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Research Guide
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...
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Index to African American material in the broadside collection
These broadsides (items printed on one sheet of paper and then posted for the general public) include announcements, political campaign items, advertising material, and legal notices.
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Index to African American material in the sheet music collection
Whether the songs are about political campaigns, military affairs, or personal tragedy, sheet music can reveal both the public and private aspects of life.
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Indexes
Use our indexes to help with your research.
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Ingle, Mary Friend Mayo – King, Clinton M.
Ingle, Mary Friend Mayo, Diary, 1885. 1 volume. Mss5:1In45:1. This diary, kept by Mary Friend (Mayo) Ingle (1870–1962) of Richmond, comments on the...
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Inglis, John Auchincloss - Justice Family Papers
Inglis, John Auchincloss, Letter. 1 item. Mss2IN47a1.A letter, [1862], from John Auchincloss Inglis (1813–1878), possibly of the 36th North Carolina...
Portrait Index - Groups
Jackson - Lyne: 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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John Marshall
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Joseph Bryan
Joseph Bryan papers, 1869-1910. Sections 3-38 Letterbooks and loose correspondence, 1873-1907 Cal Number Mss1 B8407 b 5-131 Guide Chronological List...
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Kearns, Watkins - Klag, Henry
Kearns, Watkins, Diaries, 1861–1864. 3 volumes. Mss5:1K2143:1–3. Microfilm reel C598.The diary, 21 May 1861–29 February 1864, of Watkins Kearns (1837...
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Keith - Lupton
Keith family papers, 1710–1865. 193 items. Mss1K2694a. Microfilm reels B19 and C599. The papers of this Fauquier County family contain several...
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Lacy, Beverley Tucker - Lucas Family Papers
Lacy, Beverley Tucker, Letter, 1863. 1 item. Mss2L1196a1.A letter, 2 June 1863, to James Power Smith (1837–1923) from Beverley Tucker Lacy (1819–1900)...
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Lacy, Elizabeth Churchill Jones – Lyons, Elizabeth Watkins Henry
Lacy, Elizabeth Churchill Jones, Memoir, 1903. 7 pp. Photocopy of typescript. Mss5:1L1195:1.In this brief memoir composed near the end of her life...
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Lee and Grant
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By the end of the Civil War, most Americans considered either Robert E. Lee or Ulysses S. Grant to be a hero. The time has come for a reassessment of these two men, on whom fell the greatest responsibility for the survival or disintegration of the United States.
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Lee Family (William Lee Letterbook, 1774 December 22-1775)
Index Letterbook, 1774 December 22-1775 August 24, of William Lee In the Lee family Papers, 1638-1867Call Number Mss1 L51 f 415 Adams, Richard, 107...
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Lee Family (William Lee Letterbook, 1778 May 8-October 15)
Index Letterbook, 1778 May 8-October 15, of William Lee In the Lee family Papers, 1638-1867Call Number Mss1 L51 f 417 Adams, John, 4, 15 Barthelemy...
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Lee Family (William Lee Letterbook, 1779 February 20-October 8)
Index Letterbook, 1779 February 20-October 8, of William Lee In the Lee family Papers, 1638-1867Call Number Mss1 L51 f 418 Adams, John, 76Adams...
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Lee Family (William Lee Letterbook, Letterbook, 1777 May 22-1778 June 24)
Index Letterbook, 1777 May 22-1778 June 24, of William Lee In the Lee family Papers, 1638-1867Call Number Mss1 L51 f 416 Adams, John, 242Adams, Samuel...
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Letters from Vietnam
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