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Air of Gloom: Orville Wright’s Ill-Fated Test Flight at Fort Myer, 106 Years Ago Today

On 17 September 1908, five years after the first successful flight at Kitty Hawk, Orville Wright and Thomas E. Selfridge test flew the Wright Flyer in a demonstration…

Kelley EwingSeptember 17, 2014

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Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Reading: Inside Motorsports

As Richmond International Raceway gears up to host late season NASCAR races, it seems a perfect opportunity to celebrate the recent donation to the Library…

Kelley EwingSeptember 6, 2014

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Cigarette Advertising in the 1930’s – Early Years

The Richmond Collegian, the student newspaper from the University of Richmond, provides a unique opportunity to look at state of the art advertising from the…

Silver PersingerAugust 27, 2014

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George Wythe: FFDWR (Founding Father Deserving Wider Recognition)

That’s Thomas Jefferson, not only a former student but trusted friend, and the statement most often quoted in biographical accounts, long or short, of Wythe’s…

Henry MorseAugust 13, 2014

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The Weekly Progress — The People’s Progressive Paper of Powhatan

The Library of Virginia recently came into the possession of a rare Powhatan newspaper–while it’s not an original copy, the photocopied edition of the Weekly…

Kelley EwingJuly 21, 2014

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Read About It: New Titles and Issues Added to Virginia Chronicle!

The Virginia Newspaper Project is excited to announce that we have added new titles and new issues of existing titles to the ever growing Virginia…

Errol SomayJuly 11, 2014

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A Muted Celebration: Independence Day, July 4th, 1902–A Quartet of Friday Fourths From the Newspaper Archive of Virginia Chronicle

The Civil War ended 37 years ago. A Republican, Theodore Roosevelt is President. A Democrat, Andrew Jackson Montague is Governor. A state constitutional convention, dominated…

Henry MorseJuly 2, 2014

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That’s Our Motto. . .Mottoes Revisited

Here are the answers to Tuesday's motto quiz (you can enlarge any image by clicking on it):

Kelley EwingJune 27, 2014

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Our Motto Is. . .

Below, what looks like an elaborate ransom note is actually a list of different mottoes taken from newspapers in the Library of Virginia's collection.Mottoes were…

Kelley EwingJune 24, 2014

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The Mythification of Abraham Lincoln

A common feature in old newspapers was the short article. The sort of thing that was likely passed around from newspaper to newspaper in order to…

Silver PersingerJune 10, 2014

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“Not A Hideous Dream” – Newspaper Coverage of the Johnstown Flood

On 31 May 1889, unusually heavy rainfall washed out the South Fork dam in western Pennsylvania and released twenty million tons of water from a…

Kelley EwingMay 31, 2014

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The Casket and The Institute Jewel

Located in Suffolk, Virginia and chartered in 1881, the Suffolk Female Institute was run by Misses Sallie Finney in what had once been the Central…

Kelley EwingMay 20, 2014

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Set The Way-Back Machine!

The Library of Virginia is the home of the Virginia Newspaper Project. In 1997, the Library of Virginia moved to a new building at 800…

Errol SomayApril 30, 2014

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A Look Back at the Richmond Downtown Expressway

In our collection we have an unusual one-off edition of The Progressive Richmonder from June, 1950 that was circulated to promote support for the construction…

Silver PersingerApril 18, 2014

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“Your Attention Residents, Now Arriving at Gates H and C, Dulles International Airport.” The Herndon-Chantilly Times (1958-1962).

I didn’t anticipate opening today’s “Fit To Print” blog entry in quite this manner but I stumbled on it mainly by chance and, for someone…

Henry MorseApril 10, 2014