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Virginia Historical Society

Annual Report for 2008

Annual Report for 2008

Introduction

Paul A. Levengood

President and Chief Executive Officer

n many ways 2008 may long be seen as a historic year. The nation elected its first AfricanAmerican president, swimmer Michael Phelps electrified the globe with his record-breakingOlympic efforts, and the fallout from the subprime mortgage crisis turned into a worldwide

recession. I could go on and on.Well, I think that 2008 will long be viewed as a significant year in the history of your Virginia

Historical Society. The institution saw its first leadership transition in two decades when Dr.Charles F. Bryan, Jr., stepped down as president in November. All of us who love this state, itshistory, and this institution owe Charlie a tremendous debt of gratitude. The year was marked bytestimonials to the transforming role he played in making the VHS the strong, vibrant, and respect-ed organization it is today.

In November, I assumed the presidency of the VHS humbly but with great enthusiasm. I takeit as my personal charge to ensure that the momentum we have built over the past twenty years becontinued and built upon. There are challenges ahead of us, to be sure. The economic climate of2008 was one of the direst in living memory. Like all non-profits, we have had to find creative waysto do more with less and remain agile to keep delivering the programs and services upon whichVirginians have come to rely.

I am happy to say that in 2008 we rose to those challenges—and continue to do so. The VHSremained the go-to resource for people of all ages who have an interest in the rich, fascinatinghistory of Virginia and the nation. Whether it is in the educational programs that serve schoolchild-ren and teachers across the state or the opportunities for lifelong learning that we provide throughlectures, classes, educational travel, exhibitions, and publications, we are here to ensure that the pastis accessible and relevant to all. And increasingly we learn that through the wonders of the digitalworld our reach knows no geographical boundaries. I hope you visit our web site regularly to seethe exciting online offerings that are growing every day.

I have been heartened by the loyal support that you, our members and supporters, haveshown to me and more importantly to the VHS in this time of transition. You have played anenormous role in making the Society what it is today. And with your continued help we willmake sure that this grand old institution remains a place to learn timeless lessons and gainmuch needed perspective. The words of Patrick Henry are inscribed on the front of our head-

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quarters building, and they have never been more apt than they are in the turbulence of today:“I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.”

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1. Letter, 1676 Nov[embe]r 14, of John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale, from Whitehall, [London, Eng.], to [his broth-er, Charles Maitland] Lord Hatton, . . . in Scotland. 1 p.: holograph; 7 3/4 x 5 3/4 in. Includes mention of Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia. Purchased through the First Settlers Fund.

2. Letter of Instruction, 1677 December 27, of Charles II of England to Herbert Jeffreys, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. [2] p.: handwritten signed; 11 1/2 by 7 1/2 in. Also signed by Henry Coventry and bears seal. Concerns pay-ment of salary and fees. Purchased through the First Settlers Fund.

3. Letter, 1706 March 18, of Micajah Perry, London, [Eng.], to John Custis, Jun., Northampton County on ye Eastern Shore of Virginia. 1 p.: holograph signed; 13 x 8 in. Concerns Colonel Daniel Parke and his family in Virginia. Gift of Eben Richards.

4. Patent, 1737 January 2, issued to George Dabney for 94 acres in Hanover County. 1 sheet: handwritten; 12 1/2 by 101/2 in. Signed by Governor Sir William Gooch. Gift of Donald J. Ellwood.

5. Papers, 1748–1955, of the Thornhill family (of Lynchburg) including planter Joshua Thornhill, Dr. George W. Thornhill (largely concerning his service as a physician in the Confederate States Army), and Dr. William Bibb Thornhill. 1,306 items. Gift of Mrs. June B. Goode.

6. Papers, 1748–1981, of the Ware family (of Essex County) and the related families of Maddox, McWane, Latané, and Rouzee, including correspondence, financial accounts, legal records, commonplace books, scrapbooks and related materials. Among the topics concerned are agricultural operations, local government, including activities of the over-seers of the poor, local businesses, and the Equal Suffrage League and Virginia World War II History Commission.6,788 items. Gift of Lila Jane (Ware) Palmer.

Letter of instruction, 1677 December 27, of Charles II of England to Lt.Gov. Herbert Jeffreys concerning payment of salary and fees.


7. Papers, 1764–1815, of Thomas Rutherford (of Hampshire and Berkeley counties [later W.Va.]) primarily concerning his activities in defense of the Virginia frontier during and just after the French & Indian War, as an agent for the com-missioners appointed to settle accounts relating to Lord Dunmore’s War in 1774, and on behalf of the Berkeley County Committee of Safety in supplying local and Continental Army troops during the American Revolution. Also, include papers of his son Van Rutherford concerning the 55th Regiment of Virginia Militia in 1807 and 1814–1815. Total 61 items. Purchased through the Carrie Wheeler Buck Memorial Fund, the Leo J. Wellhouse Fund, the Ellis Olsson Memorial Foundation Fund, and with funds provided by the National Society, Daughters of Colonial Wars.

8. Papers, 1768–1928, of the Hunter family (of Hunter’s Hill and Fonthill, Essex County) and the related Garnett fam-ily of Virginia and Stevens family of New Jersey. Include correspondence, educational materials, writings, and related papers of merchants James Hunter (1746–1788) and James Hunter (1774–1826), U.S. congressman and senator and Confederate States Secretary of State Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, his wife and sisters, and numerous other fam-ily members. 1,072 items. Gift of the Hester family of Richmond, and of Mr. and Mrs. George P Hester.

9. Letter, 1787 Mar[ch] 25, of George Washington, Mount Vernon, [Fairfax County], to [John Hopkins]. [2] p. on 1 leaf: holograph signed; 9 1/4 x 7 1/2 in. Concerns the James River Company. Presented by the Richmond Historic Riverfront Foundation through the courtesy of Brenton S. Halsey.

10. Papers, 1787–1938, of the Gresham family (of Tappahannock, Essex County), primarily consisting of correspondence of Doctor Henry Gresham with Laura Monroe (Jones) Gresham, in part while serving as a surgeon in the 55th Virginia Infantry Regiment of the Confederate States Army and as superintendant of schools in Essex County. 398 items.Presented by Addison B. Thompson.

11. Papers, 1791–1998, of the Freeman family (of Richmond) chiefly consisting of the records of newspaper editor and historian Dr. Douglas Southall Freeman, his wife, Inez Virginia (Goddin) Freeman, and their children Mary Tyler (Freeman) Cheek McClenahan, Anne Ballard (Freeman) Adler Turpin, and James Douglas Freeman. 1,472 folders.Gift of the late Mary Tyler (Freeman) Cheek McClenahan.

First page of a letter, 1787 March 25, written byGeorge Washington to John Hopkins concerning theJames River Company.


12. Letter, 1799 February 17, of Alexander Spotswood to [William Augustine Washington]. [4] p.: holograph signed; 9 x 7 3/4 in. Concerns money owed by Governor Henry Lee of Virginia. Purchased through the Leo J. Wellhouse Fund.

13. Papers, 1803–1989, of the Allen and related Graves families (of Graves Mill [now Rapidan], Madison County) con-sisting largely of accounts of George H. Allen with blacksmiths and a variety of merchants and as an agent for the Madison County Poor House. 209 items. Purchased.

14. Papers, 1810–1855, of Charles James Faulkner (lawyer and legislator of Berkeley County [later W. Va.]) primarily con-cerning his legal career and including plats and surveys of land, a legal opinion regarding property of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, and related materials. 9 items. Purchased through the Ellis Olsson Memorial Foundation Fund.

15. Papers, 1813–1891, of General William Whann Mackall (of Langley, Fairfax County) primarily concerning his serv-ice in the United States and Confederate States armies and including letters to his wife, Aminta (Sorrel) Mackall, and from fellow officers. 52 items. Gift of Aminta Sorrel Mackall McElroy and Mary Earle Mackall Wilson Dozier.

16. Papers, 1818–1951, of the Rives family (of Castle Hill, Albemarle County) consisting primarily of accounts, photo-graphs, and miscellaneous materials, and especially focusing on Alfred Landon Rives and his daughter, author Amélie Louise (Rives) Chanler Troubetzkoy. 529 items. Gift of Allen Potts.

17. Bill of sale, 1825 February 26, of Nathaniel Thompson (of Louisa County) to James Fontaine (of Hanover County) for the slave Viney and her children. 1 p.: holograph signed; 9 3/4 x 8 in. Gift of the New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord.

18. Daybook, 1825 September 7–November 7, of Andrew Dickerson, kept as a merchant at Stony Fork. 29 [i.e., 26] p.: holograph; 7 3/4 x 12 in. Gift of Alma Dickerson Heyl.

19. Arithmetic book, 1825–68, kept by Andrew Dickerson in Montgomery County. 157 [i.e., 152], [20] p.: part holo-graph; 7 3/4 x 12 3/4 in. Bound volume. Consists of mathematical exercises, some local accounts for carpentry, and birth records of members of the Dickerson, Dodd, and Miller families. Gift of Alma Dickerson Heyl.

A bill of sale, 1825 February 26, of NathanielThompson of Louisa County to James Fontaine ofHanover County for the slave Viney and her children.


20. Papers, 1828–1928, of the Rosier family (of New York, N.Y., and Richmond) primarily consisting of the correspon-dence of Fitz William Rosier, musician, musical instructor, and composer, with family, friends, and business acquain-tances, along with the correspondence of his wife, Sarah Catherine (Walthall) Rosier, with members of her family. 766 items. Gift of Constance Elizabeth Heindl Sarvay.

21. Papers, ca. 1830–70, of the Blue family (of Hampshire County [later W. Va.]) including a recommendation from members of the Virginia General Assembly for Charles Blue to be U.S. Marshal for the Western District of Virginia; and letters written to Sarah Ann (Wright) Washington and Sallie Gertrude (Washington) Blue. 4 items. Gift of Sara Blue Anderson.

22. Papers, 1834–1928, of the Gatewood family (of Louisiana, Kentucky, Wisconsin, and Virginia), including records of Dr. John W. Gatewood, his wife, Ellen Spencer (Giltner) Gatewood, and their daughter, Mary Frances (Gatewood) Witherspoon. 286 items. Gift of Mrs. Raymond E. Oliver.

23. Letters, 1835 November [5]–6, of Austin Brockenbrough (former U.S. Army officer from Virginia in Jacksonville, Ind.) to Alfred Todd concerning a personal affront and a challenge to a duel. 2 items. Purchased with funds provided by Austin Brockenbrough, III.

24. Papers, 1843–1939, of Ella Wood (Rutherfoord) Wheat, primarily consisting of correspondence between Mrs. Wheat and her husband, Richmond, physician S. H. Lewis Wheat. 194 items. Gift of Frances Boushnall Forsyth.

