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Unidentified Authors - Ussery, Mary Livinia (Robertson)
Unidentified Author, Account Book, 1813–1814. 1 volume. Mss5:3UN3:37.Kept by an unidentified author, this account book contains accounts and numerous...
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Valentine, Jackson L. - Voris, Alvin Coe
Valentine, Jackson L., Petition, 1863. 1 item. Mss2D8854a1.A petition, 8 October 1863, signed by Jackson L. Valentine (b. 1825?) and fifty-one other...
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Virginia and the Planter Class
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Governor William Berkeley set out to imitate the society of inequality of wealth and education that he knew in England.
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Virginia and Women’s Suffrage
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Despite the socio-political changes that occurred during Reconstruction, women at the dawn of the twentieth century...
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Virginia's Civil War: A Guide to Manuscripts at the Virginia Historical Society
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Virginia’s Traffic in the Atlantic World
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Tobacco proved to be good as gold for Virginians. Wealth from its sale and easy navigation of the colony’s rivers...
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Wade - Zirkle
Wade family papers, 1841–1951. 38 items. Mss2W119c.This collection includes letters, 1841–1846, written by John Ingles (of Montgomery County) to Dr...
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Wade Family Papers - Yulee, David Levy
W., Letter, 1870. 1 item. Mss2W100a1. A letter, 11 May 1870, from "W" of Richmond to "Willie" concerning a visit to the site of the battle of the...
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Waldrop, Eloise Taylor – Young Family
Waldrop, Eloise Taylor, Papers, 1889–1980. 48 items. Mss1W1477b. Include letters, 1918 March–September, written by Mary Virginia Peyton [later Wendt]...
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Wandering, Foraging, and Farming
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Over more than 16,000 years, Indians in Virginia transitioned from nomadic bands of hunter gatherers to sedentary...
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War on the Home Front
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For some, the war brought deprivation, horror, and loss right to their very doorsteps.