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Accomack and Fluvanna Chancery Now Available Online! ArchivesDigital Projects

Accomack and Fluvanna Chancery Now Available Online!

The Library of Virginia is pleased to announce that the Accomack County chancery causes, 1727-1805, and Fluvanna County chancery causes, 1779-1882, are now available on the Chancery…
Vince Brooks
Vince BrooksAugust 23, 2011
Preservation of Jefferson’s Papers in the News ArchivesConservation

Preservation of Jefferson’s Papers in the News

In case you missed it, the Library of Virginia’s conservation of the gubernatorial papers of Thomas Jefferson was featured in Style Weekly. The letters and manuscripts documenting…
Bari Helms
Bari HelmsAugust 17, 2011
Documenting Virginia’s Participation in the Civil War, Take One? Archives

Documenting Virginia’s Participation in the Civil War, Take One?

Recent efforts by the Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission to digitize Virginia’s Civil War legacy is reminiscent of a similar, yet very different, endeavor by the state…
Craig Moore
Craig MooreAugust 17, 2011
More Augusta County Images Are Here! Archives

More Augusta County Images Are Here!

The latest images from the Augusta County Chancery Causes are now available on the Chancery Records Index. With this addition, one hundred boxes of Augusta County…
Greg Crawford
Greg CrawfordAugust 16, 2011
What’s New in the Archives ArchivesThe Stacks

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 Christman
Roger ChristmanAugust 15, 2011
Latest Issue of Broadside is Now Available 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 Christman
Roger ChristmanAugust 15, 2011
Primary Source Offers Questions and Clues About Will, Runaway Slave 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 Nerney
Sarah NerneyAugust 10, 2011
Additional Prince Edward County Chancery Causes Added to CRI! 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 Dulaney
Dale DulaneyAugust 8, 2011
Aaron Burr Tried for Treason Today in 1807. Court Documents Here At LVA. 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 Brooks
Vince BrooksAugust 3, 2011
Buy Me Some Peanuts And Cigarettes: Baseball Cards in the Archive 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 Hizer
Trenton HizerAugust 3, 2011
“Multiple Exposure” and “Out of the Box” voted LVA’s top two blogs! 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 Dulaney
Dale DulaneyAugust 2, 2011
New Bedford County Database Available for Genealogists at LVA! 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 Hart
Lyn HartJuly 29, 2011
Everybody’s Doing What? The Turkey Trot!: Irving Berlin’s Song and Latest Dance Craze Too Much For Newport News. 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 Dulaney
Dale DulaneyJuly 27, 2011
A Few Of Our Favorite Things: Letterheads In The Archive Part 1 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 Brooks
Vince BrooksJuly 20, 2011
New Discoveries in World War I Questionnaires 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 Christman
Roger ChristmanJuly 13, 2011
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