25. Papers, 1847–89, of the Smith family (of Maine and Marion, Smyth County) primarily concerning George S. Smith, Republican Party activist in the 1870s, and his son, George Dexter Smith, superintendent of silver mines in Arizona and a sales agent in Virginia for the Maryland Fertilizer Company. 17 items. Gift of the Clarke Historical Museum, Eureka, Calif.

26. Letter, 1848 May 15, of F. G. Peters, Tye River Warehouse, [Nelson County], to Seth Halsey, Lynchburg. [2] p. on 1 leaf: holograph; 9 3/4 x 8 in. Concerns the sale of the slave Brister and bears a receipt to John D. Murrell. Gift of O. Allen Davis.

27. Cash book, 1851–79, of Dr. Thomas Horace Buck, kept primarily in the 1850s as a physician and apothecary in Front Royal, Warren County. [118] p.: part holograph; 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 in. Bound volume. Includes records of cash received and on hand, and numerous medicinal remedies. Gift of the Whitney Library, New Haven Museum & Historical Society, New Haven, Conn.

28. Letter, [18]51 Feb[ruary] 21, of Lancelot Minor, Pedlar Mills, Amherst [County], to William Lewis, Pemberton P.O., Goochland [County]. [3] p. on 2 leaves: holograph signed; 9 3/4 x 7 1/2 in. Concerns Minor’s desire to hire Lewis to superintend the building of his house and other structures at [“Briery Knowe”], Amherst County. Purchased through the Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans Fund.

29. Papers, 1857–64, of William T. Nelson (while serving in Company D of the 57th North Carolina Infantry Regiment of the Confederate States Army in Virginia), primarily consisting of letters written to his wife, Ann T. (Crawley) Nelson (of Winston, N.C.). 36 items. Gift of Frances W. Crawley. (This collection, which survived the effects of Hurricane Katrina in Picayune, Miss., in 2005, was conserved by VHS manuscripts and conservation staff.)

30. Papers, 1859–99, of the Waring family (of Powhatan County) chiefly consisting of the correspondence of Adelaide (Lancaster) Waring, especially with relatives serving in the Confederate States Army or attending the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington. 115 items. Gift of Joyce A. Cook.

31. Letters, 1861–62, of Arthur Emmet O’Conner (while serving in the 99th New York Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army of the Potomac, at the General Hospital at Camp Hamilton) to Captain [?] Wise. 4 items. Gift of Mrs. Donald Shultis.

32. Records, 1867–97, of the Marshall Manufacturing Company of Manchester [now Richmond], cotton and textile man-ufacturer, including correspondence with customers and suppliers, and account books. 193 folders and 7 volumes. Gift of an anonymous donor.


33. Papers, 1880–1972, of Doctor Emily Earl (Chenault) Runyon (of Richmond) primarily concerning her daily and fam-ily life and her attempted missionary work in China; also includes some materials concerning her medical career as one of the first woman doctors in Virginia. 729 items. Gift of Cynthia Brewster Ambler.

34. Papers, 1884–1915, of the Williams family (of Richmond) including materials concerning the death by drowning at Old Point Comfort of Charlotte Randolph Williams and her cousin Susan Eleanor Williams Gibson and letters writ-ten to the family during the final illness and death of John Langbourne Williams. 247 items. Gift of Kathleen Murat Williams.

35. Papers, 1885–1917, of the Summerfield family (of Danville) primarily concerning the education of Anne L. Summerfield (the daughter of German immigrant parents) in the Danville Public Schools and including grade reports, certificates, programs, and related materials. 28 items. Gift of the Jewish Museum of Maryland, Baltimore, through the courtesy of Jobi O. Zink, registrar and curatorial assistant.

36. Scrapbook, 1893–1929, kept as a young woman by Mary Maude Schultz McLelland (of Richmond) primarily con-cerning her social life and educational activities. [78] p: 6 3/4 x 10 1/4 in. Bound volume. Gift of Gwynn R. Litchfield.

37. Papers, 1894–1961, of the Pollard family (of Richmond) largely consisting of “round robin” letters between members of the family of Virginia governor John Garland Pollard. 486 items. Gift of Emma Clarke White.

38. Letters, 1898 July–September, of Thomas Beardsworth (while a musician at the Rockbridge Alum Springs) to his future wife, Julia Ada Bantz (of Winchester). 29 items. Purchased.

39. Papers, 1901–49, of John Garland Jefferson (judge of Amelia County) primarily concerning his career as a student at Hampden-Sydney College. 35 items. Gift of H. Marshall Goodman, Jr.

40. Papers, 1909–70, of Henry Clay Hofheimer (businessman of Norfolk) including correspondence, newspaper clip-pings, stock certificates, photographs, and related materials concerning his materials plants (Hofheimer Concrete Corporation, Southern Materials, Inc.), his mining ventures, and some of his construction projects (Hofheimer Construction Corporation, Marshall Manor, Norfolk). 491 items. Gift of Elise Bessie Hofheimer Wright.

41. Papers, 1911–87, of Lillian Gladys Sievers (of Falls Church) concerning the work of her father, artist Frederick William Sievers, especially regarding the Virginia Memorial at the Gettysburg National Military Park and Sievers’s depiction of General Robert E. Lee. 10 items. Gift of Dawn Westbrook Boyd.

42. Records, 1913–63, of St. Luke’s Hospital, Richmond, primarily concerning financial support of the institution from the estates of Joanna Bethune Arents and Dr. and Mrs. Stuart McGuire. 57 items. Gift of Humana, Inc., Louisville, Ky., through the courtesy of Joan O Lenahan, corporate secretary.

43. Constitution and by-laws, 1914, of the Virginia Railway and Power Company’s Relief Association, Richmond & Petersburg Division. [16] p.: printed with handwritten completions; 6 1/4 x 4 in. Bound volume. Includes certificate of membership issued to A. H. Brown. Gift of Professor John Paul Jones.

44. Records, 1917–33, of the National Father’s Day Association, Inc., founded by Kate Swineford (later Burgess) of Drewry’s Bluff to secure official recognition of such a holiday. Include certificates of incorporation and dissolution, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and photographs. 33 items. Gift of Kate S. Burgess.

45. Scrapbook, 1920–76, of Mary Augusta Jefferson (of Amelia County) containing a variety of materials relating to her family’s history, her career as a music supervisor for the Lynchburg city schools, activities and history in Amelia County, the battle of New Market in 1864, and related subjects. 1 volume plus enclosures. Gift of H. Marshall Goodman, Jr.

46. Records, 1925, of the Stonewall Jackson School Mothers’ Club, Richmond, concerning presentation of a Confederate flag to the school. 3 items. Gift of the Janet Randolph Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Richmond.

47. Papers, 1926–94, of Anne Hobson Freeman, author and oral historian, concerning research on the history of Richmond investment firms Scott & Stringfellow and Wheat First Butcher Singer. 204 folders. Gift of Anne Hobson Freeman and Wheat First Butcher Singer, Richmond.


48. Correspondence, 1928–61, of Douglas A. Robertson (lawyer of Lynchburg) concerning the Democratic Party in Virginia, Virginia and United States politics, and civil rights issues. 213 items. Purchased.

49. Papers, 1937, of Kathryn Viola Gray (of Richmond) including a diploma and photograph of the graduating class of 1937 of Armstrong High School. 2 items. Gift of Jason Morris.

50. Records, 1937–74, of the Laburnum Construction Corporation of Richmond, primarily consisting of minute books of directors’ meetings, ledgers, and financial reports. 60 items. Gift of Roberta Bryan Bocock.

51. Papers, 1943–77, of FitzGerald Bemiss (of Richmond) primarily consisting of correspondence with George H. W. Bush regarding Bush’s business, diplomatic, and political career and Republican Party politics, as well as Bemiss’s career in Virginia politics. 647 items. Gift of FitzGerald Bemiss.

52. Correspondence, 1944–45, of Captain Fraser Neiman (of Williamsburg) while serving as a military intelligence offi-cer in the United States Army in Europe during World War II. 270 items. Gift of Stella Duff Neiman.

53. Records, 1972–91, of the Virginia Peninsula United Methodist Historical Society including individual, unpublished histories of a number of churches in the Peninsula District of the United Methodist Church. 16 folders. Gift of the Virginia Peninsula United Methodist Historical Society.

54. Papers, 1986–88, compiled by Elizabeth B. Bauder (as senior vice president for sales promotion at Thalhimer Bros., Inc., Richmond) concerning the opening of a branch department store in Southpark Mall, Charlotte, N.C. Materials primarily consist of marketing studies, pre-opening planning documents, and advertising and promotional records.211 items. Gift of Elizabeth B. Bauder.

55. Circular letter, 2007 April 17, of Peter D. Kaufmann, [Virginia Tech, Blacksburg], to [family and friends]. [3] p.: type-script signed; 8 1/2 by 11 in. Concerns the aftermath of the tragic events at Tech of April 16, 2007. Gift of Roland Creamer with the permission of Peter D. Kaufmann.

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1. Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America. Khedive Temple, Norfolk. Ancient Oriental Tribe, Khedive Patrol . . . Presenting 150 Minutes of History, Mirth and Talent from Here, There and Yonder . . .Norfolk, 1914. Gift of Nelson Lankford.

2. Anecdotal Events of the Great Conflict in the United States . . . .Hartford, Conn., 1867. Gift of Bensley H. and Maureen Field.

3. Bailey, Ebenezer. The Young Ladies’ Class Book: a Selection of Lessons for Reading, in Prose and Verse. Boston, New York and Cincinnati, 1858. Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Graham Stevens in honor of Robert Reid Howison.

4. Bradford, Thomas Gamaliel. Atlas Designed to Illustrate the Abridgement of Universal Geography Modern & Antient: Chiefly Compiled from the Abrege de Geographie of Adrian Balbi. New York, Boston and Philadelphia, 1835. Bears signature on the front cover of George Edward Pickett. Gift of Suzanne Pickett Zbar.

5. A Brief Memoir Concerning Abel Thomas, a Minister of the Gospel of Christ in the Society of Friends, Compiled from Authentic Documents. Philadelphia, 1824. Includes notes on Virginia. Purchased through the William A. Hagey Fund.

6. The Builder’s Dictionary: or, Gentleman and Architect’s Companion. Explaining Not Only the Terms of Art in all the Several Parts of Architecture, but also Containing the Theory and Practice of the Various Branches Thereof . . . . London, 1734.Included in Helen Park’s List of Architectural Books Available in America Before the Revolution. Gift of Hugh C. Miller.

7. Byrn, Edward W. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century. New York, 1900. Gift of Marshall Johnson.

