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You Are Not The Father Archives

You Are Not The Father

The Prince George County chancery causes are filled with numerous divorce cases involving cheating spouses and adulterous affairs, but in the case of Thomas P. Kelly…
Sherri Bagley
Sherri BagleyMay 23, 2012
Conserving to Preserve or “Ironing Newspapers” ConservationNewspapers

Conserving to Preserve or “Ironing Newspapers”

One of the things that I do with the Newspaper Project is mending newspapers.  Last week I repaired an issue of The New York Tribune,…
Silver Persinger
Silver PersingerMay 18, 2012
Petersburg Chancery Digital Project Now Complete ArchivesDigital Projects

Petersburg Chancery Digital Project Now Complete

The Library of Virginia is pleased to announce the completion of the Petersburg chancery causes digital project. The scanning project was funded by the Circuit Court…
Sherri Bagley
Sherri BagleyMay 16, 2012
Donated to LVA-The Star-A High School Paper That Gets High Marks Newspapers

Donated to LVA-The Star-A High School Paper That Gets High Marks

While the Library of Virginia’s historical newspaper collection is extensive and varied, it has a genre of newspaper that may be surprising to some: twentieth…
Kelley Ewing
Kelley EwingMay 11, 2012
Latest Issue of Broadside is Now Available Education & ProgrammingThe Stacks

Latest Issue of Broadside is Now Available

The spring 2012 issue of Broadside, the Library of Virginia's quarterly magazine, is now available.  Discover fascinating items from the collections as well as events,…
Roger Christman
Roger ChristmanMay 11, 2012
Do you have old Virginia Newspapers? ConservationNewspapersThe Stacks

Do you have old Virginia Newspapers?

Despite the fact that the Library of Virginia holds the largest collection of historic Virginia newspapers with 2616 titles on microfilm and over 2000 titles…
Silver Persinger
Silver PersingerMay 3, 2012
A Horse in the Frederick Co. Courthouse Archives

A Horse in the Frederick Co. Courthouse

All eyes in the horse world may be directed towards Churchill Downs this week for this year’s Kentucky Derby, but Kentucky isn’t the only state…
Bari Helms
Bari HelmsMay 2, 2012
New Newspapers at LVA Newspapers

New Newspapers at LVA

How much was a bottle of bourbon in 1941? How about a "beautifully rebuilt" Electrolux vacuum? The prices of these and other items can be…
Kelley Ewing
Kelley EwingMay 1, 2012
Reason to Believe: Quantico and the Evacuation of Stafford County Archives

Reason to Believe: Quantico and the Evacuation of Stafford County

On 5 October 1942, the United States District Court in Norfolk, at the request of the Navy, condemned 50,000 acres of land in Fauquier, Prince…
Roger Christman
Roger ChristmanApril 25, 2012
Real Estate Newspaper Sheds Light on Role Played by Developers Newspapers

Real Estate Newspaper Sheds Light on Role Played by Developers

The Virginia Newspaper Project recently purchased two issues of an eight page newspaper entitled The Richmond Progress from a historic newspaper dealer. The issues are not…
Silver Persinger
Silver PersingerApril 23, 2012
Dear Uncle… Archives

Dear Uncle…

Horseshoe Bend on the Tallapoosa River in Alabama. (Image used courtesy of the United States National Park Service) This year marks the 200th anniversary of the War…
Greg Crawford
Greg CrawfordApril 18, 2012
Titanic Daily Coverage, Times Dispatch Tuesday-Sunday 4/16-4/21/1912 Newspapers

Titanic Daily Coverage, Times Dispatch Tuesday-Sunday 4/16-4/21/1912

Henry Morse
Henry MorseApril 17, 2012
Titanic Coverage – Virginia Rural Weeklies Newspapers

Titanic Coverage – Virginia Rural Weeklies

Full content available on Chronicling America.
Henry Morse
Henry MorseApril 16, 2012
We Remember: Virginia Tech Five Years Later ArchivesDigital Projects

We Remember: Virginia Tech Five Years Later

Five years ago, Seung Hui Cho killed 32 people and injured at least 17 others before turning the gun on himself.  The 16 April 2007…
Roger Christman
Roger ChristmanApril 16, 2012
Fit To Add: New to LVA/VNP Microfilm Archive Newspapers

Fit To Add: New to LVA/VNP Microfilm Archive

What follows is a listing of some recent additions to the Project microfilm archive, each from Northern Virginia and each resulting from a generous loan…
Henry Morse
Henry MorseApril 11, 2012
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