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Love Letters in the Archives Archives

Love Letters in the Archives

While working on a project involving the Middlesex County Chancery Causes, I noticed a case that was filled with scandal and intrigue.  Middlesex Chancery Cause,…
Mary Dean Carter
Mary Dean CarterSeptember 30, 2015
A Bicycle Search For You Newspapers

A Bicycle Search For You

As the UCI World Bike Championships unfold and professional road bikers from all over the map pedal by LVA down Richmond’s Broad Street, the Virginia Newspaper Project thought…
Kelley Ewing
Kelley EwingSeptember 23, 2015
Ten Years Burning Down the Road: Web Archiving at LVA ArchivesDigital ProjectsThe Stacks

Ten Years Burning Down the Road: Web Archiving at LVA

September 2015 marks the ten year anniversary of web archiving at the Library of Virginia. In the fall of 2005, the Library partnered with the…
Roger Christman
Roger ChristmanSeptember 23, 2015
Have You Seen The Vigilante Man?: Reconstruction Era Violence Archives

Have You Seen The Vigilante Man?: Reconstruction Era Violence

Life for African Americans in Virginia following the end of the Civil War can be described as uncertain at best. As the social balance between…
Chris Smith
Chris SmithSeptember 16, 2015
Ask A Curator Day – September 16! The Stacks

Ask A Curator Day – September 16!

On September 16, the Library will be taking your questions for our third year of Ask a Curator Day. You’ll be able ask curators from…
Claire Radcliffe
Claire RadcliffeSeptember 11, 2015
Are You Ready for Some Football? Archives

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 Radcliffe
Claire RadcliffeSeptember 9, 2015
Advertising the Big Top: 1870s Circus Ads from the Staunton Spectator 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 Ewing
Kelley EwingSeptember 2, 2015
Kaine Email Project @ LVA: Tim Butcher’s Hurricane Katrina Story ArchivesDigital 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 Christman
Roger ChristmanSeptember 2, 2015
Kaine Email Project @LVA: 10th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina ArchivesDigital 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 Christman
Roger ChristmanAugust 27, 2015
From Middletown to Salem: Virginia Chronicle takes a road trip 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 Ewing
Kelley EwingAugust 25, 2015
A Few of Our Favorite Things: Letterhead in the Archive Part 4 Archives

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 Radcliffe
Claire RadcliffeAugust 19, 2015
A History of the Fairfax Herald 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 McCrery
Anne McCreryAugust 14, 2015
Howdy!: The Letters of John R. Morris ArchivesDigital 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 Savits
Renee SavitsAugust 12, 2015
Montgomery County in the Civil War ArchivesConservation

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 Gardner
Scott GardnerAugust 5, 2015
Seeing the light of capitalism–Virginia Electric and Power Company ads in the McCarthy era. 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 McCrery
Anne McCreryAugust 3, 2015
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