8. Callaway, James Etheridge. Thomas Nelson Page, Famous American and Virginian, Warns Against the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, and Federal Control of Suffrage: At No Time in the Last Twenty Years Have the States of the South Been Placed


in Such Jeopardy. Montgomery, Ala. [191–?]. Printed letter written by Page to a Virginia woman on the subject of suf-frage. Purchased through the Elis Olsson Memorial Foundation Fund.

9. Cartee, Cornelius. The Souvenir Minstrel: A Choice Collection of the Most Admired Songs, Duets, Glees, Choruses, &c. &c. with Several Originals, and Many Favorites of the Principal Vocalists. Philadelphia, 1836. Gift of Bensley H. And Maureen Field.

10. Childe, Lydia Marie. American Frugal Housewife. Dedicated to Those Who are Not Ashamed of Economy. Boston, 1833.Gift of Nancy Carter Crump.

11. Cobb, Lyman. Cobb’s Juvenile Reader, no. 3: Containing Interesting, Moral and Instructive Reading Lessons . . . To which are Prefixed Observations on the Principles of Good Reading: Designed for the Use of Larger Children in Families and Schools. Baltimore, 1831. Bears ownership signature of William C. Latane. Gift of Lila Ware Palmer.

12. Cobb’s Island Hotel (Cobb’s Island). Cobb’s Island Hotel in the Atlantic Ocean: The Unrivaled Health and Summer Resort . . . Fishing, Gunning, and Bathing Excelled . . . Cheriton, [1890?]. Broadside. Purchased through the Charles S. Hutzler Fund.

13. Comettant, Oscar. Voyage Pittoresque et Anecdotique dans le Nord et le Sud des États-Unis d’Amérique. Paris, 1866.Includes descriptions of Arlington and Mt. Vernon. Purchased through the William A. Hagey Fund.

14. Copland, H. A New Book of Ornaments. . . . London, 1746. Included in Helen Park’s A List of Architectural Books Available in America Before the Revolution. Purchased through the Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans Fund.

15. A Copy of the Despatches from the American Envoys Extraordinary to the French Republic to the Right Honourable John Adams, President of the United States of America. Glasgow, 1798. Dispatches signed by Timothy Pickering, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, John Marshall, and Elbridge Gerry regarding the XYZ Affair. Gift of W. Hamilton Bryson.

16. Crafts, William A. Life of Ulysses S. Grant: His Boyhood, Campaigns, and Services, Military and Civil. Boston, 1868. Gift of Bensley H. and Maureen Field.

17. Dabney, Robert Lewis. A Review of “Theodosia Ernst: or, The Heroine of Faith.” Richmond, 1869. The author was a professor at Union Theological Seminary at Hampden-Sydney College. Purchased through the Charles S. Hutzler Fund.

18. Dalbiac, Philip Hugh. The American War of Secession, 1863: Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. London and New York, 1911. Rare descriptions of these battles through the eyes of a British officer. Purchase. Charles S. Hutzler Fund.

19. Devens, Richard Miller. The Pictorial Book of Anecdotes and Incidents of the War of the Rebellion, Civil, Military, Naval and Domestic: Embracing the Most Brilliant and Remarkable Anecdotal Events of the Great Conflict in the United States. . . . Hartford, Conn., 1867. Gift of Bensley H. and Maureen Field.

20. De Bow, James Dunwoody Brownson. Statistical View of the United States: Embracing its Territory, Population—White, Free, Colored and Slave—Moral and Social Conditions, Industry, Property, and Revenue. . . . Washington, D.C., 1854. Bears signature of James Henry Rochelle of Southampton County. Purchased through the William A. Hagey Fund.

21. Dryden, John. The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq.: Containing all His Original Poems, Tales, and Translations. . . . London, 1760. In four volumes, all containing the armorial bookplate of Ralph Wormeley (1715–1790) of Rosegill. Purchased through the Carrie Wheeler Buck Fund.

22. Ebenezer Association of Old School Baptists. Minutes of the Ebenezer Association of Old School Baptists. [n.p., 1907–1930]. Includes Primitive Baptist Churches in Page, Shenandoah, Rappahannock and Rockingham Counties.Purchased through the Elis Olsson Memorial Foundation Fund.

23. Edwards, John Ellis. Masonic Discourse Delivered by Request of Loge Francaise, No. 53, A. F. & A. M., on Sunday, December 24, 1871. Richmond, 1872. Purchased through the William A. Hagey Fund.

24. Ellet, Charles. Report on a Suspension Bridge across the Potomac, for Rail Road and Common Travel: Addressed to the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown, D.C. Philadelphia, 1852. Purchased through the Battle Abbey Council Fund.


25. Fort Loudoun Seminary, Winchester, Virginia: Resident and Day Departments for Young Women . . . . Winchester, 1905. Purchased through the William A. Hagey Fund.

26. Fox, John. Motto’s of the Wanderers: In Latin and English: Several of Which are Paraphras’d in Heroick Verse. [With] . . . Public Spirit; a Poem. London, 1718. Fox was a Virginia born author. Purchased through the Leo J. Wellhouse Fund.

27. French, James Strange. Elkswatawa: or, The Prophet of the West: A Tale of the Frontier. First edition. New York, 1836.In two volumes. Bears signature of Martha Rochelle (Mattie) Tyler of New Jerusalem. Purchased through the William A. Hagey Fund.

28.The Gift of Friendship: A Christmas, New Year’s, and Birth-day Present for 1836. London, 1836. Bears signatures of James Rochelle Tyler and Martha Rochelle (Mattie) Tyler. Purchased through the William A. Hagey Fund.

29. Goodnoh, Edward C. A Break for Liberty: a Tale of the Days That Tried Men’s Souls. Chicago, 1899. The story of the famous tunnel escape from Libby Prison. Gift of Fred Fettinger III.

30. Greene, Frances Nimmo. The Right of the Strongest. New York, 1913. Bears ownership inscription of Mattie M. Hairston of Hordsville Plantation in Henry County. Purchased through the Battle Abbey Council Fund.

31. H. M. Smith & Co. Retail Price List of the Studebaker Wagon for Farm and Freight Use: Manufactured by the Studebaker Bros., Manufacturing Co., South Bend, Indiana. Richmond, 1876. Purchased through the Betty Sams Christian Fund.

32. Harrison, William Henry. Gen. Harrison’s Speech at the Dayton Convention, September 10, 1840. Boston, 1840. Whig campaign literature. Purchased through the Diana Dudley Memorial Fund.

A Break for Liberty: a Tale of the Days That Tried Men’sSouls (Chicago, 1899) by Edward C. Goodnoh tellsthe story of the famous tunnel escape from LibbyPrison.


33. Hankel, David S. A Description of the New Market Endless Caverns. . . . New Market, 1880. The first promotional lit-erature printed about the Endless Caverns, which were discovered in 1879. Purchased through the William A. Hagey Fund.

34. Hemmeter, John C. The Radio-Activity of the Mineral Waters of Hot Springs, Warm Springs and Healing Springs in Hot Springs, Va. Chicago, 1915. Purchased through the Charles S. Hutzler Fund.

35. Howison, Robert Reid. A History of Virginia: From Its Discovery and Settlement by Europeans to the Present Time.Richmond, New York, and London, 1848. Bears inscription to Mrs. Mary E. Howison from the author. Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Graham Stevens in honor of Robert Reid Howison.

36. Hunter, Robert Mercer Taliaferro. [Collection of twelve miscellaneous speeches delivered by R. M. T. Hunter from 1838 to 1857 on various subjects.] Hunter represented Virginia in the U.S. House of Representative, the U.S. Congress, and the Confederate States Congress. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. George P. Hester.

37. Jefferson’s March. Philadelphia, 1804. Sheet music. Gift of William Cole.

38. Kenney, Eugene R. At the Ringing of the Sunset Bell. Winchester, 1908. Sheet music. Gift of William Cole.

39. Kent, Kendall & Atwater (Richmond). By the steamers Niagara and Europa, and the Ships Yorkshire, Siddons, Columbia, Montezuma and Other Arrivals from Liverpool and Havre, We are Receiving Our Fall Supply of British & French goods. . . . Your Attention is Invited to Our Stock of Dress Goods. . . . [Richmond, 1849]. Broadside. Purchased through theBetty Sams Christian Fund.

40. Lossing, Benson John. Our Great Continent: Sketches, Picturesque and Historic: Within and Beyond the States. . . . New York, 1889. Includes notes on Richmond, Hampton, Old Point Comfort, and Mount Vernon. Gift of Bensley H. and Maureen Field.

41. Maury, Matthew Fontaine. Our Navy: Extracts from the Lucky Bag on the Reorganization of the Navy. Washington, 1840.The author’s first published work, this pamphlet urged the navy to cease performing such tasks for which it had no competence, such as shipbuilding, and to reorganize itself appropriately. Purchased through the James A. C. Keith Fund.

42.Minstrels! Minstrels! W. D. Crowell and J. P. Duncan’s All Star Minstrel Troupe from Norfolk, Va. . . . W.M.C.A. Hall , Eastville, Thursday evening, April 19th . . . [Norfolk, n.d.]. Broadside. Purchased through the Douglas H. Gordon Fund.

43. Milton, John. Paradise Lost . . . To which is Prefixed, the Life of the Author. Philadelphia, 1855. Bears a signature with the inscription: “W. Orton Williams. Taken from Arlington, Va., estate of Robert E. Lee, Gen. C.S.A.” Bears a note in another hand: “Col. Williams whose signature is in this book was hung as a spy by Maj. Gen. Rosecrans, U.S.A. in the fall of ’62. He came into our lines and sketched all our forts.” Purchased through the Battle Abbey Council Fund.

44.Mosaics. Published by the girls of the Virginia Female Institute (Staunton). Roanoke, 1900, 1902–3. Annual. Gift of Marian Mann Fletcher.

45. Mount Vernon Ladies Association. An Illustrated Handbook of Mount Vernon, the Home of Washington. Mount Vernon, 1905. Gift of James C. Wheat.

46.New Virginia Theatre, D. P. Wine, Manager, Tuesday, Nov. 16th, 1915 . . . Fred G. Berger Presents the Columbia Players in Henry Miller’s Charming Comedy “Her Husband’s Wife,” a Comedy in Three Acts by A. E. Thomas. . . . [Harrisonburg?], 1915. Gift of Somer Wickham.

47. Newton, Willoughby. To the Voters of the 8th Congressional District of Virginia, composed of the Counties of Spotsylvania.. . . Fredericksburg, 1843. Broadside. Signed by the author. Gift of Lila Ware Palmer.

