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Exhibition
Toys of the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s
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![Gumby and Pokey Gumby and Pokey figurines](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_landscape_768x576/public/229_MHC-TOYS_2014_EDIT_1920x1440.jpg.webp?itok=G_y_-hVh)
Through this exhibition, visitors experienced the toys and their stories through three imagined living rooms that...
Exhibition
Traveling Bricks
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As the LEGO Group opens its first and only U.S. manufacturing plant in the Virginia, VMHC guests can embark an exciting...
Exhibition
Treasures of Virginia
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![Flight jacket worn by Tony Dowd (1924-2015) while serving as a B-24 bomber tail gunner in China during World War Two (VMHC 2020.9.1) A brown leather jacket with sewn patches on the front and a flapped pocket on the bottom left and right sides](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_landscape_768x576/public/TreasuresofVirginia_TonyDowd_2020.9.1_v1.jpg.webp?itok=hIJxnCuo)
This gallery features a rotating display of extraordinary items related to individuals or events that shaped the...
Exhibition
Un/Bound: Free Black Virginians, 1619-1865
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![Free Blacks in Virginia exhibition Script writing on a sepia page](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_landscape_768x576/public/UNL_454.pdf_.jpg.webp?itok=ooWK0NC0)
Explore the lives of free Black Virginians from the arrival of the first captive Africans in 1619 to the abolition of...
Exhibition
Uncommon Strength
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![Archaeologists examine a colonial-era trash pit Archaeologists examine a colonial-era trash pit from the Bray Site (44JC34) at Kingsmill in James City County.](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_landscape_768x576/public/UncommonStrength_44JC0034_226B_trashpit_VCRIS.jpg.webp?itok=b0BV1rA8)
This exhibition developed in partnership with the Virginia Department of Historic Resources relies on the use of...
Research Guide
Unidentified - Virginia
Unidentified author, "Journal of Tens Days Travel on Board [the] Steamer Frances," 1875. 120 pp. Mss5:1Un3:15.Concerns a voyage from Bridgeport, Conn...
Research Guide
Unidentified Author – Virginia Woman's Forum
Unidentified Author, Letters, 1883. 3 items. Mss2Un3f.Consists of letters, 1883 August 9, 25, and 29, written by "Aunt Emma" (otherwise unidentified)...
Research Guide
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...
Research Guide
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...
Exhibition
Violins of Hope
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![Photograph of violin-maker Moshe Weinstein and his wife Zehava (Courtesy of Amnon and Avshalom Weinstein) Photograph of violin-maker Moshe Weinstein and his wife Zehava (Courtesy of Amnon and Avshalom Weinstein)](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_landscape_768x576/public/Violins%20of%20Hope_Violin%20Makers.jpg.webp?itok=228i1oOI)
Violins of Hope features a selection of seven violins from a collection of more than sixty that survived the Holocaust...
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Virginia & the Vietnam War
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![Marine at Da Nang, 1965 (National Archives) A young solider in military fatigues and helmet carrying a camo backpack](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_landscape_768x576/public/Marine-landing-at-Danang-Vietnam.jpg.webp?itok=UFad2_WE)
On the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, this display will invite guests to immerse themselves in the choices...
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Virginia's Civil War: A Guide to Manuscripts at the Virginia Historical Society
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Visionary Virginians
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![Swan Lake by John “Uncle Jack” Dey An painting of an aerial view of a lake with swans, surrounded by trees and a clouded sunny sky](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_landscape_768x576/public/Visionary-Virginians_Swan-Lake-by-John-Dey.jpg.webp?itok=0bXpSouS)
This display celebrates the vision of William and Ann Oppenhimer with a selection of Virginia folk art from their...
Portrait Index - Individuals
Waddell - Wythe: photographs and portraits of individuals
The VMHC maintains an extensive series of photograph files that may contain a combination of original photographs, cartes de
Research Guide
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...
Research Guide
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...
Research Guide
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]...
Exhibition
We The People
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![We The People People stand in an auditorium with their right hands raised, taking the U.S. Oath of Citizenship](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_landscape_768x576/public/Naturalization-Ceremony-%288%29_0.jpg.webp?itok=YHjw8F2Y)
This exhibition will explore the many people who, over centuries, have made Virginia the unique place it is in America...
Portrait Index - Individuals
Yancey - Zouche: photographs and portraits of individuals
The VMHC maintains an extensive series of photograph files that may contain a combination of original photographs, cartes de