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April Fools’ Day, 1863

Even during wartime, soldiers managed to have a sense of humor … April Fools' prank, 1863. Caroline County Military and Pension Records, 1864, Local Government…

Bari HelmsApril 1, 2013

Newspapers

Journey to the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains with the Mountain Laurel

I would like to introduce you to the Mountain Laurel, a unique paper from Meadows of Dan, Virginia. The Mountain Laurel warned readers that it would “not…

Natalie DraperMarch 29, 2013

Conservation

History Restored: Free Negro Registers Conserved

While watching the February 2012 episode of NBC’s Who Do You Think You Are? featuring actor and Petersburg native Blair Underwood investigating his family history, Library of…

Sarah NerneyMarch 27, 2013

Archives Virginia Authors

"You Say It’s Your Birthday:" Virginia’s Executive Mansion Turns 200

On 16 March 2013, Virginia’s Executive Mansion celebrated its 200th anniversary with a birthday party at the Library of Virginia. The highlight of the event was a…

Roger ChristmanMarch 20, 2013

Newspapers

St. Patrick’s Day in Newspapers

St. Patrick’s Day News from the March 17, 1911 issue of the Times Dispatch. All images are from Chronicling America.Headlines from the March 17, 1911…

Kelley EwingMarch 17, 2013

Digital Projects Manuscripts & Special Collections

My dear and most affectionate lover

Laura Drake Davis and I spent most of 2010-2012 on the road scanning and collecting images for the CW150 Legacy Project. It was not until recently…

Renee SavitsMarch 15, 2013

Archives Digital Projects

Augusta Co. Images All In!

The final images from the Augusta County chancery causes are now available on the Library of Virginia’s Chancery Records Index. With this addition, all Augusta County…

Bari HelmsMarch 13, 2013

Manuscripts & Special Collections

"At the Belmont Manor, oh yes"

We are now into the month of March, and winter continues to drag on. For those of you suffering from seasonal affective disorder, the Library…

Jim GreveMarch 6, 2013

Newspapers

“Flew on wings of death to the hills”:Southwestern Virginia reports on the 1918 Spanish Influenza pandemic

The Fall of 1918 saw the end of World War I and hundreds of thousands in America dead from a influenza pandemic that was sweeping…

Natalie DraperMarch 5, 2013

Newspapers

The Fighting Editor and his Stanley Steamers

Most of us know John Mitchell, Jr. as the tireless “fighting” editor of the Richmond Planet, a newspaper he ran for 40 plus years beginning in the mid-1880′s.…

Errol SomayMarch 1, 2013

Archives Digital Projects

Newspapers

Dark Day at City Hall

Earlier this month, WTVR Channel 6 news reporter Greg McQuade visited the Library of Virginia to assist in his research of Colonel J. M. Winstead, a North Carolina banker who…

Kelley EwingFebruary 19, 2013

Newspapers

Happy Valentine’s Day from the Virginia Newspaper Project

Kelley EwingFebruary 14, 2013

April Fools’ Day, 1863

Journey to the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains with the Mountain Laurel

History Restored: Free Negro Registers Conserved

"You Say It’s Your Birthday:" Virginia’s Executive Mansion Turns 200

St. Patrick’s Day in Newspapers

My dear and most affectionate lover

Augusta Co. Images All In!

"At the Belmont Manor, oh yes"

“Flew on wings of death to the hills”:Southwestern Virginia reports on the 1918 Spanish Influenza pandemic

The Fighting Editor and his Stanley Steamers

Finding What Was Lost: The Lost Records Localities Digital Collection

Shoe Salesman Puts Foot in Mouth

Wills, Slavery, and Freedom in Augusta Co.

Dark Day at City Hall

Happy Valentine’s Day from the Virginia Newspaper Project