48. Page, Thomas Nelson. Two Little Confederates. New York, 1895. Bears the inscription “Presented to Mary Graham & Margaret Morton Howison . . .1896, Braehead.” Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Graham Stevens in honor of Robert Reid Howison.


49. Paris Steele’s Institute of Penmanship, Business and School: Present Term will Commence Nov. 26th, 1883, in the Lecture Room of the Old Baptist Church . . . Opposite Baptist College. [n.p., 1883]. Broadside. Includes a lengthy testimonial from students and faculty at Roanoke College. Purchased through the Betty Sams Christian Fund.

50. Peabody, Francis Greenwood. Founder’s Day at Hampton: An Address in Memory of Samuel Chapman Armstrong . . .January 30, 1898. Boston and NewYork, 1898. Purchased through the Charles S. Hutzler Fund.

51. Phillips, Richard. An Easy Grammar of Geography: Intended as a Companion and Introduction to the “Geography on a Popular Plan, for Schools, and Young Persons” by Rev. J. Goldsmith. New ed. Philadelphia and Richmond, 1816. Gift of Lila Ware Palmer.

52. Piedmont and Arlington Life Insurance Company, Home Office, Richmond, Va. Richmond, [1869]. Includes lists of offi-cers and directors, financial condition, and information regarding policies. Purchased through the Betty Sams Christian Fund.

53. Pinckney, Henry Laurens. An Address Delivered Before the Bible Society of the University of Virginia, March 11th, 1835 and Published at the Request of the Society. Richmond, 1835. Purchased through the Douglas H. Gordon Fund.

54. Rollin, Frank A. Life and Public Services of Martin R. Delany: Sub-Assistant Commissioner Bureau Chief Relief of Refugees, Freedman, and of Abandoned Lands, and Late Major 104th U.S. Colored Troops. Boston, 1883. The first biography of this Virginia-born African American abolitionist, physician, publisher, author, soldier, and explorer. Purchased through the Elis Olsson Memorial Foundation Fund.

55. Root, George W. The Battle-Cry of Freedom. Chicago, 1862. Sheet music. Gift of Lamar F. Neville.

56. Shenandoah Valley Springs. “Helena” Natural Aperient Mineral Water as Bottled at the Spring, near Elkton, Rockingham County, Virginia. . . . Washington, D.C., [1916?]. Purchased through the Betty Sams Christian Fund.

57. Southern College, Petersburg. Commencement Snapshots. Includes photographs of members of the graduating class of 1934 from this women’s junior college. Purchased through the Battle Abbey Council Fund.

58. Southworth, Emma Dorothy Nevette. Retribution: A Tale of Passion. New York, 1889. Fiction set in Virginia.Purchased through the Battle Abbey Council Fund.

59. Souvenir Booklet: Marie M. Miller Benevolent Home, 402 North Market Street, Staunton, Virginia, Sunday, April 4th, 1954. . . . Staunton. Dedication of a “convalescent home for the needy.” Purchased through the Elis Olsson Memorial Foundation Fund.

60. Stirby William. The Battle of Buena Vista: Composed and Arranged for Piano Forte and Respectfully Dedicated to Major General Zachary Taylor. Louisville, Ky., 1848. Sheet music. Gift of William Cole.

61. The Sunday School Union Society of Alexandria. The eighth annual Meeting. [n.p.], 1834. Includes Henry Laurens Pinckney’s address on temperance to the Sunday School Union. Purchased through the William A. Hagey Fund.

62. Union Steam Fire Company (Winchester). Constitution of the Union Steam Fire Company, No. 2, of Winchester, Virginia. Winchester, 1894. Purchased through the Elis Olsson Memorial Foundation Fund.

63. United States. Circuit Court. The Opinion of Chief Justice Marshall: In the Case of Garnett, Ex’r of Brooke v. Macon et al. Richmond, 1825. Gift of John L. McElroy, Jr.

64. Virginia. Adjutant General’s Office. Organization of the Militia of the State of Virginia. Richmond, 1814. Includes the names of the general and field officers of the militia. Gift of Lila Ware Palmer.

65. Virginia. Governor. Communication from the Governor of Virginia: Transmitting Report and Opinion of Messrs. James G. Field, M. B. Seawall, and John M. Forbes, of the Johnson–Poe Settlement of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Matter.[Richmond, 1877]. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. George P. Hester.


66. Virginia Club.Virginia Club, Norfolk, Va., Organized September 1873: Officers and Members, Constitution and By-Laws, Adopted January 4, 1902, Club House Cor. Granby and Freemason Streets. 1902. Norfolk, 1902. Gift of W. Hamilton Bryson.

67. Wade, Hugh. Like a Virginia Creeper: (I’ll Creep Back to You): Song Fox Trot. . . . “Sung by The Famous Four in the Kelso Brothers’ Tivoli Revue.” [n.p.], 1927. Sheet music. Gift of William Cole.

68. Waterman, J. Rough and Ready Grand March: Composed for the Piano Forte with an Accompaniment for the Flute . . .Boston, 1848. Sheet music. Gift of William Cole.

69. Widmeyer, Charles Branon. New Sacred Quartettes: For Male, Female and mixed Voices. Dayton, 1914. Purchased through the Charles S. Hutzler Fund.

70. Woods, George Bryant. Essays, Sketches and Stories: Selected from the Writings of George Bryant Woods: With a Biographical Memoir. Boston, 1873. Includes letters dated 3 and 5 April 1865 describing the author’s observations on the Union Army’s occupation of Petersburg and Richmond. Purchased through the Elis Olsson Memorial Foundation Fund.

71. Young, Edward. The Compliant: or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality . . . with the Life of the Author.Philadelphia, 1816. Bears the following signature: “ Hugh P. Taylor, Sept. 1821.” Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Graham Stevens in honor of Robert Reid Howison.

Like a Virginia Creeper: (I’ll Creep Backto You): Song Fox Trot. . . . “Sung by TheFamous Four in the Kelso Brothers’ TivoliRevue,” by Hugh Wade. Published in1927.


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1. Cattle horn used by James Parrish Sykes (1817−1870), Captain in the 42d Regiment of the 11th Brigade and 1st Division of the Virginia Militia. Gift of Thomas B. Bennett, Jr., Leesburg, Florida.

2. Diploma awarded to Bertie Lee Hamlette (Jeffress) from the Thyne Institute, May 18, 1923, Chase City, Virginia. Gift of her five children: Joy Jeffress Franklin, Fay Jeffress Davis, Mildred Jeffress Berry, Bertie Jeffress Powell, and Conway A. Jeffress, Jr.

3. Powder flask manufactured by the American Flask & Cap Co., New Haven, Conn., model number 990. Gift of Elizabeth H. Wagner, Richmond.

4. Army Song Book, 1941, and card with Nenette and Rin-tin-tin wool figures. Gift of Dottie and André Nielsen, Richmond.

5. Photographic prints of nurses, newspaper clippings, and a Manual of Hospital Procedures from Grace Hospital in Richmond. Gift of the Grace Hospital Alumnae Association.

6. Photogravure from the original picture of General Lafayette at Yorktown attended by James Lafayette (by Jean-Baptiste Le Paon, 1783), enhanced by hand-coloring, the addition of engraved vignettes of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, and embellished with watercolor renderings of the crossed flags of the United States and the French Republic, published for the centenary of the American Revolution by H. Figuet, Paris, c. 1875. Purchase. Carrie Wheeler Buck Fund.

7. Silver pitcher inscribed to Maurice M. Lynch of Winchester, 14 May 1931. Gift of Lillian S. Duffey, Richmond.

8. Empire chair, early 1800s, used at the Executive Mansion in Richmond by the family of Gov. William Mann (1910−1914). Gift of Frederick B. Wayne, Richmond.

A card, 1941, with Nenette and Rin-tin-tin wool figures.


9. Sofa, c.1845−1855, from the Conway family of Mount Scion, the home of President James Madison’s mother.Attributed to Green Brothers of Alexandria. Gift of Helen H. Reed, Great Falls.

10. Large black and white photograph “Home Portrait” of Minnie Eagle Askew (Mrs. James Brasington Askew) and her daughter, Elizabeth (Beth) Engle Askew taken on 8 April 1946 by Dementi Studio with accompanying 8 x 10 photo-graph showing the above portrait on display in one of the Grace Street windows of Miller & Rhoads prior to Mother’s Day, 1946. Gift of Elizabeth Engle Askew, Nellysford.

11. Autographed photograph inscribed to the VHS from astronaut Leland D. Melvin during his visit to the VHS on 4 April 2008. Gift of Leland D. Melvin.

12. Photograph of the baseball team of Company I, 4th Virginia Regiment, United States Volunteers (from Franklin, Southampton County), Spanish-American War, probably 1898; one photograph of Company D (the Peninsula Guards), 4th Virginia Volunteer Regiment, United States Volunteers “Off to the Front May 20th 1898”; one felt football letter, Chester High School, 1939. Purchase. Elis Olsson Memorial Foundation Fund.

13. Gold memory chain that belonged to LaSalle “Sallie” Corbell Pickett. Gift of Suzanne Pickett Zbar, Garrett Park, Maryland.

14. Bamboo cane with gold handle and one gold pocket watch, both given to Nelson Hill Hotchkiss in gratitude for trips he organized and led in the South for northern editors in 1871 and of southern editors to the North in 1872. Gift of Henry Stuart Hotchkiss, Washington, D.C.

15. Daguerreotype of Frederick William Hanewinckel, one daguerreotype of an unidentified woman (possibly Mrs. Frederick William Hanewinckel), and one hand colored ambrotype of Bishop Thomas Atkinson’s son, Thomas IV. Gift of Mrs. Joseph Bryan III, Monkton, Maryland.

16. Unmarked silver goblet inscribed “Capt.G. D. McIntosh [should be D. G.]/from/The Members of Co. B/1st Regt. S.C. Vols./July 3rd/1861.” Probably the goblet was bought in Richmond and presented to McIntosh at the disband-ment of the regiment with the end of the soldiers’ ninety-day enlistments. Gift of Mrs. Joseph Bryan, III, Monkton, Maryland.

17. Coin silver ladle marked “R & POTTER” and “NORFOLK,” c. 1820. Purchase. James H. Willcox, Jr. Fund.

18. Four color film positives of civil rights demonstrators in Danville, 1963, by Ray E. Ricketts, photographer for Danville Register. Gift of Ray E. Ricketts, Richmond.

19. Baseball jersey with felt letters “Franklin” stitched to the front and “G. H. Steinhardt & Co., Inc. Hardware” stitched to the back, c. 1940s. Purchase. Elis Olsson Memorial Foundation Fund.

