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The League of Wives
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Featuring artifacts, photographs, and oral histories, this exhibition illustrated the dramatic story of how the spouses...
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The Lost Cause
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This exhibition explores the history of the Lost Cause as expressed through a cycle of military murals and a sculpture...
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The Private Jefferson
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The Private Jefferson: From the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society features Thomas Jefferson's...
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The Story of Virginia
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This exhibition interprets 16,000 years of Virginia history and features more than 500 artifacts, maps, letters, and...
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The Virginia Watercolor Society’s 41st Annual Exhibition
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The VMHC hosted the 41st annual juried exhibition of the Virginia Watercolor Society (VWS) featuring more than 80...
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Toys of the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s
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Through this exhibition, visitors experienced the toys and their stories through three imagined living rooms that...
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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...
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Treasures of Virginia
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This gallery features a rotating display of extraordinary items related to individuals or events that shaped the...
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Un/Bound: Free Black Virginians, 1619-1865
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Explore the lives of free Black Virginians from the arrival of the first captive Africans in 1619 to the abolition of...
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Uncommon Strength
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This exhibition developed in partnership with the Virginia Department of Historic Resources relies on the use of...
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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...
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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)...
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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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Violins of Hope
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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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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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This display celebrates the vision of William and Ann Oppenhimer with a selection of Virginia folk art from their...
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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...