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“It’s like solving a mystery!” : 7 Questions with August Moulis

This is the latest blog entry in a series introducing LVA employees and exploring what they do day-to-day. If you are interested in what goes…

Vince BrooksDecember 19, 2019

Archives The Stacks

“You’re Robert Redford!”: 7 Questions with State Archivist Mike Strom

This is the first blog entry in a series introducing LVA employees and exploring what they do day-to-day. If you are interested in what goes…

Vince BrooksNovember 21, 2019

Archives

When Archives Meet Art and Contests

The following is republished with permission from Quail Bell Magazine and Ghia Vitale. REMIX is a contest that showcases archive-inspired art and literary submissions. Check…

Vince BrooksOctober 2, 2019

Archives

Who Do You Love?: Race and Marriage in Virginia Before the Loving Decision

Virginia’s marriage license requirements recently made the national news, and the state’s complicated history with racial classification is part of that conversation. Various records held…

Vince BrooksSeptember 16, 2019

Archives

A Few of Our Favorite Things: Letterhead in the Archives, Great Seal Edition

The design of the Seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia was adopted by the Virginia Convention on 5 July 1776, based on the work of…

Vince BrooksJune 26, 2019

Archives

The Man Who Killed Richard Whichello: A Henrico County Legend

At the end of the 1962 John Ford classic The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, a reporter remarks, “When the legend becomes fact, print the…

Vince BrooksMay 22, 2019

Archives

A Few of Our Favorite Things: Letterhead in the Archive

Happy World Stationery Day! As promised in a previous posts, here’s another look at some of the plethora of letterheads and stationery found in our…

Vince BrooksApril 25, 2019

Manuscripts & Special Collections

Season’s Greetings and More!

Did you know that the Library of Virginia's Visual Studies Collection has a Tumblr page for new acquisitions? It is called LOOK WHAT WE GOT,…

Vince BrooksDecember 6, 2018

Manuscripts & Special Collections

Bessie Miller’s Sad Summer Composition

The Library of Virginia recently acquired a family photograph collection identified as belonging to the Brooks/Ellis families. A composition book labeled “Bessie Miller December 1902”…

Vince BrooksJuly 4, 2018

Archives

A Few of Our Favorite Things: Letterheads in the Archive, WWI Edition

As promised in previous posts, here’s another look at some of the plethora of letterheads and stationery found in our archives. In honor of the centennial…

Vince BrooksJune 13, 2018

Archives The Stacks

Women with Dirty Hands: Archival Apprentices in the State Archives

The following post was adapted from an article in the January/February 2006 Library of Virginia newsletter and additional research on the topic by Jennifer Davis…

Vince BrooksApril 25, 2018

Manuscripts & Special Collections

"View from the Hospital": The Blanton World War I Scrapbook

This is the latest entry in a series of blog posts spotlighting stories and records of Virginia’s involvement in World War I. Many collections in the Library…

Vince BrooksMarch 28, 2018

Archives Manuscripts & Special Collections

A Few of Our Favorite Things: Letterhead in the Archive, Prohibition Edition

As promised in a previous post, here’s another look at some of the plethora of letterheads and stationery found in our archives. In honor of our current…

Vince BrooksSeptember 6, 2017

Archives

"Fit to Fight": The Second Virginia Council of Defense

This is the latest entry in a series of blog posts spotlighting stories and records of Virginia’s involvement in World War I. The Council’s activities…

Vince BrooksJuly 12, 2017

The Official War Atlas of the 1st Division, American Expeditionary Force.

Archives

Mapping No-Man’s-Land: The Official War Atlas of the 1st Division, A. E. F.

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in slightly altered form in the Summer 2001 issue of “Virginia Cavalcade.” Between 1928 and 1930, the federal government…

Vince BrooksMay 31, 2017