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History Restored: Free Negro Registers Conserved Conservation

History Restored: Free Negro Registers Conserved

While watching the February 2012 episode of NBC’s Who Do You Think You Are? featuring actor and Petersburg native Blair Underwood investigating his family history, Library of…
Sarah Nerney
Sarah NerneyMarch 27, 2013
"You Say It’s Your Birthday:" Virginia’s Executive Mansion Turns 200 ArchivesVirginia Authors

"You Say It’s Your Birthday:" Virginia’s Executive Mansion Turns 200

On 16 March 2013, Virginia’s Executive Mansion celebrated its 200th anniversary with a birthday party at the Library of Virginia.  The highlight of the event was a…
Roger Christman
Roger ChristmanMarch 20, 2013
St. Patrick’s Day in Newspapers Newspapers

St. Patrick’s Day in Newspapers

St. Patrick’s Day News from the March 17, 1911 issue of the Times Dispatch. All images are from Chronicling America.Headlines from the March 17, 1911…
Kelley Ewing
Kelley EwingMarch 17, 2013
My dear and most affectionate lover Digital ProjectsManuscripts & Special Collections

My dear and most affectionate lover

Laura Drake Davis and I spent most of 2010-2012 on the road scanning and collecting images for the CW150 Legacy Project. It was not until recently…
Renee Savits
Renee SavitsMarch 15, 2013
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
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