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A., Jim - Aylett Family Papers
A., Jim, Letters, 1864. 2 items. Photocopies. Mss2A1b. This collection contains photocopies of two letters home from a member of the 30th Virginia...
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Abbot - Custis: photographs and portraits of groups
The VMHC maintains an extensive series of photograph files that may contain a combination of original photographs, prints and
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Abner - Aylett
[Abner, C?], letter, 1859. 1 p. Mss2Ab722a1.Written at Charleston, S.C., to E. Kingsland, this letter of 18 November 1859 describes a visit to the...
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About the Environmental History Resources Guide Project
Unlike previous guides focused on significant portions of the Virginia Historical Society’s manuscripts collections, this finding aid was envisioned...
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Acree, Sallie Ann – Avary, Myrta Lockett
Acree, Sallie Ann, Scrapbook, 1868–1885. 1 volume. Mss5:7Ac764:1.Sallie Anne Acree (1837–1873) kept this scrapbook while living at Forest Home in...
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Agents of Change: Female Activism in Virginia from Women’s Suffrage to Today
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In 1920, the United States ratified the Nineteenth Amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote. The struggle for female
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American Statesman: John Marshall
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An American Turning Point: The Civil War in Virginia
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An American Turning Point: The Civil War in Virginia is divided into two parts that pose a series of questions. Waging War examines how the conflict was fought and Surviving War measures the impact of the war on civilian life.
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Appendix: African American Family Records
The following is a supplementary list of African American birth, death, and marriage records in the holdings of the Virginia Historical Society...
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Bachtel, Jacob – Byrd Family
Bachtel, Jacob, Marriage register, 1857–1862. 14 pp. Mss2B1257a1. Includes signed copies of certificates of marriage solemnized by Jacob Bachtel (1812...
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Backus - Byrd
Backus family papers, 1757–1807. 7 items. Mss2B1286b. Photocopies.Include advertisements, indentures, and receipts concerning the purchase and sale of...
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Bacon, John Lyddall - Byrd, Samuel Master Hankins
Bacon, John Lyddall, Letter, 1865. 1 item. Photocopy. Mss2B1346a1. A letter, 4 April 1865, from John Lyddall Bacon (1812–1887) of Richmond, describing...
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Broadsides Pertaining to Women
Updated 2016 1615 : 2 o.s. A declaration for the certaine time of drawing the great standing lottery ... Indian woman depicted in drawing 1620 : 1 o.s...
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Cabell - Cyrus
Cabell, Abraham Joseph (1800–1831), papers, 1824–1834. 22 items. Mss2C1111b.Primarily, the papers of a planter of Jefferson County, Fla. Collection...
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Cabell Family – Currie, Lydia G. Hinckley
Cabell Family Papers, 1808–1935. ca. 1,500 items. Mss1C1118cFA2.Chiefly correspondence, financial, legal, and miscellaneous papers of the Cabell...
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Cabell Family Papers - Cuthbert, C. A.
Cabell Family Papers, 1774–1941. 886 items. Mss1C1118a. Microfilm reels C543–545.This collection contains the papers of members of the Cabell family...
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Civil Rights Movement in Virginia
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The civil rights movement of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s was one phase in the longer black freedom struggle that began when the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619 and continues today.
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Civil War in Virginia Published & Primary Sources
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Civil War Maps
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Dabney - Durgin
Dabney, Mrs. Charity, papers, 1873–1898. 24 items. Mss2D1123b.Most of these papers are tax receipts of Charity Dabney, an African American property...