Annual Report for 2008 - Virginia Historical Society

Virginia Historical Society
Annual Report for 2008

Annual Report for 2008
Introduction
Paul A. Levengood
President and Chief Executive Officer
In many ways 2008 may long be seen as a historic year. The nation elected its first African
American president, swimmer Michael Phelps electrified the globe with his record-breaking
Olympic 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, its
history, and this institution owe Charlie a tremendous debt of gratitude. The year was marked by
testimonials to the transforming role he played in making the VHS the strong, vibrant, and respected
organization it is today.
In November, I assumed the presidency of the VHS humbly but with great enthusiasm. I take
it as my personal charge to ensure that the momentum we have built over the past twenty years be
continued and built upon. There are challenges ahead of us, to be sure. The economic climate of
2008 was one of the direst in living memory. Like all non-profits, we have had to find creative ways
to do more with less and remain agile to keep delivering the programs and services upon which
Virginians have come to rely.
I am happy to say that in 2008 we rose to those challenges—and continue to do so. The VHS
remained the go-to resource for people of all ages who have an interest in the rich, fascinating
history of Virginia and the nation. Whether it is in the educational programs that serve schoolchildren
and teachers across the state or the opportunities for lifelong learning that we provide through
lectures, classes, educational travel, exhibitions, and publications, we are here to ensure that the past
is accessible and relevant to all. And increasingly we learn that through the wonders of the digital
world our reach knows no geographical boundaries. I hope you visit our web site regularly to see
the exciting online offerings that are growing every day.
I have been heartened by the loyal support that you, our members and supporters, have
shown to me and more importantly to the VHS in this time of transition. You have played an
enormous role in making the Society what it is today. And with your continued help we will
make sure that this grand old institution remains a place to learn timeless lessons and gain
much 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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SELECTED ACCESSIONS
Manuscripts
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1. Letter, 1676 Nov[embe]r 14, of John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale, from Whitehall, [London, Eng.], to [his brother,
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 payment
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 10
1/2 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 overseers
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.

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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 commissioners
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 family
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 family
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 by
George Washington to John Hopkins concerning the
James River Company.

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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) consisting
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 concerning
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 service
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, photographs,
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 holograph;
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 Nathaniel
Thompson of Louisa County to James Fontaine of
Hanover County for the slave Viney and her children.

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20. Papers, 1828–1928, of the Rosier family (of New York, N.Y., and Richmond) primarily consisting of the correspondence
of Fitz William Rosier, musician, musical instructor, and composer, with family, friends, and business acquaintances,
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 manufacturer,
including correspondence with customers and suppliers, and account books. 193 folders and 7 volumes. Gift
of an anonymous donor.

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33. Papers, 1880–1972, of Doctor Emily Earl (Chenault) Runyon (of Richmond) primarily concerning her daily and family
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 written
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 concerning
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 clippings,
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.

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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 officer
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.: typescript
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.
Printed Materials
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 sig
nature 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

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in Such Jeopardy. Montgomery, Ala. [191–?]. Printed letter written by Page to a Virginia woman on the subject of suffrage.
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.

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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’s
Souls (Chicago, 1899) by Edward C. Goodnoh tells
the story of the famous tunnel escape from Libby
Prison.

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33. Hankel, David S. A Description of the New Market Endless Caverns. . . . New Market, 1880. The first promotional literature
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 the
Betty 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.

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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 officers
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.

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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 Back
to You): Song Fox Trot. . . . “Sung by The
Famous Four in the Kelso Brothers’ Tivoli
Revue,” by Hugh Wade. Published in
1927.

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Museum Objects
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.
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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 photograph
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 foot
ball 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 disbandment
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

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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; master
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; tea
spoon 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 partnership
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.

An accordion of English
manufacture, which was
purchased by Rev. William
Harris of Bedford County
and given to Sarah C.
(Harris) Agee.
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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; score
book 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; vintage
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.

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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 others;
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- or
early twentieth-century
pump organ manufactured
in Staunton
by W. W. Putnam &
Co.

