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Augusta Co. Images All In! ArchivesDigital Projects

Augusta Co. Images All In!

The final images from the Augusta County chancery causes are now available on the Library of Virginia’s Chancery Records Index. With this addition, all Augusta County…
Bari Helms
Bari HelmsMarch 13, 2013
"At the Belmont Manor, oh yes" Manuscripts & Special Collections

"At the Belmont Manor, oh yes"

We are now into the month of March, and winter continues to drag on.  For those of you suffering from seasonal affective disorder, the Library…
Jim Greve
Jim GreveMarch 6, 2013
“Flew on wings of death to the hills”:Southwestern Virginia reports on the 1918 Spanish Influenza pandemic Newspapers

“Flew on wings of death to the hills”:Southwestern Virginia reports on the 1918 Spanish Influenza pandemic

The Fall of 1918 saw the end of World War I and hundreds of thousands in America dead from a influenza pandemic that was sweeping…
Natalie Draper
Natalie DraperMarch 5, 2013
The Fighting Editor and his Stanley Steamers Newspapers

The Fighting Editor and his Stanley Steamers

Most of us know John Mitchell, Jr. as the tireless “fighting” editor of the Richmond Planet, a newspaper he ran for 40 plus years beginning in the mid-1880′s.…
Errol Somay
Errol SomayMarch 1, 2013
Finding What Was Lost: The Lost Records Localities Digital Collection ArchivesDigital Projects

Finding What Was Lost: The Lost Records Localities Digital Collection

The Lost Records Localities Digital Collection consists of copies of records from counties or incorporated cities that have suffered significant record loss due to intense…
Greg Crawford
Greg CrawfordMarch 1, 2013
Shoe Salesman Puts Foot in Mouth Archives

Shoe Salesman Puts Foot in Mouth

In 1879, Charles C. Curtis was working at the retail store of Wingo, Ellett, and Crump at 1000 Main Street in Richmond.  A customer, a…
Mary Dean Carter
Mary Dean CarterFebruary 27, 2013
Wills, Slavery, and Freedom in Augusta Co. Archives

Wills, Slavery, and Freedom in Augusta Co.

In November of 1860, executor William F. Smith was in a pickle.  Charged with settling the estate of Elizabeth P. Via of Augusta County, he…
Sarah Nerney
Sarah NerneyFebruary 20, 2013
Dark Day at City Hall Newspapers

Dark Day at City Hall

Earlier this month, WTVR Channel 6 news reporter Greg McQuade visited the Library of Virginia to assist in his research of Colonel J. M. Winstead, a North Carolina banker who…
Kelley Ewing
Kelley EwingFebruary 19, 2013
Happy Valentine’s Day from the Virginia Newspaper Project Newspapers

Happy Valentine’s Day from the Virginia Newspaper Project

Kelley Ewing
Kelley EwingFebruary 14, 2013
“My Dearest Miss Lura:” Lunenburg Letters Illuminate a Long and Unlikely Love Affair Archives

“My Dearest Miss Lura:” Lunenburg Letters Illuminate a Long and Unlikely Love Affair

Lura Royall was a Lunenburg County girl. Her relatives remember her as a pretty woman who never married—a retired school teacher full of life well…
Dale Dulaney
Dale DulaneyFebruary 13, 2013
Virginia’s “Last” Duel Newspapers

Virginia’s “Last” Duel

Dueling, a trend that emerged in the middle ages as a way to settle disputes among European nobility, persisted among members of the American press,…
Natalie Draper
Natalie DraperFebruary 11, 2013
Prince George Co. Chancery Now Online! ArchivesDigital Projects

Prince George Co. Chancery Now Online!

The Library of Virginia is pleased to announce that digital images from the Prince George County chancery causes digitization project are now available on the Chancery…
Sherri Bagley
Sherri BagleyFebruary 8, 2013
The Arcadian: Prep School Paper Prepped For Preservation Newspapers

The Arcadian: Prep School Paper Prepped For Preservation

Readers of Fit To Print know of the Newspaper Project’s growing enthusiasm for preservation microfilming and archiving college as well as some high school student…
Henry Morse
Henry MorseFebruary 6, 2013
From Russia with Love: How a portrait of a Russian Ambassador came to be hanging in the Virginia State Capitol Archives

From Russia with Love: How a portrait of a Russian Ambassador came to be hanging in the Virginia State Capitol

In 1923 the Virginia General Assembly accepted a gift which would lead to an international investigation and administrative embarrassment 15 years later.  The gift was…
Erin Faison
Erin FaisonFebruary 6, 2013
Southside Burning!: Reformatted Recordings Preserve Historic Testimony Archives

Southside Burning!: Reformatted Recordings Preserve Historic Testimony

Editor’s Note:  On Sunday 4 February 2013, the Richmond Times-Dispatch ran a front page article on the 1963 Danville civil rights demonstrations.  The Library of Virginia has…
Alex Lorch
Alex LorchFebruary 5, 2013
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