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David Walker’s "Appeal" in the News Manuscripts & Special Collections

David Walker’s "Appeal" in the News

On 3 March 2011 the University of Virginia’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library announced that it recently purchased a copy of David Walker’s anti-slavery “Appeal…
Roger Christman
Roger ChristmanMarch 4, 2011
Murder at the Second Market Archives

Murder at the Second Market

Editors Note: This post is a modified version of an article that originally appeared in the former “Virginiana” section of Virginia Memory. The following story was gleaned from…
Roger Christman
Roger ChristmanMarch 2, 2011
Grant Allows Jefferson’s Papers To Be Preserved ArchivesConservation

Grant Allows Jefferson’s Papers To Be Preserved

The Library of Virginia recently received a highly competitive Save America’s Treasures grant in the amount of $110,000 for the conservation of the gubernatorial papers of…
Dale Dulaney
Dale DulaneyFebruary 23, 2011
Happy Belated Presidents Day Archives

Happy Belated Presidents Day

This writ of capias caught our eye for two reasons. First, it concerns George Washington. Second, Washington, probably with sword or firearm, refused to enter…
Dale Dulaney
Dale DulaneyFebruary 23, 2011
What’s New in the Archives Archives

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 Library…
Roger Christman
Roger ChristmanFebruary 21, 2011
Latest Issue of Broadside is Now Available Education & ProgrammingThe Stacks

Latest Issue of Broadside is Now Available

The winter 2011 issue of Broadside, the Library of Virginia’s quarterly magazine, is now available. Broadside describes and illustrates the holdings and happenings at the Library of Virginia. Discover…
Roger Christman
Roger ChristmanFebruary 21, 2011
And They’re Off! ArchivesDigital Projects

And They’re Off!

The long anticipated start of the Augusta County Chancery scanning project has begun! The first 50 boxes of chancery cases were transferred to LVA’s digital…
Carl Childs
Carl ChildsFebruary 17, 2011
CW 150 coverage from the Richmond Times-Dispatch ArchivesNewspapers

CW 150 coverage from the Richmond Times-Dispatch

Check out the video at the link below of the CW 150 Legacy Project in action here at the Library of Virginia. It's provided courtesy…
Dale Dulaney
Dale DulaneyFebruary 16, 2011
Ensuring quality education for all Manuscripts & Special Collections

Ensuring quality education for all

Editors Note:  This post is a modified version of an article that originally appeared in the former “Virginiana” section of Virginia Memory. The Watkins Family Papers (Accession…
Renee Savits
Renee SavitsFebruary 16, 2011
David Walker’s Appeal: Anti-Slavery Literature in the Executive Communications Manuscripts & Special Collections

David Walker’s Appeal: Anti-Slavery Literature in the Executive Communications

David Walker, a free black man from Boston, wrote to Thomas Lewis in Richmond on 8 December 1829 enclosing thirty copies of the first edition…
Craig Moore
Craig MooreFebruary 9, 2011
Who Do You Think You Are? The Stacks

Who Do You Think You Are?

Genealogists, take a break from the microfilm machine and those dusty documents! Find a seat on the couch and get ready to see your passion…
Dale Dulaney
Dale DulaneyFebruary 2, 2011
What’s In A Name? Archives

What’s In A Name?

Editor’s note: Archivists at The Library of Virginia often find people from the past in the collection who are so appropriately named that they seem…
Sherri Bagley
Sherri BagleyJanuary 26, 2011
CW 150 in Print and on Television. Digital ProjectsManuscripts & Special Collections

CW 150 in Print and on Television.

In case you missed it the CW 150 Legacy Project ‘s visit to the Campbell County courthouse in Rustburg was featured recently in the Richmond Times-Dispatch and on…
Dale Dulaney
Dale DulaneyJanuary 25, 2011
The secession crisis: A Frenchman’s view of the "whirlwind" Manuscripts & Special Collections

The secession crisis: A Frenchman’s view of the "whirlwind"

"The indecision and the absence of energy in the convention of Virginia which does not dare proclaim itself either for or against secession have ended…
Trenton Hizer
Trenton HizerJanuary 19, 2011
A Brief History of the Public Privy on Capitol Square Archives

A Brief History of the Public Privy on Capitol Square

Editors Note:  This post originally appeared in the former “Virginiana” section of Virginia Memory. When we think of Capitol Square, it conjures up visions of Thomas…
Craig Moore
Craig MooreJanuary 12, 2011
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