Natural Disasters

Are Your Records Disaster Ready?

Psst...April is Records and Information Management Month! Records and Information Management (RIM) Month is celebrated during the month of April to shed light on the…

Teshawna ThreatApril 9, 2025

Archives Digital Projects

Winter Magic: Snow Day Photos in Yearbooks

While yearbooks might conjure up thoughts of graduation, summer, and the end of the school year - snow days are a very common topic. The…

Jessi BennettJanuary 13, 2025

Archives Digital Projects

Kaine Email Project @ LVA: Tim Butcher’s Hurricane Katrina Story

This is the eleventh in a series of posts spotlighting recently released email from Governor Tim Kaine’s administration. These posts are not meant to be comprehensive but to…

Roger ChristmanSeptember 2, 2015

Archives Digital Projects

Kaine Email Project @LVA: 10th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina

This is the tenth in a series of posts spotlighting recently released email from Governor Tim Kaine’s administration. These posts are not meant to be comprehensive but to…

Roger ChristmanAugust 27, 2015

Newspapers

“Not A Hideous Dream” – Newspaper Coverage of the Johnstown Flood

On 31 May 1889, unusually heavy rainfall washed out the South Fork dam in western Pennsylvania and released twenty million tons of water from a…

Kelley EwingMay 31, 2014

Newspapers

Snow Dazed

A perennial subject for newspapers is snow storms. In Richmond, forecasters are calling for 4 – 8 inches on Wednesday and Thursday. The debilitating effects…

Silver PersingerFebruary 11, 2014

When Disaster Struck the Commonwealth: The 1933 Chesapeake-Potomac Hurricane

With good reason, hurricanes are both a familiar and forbidden subject in the state of Virginia. The Atlantic hurricane season is officially from 1 June…

Callie FreedOctober 3, 2012

Archives Newspapers

Are Your Records Disaster Ready?

Winter Magic: Snow Day Photos in Yearbooks

Kaine Email Project @ LVA: Tim Butcher’s Hurricane Katrina Story

Kaine Email Project @LVA: 10th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina

“Not A Hideous Dream” – Newspaper Coverage of the Johnstown Flood

Snow Dazed

When Disaster Struck the Commonwealth: The 1933 Chesapeake-Potomac Hurricane

Earthquakes and Dirty Dancing. Yes Virginia, There Is A (Very Tenuous) Connection.

A River Runs Through It.

The Virginia Public Records Act Marks 35 Years