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Our collections consist of a wide range of objects, including books and bound serials, Confederate imprints, sheet music, broadsides, newspapers, family and personal papers, business and organizational records, genealogical materials, maps, paintings, prints, postcards, weapons, militaria, glass plate negatives, and 19th–21st century photographs.

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New! Environmental History Resources Guide - manuscripts
Documenting Women's Lives - manuscripts
African American manuscripts
African American broadsides
African American sheet music
Civil War in Virginia - resources
Civil War manuscripts
Civil War maps
Genealogical resources
Finding aids for manuscripts and archives
Resources for researching Richmond properties
Photographs and portraits of individuals
Photographs and portraits of groups
Photographs of localities

Other Resources

New! Ancestry.com is now available to VHS researchers
Unknown No Longer: A Database of Virginia Slave Names
Take a Closer Look at Equal Suffrage League of Virginia
Indexes to the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
The Garden Club of Virginia Restorations Project
The VHS Manuscripts Processing Project
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Conserving the Robert Dinwiddie Papers

Historical Mystery Prize

Unknown No Longer

Take a Closer Look

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Reynolds Business History Center

The Garden Club of Virginia Historic Restorations Project


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Items from the collections The Army Alphabet The Birds of Virginia The Blender Nancy Langhorne Shaw Astor Tom Molineaux Winter Landscape Southern Literary Messenger Tall case clock made in Lynchburg The Order Window from Libby Prison The Discoveries of John Lederer Survey by George Washington, April 23, 1751 Carousel Horse Henry 'Box' Brown The Virginia Housewife George Washington View gallery



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