http://www.virginiamemory.com Virginia Memory en-us Library of Virginia web@virginiamemory.com web@virginiamemory.com Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:50:35 GMT 300 http://www.virginiamemory.com/reading_room/virginiana http://www.virginiamemory.com/about/news_feeds/virginiana Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:00:07 EDT <p><a href="http://www.virginiamemory.com/http://www.virginiamemory.com/reading_room/virginiana/watkins_family_papers"><img alt="feed image" width="130" height="113" align="left" border="0" hspace="5" src="http://www.virginiamemory.com/docs/index?w=130&h=113&img=virginiana/GWbig.jpg" title="Watkins Family Papers" /></a>The Watkins family papers, ca. 1910-2000, include certificates, newspaper clippings, photographs, postcards, programs and yearbooks, documenting a prominent African American family in New Kent County, Virginia. While the bulk of the collection consists of Jones and Watkins family photographs from Richmond and New Kent County, the collection is significant due to the connection of the George W. Watkins School and a major U.S. Supreme Court ruling on school desegregation in Virginia during the twentieth century. </p><br clear="all" /> http://www.virginiamemory.com/reading_room/virginiana/watkins_family_papers http://www.virginiamemory.com/reading_room/virginiana http://www.virginiamemory.com/about/news_feeds/virginiana Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:00:07 EDT <p><a href="http://www.virginiamemory.com/http://www.virginiamemory.com/reading_room/virginiana/a_brief_history_of_the_public_privy_on_capitol_square"><img alt="feed image" width="130" height="113" align="left" border="0" hspace="5" src="http://www.virginiamemory.com/docs/index?w=130&h=113&img=virginiana/Privy-2.jpg" title="A Brief History of the Public Privy on Capitol Square" /></a>When we think of Capitol Square, it conjures up visions of Thomas Jefferson's venerable Capitol on the hill, Alexander Parris's elegant Executive Mansion, and Arthur S. Brockenbrough's public privy. Well, maybe not the latter, but to the ordinary visitor of Capitol Square in the early nineteenth century it was equally important. </p><br clear="all" /> http://www.virginiamemory.com/reading_room/virginiana/a_brief_history_of_the_public_privy_on_capitol_square http://www.virginiamemory.com/reading_room/virginiana http://www.virginiamemory.com/about/news_feeds/virginiana Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:00:07 EDT <p><a href="http://www.virginiamemory.com/http://www.virginiamemory.com/reading_room/virginiana/csi:_old_virginia:_scenes_of_murder_and_mayhem_in_the_local_government_records_collection"><img alt="feed image" width="130" height="113" align="left" border="0" hspace="5" src="http://www.virginiamemory.com/docs/index?w=130&h=113&img=virginiana/v006_Manchester.jpg" title="CSI: Old Virginia: Scenes of Murder and Mayhem in the Local Government Records Collection" /></a>The beautiful maps in the Voorhees collection and those that reside in Special Collections are well known to Library of Virginia researchers. Yet thousands of rough but informative maps exist in the Library's local government records collection. Often classified as "plats," these detailed property maps were created and filed as part of county land records, chancery records, or other legal proceedings. </p><br clear="all" /> http://www.virginiamemory.com/reading_room/virginiana/csi:_old_virginia:_scenes_of_murder_and_mayhem_in_the_local_government_records_collection