Posts – Page 95 – The UncommonWealth

We Are Not Hoarders!

In the early 1980s, Mary Helen Gravitt went looking for a coffin. Gravitt, then a secretary at Virgilina Elementary School, was looking for a Halloween…

Bari HelmsJune 1, 2012

Newspapers

How much was that?

Advertisements are from the Blue Ridge Herald (Purcellville, Virginia) of January 6, 1955. Tune in tomorrow for more…….

Kelley EwingMay 31, 2012

Archives

Freedmen’s Bureau in the Local Courts

In the years following the Civil War, the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (commonly referred to as simply the Freedmen’s Bureau) provided assistance…

Bari HelmsMay 30, 2012

Newspapers

Using Chronicling America

Check out this series of video podcasts to learn how to use Chronicling America. Big thanks to the Ohio Historical Society for creating these helpful…

Kelley EwingMay 23, 2012

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 BagleyMay 23, 2012

Conservation Newspapers

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 PersingerMay 18, 2012

Archives Digital 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 BagleyMay 16, 2012

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 EwingMay 11, 2012

Education & Programming The 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 ChristmanMay 11, 2012

Conservation Newspapers The 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 PersingerMay 3, 2012

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 HelmsMay 2, 2012

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 EwingMay 1, 2012

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 ChristmanApril 25, 2012

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 PersingerApril 23, 2012

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 CrawfordApril 18, 2012