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A House Built of Virginia Stone

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Approximately forty miles south of Washington, D.C., the Aquia sandstone quarry on Government Island sits quietly in the...

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Aluminum and Beer

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Reynolds established its Can Division in 1963, and in that same year developed the first all-aluminum, twelve-ounce can.

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Audubon's The Birds of America

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In the VMHC collections are several rare editions of his work, including a first edition of Viviparous Quadrupeds and...

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Audubon's Viviparous Quadrapeds

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Following the success of his Birds of America, John James Audubon began to gather material for an equally ambitious...

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Before We Went Underground and Wireless…

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Edwin Fisher Conger loved trees—especially chestnuts, those tall, majestic perennials from which he would eventually...

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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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Broadsides

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Broadsides, or broadsheets, are items printed on one side of a sheet of paper and generally posted or distributed as...

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Business Archives & The Chesapeake Corporation

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Collections of business records arrive for safekeeping and preservation at the VMHC in a variety of ways.

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Care Beyond National and Color Lines: Filipino Nurses in Virginia Across the 20th Century

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As of Winter 2021, Virginia remains among the top ten states for largest Filipino American populations, and by no...

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Changing the Commonwealth with Crayons

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When she was in the third grade, a classmate asked her to pass the “skin-colored” crayon—a familiar request heard at her...

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Clarise Sears Ramsey

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Charlotte Clarise Sears Risley Harrold Ramsey (1867–1922), whose parents were Joseph Henry Risley and Mary Elizabeth...

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Clementina Rind

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Clementina Rind was Virginia’s first female printer and newspaper publisher, publishing important official documents for...

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Colored Knights of Pythias Helmet (c. 1890)

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Race has been a divisive issue throughout American history, and this impressive helmet tells part of the story.

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Confederate Love Poems

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The most prominent Civil War poetry is poetry of the battlefield.

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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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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 which were...

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Double Take

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Daguerreotypes are the earliest form of permanent photographic imagery. They are made by capturing an image on a...

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Dugout Canoe

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The dugout canoe was an Indian concept but one so well suited to the Virginia rivers that Europeans and Africans also...

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Flooded with Watercolors

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You can find many fine examples of watercolor paintings rendered on paper, manuscripts, maps, and miniatures in the...

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For the Love of Beauty: The Collections of Lora and Claiborne Robins

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Explore nineteenth-century Hudson River School landscape paintings and colonial furniture collected by philanthropists...