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A Better Life for Their Children
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From 1912-37, the Rosenwald schools program built thousands of schools, shops, and teacher’s homes across 15 Southern...
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A Landscape Saved
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This exhibition celebrated the efforts in preservation and horticulture made by the Garden Club of Virginia during its...
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A Material World
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Featuring 43 iconic images from the archives of the Richmond Times-Dispatch and accompanied by historical objects that...
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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...
Portrait Index - Groups
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
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Organized in conjunction with the statewide Women’s Suffrage Centennial, this exhibition featured artifacts from the...
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American Democracy
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Examining our government’s founding and the continuing story of America’s bold experiment in a government “of, by, and...
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Apollo: When We Went to the Moon
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Through objects and artifacts from the U.S. Space & Rocket Center’s archives, this exhibition explored the social and...
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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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Artists4ERA
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Artists4ERA is part of ongoing efforts to ensure that the ERA becomes the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution...
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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...