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Big Find Friday: You can’t always get what you want, but… Archives

Big Find Friday: You can’t always get what you want, but…

Today we bring you another installment of our Big Find Friday series.  While we love those “Eureka!” moments where a patron finds the exact, obscure…
Jessica Tyree Burgess
Jessica Tyree BurgessSeptember 5, 2014
Ask A Curator Day- September 17th! Manuscripts & Special CollectionsThe Stacks

Ask A Curator Day- September 17th!

On September 17, 2014 you’ll be able ask curators from cultural institutions around the world questions on Twitter using the hashtag #AskACurator. They can be…
Vince Brooks
Vince BrooksSeptember 4, 2014
The Jury’s Gut Feeling: Bedford County Coroner’s Inquisitions Archives

The Jury’s Gut Feeling: Bedford County Coroner’s Inquisitions

A recent episode of BackStory With the American History Guys entitled “On The Take” addressed the topic of corruption in American politics and government. Host Brian Balogh interviewed…
Mary Dean Carter
Mary Dean CarterSeptember 3, 2014
Council of State Archivists Rising Star Award Goes to Kaine Email Project Team ArchivesDigital ProjectsThe Stacks

Council of State Archivists Rising Star Award Goes to Kaine Email Project Team

The Council of State Archivists (CoSA), a national organization representing the heads of the country’s 56 state and territorial archives, presented the Library of Virginia’s Governor Tim…
Roger Christman
Roger ChristmanAugust 28, 2014
Cigarette Advertising in the 1930’s – Early Years Newspapers

Cigarette Advertising in the 1930’s – Early Years

The Richmond Collegian, the student newspaper from the University of Richmond, provides a unique opportunity to look at state of the art advertising from the…
Silver Persinger
Silver PersingerAugust 27, 2014
Wartime musings on God and nature Digital Projects

Wartime musings on God and nature

In my work for the Civil War 150 Legacy Project, I recently came across the diary of Aquilla Peyton (1837-1875). A private in the Confederate Army,…
Library of Virginia
Library of VirginiaAugust 27, 2014
A stone’s throw from madness Manuscripts & Special Collections

A stone’s throw from madness

“I send you two patients to the mad stone. They are natives of this place and had their children bitten today.” -J. Reuben Richerson to R.…
Trenton Hizer
Trenton HizerAugust 20, 2014
Come On, Make Some History! Digital Projects

Come On, Make Some History!

We’re happy to announce that Making History: Transcribe is now live! This site will enable users to transcribe documents in the Library of Virginia collections in…
Sonya Coleman
Sonya ColemanAugust 19, 2014
Mug Shot Monday: Herbert Irving Roberts, No. 22087 Archives

Mug Shot Monday: Herbert Irving Roberts, No. 22087

This is the latest entry in series of posts highlighting inmate photographs in the records of the Virginia Penitentiary.  Herbert Irving Roberts, the subject of this…
Roger Christman
Roger ChristmanAugust 18, 2014
George Wythe: FFDWR (Founding Father Deserving Wider Recognition) Newspapers

George Wythe: FFDWR (Founding Father Deserving Wider Recognition)

That’s Thomas Jefferson, not only a former student but trusted friend, and the statement most often quoted in biographical accounts, long or short, of Wythe’s…
Henry Morse
Henry MorseAugust 13, 2014
The Razor’s Edge: Using the Coroner’s Inquests in Elizabeth City County Archives

The Razor’s Edge: Using the Coroner’s Inquests in Elizabeth City County

Editor’s Note: Jerry Hunt is a graduate history intern from Virginia Commonwealth University and is working on processing and indexing Depression-era coroner’s inquisitions from Elizabeth…
Guest Contributor
Guest ContributorAugust 6, 2014
Mug Shot Monday: John Henry Ellis, No. 28276, 33714, and 43346 Archives

Mug Shot Monday: John Henry Ellis, No. 28276, 33714, and 43346

This is the latest entry in a series of posts highlighting inmate photographs in the records of the Virginia Penitentiary.  John Henry Ellis, the subject of…
Roger Christman
Roger ChristmanAugust 4, 2014
The Weekly Progress — The People’s Progressive Paper of Powhatan Newspapers

The Weekly Progress — The People’s Progressive Paper of Powhatan

The Library of Virginia recently came into the possession of a rare Powhatan newspaper–while it’s not an original copy, the photocopied edition of the Weekly…
Kelley Ewing
Kelley EwingJuly 21, 2014
Mug Shot Monday: Clinton Kirby, No. 25830, 42236, and 49236 Archives

Mug Shot Monday: Clinton Kirby, No. 25830, 42236, and 49236

This is the latest entry in a series of posts highlighting inmate photographs in the records of the Virginia Penitentiary.  Clinton Kirby, the subject of this…
Roger Christman
Roger ChristmanJuly 21, 2014
Kaine Email Project @ LVA – Tysons Tunnel Edition ArchivesDigital Projects

Kaine Email Project @ LVA – Tysons Tunnel Edition

This is the sixth 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 ChristmanJuly 16, 2014
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