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Studies of Economy and Efficiency in Government Are Not New Archives

Studies of Economy and Efficiency in Government Are Not New

Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared in The Library of Virginia Official Newsletter, May/June 2001.  It has been edited slightly. Efficiency in government. Responsible spending. Eliminate…
Laura Drake Davis
Laura Drake DavisFebruary 17, 2016
Over $900,000 in Grant Funds Awarded to Circuit Court Clerks ConservationThe Stacks

Over $900,000 in Grant Funds Awarded to Circuit Court Clerks

The Circuit Court Records Preservation Program (CCRP) Grant Review Board met on 14 December 2015 at the Library of Virginia to consider records preservation grant…
Vince Brooks
Vince BrooksFebruary 10, 2016
Virginia Untold: The African American Narrative Digital Collection ArchivesDigital Projects

Virginia Untold: The African American Narrative Digital Collection

In 1820, Rachel Findley won freedom for herself and more than 35 of her descendants in a Powhatan County court in a law suit dating…
Greg Crawford
Greg CrawfordFebruary 3, 2016
Journey to the Center of the State: Appomattox and Buckingham Times enters Virginia Chronicle Newspapers

Journey to the Center of the State: Appomattox and Buckingham Times enters Virginia Chronicle

Those who are members of the smart set like to think they are at the center of things.  But Appomattox, a small town in Piedmont…
Errol Somay
Errol SomayFebruary 2, 2016
Virginia Untold: Deeds of Emancipation and Manumission Archives

Virginia Untold: Deeds of Emancipation and Manumission

This is the fourth in a series of blog posts on the record types found in the forthcoming Library of Virginia research database: Virginia Untold: The…
Ed Jordan
Ed JordanJanuary 27, 2016
Virginia Untold: Requisitions for Public Use Archives

Virginia Untold: Requisitions for Public Use

This is the third in a series of blog posts on the record types found in the forthcoming Library of Virginia research database: Virginia Untold: The…
Greg Crawford
Greg CrawfordJanuary 20, 2016
Virginia Untold: Certificates of Importation American Anti-Slavery SocietyArchives

Virginia Untold: Certificates of Importation

This is the second in a series of blog posts on the record types found in the forthcoming Library of Virginia research database: Virginia Untold: The…
Greg Crawford
Greg CrawfordJanuary 13, 2016
Virginia Untold: Freedom Suits ArchivesDigital Projects

Virginia Untold: Freedom Suits

This is the first in a series of blog posts on the record types found in the forthcoming Library of Virginia research database: Virginia Untold: The…
Chris Smith
Chris SmithJanuary 6, 2016
Happy Holidays from Out of the Box! The Stacks

Happy Holidays from Out of the Box!

Season’s Greetings from all of us at Out of the Box. We’re taking a holiday break, but enjoy the photos below from the U.S. Army…
Library of Virginia
Library of VirginiaDecember 23, 2015
Happy Holidays from the VNP and the Rappahannock Record Newspapers

Happy Holidays from the VNP and the Rappahannock Record

The Virginia Newspaper Project is excited to announce that digitized issues of the Rappahannock Record from 1925-1958 are now available on Virginia Chronicle. Published in Kilmarnock, Virginia…
Kelley Ewing
Kelley EwingDecember 22, 2015
An “Arena of a Spirited Intellectual Tournament.” Herbert Ezekiel’s Jewish South Newspapers

An “Arena of a Spirited Intellectual Tournament.” Herbert Ezekiel’s Jewish South

Published weekly in Richmond, Virginia, from 1893 through at least 1899, save for a five-month period in 1896, the Jewish South professed itself “a journal devoted to…
Library of Virginia
Library of VirginiaDecember 17, 2015
A Knight Unlike Any Other: John Mitchell Jr. & The Knights of Pythias Archives

A Knight Unlike Any Other: John Mitchell Jr. & The Knights of Pythias

While processing Nottoway County chancery causes several years ago, Local Records Archivist Louise Jones came across a most unusual item fastening several papers together:  a…
Sarah Nerney
Sarah NerneyDecember 16, 2015
Radio Days: The Norfolk News Index and A Posting From the Electric Front, 1939-1940 Newspapers

Radio Days: The Norfolk News Index and A Posting From the Electric Front, 1939-1940

Seventy-five years ago, the media landscape was not nearly so vast, not nearly so individualized. An electronic device was not on your person, it was…
Henry Morse
Henry MorseDecember 11, 2015
Modern Love: Two Wrights and a Wrong Archives

Modern Love: Two Wrights and a Wrong

Many a modern day love rat has been outed by a spouse’s discovery of telling photos posted to Facebook or illicit text messages. But what…
Vince Brooks
Vince BrooksDecember 9, 2015
Attention Enquiring Minds! Richmond Enquirer now available on Virginia Chronicle Newspapers

Attention Enquiring Minds! Richmond Enquirer now available on Virginia Chronicle

The Virginia Newspaper Project is happy to announce additions to the growing list of newspapers available on Virginia Chronicle, the Library of Virginia’s free, searchable digital newspaper database. Now,…
Kelley Ewing
Kelley EwingDecember 3, 2015
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