The VMHC has a group of items that belonged to Oliver W. Hill, Sr., a prominent Richmond civil rights attorney, donated by his son Oliver W. Hill, Jr., professor of psychology at Virginia State University.

Valentine’s Day cards and the celebrations around the holiday began to escalate during the early twentieth century.

The Richmond Home for Ladies was an elderly care facility for women established in 1883, and still operates today as Covenant Woods.

The salacious love life of Warren Seymour Lurty, now memorialized in boxes and boxes of letters, proves to us that romance and marriage were as complicated in the past as they are today and that romantic scandal and politics are not just contemporary companions. 

The Virginia Home for Boys (now the Virginia Home for Boys and Girls) was founded in 1843 as the Richmond Male Orphan Asylum. 

Richmond native Martha Brayton worked in the Miller & Rhoads department store from 1948 to about 1959, during the store’s economic boom years.

In order to help fund the expense of defending its American colonies, Great Britain instituted a tax on printed paper used by the colonists. Many in America opposed the Stamp Act, not because the tax was high, but because without representation in Parliament they had no voice in the decision.