20. Paintings, drawings, and sketchbooks by Julia Anne (Morrison) Blount (1831−1877), Helen (Mahood) McGehee(1892−1980), Rafael Alfonso Umaña Mendez, and Sallie Lee Mahood (1864−1953); photograph albums from the Mahood and McGehee families. Gift of Helen McGehee Umaña, Lynchburg.

21. Oil on canvas portrait of Julia Mahood (daughter of Sallie Lee Mahood) painted by her niece Helen Mahood McGehee(1892−1980). Gift of Stuart Coleman, Washington, D.C.

22. Eight photographic prints of Epps & Snider Company, Bookbinders, Richmond. Purchase. Betty Sams Christian Business History Fund.

23. Coin silver soup ladle made by N. W. Smith, Wheeling & Clarksburg. Purchase. James H. Willcox, Jr. Fund.

24. Eighty-three pieces of Virginia silver: serving spoon marked “Myers and Janke” for Solomon Myers and Alfred Janke; serving spoon marked “M. L. Gretter” for Michael Gretter; serving spoon marked “N. Hale” and “Richmond”; sugar tongs marked “H. Hyman RHD” in a serrated rectangle for Henry Hyman; serving spoon marked “Lewis Hyman RD” in a rectangle for Lewis Hyman; berry spoon marked “Chas. Gennet “and a “horse head and chevron” for Charles Gennet, Jr.; teaspoon marked “Warrock” for William Warrock; mustard ladle marked “J. Jackson” for Joseph Jackson; serving spoon marked “E Sullivan” for Enoch Sullivan; footed salver marked “Mitchell & Tyler,” Richmond; sugar


sifter marked “Mitchell & Tyler”; sugar tongs marked “Mitchell & Tyler”; luncheon, salad, or dessert fork marked “Mitchell & Tyler”; dinner fork marked “Mitchell & Tyler”; dessert spoon marked “Mitchell & Tyler”; teaspoon marked “John H. Tyler & Co.”; serving spoon marked “Mitchell & Tyler”; gravy ladle marked “Mitchell & Tyler”; salt spoon marked “John H. Tyler & Co.”; master butter knife marked “Mitchell & Tyler”; sugar tongs marked “W&GR”for brothers William and George Richardson, Richmond; sugar tongs marked “Freeman” for Joseph M. Freeman; mas-ter butter knife marked “Sterling” and “C. F. Greenwood & Bro.” for Charles F. Greenwood; serving spoon marked “Minton & Meyer” and “Norfolk” for Joseph B. Minton and Gotlieb A. Mayer; dessert spoon marked “C. Branda”and “Norfolk” for Charles Branda; serving spoon marked “J. Andrews” for Jeremiah Andrews; sauce ladle marked “J. Clarico” for Joseph Clarico, Norfolk; serving spoon marked “J. Clarico” for Joseph Clarico; teaspoon marked “C. Davidson” in a rectangle for Charles Davidson; teaspoon marked “J.O.” for John Oglier; punch ladle marked twice “L. Pagaud” for Lewis Pagaud; creamer marked “I. Adam” for John Adam, Alexandria; sugar tongs marked “IA” for either James Adam or John Adam; beaker marked “JA” for James Adam; sugar spoon marked “W. W. Adam” for William Wallace Adam; teaspoon marked “B. Barton” for Benjamin Barton, Jr., Alexandria; cream ladle marked “C. A. Burnett” for Charles A. Burnett; dessert spoon marked “A. Lynn” for Adam Lynn; serving spoon marked “J. Gaither” for John Gaither; teaspoon marked “J. B. Greene” for Josiah B. Greene or (Green); sugar tongs marked “S. Toomer,” Portsmouth; serving spoon marked “JG” for James Gaskins of Portsmouth; punch ladle marked twice “I. G”for James Geddy (1731-1807) of Williamsburg and Petersburg; serving spoon marked “Nowlan & Young” for Thomas Nowlan and J.T. Young; serving spoon marked “Bennett & Thomas” for John Bennett and Ebenezer Thomas; salt spoon marked “Lumsden and Short” for Charles Lumsden with Short; dessert spoon marked “AW” in a rectangle for Andrew White; teaspoon marked “J. Withers” for John Withers; egg spoon marked “J. B. Cooke” for John B. Cooke; two serving spoons marked “T. W. Bell” for Thomas W. Bell; gravy ladle marked “I. Duffel” for James Duffel; serving spoon marked “Silverthorn & Clift” for Henry Silverthorn and Josiah Clift; teaspoon marked “Brown” for Edward Brown; sugar tongs marked “Watson” with eagles for Joseph H. Watson; teaspoon marked “J. W. Watson” with a star for Joseph H. Watson; mustard ladle marked “J. Mytinger” for Jacob Mytinger; teaspoon marked “B. Moss” with an “eagle” for Barnet Moss; teaspoon marked “Campbell” and “Polk” in serrated rectangle for Thomas Boyle Campbell and Robert Issac Watts Polk; teaspoon marked “TP” for Thomas Purse; dessert spoon marked “Wm. Cox Fredg” with an eagle; dessert spoon marked “W. J. Moon”, “coin”, and “horse and chevron” for William J. Moon, a retailer; teaspoon marked “S. Roberts” for Samuel Roberts; two teaspoons marked “J. P” for John Patterson; Lexington serving spoon marked “Wright” for James B. Wright; Harrisonburg teaspoon marked “J. W. Bear” for Jehu W. Bear; Harrisonburg serving spoon marked “G. O. Conrad” for George O. Conrad, the retailer, and “W & H” for Wood & Hughes, the NYC manufacturer; Danville dessert spoon marked “Paxton” for John W. Paxton; Fincastle serving spoon marked “Jno. Welch” for John Welch; Williamsburg Candle snuffer marked “deM” for William L. DeMatteo who was the master silversmith during the mid-20th century for Colonial Williamsburg; Mecklenburg County teaspoon marked John Winckler, Jr.; Wheeling teaspoon marked “J. Bishop” and “Wheeling”; Wheeling teaspoon marked “Stocking” for Philo W. Stocking; Martinsburg teaspoon marked “Y&B” in script and in a rectangle for the partner-ship of Young & Bockius; Charles Town serving spoon marked “S. Young” for Samuel Young; Charles Town teaspoon marked “S. Young” for Samuel Young; Shepherdstown serving spoon marked “M. S. Brown & Co.” for Martin S. Brown; Shepherdstown serving spoon marked “E. J. Posey” for Frederick J. Posey; Shepherdstown serving spoon marked “I. B. Woltz” with an eagle for John Woltz; Shepherdstown knife marked “J. F. Posey”, “coin” with a chevron and horse head for Frederick J. Posey; Harpers Ferry serving spoon marked “M. Melhorn” for Michael Melhorn; Jefferson County teaspoon marked “Jef Co. Agl. Soy.” as the makers mark for Jefferson County Agricultural Society; also one china tea bowl and saucer, mid-1700s. Gift of James H. Willcox, Jr., Hopewell.

25. Chest of drawers made in Petersburg, c. 1800; five pieces of Ostrow China made by Hopewell China Company in the “Princess Anne Golden Dusk” pattern; one serving plate marked Hopewell China. Estate of James H. Willcox, Jr.

26. Oil on canvas portrait of R. A. Cauthorne painted by David Silvette, 1952. Gift of Raymond B. Wallace, Jr.

27. Three oil on canvas portraits from the Westover/Brandon portrait collection: William Fitzhugh painted by John Hesselius; Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery painted by Charles Bridges; Sir Charles Wager (artist unknown). Gift of Augusta Harrison Dunstan from the estate of her mother, Mrs. George Evelyn Harrison.


28. Four painted window shades from Berry Plain in King George County, Virginia, sold to John F. Dickinson in 1847 by Richmond dealers, Doggett & Anderson. Gift of Thomas R. and Joan B. Poland, Dogue.

29. Photographic print by H. C. Mann that shows Red Cross volunteers in a work room at Smith & Welton department store in Norfolk during World War I. Gift of Sarah V. Stanley, Baltimore, Maryland.

30. Two signs from J. P. Crowder’s Deli, Richmond. Gift of Christine W. Banks, Richmond.

31. Pair of andirons, crude and probably locally made, recovered from the overseer’s house at “Edmundsbury,” the Edmund Pendleton plantation near Sparta, Caroline County. Probably late eighteenth or early nineteenth century; One oil lamp that clips onto a miner’s cap. No provenance. Gift of Herbert R. Collins, Milford.

32. Accordion, English manufacture, purchased by Rev. William Harris of Bedford County and given to Sarah C. (Harris) Agee. Gift of James Burch, St. Louis, Missouri.

33. Tintype photograph of two baseball players wearing ‘G-Ville’ (Gordonsville) uniform, c. 1870; ‘Base Ball Game’ broadside (Millwood/Berryville vs. Winchester), c. 1890–1895; photo postcard of the USS Virginia baseball team at Guantanamo Bay, 1912; color postcard of a baseball game at the Naval Operating Base, Hampton, c. WWI; scorebook of games held at Byrd Park kept by Oscar B. Eddleton, 1949; baseball programs from Virginia professional teams, 1963–1998; 1945 scorecard and 1950s card of Virginia native Granville ‘Granny’ Hamner, Philadelphia Phillies; vin-tage baseball cards of Virginia players as professionals; Richmond Braves baseball cards from final 2008 season.Purchase. Elis Olsson Memorial Foundation Fund and James H. Willcox, Jr. Fund.

34. Ceramic pitcher decorated in bas-relief with the death of Col. Elmer Ellsworth; One watercolor portrait of J. E. B. Stuart; One Prattware pot lid decorated with an illustration of Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, visiting Washington’s tomb. Purchase. Elis Olsson Memorial Foundation Fund.

35. Three oil on canvas portraits: Ira Thomas Hurt, age 5; Phoebe Carter by B. M. Ewing, June 1836; James Carter by B. M. Ewing, June 1836. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Louthan, McLean.

36. Leather key basket, possibly slave-made, from “Springfield” in Clarke County, c.1850. Gift of Anne Nottingham Pearson, Indianapolis, Indiana.

37. Carte-de-visite photograph of Helen Brown “Brownie” Gerrish, taken in the Chincha Islands, 16 February 1864. Gift of Hazel Standeven, Scio, Oregon.

An accordion of Englishmanufacture, which waspurchased by Rev. WilliamHarris of Bedford Countyand given to Sarah C.(Harris) Agee.


38. Adding machine with stand; one poster from the Federal Deposit Insurance Company; one card from the Richmond Bank and Trust Company. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. W. Rush Loving, Jr., in memory of John E. Norvell, Jr.

39. Two baseball uniforms worn by Ray Wilson Clarke while in the U. S. Army and as an employee of Hajoca, c. 1915. Gift of Charles Moncure, Richmond.

