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"The Bottle" by George Cruikshank, 1848
The second quarter of the nineteenth century was dominated by reform movements: the Second Great Awakening, abolition, women’s suffrage, utopian societies, free public schools, and reforms of prisons, hospitals, and mental institutions. All strived…
“An Economical Woman” Issued by The New York
State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, 1909
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“Master Abraham Lincoln Gets a New Toy”
Newspaper Cartoon, 1863
The Southern Illustrated News was printed in Richmond from 1862 to 1865. The cartoon lampoons Lincoln’s revolving door of generals that had faced—and lost to—Southern armies in Virginia. After General Winfield Scott retired at the beginning of the…
“The Age of Brass: Or the Triumphs of Woman's Rights,” Lithograph, 1869
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Norfolk Virginian Pilot on Desegregation, December 4, 1955
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Richmond News Leader on Interposition, February 2, 1956
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1937 Guide Map of Shenandoah National Park, Map, 1937
This guide map shows some of the first park boundaries, ranger stations, trails and more of the Shenandoah National Park in 1937. In 1924 the federal government began looking for land in the southern Appalachian Mountains to create a large national…
2nd Lt. Alice C. Thompson, L-201903, Photograph, 1944
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A Corn Field on a Farm, Photograph, n.d.
This photograph depicts a corn field on a farm, close to two buildings. A staple food source, corn was and still remains one of the major crops grown in Virginia. As the population increased the demand for corn also grew, bringing about the concept…
A Petition on Behalf of a Slave Accused of Treason, 1781
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