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A House Built of Virginia Stone

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Photograph of the Government Island Quarry
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A Landscape Saved: The Garden Club of Virginia at 100

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A photograph of Juanita Patterson
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A Life Rediscovered: The Story of Emily Winfree

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An oval portrait in black and white of Emily Winfree
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Advice and Etiquette Books

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A Book Every Body Should Possess. This simple statement highlights the importance placed on advice and etiquette books...
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Arthur Ashe Jr.’s Family Tree: Tracing the Blackwell Family to 1735

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See a rare family tree, drawn by hand on canvas, tracing Arthur Ashe, Jr.’s family.
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Bookplates

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The use of bookplates is almost as old as printing itself. They were used to record ownership and to reassure the owner...
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Brochure, Remember May 17th

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Learn the importance of May 17th in history.
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Care Beyond National and Color Lines: Filipino Nurses in Virginia Across the 20th Century

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Photograph of Araceli Marcial and her cohort during the Chinese General Hospital School of Nursing graduation march
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Carving Out Space in the Military: WAVES

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Changing the Commonwealth with Crayons

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A photograph of Bellen Woodard and her More Than Peach Project.
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Clemenceau Givings Scrapbook (c. 1944)

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Embroidered felt patch, "SPIT FIRE." Circular patch features a black, fire-breathing panther in the center embroidered on a yellow felt field. Blue emboidery is above and below the panther with "SPIT FIRE" embroidered in black on an orange embroidered field at the bottom.
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College Football

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Learn more about Virginians' long-standing love affair with football.
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Commencement

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Learn more about items related to commencement exercises in the VHS collections.
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Connecticut sculpture

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Records of the Best Products Company provide interesting insights into the history of this iconic sculpture.
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Cookbooks (Advertising)

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Today's cook has many ways of finding a recipe—cookbooks, magazines, web sites. But not that long ago, cookbooks were...
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Craddock-Terry Records Walk on Over to the Museum

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The Craddock-Terry Shoe Company, once the largest employer in Lynchburg, produced lines of boots and shoes, such as...
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Duck and Cover

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Civil Defense Fallout Shelter checklist
Air raid drills. Conelrad. Bomb shelters. Duck and cover. All of these were familiar terms to Americans in the Cold War...
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Duke Ellington at the Mosque

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Late in his career, jazz great Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington composed three "Sacred Concerts," longer works made up of...
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Education in Virginia

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Possum Hollow Schoolhouse, Floyd County, 1910
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Ella Fitzgerald's False Eyelashes (c. 1950)

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