Question: What do the following five quotes have in common? Answer: They are all quotes taken from high school newspapers. And while academic newspapers cover topics…
Kelley EwingJuly 24, 2015
To review, here’s a newspaper roll call of the five daily newspapers (there were also weekly papers – four of them religious) in Richmond in…
Henry MorseApril 9, 2015
On Monday, April 3, the city burns. The following day Lincoln walks the still smoking ruins and the capital faces occupation by the Federal Army. …
Henry MorseApril 1, 2015
The Library of Virginia’s current exhibit, “To Be Sold,” open through 30 May 2015, examines the slave trade in Richmond. Viewed through the lens of…
Kelley EwingDecember 15, 2014
This summer’s announcement that Mayo’s Island is again for sale prompted a look back at the history of of the most well-known of the James River islands.…
Cassandra FarrellNovember 14, 2014
The Virginia Newspaper Project recently added issues to three titles that are currently available on Virginia Chronicle. The Monocle. Peninsula Enterprise. Alexandria Gazette. The added…
Errol SomayNovember 4, 2014
This is the latest entry in a series of posts highlighting inmate photographs in the records of the Virginia Penitentiary. Dr. Robert S. Fitzgerald, the subject of…
Roger ChristmanOctober 20, 2014
This is the second part of a series looking at tobacco advertising in the student newspaper, The Richmond Collegian, published at the University of Richmond. View…
Silver PersingerSeptember 25, 2014
The Richmond Collegian, the student newspaper from the University of Richmond, provides a unique opportunity to look at state of the art advertising from the…
Silver PersingerAugust 27, 2014
The Library of Virginia is the home of the Virginia Newspaper Project. In 1997, the Library of Virginia moved to a new building at 800…
Errol SomayApril 30, 2014
In our collection we have an unusual one-off edition of The Progressive Richmonder from June, 1950 that was circulated to promote support for the construction…
Silver PersingerApril 18, 2014
Letters to Santa Claus printed in the Richmond Evening Leader, December 23, 1902. A copy of the full page is now on display on the…
Kelley EwingDecember 17, 2013
On 17 April 1875, Anna Williams of 313 Canal Street in Richmond heard a noise and went outside to investigate only to discover a plank…
Mary Dean CarterApril 3, 2013
