First Edition of this important collection of American balladry, edited by Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr., Archivist of the Virginia Collections of Ballads. Davis, Jr. signs... Read More about Traditional Ballads of Virginia. Collected Under the Auspices of the Virginia Folk-Lore Society
First Edition of this important collection of American balladry, edited by Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr., Archivist of the Virginia Collections of Ballads. Davis, Jr. presents... Read More about Traditional Ballads of Virginia. Collected Under the Auspices of the Virginia Folk-Lore Society
Manuscript leaf, fragile, of Confederate Army Division battle orders during the Second Battle of Petersburg and a pre-battle report, all issued in June 1864 by... Read More about Retained Confederate Civil War MS. with Copies of a Report and Orders by Major General Bushrod...
U.S. Army Chief Engineer Col. Charles Gratiot here writes to Major General Alexander Macomb, Commanding General of the Unite States Army concerning the officer in..... Read More about 1830 Autograph Letter Signed by Col. Charles Gratiot, U.S. Army Chief Engineer, Constructing a...
Contract and bond between ship chandlers Darrah & Elwell of Philadelphia and the Inspector of the Fourth Light House District, Commander Geo. C. Reiter, U.S.N...... Read More about Form No. 102. U.S. Light-House Establishment. Proposal and Contract for Provisions. [Lighthouse...
![Four Richmond, Virginia Stereoview Photographs]. Anderson Gallery Cook, 1827–1905, David H....](/pictures/thumb/3727777_1.jpg?v=1539214280)
Four stereoview photographs of scenes in Richmond, Virginia photographed and published by Cook, Anderson Gallery of Richmond. The images, likely from the 1870s, are from... Read More about Four Richmond, Virginia Stereoview Photographs
A valuable overview of Confederate writings immediately after the Civil War, written by this notable historian. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1939. 235pp. First Edition..... Read More about The South to Posterity. An Introduction to the Writing of Confederate History
“The doctrine of an eternal Hell of fire & brimstone is all bosh…” Intimate letter by Iowa physician E.T. Manning, writing to a woman friend..... Read More about 1867 Autograph Letter Signed by a Virginia-native and Iowa Minister Renouncing his Baptist Faith
Peabody notes in his introduction that “Hampton Institute may be studied as a well organized school for industrial training, or as an evidence of the..... Read More about Education for Life. The Story of Hampton Institute Told in Connection with the Fiftieth...
First Edition of this thorough history of Hampton Institute in Virginia up until the year 1918. The author, Francis Greenwood Peabody was a Hampton Institute... Read More about Education for Life: The Story of Hampton Institute. Told in Connection with the Fiftieth...
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This particular copy inscribed “...with deep appreciation and still deeper envious admiration” to one Harry Wildes. A tale of the Battle of Petersburg, Virginia by..... Read More about The Tragedy of the Crater. [Inscribed by Author
One year after the 1967 publication of William Styron’s controversial novel of an 1831 slave rebellion, Confessions of Nat Turner, a lecture by the Marxist... Read More about Herbert Aptheker ... Speaking On… Styron’s “Confessions of Nat Turner” Myth or Reality?...
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Manuscript group primarily concerned with the case of Armistead v. Dandridge, a drawn out Virginia lawsuit with roots in the eighteenth century. Much information on... Read More about Washington Family Estate Settlement: Armistead v. Armistead and Armistead v. Dandrige
This 1824 indenture concerns the settlement of a debt and sale of land by John Holohan of Washington, D.C. to Humphrey Peake, Collector of the... Read More about 1824 District of Columbia Manuscript Indenture Signed Twice by Judge and former U.S. Congressman...
Interesting letter on the publication of magazine articles by attorney-turned-journalist and popular writer, John Paul Bocock (1856–1903). A Virginian from a leading family, Bocock earned... Read More about C.1902 ALS by Virginian John Paul Bocock, Attorney, Poet, and Journalist
Subpoena issued to over 50 members of the extended family of George Washington “...to appear at the clerk’s office of our superior court of chancery..... Read More about 1816 Virginia Legal Subpoena involving the Extended Family of George Washington in a Chancery...
Story, mission, progress, and multiple descriptions and viewpoints of life at the Hampton Institute for African-Americans and native Americans; this title published almost a decade... Read More about Hampton and Its Students. By Two of Its Teachers. Mrs. M.F. Armstrong and Helen Ludlow. With...
In the aftermath of the 1862 Battle of Harpers Ferry in Virginia, a small pocket New Testament Bible was given to a woman, Mollie E.... Read More about Bible given by Captured Union Soldier to a Woman in 1862 “at The line of the Surrender” at...
Volume of black “dialect” poems with numerous half tone illustrations of African Americans—many portrait or character study-like or documentary—after photographs by Leigh Richmond Miner of..... Read More about Li’l’ Gal
Volume of black “dialect” poems with numerous half tone illustrations of African Americans—many portrait or character study-like or documentary—after photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera..... Read More about Poems of Cabin and Field
Title continues: “Records of Negro and Indian Graduates and ex-Students With historical and personal sketches and testimony on important race questions from within and without..... Read More about Twenty-Two Years’ Work of Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute
Here, Coleman presents Governor David Emanuel with Virginia’s most recently-enacted laws. The letter is docketed, in part, “Exchange of Laws” and reads, in full: Richmond..... Read More about 1801 Autograph Letter Signed from Samuel Coleman, Virginia clerk, to Georgia Governor David...
“The story of a man from Deep Creek, Virginia and how he became a man of New York City, and a father to be adored..... Read More about Man From Deep Creek. [Inscribed and Signed by Author
Examination of George Washington as a slaveholding Virginia planter, Revolutionary War general, and U.S. president, issued by noted African American publishing house, The Associated Publishers..... Read More about George Washington and the Negro
