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We’ll trade you Fairfax County for Mercer…Just kidding.

Many of the staff and researchers at the Library of Virginia remember our colleague and friend Robert Young Clay for his vast knowledge of the…

Jim GreveDecember 14, 2011

Conservation

See Jefferson’s Papers Conserved!

The Executive Papers of Governor Thomas Jefferson, 1779-1781, have been named one of Virginia’s top ten endangered artifacts by the Virginia Association of Museums. The letters…

Bari HelmsDecember 12, 2011

Archives Digital Projects

Cohabitation Registers Added to Digital Collection

The Library of Virginia is pleased to announce the addition of records from Fluvanna, Goochland, and Montgomery Counties to the cohabitation register digitization project. This project,…

Sarah NerneyDecember 9, 2011

Archives

"Have you any wool? Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full!"

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

Archives

Mug Shot Monday: Will Liddle, No. 6484 and No. 7341

This is the latest entry in a series of posts highlighting inmate photographs in the records of the Virginia Penitentiary. Will Liddle, the subject of this week’s…

Roger ChristmanDecember 5, 2011

Archives

The Siege of Veracruz in Amelia Co.?

Occasionally the strangest things will surface in the county records. While processing Amelia County records (Barcode 1147160), archivist Callie Freed found a map depicting the…

Sarah NerneyNovember 30, 2011

Archives

Mug Shot Monday: Walter Turpin, No. 3159 and No. 4361

This is the latest entry in a series of posts highlighting inmate photographs in the records of the Virginia Penitentiary. Walter Turpin, the subject of this week’s…

Roger ChristmanNovember 21, 2011

Archives Digital Projects

Augusta Co. Images Keep Coming In!

The latest images from the Augusta County Chancery Causes are now available on the Chancery Records Index. With this addition, fifty boxes of Augusta County chancery…

Vince BrooksNovember 18, 2011

Archives

The Gingaskins of Virginia

November is Native American Heritage Month, a month set aside to recognize the significant contributions the first Americans made to the establishment and growth of the…

Sarah NerneyNovember 16, 2011

Archives

Mug Shot Monday: Preston Waters, No. 18879 and Alfred Williams, No. 19912

This is the latest entry in a series of posts highlighting inmate photographs in the records of the Virginia Penitentiary. This week’s entry will spotlight the photographs…

Roger ChristmanNovember 14, 2011

Archives

There Ain’t No Barbecue Like a “Montague Barbecue”

An ongoing project to arrange and describe the executive papers of Virginia’s 20th century governors has brought to light many important and interesting papers of Governor…

Craig MooreNovember 9, 2011

Archives

CSI: Old Virginia: Coroners Edition

At one o’clock in the morning on 1 September 1859, Milly T. King arrived at the home of James Clary and found his slave Hannah…

Bari HelmsNovember 7, 2011

Archives

Spoils of War Return Home to Virginia

Editor's Note: A "Welcome Home" ceremony was held at the Stafford County Courthouse on December 1, 2011, to celebrate the order book's return and to…

Bari HelmsNovember 4, 2011

Archives

Mug Shot Monday: Theodore Gibson, No. 32872

Editors Note: Yes, we know it is not Monday. The Out of the Box staff had a technical glitch this afternoon and accidentally published Monday's…

Roger ChristmanNovember 3, 2011

Archives

Don’t Block the Vote

In honor of the upcoming Election Day, today’s post presents a record that illustrates the struggles that some Virginians experienced while attempting to exercise the…

Sarah NerneyNovember 2, 2011