40. Album containing photographs of Old Laburnum by Heustis Cook and individual photographs by Cooke and oth-ers; photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bryan, their driver, Archer, and horses King Pippin and Lady Gray, c. 1901; photograph of Mrs. Joseph Bryan, Archer, possibly Lewis Ginter, and others posed in front of a Piedmont railroad car; photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bryan and sons, 1892. Purchase. Frank E. Byram Memorial Fund.

41. Coin silver beaker by William Cowan, Richmond and Fredericksburg, early nineteenth century. Purchase. James H. Willcox, Jr. Fund.

42. Pump organ manufactured by W. W. Putnam & Co., Staunton, c. late nineteenth or early twentieth century. Gift of Anne Elliot, Roanoke.

A late nineteenth- orearly twentieth-centu-ry pump organ manu-factured in Stauntonby W. W. Putnam &Co.

GGOOVVEERRNNAANNCCEE

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Chairman of the BoardJ. Stewart Bryan, III

Vice ChairmanW. Taylor Reveley, III

Regional Vice Chairman-Eastern ShoreH. Furlong Baldwin, Baltimore, Md.

Regional Vice Chairman-SouthsideGrady W. Powell, Petersburg

President and Chief Executive OfficerCharles F. Bryan, Jr.Paul A. Levengood

BBooaarrdd ooff TTrruusstteeeess

John B. Adams, Jr., The PlainsEdward L. Ayers, RichmondPaul Brandon Barringer, II, CharlottesvilleWilliam W. Berry, Richmond Herbert A. Claiborne, Jr., RichmondBeverley E. Dalton, AltavistaNancy Hays Gottwald, RichmondRoger L. Gregory, RichmondJames W. Hazel, OaktonMary Duke Trent Jones, AbingdonHelen Turner Murphy, Mount Holly

PPrreessiiddeenntt’’ss CCoouunncciill

Samuel D. Barham III, RichmondFitzGerald Bemiss, RichmondJohn M. Camp, Jr., FranklinB. Noland Carter II, RichmondBetty Christian, RichmondMary Rutherfoord Ferguson, RichmondAllen Mead Ferguson, RichmondBruce B. Gray, WaverlyVernard W. Henley, RichmondRichard R. G. Hobson, AlexandriaCecelia Howell, FalmouthWilliam J. Howell, FalmouthRobert E. R. Huntley, LexingtonRobert C. King, Sr., RichmondBenjamin J. Lambert III, Richmond


SecretaryRobert F. Strohm

TreasurerRichard S. V. Heiman

Honorary Vice ChairmenHarry F. Byrd, Jr., WinchesterStuart G. Christian, Jr., RichmondBrenton S. Halsey, RichmondAnne R. Worrell, Charlottesville

John R. Nelson, RichmondLloyd U. Noland, III, Newport NewsAnne G. Rhodes, RichmondE. Claiborne Robins, Jr., RichmondAnne Wilson Rowe, FredericksburgThomas G. Slater, Jr., RichmondThomas G. Snead, Jr., RichmondWilliam B. Thalhimer III, RichmondMarcus M. Weinstein, RichmondF. Blair Wimbush, NorfolkClifton A. Woodrum, III, Roanoke

Carolyn M. Lambert, RichmondJohn Lee McElroy, Jr., Manakin-SabotSorrel McElroy, Manakin-SabotW. P. (Bill) Miles, CharlottesvilleRoger Mudd, McLeanShirley Carter Olsson, West PointJohn R. Pagan, RichmondDorothy Parrish, RichmondEvelia Margarita Porto, RichmondE. Claiborne Robins, Jr., RichmondB. Walton Turnbull, RichmondHays T. Watkins, RichmondHugh V. White Jr., RichmondDonald M. Wilkinson, Jr., New York, N.Y.James H. Willcox, Jr., Hopewell

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President and Chief Executive OfficerCharles F. Bryan, Jr.Paul A. Levengood

Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, and Paul Mellon Curator of Rare Books

Robert F. Strohm

Director of MuseumsJames C. Kelly

Director of Publications and Scholarship and the Virginius Dabney Editor of theVirginia Magazine of History and Biography

Nelson D. Lankford

HHoonnoorraarryy MMeemmbbeerrss ooff tthhee VViirrggiinniiaa HHiissttoorriiccaall SSoocciieettyy

W. W. Abbot, CharlottesvilleDavid McCullough, Tisbury, Mass.

RReeyynnoollddss BBuussiinneessss HHiissttoorryy CCeenntteerr AAddvviissoorryy BBooaarrdd

Sean P. Adams, Gainesville, Fla.J. Stewart Bryan, III, RichmondSylvia Clute, RichmondJames E. Fogerty, St. Paul, Minn.David R. Goode, NorfolkBrenton S. Halsey, RichmondH. Hiter Harris III, RichmondJames W. Hazel, Oakton

EEdduuccaattoorrss AAddvviissoorryy BBooaarrdd

Chris Averill, Chesterfield CountyCarolyn Brandt, Henrico CountyLilian Carter, RichmondJoel M. Dexter, Chesterfield CountyMary Magee Davis, Hanover CountyRobert Earl Patterson, Chesterfield CountyRenee Serrao, Chesterfield CountyCarol Anne K. Simopoulos, Henrico County

EEddiittoorriiaall AAddvviissoorryy BBooaarrdd

Karen Cox, University of North Carolina, CharlotteEllen Eslinger, DePaul UniversityKevin Levin, St. Anne’s-Bellfield SchoolScott R. Nelson, College of William and MaryJohn R. Pagan, University of Richmond

Loraine Stewart, Virginia CommonwealthUniversity

Thelma Williams Tunstall, RichmondJim Weigand, Amelia CountySabra Willhite, Henrico CountyElisabeth E. Wray, University of RichmondVictoria Wray-Alley, Richmond

Treasurer and Chief Financial OfficerRichard S. V. Heiman

Director of EducationWilliam B. Obrochta

Director of Library ServicesFrances S. Pollard

Vice President for AdvancementPamela R. Seay

Director of Manuscripts and Archives and Sallie andWilliam B. Thalhimer III Senior Archivist

E. Lee Shepard

Thad W. Tate, WilliamsburgLouis L. Tucker, Boston, Mass.

Minnie Bassett Lane, AltavistaHugh D. Keogh, RichmondJohn R. Nelson, RichmondE. Claiborne Robins, Jr., RichmondMichael Sesnowitz, RichmondMaryan D. Smith II, OaktonThomas G. Snead, Jr., RichmondJoseph L. Williams, Richmond

Michal Jan Rozbicki, Saint Louis UniversityAnthony Stanonis, Queen’s College, BelfastBrent Tarter, Library of VirginiaHeather A. Williams, University of North

Carolina, Chapel Hill

FFoorrmmeerr MMeemmbbeerrss ooff tthhee BBooaarrdd ooff TTrruusstteeeess

John B. Adams, Jr., RichmondGerald L. Baliles, CharlottesvilleC. Phillip Barger, CharlottesvilleFitzGerald Bemiss, RichmondJ. Alfred Broaddus, RichmondAustin Brockenbrough, III, Manakin-SabotJosiah Bunting III, UppervilleRobert L. Burrus, Jr., RichmondM. Caldwell Butler, RoanokeHarry F. Byrd, Jr., WinchesterB. Noland Carter II, RichmondGene R. Carter, McLeanStuart G. Christian, Jr., RichmondGeorge M. Cochran, StauntonLee Stuart Cochran, StauntonJohn R. Curtis, Jr., WilliamsburgW. Hunter deButts, Jr., MarshallW. Heywood Fralin, RoanokeAnne Hobson Freeman, CallaoSusan S. Goode, NorfolkBruce C. Gottwald, RichmondElmon T. Gray, WaverlyBrenton S. Halsey, RichmondWilliam R. Harvey, HamptonMary Buford Hitz, AlexandriaRichard R. G. Hobson, AlexandriaA. E. Dick Howard, CharlottesvilleCecelia Howell, FalmouthRobert E. R. Huntley, Lexington

PPrreessiiddeennttss ooff tthhee VViirrggiinniiaa HHiissttoorriiccaall SSoocciieettyy (after 2001 the title changed to Chairman of the Board)


Beverley Randolph Wellford 1960–1963David John Mays 1963–1966Eppa Hunton IV 1966–1969Virginius Dabney 1969–1972Edwin Cox 1972–1975Joseph Clarke Robert 1975–1978David Tennant Bryan 1978–1981FitzGerald Bemiss 1981–1984Lawrence Lewis, Jr. 1984–1986John L. McElroy, Jr. 1987–1988Stuart G. Christian, Jr. 1989–1991C. Coleman McGehee 1992–1994Brenton S. Halsey 1995–1997Austin Brockenbrough, III 1998–1999Gerald L. Baliles 2000–2001Hugh R. Stallard 2002–2003Hugh V. White Jr. 2004–2005E. Claiborne Robins, Jr. 2006–2007J. Stewart Bryan, III 2008 –2009

Ronald C. Johnson, AlexandriaJoseph F. Johnston, Jr., AlexandriaDaniel P. Jordan, CharlottesvilleMark J. Kington, AlexandriaJohn O. Marsh, Jr., WinchesterJohn Lee McElroy, Jr., Manakin-SabotHunter H. McGuire, Jr., RichmondEddie N. Moore, Jr., EttrickRoger Mudd, McLeanShirley Carter Olsson, West PointMerrill D. Peterson, CharlottesvilleCharles Larus Reed, Jr., RichmondJames I. Robertson, Jr., BlacksburgToy D. Savage, Jr., NorfolkElliot S. Schewel, LynchburgJane Bassett Spilman, BassettHugh R. Stallard, RichmondRobert Lee Stephens, IrvingtonHenry F. Stern, RichmondCharles W. Sydnor, Jr., RichmondNancy St. Clair Talley, MillwoodNicholas F. Taubman, RoanokeSuzanne Foster Thomas, AlexandriaEugene P. Trani, RichmondB. Walton Turnbull, RichmondMelvin I. Urofsky, MidlothianL. Dudley Walker, MartinsvilleHugh V. White Jr., RichmondAnne R. Worrell, Charlottesville

John Marshall 1831–1835Henry St. George Tucker 1836–1847William Cabell Rives 1847–1868Hugh Blair Grigsby 1870–1881Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart 1881–1891William Wirt Henry 1891–1892Joseph Bryan 1892–1902William Gordon McCabe 1903–1905Joseph Bryan 1906–1908William Gordon McCabe 1909–1920Edward Virginius Valentine 1921–1929Daniel Grinnan 1930–1935John Stewart Bryan 1936–1937Joseph Dupuy Eggleston 1938–1943Alexander Wilbourne Weddell 1944–1948Edmund Randolph Williams 1948–1952Samuel Merrifield Bemiss 1952–1958Wyndham Bolling Blanton 1958–1960George MacLaren Brydon 1960 1963

