia’s digital newspaper collection, you can assist in improving search results…

Kelley EwingOctober 16, 2015

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That Was A Good Idea, Keeping Count. The Library Of Congress Achieves Ten Million Pages In Chronicling America-The Nation’s Newspaper Archive

And the Virginia Newspaper Project was there. At Chronicling America‘s start in 2007 as well as today in continuing to provide digitized Virginia imprint newspapers…

Henry MorseOctober 7, 2015

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A Genius, A Recorder, and a Growler walk into an archive: What’s New on Virginia Chronicle

The Virginia Newspaper Project is thrilled to announce the latest additions to the Library of Virginia’s free, searchable online newspaper resource, Virginia Chronicle.The recent additions…

Kelley EwingOctober 2, 2015

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A Bicycle Search For You

As the UCI World Bike Championships unfold and professional road bikers from all over the map pedal by LVA down Richmond’s Broad Street, the Virginia Newspaper Project thought…

Kelley EwingSeptember 23, 2015

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Advertising the Big Top: 1870s Circus Ads from the Staunton Spectator

It’s September 16, 1873 in the sleepy town of Staunton, Virginia. You can only imagine a reader’s excitement at turning to page three of the Staunton…

Kelley EwingSeptember 2, 2015

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From Middletown to Salem: Virginia Chronicle takes a road trip

The Virginia Newspaper Project is happy to announce new additions to the Library of Virginia’s Virginia Chronicle. The number of historical newspaper pages available on…

Kelley EwingAugust 25, 2015

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A History of the Fairfax Herald

Founded in 1882 by Captain Stephen Roszel Donohoe, the Democratically-affiliated Fairfax Herald was published weekly in Fairfax, Virginia, where it served as the area’s dominant newspaper for…

Anne McCreryAugust 14, 2015

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Seeing the light of capitalism–Virginia Electric and Power Company ads in the McCarthy era.

Emblematic of Cold War era America, these anti-socialist advertisements for the Virginia Electric and Power Company appear in issues of the Fairfax Herald from the 1950s.…

Anne McCreryAugust 3, 2015

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Reading between the lines: the Comstock Act and ads for the treatment of “female complaints” from the Fairfax Herald.

If you read a newspaper from the late 19th century, you’re liable to be bombarded by various medical advertisements—treatments for catarrh, scrofula, and “watery-blood;” cure-alls like…

Anne McCreryJuly 29, 2015

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Be True to Your School

Question: What do the following five quotes have in common? Answer: They are all quotes taken from high school newspapers. And while academic newspapers cover topics…

Kelley EwingJuly 24, 2015

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Newsies! Not the Movie!

Richmond’s Style Weekly published an engaging cover story about “Children of the Streets of Richmond, 1865-1920,” a book recently published by local writer, Harry Ward.We’ll let…

Errol SomayJuly 13, 2015