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Women
Learn how to be an image detective and search for clues about women in Virginia in primary source photographs.
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Women in Virginia
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Learn about how women in the early 20th century lived in Virginia.
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Woodlawn Plantation
Address: Route 1, Box 37, Mount Vernon, VA 22121 Phone: 703.780.4000 Web site: http://woodlawn1805.org The extensive...
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Woodrow Wilson
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Learn about Woodrow Wilson.
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Woodrow Wilson: Across Three Centuries (Wilkinson Lecture 2014)
On October 15, A. Scott Berg delivered the 2014 J. Harvie Wilkinson, Jr., Lecture entitled "Woodrow Wilson: Across Three Centuries."
One hundred...
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Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library
Address: 24 North Coalter Street, PO Box 24, Staunton, VA 24402 Phone: 540.885.0397 Web site: http://www.woodrowwilson...
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World War II Stamp Corsage (c. 1942)
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During World War II, Clair Bugg of Farmville became a kind of walking advertisement for the war effort: She wore this...
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Wormeley Family
The Wormeley family was one of the earliest to achieve prominence in Virginia. The first Ralph Wormeley, resident in the
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Writing the Declaration of Independence, 1776
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Learn about Thomas Jefferson and his role in writing the Declaration of Independence.
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WW1 America Curator Talk with Brian Horrigan
On February 15, 2018, Brian Horrigan spoke at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture about the exhibition WW1 America during the exhibition's Member...
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WWI Military Toys
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These figures, dressed in Red Cross uniforms and English Brodie helmets worn during the First World War, were created by...
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
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Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election that Brought on the Civil War
On March 24, 2011, Douglas R. Egerton delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election that...
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Yearbooks
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View select images from yearbooks in the society's collections.
Research Index
Young Family, Section 18
Young family papers, 1835-1900. Section 18 Mss1 Y885 a 660-701 Index to Correspondents and Subjects Adams, John SEE Young, Elizabeth (Steel) Baird, E...
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Your COVID-19 Stories
How are you adapting to the changes brought about by the COVID-19 global health crisis? As with the great trials of our...