22 • 2008 Annual Report

DDiirreeccttoorrss ooff tthhee VViirrggiinniiaa HHiissttoorriiccaall SSoocciieettyy (after 2001 the title changed to President and CEO)

SSoocciieettyy GGuuiilldd VVoolluunntteeeerrss

Gale Abell • Kathy Alcaine • Betty Andrews • Ruth Auburn • Pamela Barbour • Mary Ellen Bearse • Martha W. Black• Sarah Bouchey • Gretchen Bradley • Sally Brandenburg • Joanne Brooks • Mary Lou Brown • Robert Brown •Mildred Bruce • Lois Buchanan • Paula Butz • Bonnie Charles • Patricia L. Chen • Betie Cherry • Jerome TaylorCherry • Kathy Clarke • Florence Cole • James E. Corbett • J. Robert Cross • Matthew L. Cushman • Libby Danforth• Matthew Daniel • Rodney S. Darling • Edward Diehl • Betty Ann Dillon • Gerald Dzura • Jean M. Eggleston •Judy Enroughty • Richard C. Erickson • Virginia Nikki Fairman • Sara Flinn • Emily Gianfortoni • Sharon L. Giese• Willie Gillenwater • Virginia Glen-Calvert • James Goetzinger • Joyce Goetzinger • John Goode • Sandra Griffin •Paul Michael Halstead • William Hamilton • LeAnn Hensche • Jenny Holzgrefe • Thomas Howard • RandeeHumphrey • Janet Jenkins • Pat Jordan • Sheila Keating • John Kelzer • Karen Kincaid • Emily Damerel King • JosephG. Lajoie • Jean T. Martin • Roy M. Martin • James May • Ethel Mezger • Willie Mills • Betty Moore • Kathryn I.Moore • John W. Myers • Mary S. Myers • Larry Olson • Mirrian Oman • C. Peter Parrish • Sharon Peery • JamesF. Pierson • Virginia Refo • Peter M. Rippe • Diane Roberts • Helen Rolfe • Edward Rose • Patricia L. Rose • WinnieRymer • Arleen Sanderson • Gary Savage • Louise Schaedler • Raymond L. Schreiner • Randall Scott • Susan Schufeldt• Brenda Shimchick • Theresa Singleton • Ruth Stotts • Jay L. Taylor • Donald Tobias • Marilyn Trownsell • PhebeVan Valen • Ronald Waller • Kathy Watkins • Jonathan Weiler • Patricia Wells • E. Parke West • Anita Williams •Thomas Wilson

William M. E. Rachal (interim) 1980–1988 Paul Chester Nagel 1981–1985Virginius C. Hall, Jr. (interim) 1985–1986Donald Haynes 1986–1988Virginius C. Hall, Jr. (interim) 1988–1988 Charles F. Bryan, Jr. 1988–2008 Paul A. Levengood 2008–2008

Thomas Hicks Wynne 1870–1875Robert Alonzo Brock 1875–1892 Philip Alexander Bruce 1892–1898William Glover Stanard 1898–1933Robert A. Lancaster 1933–1940William Clayton Torrence 1940–1953John Melville Jennings 1953–1978Edwin L. Dooley, Jr. 1979–1980

AACCTTIIVVIITTIIEESS AANNDD AAWWAARRDDSS

EExxhhiibbiittiioonnss

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Sites and Stories: African American History in Virginia

Heads and Tales: Portraits of Outstanding Virginians

Moonshining in the Blue Ridge

A Creative Dynasty: Four Generations of Virginia Women

Photography in Virginia

LLoonngg--TTeerrmm EExxhhiibbiittiioonnss

The Story of Virginia, an American Experience

With support for The Floyd Dewey Gottwald Permanent Exhibition of Virginia History from Mr. and Mrs. Floyd D. Gottwald, Jr. • Nancy and Bruce Gottwald • Gottwald Foundation • Dr. and Mrs. William M. Gottwald • Lindsay and Brenton S. Halsey • Fort James Corporation • Ethyl Corporation • Albemarle Corporation • Marietta McNeill Morgan & Samuel Tate Morgan, Jr. Foundation

Virginians at Work

With support from BB&T/Scott & Stringfellow, Inc. •Helen I. Graham Charitable Foundation •The Minnie and Bernard Lane Foundation • Philip Morris USA • Robins Foundation • Susan Bailey and Sidney Buford Scott • William B. Thalhimer, Jr. & Family Foundation • Universal Leaf Foundation • Verizon Foundation •Wachovia Foundation

The War Horse (outdoor sculpture)

Gift of Paul Mellon

Four Seasons of the Confederacy: Murals by Charles Hoffbauer

Making the Confederate Murals: Studies by Charles Hoffbauer

Arming the Confederacy: The Maryland-Steuart Collection

The Virginia Manufactory of Arms

Solving History’s Mysteries: The History Discovery Lab (Department of Historic Resources)

Silver in Virginia

TTrraavveelliinngg EExxhhiibbiittiioonnss

Jamestown, Québec, Santa Fe: Three North American Beginnings

With support from LandAmerica Financial Group, Inc. • Robins Foundation • Jamestown 2007 Commission • Virginia Department of Historic Resources

Lee and Grant

Made possible with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities • The E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation



Sites and Stories: African American History in Virginia

With support from the Virginia Department of Historic Resources

LLeeccttuurreess

SSttuuaarrtt GG.. CChhrriissttiiaann,, JJrr..,, TTrruusstteeeess LLeeccttuurreeCharles Mann, “Tobacco, Mosquito Slave: Colonial Virginia and the Dawn of Globalization,” 10 April 2008

JJ.. HHaarrvviiee WWiillkkiinnssoonn,, JJrr..,, LLeeccttuurreeKen Burns, “The War: An Intimate History, 1941–1945,” 23 October 2008

AAlleexxaannddeerr WW.. WWeeddddeellll TTrruusstteeeess LLeeccttuurreeCharles F. Bryan, Jr., “History Begins at Home: A Personal Journey” 19 November 2008

BBaannnneerr LLeeccttuurree SSeerriieess

Dean King, “Skeletons of the Zahara,” 24 January 2008

Lauranett L. Lee, “Sites and Stories: African American History in Virginia,” 14 February 2008

Robert Tilton, “Who Looks at Lee Must Think of Washington,” 28 February 2008

Christopher Einolf, “George Thomas: Virginian for the Union,” 6 March 2008

Joseph Glatthaar, General Lee’s Army: From Victory to Collapse,” 21 March 2008

Jay Winik, “The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800,” 17 April 2008

Robert K. Krick, “Lee and the Historians in the Age of the Anti-Hero,” 22 May 2008

Alan Pell Crawford, “Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson,” 29 May 2008

Keith Gibson, “Moses Ezekiel: Civil War Soldier, Renowned Sculptor,” 12 June 2008

Paul A. Levengood, “From Cotton Fields to Skyscrapers: The Transformation of the South in the Twentieth Century,”24 July 2008

Robert E. Wright, “One Nation Under Debt: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the History of What We Owe,” 4 September2008

Helen McGehee, “To Be A Dancer: Helen McGehee on Modern Dance,” 25 September 2008

VHS/WCVE, “Witness to a Century,” 30 October 2008

Jeffrey Ruggles, “Photography in Virginia,” 13 November 2008

Harold Holzer, “Lincoln: President Elect,” 4 December 2008

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Lauranett L. Lee, “Sites and Stories: African American History in Virginia,” 13 February 2008

William M. S. Rasmussen, “Lee and Grant,” 26 March 2008

James C. Kelly, “Virginians at Work,” 9 April 2008

J. Roderick Moore, “Moonshining in the Blue Ridge,” 28 May 2008


James C. Kelly, “Curator’s Favorites from The Story of Virginia on its 10th Anniversary,” 18 June 2008

William M. S. Rasmussen, “Heads and Tales: Portraits of Outstanding Virginians,” 16 July 2008

Andrew Gladwell, “A Creative Dynasty: Four Generations of Virginia Women,” 17 September 2008

Jeffrey Ruggles, “Photography in Virginia,” 12 November 2008

Keith Egloff, “Solving History’s Mysteries,” 3 December 2008

AAwwaarrddss

Wyndham B. Blanton Scholarship • Excellence in scholarship by a high school student in 2008

Olga Korostelina, W. T. Woodson High School, Fairfax County

William M. E. Rachal Award • Best overall article in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography in 2008

Caroline E. Janney, “‘One of the Best Loved, North and South’: The Appropriation of National Reconciliation by LaSalle Corbell Pickett” vol. 116, no. 4

C. Coleman McGehee Award • Best article by a graduate student in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography in 2007–8

John A. Ragosta, “Fighting for Freedom: Virginia Dissenters’ Struggle for Religious Liberty during the American Revolution”

Richard Slatten Award • Excellence in Virginia biography in 2008

James R. Sweeney, ed., Race, Reason, and Massive Resistance: The Diary of David J. Mays, 1954–1959 (University of Georgia Press, 2008)

President’s Awards for Excellence • Outstanding service by VHS staff in 2008

Jennifer M. Guild, media relations specialist

L. Paige Newman, assistant archivist

Katherine S. Wilkins, reference librarian

Lora Robins Award • Leadership, foresight, and generosity in collecting the evidence of Virginia’s history in 2008

William R. Berkley

Howson W. Cole Award • Long and dedicated service

Lawrence I. Steed, Virginia House

Patricia Rodman and Martin Kirwan King Volunteer of the Year Award • Outstanding service in 2008

Ethel Mezger, Education Department

RReesseeaarrcchh FFeelllloowwss (and topics)

James Alsop, McMaster University • research on Dr. Gustavus R. B. Horner and the development of naval medicine, 1826–1868

Friederike Baer, Temple University • research on Baroness Friederike Riedesel and the living conditions of captured German and British troops in Virginia during the Revolutionary War.


