Occasionally we have researchers who want to know what fashion was like in a certain place in Virginia during a certain time. It might be…
Ginny DunnMarch 4, 2024
Everyone has a holiday gift guide now so here are our favorites from the 1956 Miller & Rhoads Christmas Catalog. Or if you don't care…
Library of VirginiaDecember 22, 2021
The holiday season has long meant family gatherings and a a full social schedule. Women of early twentieth century Richmond who wanted to make sure…
Olin JohnsonDecember 21, 2017
Located in Suffolk, Virginia and chartered in 1881, the Suffolk Female Institute was run by Misses Sallie Finney in what had once been the Central…
Kelley EwingMay 20, 2014
The wool of Merino sheep was highly prized and for centuries the flocks were not allowed to be exported from their home in Spain. One…
Chris KolbeDecember 7, 2011
