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Are You Ready for Some Football?

This week marks the start of the NFL’s regular season. In honor of the return of football, this week’s blog post spotlights an unusual discovery…

Claire RadcliffeSeptember 9, 2015

Newspapers

Advertising the Big Top: 1870s Circus Ads from the Staunton Spectator

It’s September 16, 1873 in the sleepy town of Staunton, Virginia. You can only imagine a reader’s excitement at turning to page three of the Staunton…

Kelley EwingSeptember 2, 2015

Archives Digital Projects

Kaine Email Project @ LVA: Tim Butcher’s Hurricane Katrina Story

This is the eleventh in a series of posts spotlighting recently released email from Governor Tim Kaine’s administration. These posts are not meant to be comprehensive but to…

Roger ChristmanSeptember 2, 2015

Archives Digital Projects

Kaine Email Project @LVA: 10th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina

This is the tenth in a series of posts spotlighting recently released email from Governor Tim Kaine’s administration. These posts are not meant to be comprehensive but to…

Roger ChristmanAugust 27, 2015

Newspapers

From Middletown to Salem: Virginia Chronicle takes a road trip

The Virginia Newspaper Project is happy to announce new additions to the Library of Virginia’s Virginia Chronicle. The number of historical newspaper pages available on…

Kelley EwingAugust 25, 2015

A Few of Our Favorite Things: Letterhead in the Archive Part 4

It’s been a while, but as promised in a previous post, here’s another look at some of the plethora of letterheads and stationery found in our…

Claire RadcliffeAugust 19, 2015

Newspapers

A History of the Fairfax Herald

Founded in 1882 by Captain Stephen Roszel Donohoe, the Democratically-affiliated Fairfax Herald was published weekly in Fairfax, Virginia, where it served as the area’s dominant newspaper for…

Anne McCreryAugust 14, 2015

Archives Digital Projects

Howdy!: The Letters of John R. Morris

Recently I was approving some transcriptions done by our virtual Library volunteers on the Making History: Transcribe website and came across a collection of letters written by…

Renee SavitsAugust 12, 2015

Archives Conservation

Montgomery County in the Civil War

Editor’s note: This blog post marks the close of the grant-funded Montgomery County chancery processing project (in Civil War terms, the “Last Dispatch”). Thanks to generous support by…

Scott GardnerAugust 5, 2015

Newspapers

Seeing the light of capitalism–Virginia Electric and Power Company ads in the McCarthy era.

Emblematic of Cold War era America, these anti-socialist advertisements for the Virginia Electric and Power Company appear in issues of the Fairfax Herald from the 1950s.…

Anne McCreryAugust 3, 2015

Archives Digital Projects

Sometimes You DO Find a Needle in a Haystack: The Augusta Co. Cohabitation Register

Cohabitation registers are among the most important genealogical resources for African-Americans attempting to connect their family lines back through the murky past to their enslaved…

Sarah NerneyJuly 29, 2015

Newspapers

Reading between the lines: the Comstock Act and ads for the treatment of “female complaints” from the Fairfax Herald.

If you read a newspaper from the late 19th century, you’re liable to be bombarded by various medical advertisements—treatments for catarrh, scrofula, and “watery-blood;” cure-alls like…

Anne McCreryJuly 29, 2015

Archives Conservation The Stacks

VIRGINIA’S CCRP PROGRAM PROVIDES ALMOST A MILLION DOLLARS FOR PRESERVATION GRANTS

The Circuit Court Records Preservation Program (CCRP) Grant Review Board met on 11 June 2015 at the Library of Virginia to consider records preservation grant requests…

Greg CrawfordJuly 27, 2015

Newspapers

Be True to Your School

Question: What do the following five quotes have in common? Answer: They are all quotes taken from high school newspapers. And while academic newspapers cover topics…

Kelley EwingJuly 24, 2015

Not Black and White, But Different Shades of Gray

With examples dating back to the 1750s, Norfolk County chancery causes offer an interesting set of solutions to some of the myriad problems associated with…

Callie FreedJuly 22, 2015