Kevin Barksdale, Marshall University • research on the Appalachian backcountry and the interactions that occurred across the region between Amerindian groups

Audrey Bonnet, Université Paris • research on the different ways the Jamestown celebrations have been organized as well as the invention of myths and traditions, the function of collective memory and popular culture, and the role and influence of symbols

Elizabeth Crosman, University of Delaware • research on the evolution of Methodist lay assertiveness by examining the separation of the Republican Methodists begun by James O’Kelly, evangelist Lorenzo Dow’s controversial career, and the struggle for lay representation led by Nicholas Snethen

Jessica Dallow, University of Alabama at Birmingham • research on sporting artist Edward Troye and his patrons, includ-ing William Ransom Johnson and John Minor Botts

James Davis, State University of New York at Fredonia • research on music in the daily life of soldiers and civilians dur-ing winter quarters of 1863–64 in central Virginia

Patricia Davis, University of California, San Diego • research on the various media involved in the construction of an emergent black southern identity centered on collective memories of slavery and the Civil War

James Denham, Florida Southern College • research on William P. Duval, a Virginia native who served as territorial gov-ernor of Florida from 1822 to 1834

Carol Emberton, University at Buffalo • research on how Virginia’s Readjuster Party used the issue of corporal punish-ment, particularly the abolition of the whipping post, to galvanize a progressive, biracial coalition that made Virginia unique in Reconstruction politics

Lynette Garrett, American University • research on Confederate nationalism

Hilary Green, University of North Carolina • research on African American education during Reconstruction

Catherine Kerrison, Villanova University • research on Martha Jefferson Randolph, Maria Jefferson Eppes, and Harriet Hemings, the three daughters of Thomas Jefferson

Gabriel Klehr, Johns Hopkins University • research on the conversion of slaves to evangelical forms of Christianity from roughly 1770 to 1830

Michael Krivdo, Texas A & M University • research on the 1862 battle of Drewry’s Bluff

Barbaranne Liakos, University of Iowa • research on American paintings and prints of Civil War battle scenes produced from 1869 through 1894, and in particular, those by John Adams Elder, an artist from Fredericksburg

Jenny Masur, National Park Service Underground Railroad Network to Freedom • for research on runaway slaves and northern Virginia slaveholding families and plantations

Sarah McLennan, College of William and Mary • research on the Jamestown 350th Anniversary Celebration in 1957

Elizabeth Monroe, Indiana University • research on William Wirt, U.S. Attorney General, 1817–29, and his early career as a lawyer

Megan Nelson, California State University, Fullerton • research on how the ruins of war challenged fundamental aspects of nationalism from 1861 to 1865 and in the years after the conflict

C. Scott Nesbit, University of Virginia • research on the ideas of public forgiveness and reconciliation during Reconstruction

Yvette Piggush, Florida International University • research on American social romanticism, 1790–1840

Justin Pope, George Washington University • research on slave insurrections, conspiracies, and religious movements between 1729 and 1742

Matthew Rhoades, West Texas A&M University • research on Alexander Spotswood and the fiscal-military state in Virginia during the years 1710–22


Laura Sandy, University of Reading • research on plantation overseers, with particular regard to the part they played in slave management during the American Revolution

Rachel Shapiro, University of Virginia • research on the influence of community life in Washington, D.C., on the course of American political events leading up to the Civil War, 1846–1862

Faren Siminoff, Nassau Community College, New York City • research on James Robert Lee, a free man of color who became an Adventist preacher in Long Island

Chad Vanderford, University of Texas of the Permian Basin, Odessa • research on St. George Tucker, his sons, Henry and Beverley Tucker, and his grandson, John Randolph Tucker

Annette Varcoe, Binghamton University • research on women’s involvement in benevolent work during and after the Civil War

Todd Wahlstrom, University of California, Santa Barbara • research on the economic and social history behind southern migration to Mexico after the Civil War

Jennifer Weber, University of Kansas • research on the effect of the draft on both the United States and the Confederate States populations

Jonathan Wells, University of North Carolina at Charlotte • research on the emergence and evolution of middle-class southerners in the post–Civil War period

SScchhoooollss SSeerrvveedd iinn 22000088 (private schools are noted without county or city designations)

A. P. Hill Elementary (Petersburg) • Adams Elementary (Henrico County) • A. G. Richardson Elementary (Culpeper) •Alberta Smith Elementary (Chesterfield County) • Amelia High School (Amelia County) • Anthony Burnes Elementary(Stafford County) • Armstrong Elementary School (Hampton) • Arthur Ashe, Jr., Elementary (Henrico County) •Ashburn Elementary (Fairfax County) • Ashburn Library (Loudoun County) • Atlee Christian Academy • BaileysElementary (Fairfax County) • Barron Elementary School (Hampton) • Beech Tree Elementary (Fairfax County) • BelleView Elementary (Fairfax County) • Belview Elementary (Montgomery County) • Bethel Elementary (GloucesterCounty) • Bon Air Elementary (Chesterfield County) • Botetourt Elementary (Gloucester County) • Boushall MiddleSchool (Richmond) • Boydton Elementary (Mecklenburg County) • Braddock Elementary (Fairfax County) • BristowRun Elementary (Prince William County) • Broadway High School (Rockingham County) • Bucknell Elementary School(Fairfax County) • Burley Middle School (Albemarle County) • Burlington Elementary (Roanoke) • Cale Elementary(Albemarle County) • Camelot Elementary (Chesapeake) • C. C. Wells Elementary (Chesterfield County) • Cedar PointElementary (Prince William County) • Charter House School • Cherry Run Elementary (Fairfax County) • ChimborazoElementary (Richmond) • Clarksville Elementary (Mecklenburg County) • Clearview Elementary (Fairfax County) •Coles Elementary (Prince William County) • Colvin Run Elementary (Fairfax County) • Cool Spring Elementary(Hanover County) • Courtland Elementary (Spotsylvania County) • Crenshaw Elementary (Chesterfield County) •Crestwood Elementary (Chesterfield County) • Crozet Elementary (Albemarle County) • Crystal Springs Elementary(Roanoke) • Cumberland High School (Cumberland County) • Cunningham Park Elementary (Fairfax County) •Dumbarton Elementary (Henrico County) • Dupont Elementary (Hopewell) • E. S. H.Green Elementary (Richmond) •Eagle View Mill Elementary (Fairfax County) • Enon Elementary (Chesterfield County) • Enterprise Elementary (PrinceWilliam County) • Ettrick Elementary (Chesterfield County) • Evergreen Elementary (Chesterfield County) • Fair OaksElementary (Henrico County) • Fairfield Elementary (Virginia Beach) • Fairhill Elementary (Fairfax County) • FaithChristian School • Falling Creek Middle School (Chesterfield County) • Forestdale Elementary (Fairfax County) •Forestville Elementary (Fairfax County) • Free Union Country School • Freedom Hill Elementary (Fairfax County) • G.H. Reid Elementary (Richmond) • Galax Elementary (Galax) • Gesher Jewish Day School • Gilbert Linkus Elementary(Montgomery County) • Grafton Village Elementary (Stafford County) • Great Falls Elementary (Fairfax County) •Greenfield Elementary (Chesterfield County) • Hampton Oaks Elementary (Stafford County) • Hampton RoadsAcademy • Hanover High School (Hanover County) • Harrison Road Elementary (Spotsylvania County) • HarveyElementary School (Henrico County) • Henning Elementary (Chesterfield County) • Hopkins Elementary (ChesterfieldCounty) • Hybla Valley Elementary (Fairfax County) • J. B. Watkins Elementary (Chesterfield County) • J. E. B. Stuart


Elementary (Richmond) • J. L. Francis Elementary (Richmond) • John B. Cary Elementary (Richmond) • JouettElementary (Louisa County) • Keene Mill Elementary (Fairfax County) • Kersey Creek Elementary (Hanover County) •Kings Glen Elementary (Fairfax County) • La Crosse Elementary (Mecklenburg County) • La Petite Academy • LaburnumElementary (Henrico County) • Lake Ridge Elementary (Prince William County) • Laurel Ridge Elementary (FairfaxCounty) • Lees Corner Elementary (Fairfax County) • Loch Lomond Elementary (Prince William County) • LortonStation Elementary (Fairfax County) • Loudoun Country Day • Machem Elementary (Hampton) • Marguerite ChristianElementary (Chesterfield County) • Mary Munford Elementary (Richmond) • Matoaca Elementary (ChesterfieldCounty) • McNair Elementary (Fairfax County) • Merrimack Elementary (Hampton) • Midlothian Children Academy •Midlothian Middle School (Chesterfield County) • Miles Jones Elementary (Richmond) • Montclair Elementary (PrinceWilliam County) • Mt. Eagle Elementary (Fairfax County) • Mt. Vernon Elementary (Fairfax County) • NansemondParkway Elementary (Suffolk) • Nansemond River High School (Suffolk) • New Bridge Academy • NorthumberlandElementary (Northumberland County) • Nuckols Farm Elementary (Henrico County) • Oak Grove Elementary(Richmond) • Oakton Elementary (Fairfax County) • Occoquan Elementary (Prince William County) • Orchard HouseSchool • Parklawn Elementary (Fairfax County) • Petsworth Elementary (Gloucester) • Poplar Tree Elementary (FairfaxCounty) • Potomac View Elementary (Prince William County) • Providence Middle School (Chesterfield County) •Richmond Preparatory Christian Academy • Riverside Elementary (Henrico County) • Roanoke City Schools/PlatoProgram (Roanoke) • Robious Middle (Chesterfield County) • Rolling Valley Elementary (Fairfax County) • Rosa ParksElementary (Prince William County) • Ruby F. Carver Elementary (Henrico County) • Salem Christian School • SalemChurch Middle School (Chesterfield County) • Salem Elementary (Virginia Beach) • Sangster Elementary (Prince WilliamCounty) • Seaford Elementary (York County) • Sheffield Elementary (Lynchburg) • Skipwith Elementary (HenricoCounty) • South Hill Elementary (Mecklenburg County) • Southside Elementary (Dinwiddie County) • St. Anne’sBelfield Schools • St. Bridget’s School • St. Catherine’s School • St. Gertrude’s School • St. Joseph’s Villa/Lewis ChildrenCenter • St. Mark Catholic School • Sterling Elementary (Loudoun County) • Steward School • Stonehouse Elementary(James City County) • Stony Point School • Stratford Landing Elementary (Fairfax County) • Sugarland Elementary(Loudoun County) • Sunshine Valley School (Franklin County) • Swansboro Elementary (Richmond) • Three OaksElementary (Virginia Beach) • Timber Lane Elementary (Fairfax County) • Timber Ridge School (Frederick County) •Trevett Elementary (Henrico County) • Trevillians School (Louisa County) • Tuckahoe Elementary (Henrico County) •Venable Elementary (Charlottesville) • Veritas Classical Christian School • Washington Mill Elementary (Fairfax County)• Waverly-Yowell Elementary (Madison County) • Waynewood Elementary (Alexandria) • West Springfield Elementary(Fairfax County) • William Fox Elementary (Richmond) • William Halley Elementary (Fairfax County) • William PerryElementary (Waynesboro) • Woodville Elementary (Richmond) • Woolwine Elementary (Patrick County) • W. W.Gordon Elementary (Chesterfield County) • W. W. Robinson Elementary (Shenandoah County)

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