Photography – The UncommonWealth

Picturing Family

Editor’s Note: A version of this article first appeared in Broadside, the magazine of the Library of Virginia, Issue No. 1, 2024. Whether displayed on household…

Dale NeighborsJune 11, 2025

Digital Projects Manuscripts & Special Collections

New Digital Collection: F. W. Woolworth Company from the Foster Studio Collection

This was the motto of Foster’s Photographic Gallery (later Foster Studio), opened by Walter Washington Foster in 1890, at 112 North Ninth Street in Richmond.…

Kimberly WolfeMay 17, 2023

Digital Projects Manuscripts & Special Collections

Echoes of Summer: Explore warm-weather recreation & attractions of the past in our digital collections

Editor's Note: A version of this article first appeared in Broadside, the magazine of the Library of Virginia, Issue No. 2, 2020. As we near…

Dana PugaAugust 18, 2021

Manuscripts & Special Collections

Yesterday’s Selfies

Editor's Note: A version of this article first appeared in Broadside, the magazine of the Library of Virginia, Issue No. 4, 2020. Squeezing into a…

Dale NeighborsJuly 14, 2021

Manuscripts & Special Collections

Season’s Greetings and More!

Did you know that the Library of Virginia's Visual Studies Collection has a Tumblr page for new acquisitions? It is called LOOK WHAT WE GOT,…

Vince BrooksDecember 6, 2018

Manuscripts & Special Collections

Chasing Steeples through WWI France

The Library of Virginia’s Visual Studies Collection has a collection of German postcards depicting non-combat scenes from the Western Front. Schaar & Dathe of Trier…

Sonya ColemanNovember 9, 2018

Manuscripts & Special Collections

The Art of the Annual: The Virginia Yearbook Digitization Project

In 2015, I started the Library’s yearbook digitization project to scan yearbooks from all around Virginia on behalf of public libraries. Thanks to funds from…

Rose SchooffApril 18, 2018

Manuscripts & Special Collections

"View from the Hospital": The Blanton World War I Scrapbook

This is the latest entry in a series of blog posts spotlighting stories and records of Virginia’s involvement in World War I. Many collections in the Library…

Vince BrooksMarch 28, 2018

Modern Love: Two Wrights and a Wrong

Many a modern day love rat has been outed by a spouse’s discovery of telling photos posted to Facebook or illicit text messages. But what…

Vince BrooksDecember 9, 2015

Archives Virginia Authors

"You Say It’s Your Birthday:" Virginia’s Executive Mansion Turns 200

On 16 March 2013, Virginia’s Executive Mansion celebrated its 200th anniversary with a birthday party at the Library of Virginia. The highlight of the event was a…

Roger ChristmanMarch 20, 2013