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What’s New in the Archives

Interested in what’s new in the archives at the Library of Virginia? You can find out in two reports compiled quarterly by LVA staffers: The…

Roger ChristmanAugust 15, 2011

The Stacks

Latest Issue of Broadside is Now Available

The summer 2011 issue of Broadside, the Library of Virginia’s quarterly magazine, is now available. Broadside describes and illustrates the holdings and happenings at the…

Roger ChristmanAugust 15, 2011

Archives

Primary Source Offers Questions and Clues About Will, Runaway Slave

Located among the odds and ends of Accomack County court records is this 1758 advertisement from Landon Carter of Richmond County for his runaway slave…

Sarah NerneyAugust 10, 2011

Archives

Additional Prince Edward County Chancery Causes Added to CRI!

Additional Prince Edward County chancery causes are now available on the Chancery Records Index. These additions span the years 1754 through 1883. Combined with the previously…

Dale DulaneyAugust 8, 2011

Archives

Aaron Burr Tried for Treason Today in 1807. Court Documents Here At LVA.

Two hundred four years ago, August 3, 1807, the former vice-president of the United States, Aaron Burr, was put on trial for treason. At a…

Vince BrooksAugust 3, 2011

Manuscripts & Special Collections

Buy Me Some Peanuts And Cigarettes: Baseball Cards in the Archive

Tucked away in the Business Records Collections at the Library of Virginia are five 2.5 x 1.5 inch baseball cards issued by the American Tobacco…

Trenton HizerAugust 3, 2011

Digital Projects

“Multiple Exposure” and “Out of the Box” voted LVA’s top two blogs!

Once the new blog “Multiple Exposure” came online we knew we were going to have to share the digital spotlight with our friends from Special…

Dale DulaneyAugust 2, 2011

Archives

New Bedford County Database Available for Genealogists at LVA!

There is a new database for researchers interested in Bedford County, Virginia. Filed as Accession 45528, the Donald E. Hill Collection: A genealogy database of…

Lyn HartJuly 29, 2011

Archives

Everybody’s Doing What? The Turkey Trot!: Irving Berlin’s Song and Latest Dance Craze Too Much For Newport News.

If you’ve ever heard “God Bless America” or “White Christmas” then you know the music of Irving Berlin. Considered by many critics to be the…

Dale DulaneyJuly 27, 2011

Archives

A Few Of Our Favorite Things: Letterheads In The Archive Part 1

Editor’s note: A second post featuring letterhead in the collection will go up in the near future. Thanks to Vincent Brooks, Sarah Nerney, Renee Savits,…

Vince BrooksJuly 20, 2011

Archives

New Discoveries in World War I Questionnaires

Created in 1919 by Governor Westmoreland Davis, the World War I History Commission’s task was to collect, edit, and publish source material concerning Virginia’s participation…

Roger ChristmanJuly 13, 2011

Digital Projects Manuscripts & Special Collections

150 years later, nearly 400 letters reveal one couple’s Civil War story

The CW 150 Legacy Project was recently in Fairfax for a scanning event at the City of Fairfax Regional Library. The event was a great…

Renee SavitsJuly 6, 2011

Archives

Kilroy Was Here. Pennsylvania Infantry Left Their Mark on Lynchburg’s Courthouse Records.

Sometimes archivists encounter the unexpected. While looking through an unidentified business record, I expected to see the usual debits and credits typically found in nineteenth…

Bari HelmsJune 29, 2011

Archives Conservation The Stacks

LVA and CCRP Assist Hampton Circuit Court Clerk.

On Tuesday June 14, a team of archivists were in Hampton to assist circuit court clerk Linda Batchelor Smith in completing a records inventory of…

Carl ChildsJune 27, 2011

Archives

Fowl Play.

Death records provide familial information to genealogists, statistical information for researchers, and an occasional chuckle for archivists. My morbid fascination with death registers paid off…

Kelly Gilbert SizemoreJune 22, 2011