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  1. View Full Record

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    The experience of a century; a narrative report of the century 1848-1948 as it has dealt with the Davenport Insurance Corporation, and a pictorial record of various contemporary events in the period.

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  3. Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, 2020 Annual Conference

    From 1619 Virginia to Present Day: Correcting the National Narrative in the Midst of COVID-19. October 14, 2020-October 17, 2020.

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  4. Bicentennial Farms

    In celebration of the American bicentennial, a collection of Virginia farms that have been in continuous opperation in the same families for at least 200 years.

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  5. Carry Me Back to Old Virginia

    Carry Me Back of Old Virginia, Virginia Department of Conservation and Economic Development

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  6. Centuries of Success, Lessons from the World's Most Enduring Family Businesses

    "Centuries of Success is the first book to chronicle the colorful success stories and timeless lessons of some of the world's oldest family businesses. Through feast and famine, peacetime and wartime, the twenty companies covered in this volume are innovators whose family values are as steadfast today as they were hundreds of years ago. This one-of-a-kind work blends complete family histories with corporate philosophies. Dr. William T. O'Hara has...

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  7. Charles Citian 1928

    The Charles Citian 1928. The yearbook of Charles City High School, Charles City, VA.

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  8. Charles Citian 1965

    The Charles Citian 1965. The yearbook of Charles City High School, Charles City, VA

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  9. Chimborazo, The Confederacy's Largest Hospital

    Chimborazo Hospital, just outside Richmond, Virginia, served as the Confederacy's largest hospital for four years. During this time, it treated nearly eighty thousand patients, boasting a mortality rate of just over 11 percent. This book, the first full-length study of a facility that was vital to the Southern war effort, tells the story of those who lived and worked at Chimborazo. Based on an extensive study of hospital and Confederate Medical D...

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  10. Determined : the 400-year struggle for Black equality / Karen A. Sherry ; preface by the Rev. Grady W. Powell

    Published in conjunction with the exhibition, organized by the Virginia Historical Society, which toured Virginia beginning in January 2021.

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  11. Discovering childhood : Anglo and African American children at Flowerdew Hundred Plantation

    Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Childhood studies and defining childhood -- Chapter 3. James River plantations -- Chapter 4. Households : a new beginning 1800-1860 -- Chapter 5. Households : fragmentation 1860-1900 -- Chapter 6. The diary of R.B. Willcox of Flowerdew Hundred -- Chapter 7. Conclusions --

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  12. Gloucester One of the First Chapters of the Commonwealth of Virginia

    Gloucester, oneof the first chapters of the Commonwealth of Virginia

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  13. Government

    Paper covering says "Name, Robert Lee Marston, Text-Book, Government". Title page, etc. are missing. Cannot see the hardcover of the book without destroying the paper covering. Inside the book are two lined notebook pages. One is random scribblings. The other seems to be answers to test questions.

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  14. Government in the United States For High Schools

    Government in the United States For High Schools. Handwritten notes on the inside cover. Missing the publication page.

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  15. Green Spring Plantation: Archaeology Report

    Cover title: Green Spring Plantation archeological report. "May 25, 1955." "Prepared for Virginia 350th Anniversary Commission & Jamestown-Williamsburg-Yorktown Celebration Commission"--P. 1 of Cover. Bibliography: p. 26-28.

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  16. Hardesty's Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia, Special Virginia Edition.

    Special Virginia edition, giving a history of the Virginias, biographical sketches of eminent Virginians. Military histories by counties, giving the first roster ever compiled of the soldiers of the lost cause, for each county edition, with record of military organizations of the county

    Record Type: Library

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