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Have scanner, will travel

As you may have heard from this blog and other sources, the CW 150 Legacy Project: Document Digitization and Access is an effort to locate Civil War-era…

Laura Drake DavisDecember 1, 2010

Archives

Reunion of The Class of 1865

Love and respect for one remarkable woman drew Civil War veterans from across the United States to Richmond during the summer of 1896. The occasion…

Autumn Reinhardt SimpsonNovember 17, 2010

Archives

War, Remembrance, and the Power of Records

For this week’s Veterans’ Day-themed post, I am going to depart from our usual practice of focusing on images, documents, and stories that Library of…

Roger ChristmanNovember 10, 2010

Archives

“I Declare My Intention to Become a Citizen of the United States of America …”

On November 3, a naturalization ceremony will be held at the Library of Virginia. A group of people from various nations will take an oath…

Greg CrawfordNovember 2, 2010

Newspapers

Chris Baker: "Cheerful Among Corpses"

Anatomical dissection is a matter of course for today’s medical student. Those who selflessly donate their bodies to science are treated with utmost respect for…

Vince BrooksOctober 27, 2010

Manuscripts & Special Collections

Hope, Grief, Despair: The Emotional Impact of the Civil War

Next year marks the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War. The war’s effect on the people of Virginia was immense – especially to…

Jim GreveOctober 20, 2010

Archives Digital Projects The Stacks

Take a Bow. Five Million Documents Scanned!

Library of Virginia (LVA) staff, partners, and dignitaries gathered at the Goochland County courthouse Thursday to celebrate a milestone in a project that aims to…

Dale DulaneyOctober 15, 2010

Archives

Virginians in the California Gold Rush

The California Gold Rush began in 1848 with the discovery of gold at John A. Sutter’s sawmill in Coloma, California. During the next seven years,…

Sarah NerneyOctober 13, 2010

Education & Programming The Stacks

Fall 2010 Issue of Recordatur Now Online.

Check out the Fall 2010 issue of the Recordatur. This newsletter is published twice a year to keep circuit court clerks informed about the Circuit…

Dale DulaneyOctober 13, 2010

Archives

"General"John Salling : Virginia’s Last Confederate Veteran?

John Salling of Slant, Virginia, in Scott County, was long recognized as Virginia’s last surviving Confederate veteran. In recognition of his service, the state of…

Craig MooreOctober 6, 2010

Archives Education & Programming Manuscripts & Special Collections Newspapers The Stacks

October is Archives Month!

October is Archives Month! The theme of this year’s celebration in Virginia is Making Connections: Archives and Imagination. Archives Month celebrates those institutions and individuals…

Dale DulaneyOctober 1, 2010

Manuscripts & Special Collections

A surveyor’s view of wartime Virginia

Editor's Note: Hopefully the captured notebook, referenced in the first paragraph of this article, survived its stay at the Herald and has now found a home…

Trenton HizerSeptember 29, 2010

Archives

Don’t Throw That One Out!

Sometimes an archivist must be a detective looking for things everyone else missed. As part of an appraisal project in local records, I reviewed blank…

Jennifer Davis McDaidSeptember 22, 2010

Archives

Virginia Christian: The Last Woman Executed by Virginia?

Editor's Note: Original post edited for clarity. For more information on Ida V. Belote see Souls of the Departed: Ida V. Belote On 16 August 1912,…

Roger ChristmanSeptember 14, 2010

Archives

Broken Vows

In 1913, Mary Ella Gray stated in a deposition that she moved to her parents’ home in Fredericksburg after her husband James “continuously abused me,…

Joanne PorterSeptember 8, 2010