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BooksLibrary and manuscripts | Search the collections
Includes books and bound serials, Confederate imprints, sheet music, broadsides, newspapers, family and personal papers, records of businesses and organizations, diaries, account books, scrapbooks, albums, Bible records, maps, and genealogical materials

PhotographMuseum and photographs | Search the collections
Includes paintings, sculpture, prints, furniture, metalwork, ceramics, costumes and other textiles, militaria, political memorabilia, glass plate negatives, daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, and original photographic prints

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New! Documenting Women's Lives - manuscripts
African American manuscripts
Civil War in Virginia - resources
Civil War manuscripts
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Genealogical resources
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Resources for researching Richmond properties
Photographs and portraits of individuals
Photographs and portraits of groups
Photographs of localities

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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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