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Dabney, Charity – Duval, Sarah Dandridge Cooke
Dabney, Charity, Papers, 1873–1898. 24 items. Mss2D1123b.This collection consists primarily of receipts documenting the payment of state and city...
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Documenting Women's Lives
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Early - Everett
Early family papers, 1764–1956. 437 items. Mss1Ea765b. Microfilm reels C16 and C456–458.The papers of this prominent Lynchburg family are primarily...
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Early Family – Every Monday Club
Early Family Papers, 1798–1903. 239 items. Mss1Ea765a. Microfilm reel C456.This collection consists primarily of the papers of Mary Virginia (Early)...
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Early Family Papers - Ezell Family Papers
Early Family Papers, 1764–1956. 437 items. Mss1EA765b. Microfilm reels C456–458.This collection contains the papers of the Early family of Franklin...
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From the period of its founding as an English settlement in North America, essentially a business venture from the start, Virginia has thrived on the...
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Establishing a Nation
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Three of Virginia’s Revolutionary era leaders played critical roles in the successful establishment of the nation’s...
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Exploration of the New World
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Initially, European nations were searching for a water route to the Far East, not a New World.
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F Company Association - Funsten, David
F Company Association, Minute Book, 1876–1895. 1 volume. Mss4F1a1.The minute book of the F Company Association, kept by Robert Alonzo Brock (1839–1914...
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Fairfax - Funsten
Fairfax, John Walter (1828–1908), papers, 1863–1937. 15 items. Mss1F1613a. Microfilm reel C596. Fairfax served as assistant adjutant and inspector...
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Fairfax County Court – Fry, Mary Ella Fourqurean
Fairfax County, Court, Papers, 1742–1793. 12 items. Mss4F1613d.Consist of miscellaneous legal papers. Of particular note is a summons, 1755...
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Gallagher, Charles H. - Gwathmey Family Papers
Gallagher, Charles Kewell, Letter, 1861. 1 item. Mss7:2H2884:1. A letter, 2 September 1861, from Charles Kewell Gallagher (1833–1893) of Washington, N...
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Galt-Gwin
Galt, James K. (1836–1913), diary, 1889–1892. 2 v. Mss5:1G1393:1-2.Galt, an itinerant Baptist minister from Reba, Bedford County, kept his diary in...
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Galt, Mary Jeffery – Gwathmey Family
Galt, Mary Jeffery, Memoir, ca. 1910. 11 pp. Typescript. Mss5:1G1394:1.This unfinished memoir by Mary Jeffery Galt (1844–1922) recalls her childhood...
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Guide to African American Manuscripts
Introduction As Great Britain's largest and wealthiest North American colony, and later as the state with the largest enslaved and free black...
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H. A. White & Co. - Hutchison
H. A. White & Co., Warrenton, records, 1852–1867. 6 vols. Mss5:3W5868:4–9.Concern a major mercantile operation conducted by Hamden A. White in...
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Haile, Robert Gaines - Hutchison Family Papers
Haile, Robert Gaines, Diary, 1862. 1 item. Typescript copy. Mss5:1H1252:1. A photocopy of a typed transcript of a diary, 1–23 June 1862, kept by...
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Hall, Nancy Johns Turner – Huntington, William
[Hall, Nancy Johns Turner], The Imaginist, 1844. 4 volumes. Mss5:9H1405:1.Written under the pseudonym Ann Tracy, "The Imaginist or Recollections of an...
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How to Use the Environmental History Resources Guide
The majority of the entries in this guide cover major manuscript collections (that is, numbering fifty items or more). In some instances, usually...
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Independent Order of St. Luke - Justice
Independent Order of St. Luke. Antioch Council No. 506, Powhatan County, records, 1923–1932. 3 items. Mss4In254b. Papers concerning the payment of a...