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Walter Washington Foster Glass Plate Negatives Collection
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Originally from Norfolk, Walter Washington Foster relocated to Richmond, where he worked in partnership with other...
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Who Freed the Enslaved People?
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Two years of fighting changed what the war was about. Beginning in 1863, the North no longer fought only to save the...
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Who was Oliver Hill?
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The VMHC has a group of items that belonged to Oliver W. Hill, Sr., a prominent Richmond civil rights attorney, donated...
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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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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...