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"That part of America, now called Virginia"

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In 1590, John White published the first separate map of “Virginia” and the first printed record of Sir Walter Raleigh’s...

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A Beardless Boy of Seventeen Years

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Even before Aristophanes wrote of Lysistrata’s plan to end the Peloponnesian War (431–404 BCE) by convincing the women...

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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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A Landscape Saved: The Garden Club of Virginia at 100

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The landscape of the state is enchanting and, when threatened, Garden Club members unite to educate themselves and the...

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A Post-WWII Mother's Day Card

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On June 25, 1944, from an Army Air Force base in Cerignola, Italy, 2d Lt. Harold Leazer penned a letter to his mother in...

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A Spoon That Got Around...

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This silver serving spoon, labeled as “A Spoon That Got Around," was on view in The Story of Virginia exhibition in the...

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Abolitionist Pitcher

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Learn about how this pitcher based on Uncle Tom's Cabin was used as propoganda in the mid-1800s.

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Arming the Commonwealth

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From providing protection from enemy combatants to finding dinner for a family, weapons have played a significant role...

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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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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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Camp Greble: A Union encampment near Norfolk, Virginia

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This poignant, detailed plan was drafted in February 1862 by Private Frank Maynicke of the 99th New York State...

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Carving Out Space in the Military: WAVES

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World War II opened new opportunities for women in the military and on the home front, though it was not the first war...

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Céloron Plate

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One of the most important artifacts to survive from Virginia’s colonial period, this lead plaque was placed at the...

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Christmas in the Trenches

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Read excerpts from soldiers' letters home about their Christmas meals while stationed away from home.

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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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Clemenceau Givings Scrapbook (c. 1944)

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In 1943, Clemenceau “Clem” Givings became the first Richmonder to earn his wings as a Tuskegee Airman, the popular name...

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Diary of William Gwathmey, 1859

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On October 16, 1859, John Brown led eighteen followers in a raid on the federal arsenal and armory at Harpers Ferry...

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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...