GOVERNANCE
Officers
Chairman of the Board
J. Stewart Bryan, III
Vice Chairman
W. Taylor Reveley, III
Regional Vice Chairman-Eastern Shore
H. Furlong Baldwin, Baltimore, Md.
Regional Vice Chairman-Southside
Grady W. Powell, Petersburg
President and Chief Executive Officer
Charles F. Bryan, Jr.
Paul A. Levengood
Board of Trustees
John B. Adams, Jr., The Plains
Edward L. Ayers, Richmond
Paul Brandon Barringer, II, Charlottesville
William W. Berry, Richmond
Herbert A. Claiborne, Jr., Richmond
Beverley E. Dalton, Altavista
Nancy Hays Gottwald, Richmond
Roger L. Gregory, Richmond
James W. Hazel, Oakton
Mary Duke Trent Jones, Abingdon
Helen Turner Murphy, Mount Holly
President’s Council
Samuel D. Barham III, Richmond
FitzGerald Bemiss, Richmond
John M. Camp, Jr., Franklin
B. Noland Carter II, Richmond
Betty Christian, Richmond
Mary Rutherfoord Ferguson, Richmond
Allen Mead Ferguson, Richmond
Bruce B. Gray, Waverly
Vernard W. Henley, Richmond
Richard R. G. Hobson, Alexandria
Cecelia Howell, Falmouth
William J. Howell, Falmouth
Robert E. R. Huntley, Lexington
Robert C. King, Sr., Richmond
Benjamin J. Lambert III, Richmond
Secretary
Robert F. Strohm
Treasurer
Richard S. V. Heiman
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Honorary Vice Chairmen
Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Winchester
Stuart G. Christian, Jr., Richmond
Brenton S. Halsey, Richmond
Anne R. Worrell, Charlottesville
John R. Nelson, Richmond
Lloyd U. Noland, III, Newport News
Anne G. Rhodes, Richmond
E. Claiborne Robins, Jr., Richmond
Anne Wilson Rowe, Fredericksburg
Thomas G. Slater, Jr., Richmond
Thomas G. Snead, Jr., Richmond
William B. Thalhimer III, Richmond
Marcus M. Weinstein, Richmond
F. Blair Wimbush, Norfolk
Clifton A. Woodrum, III, Roanoke
Carolyn M. Lambert, Richmond
John Lee McElroy, Jr., Manakin-Sabot
Sorrel McElroy, Manakin-Sabot
W. P. (Bill) Miles, Charlottesville
Roger Mudd, McLean
Shirley Carter Olsson, West Point
John R. Pagan, Richmond
Dorothy Parrish, Richmond
Evelia Margarita Porto, Richmond
E. Claiborne Robins, Jr., Richmond
B. Walton Turnbull, Richmond
Hays T. Watkins, Richmond
Hugh V. White Jr., Richmond
Donald M. Wilkinson, Jr., New York, N.Y.
James H. Willcox, Jr., Hopewell

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Administration
President and Chief Executive Officer
Charles F. Bryan, Jr.
Paul A. Levengood
Executive Vice President, Chief Operating
Officer, and Paul Mellon Curator of Rare Books
Robert F. Strohm
Director of Museums
James C. Kelly
Director of Publications and Scholarship and the Virginius Dabney Editor of the
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Nelson D. Lankford
Honorary Members of the Virginia Historical Society
W. W. Abbot, Charlottesville
David McCullough, Tisbury, Mass.
Reynolds Business History Center Advisory Board
Sean P. Adams, Gainesville, Fla.
J. Stewart Bryan, III, Richmond
Sylvia Clute, Richmond
James E. Fogerty, St. Paul, Minn.
David R. Goode, Norfolk
Brenton S. Halsey, Richmond
H. Hiter Harris III, Richmond
James W. Hazel, Oakton
Educators Advisory Board
Chris Averill, Chesterfield County
Carolyn Brandt, Henrico County
Lilian Carter, Richmond
Joel M. Dexter, Chesterfield County
Mary Magee Davis, Hanover County
Robert Earl Patterson, Chesterfield County
Renee Serrao, Chesterfield County
Carol Anne K. Simopoulos, Henrico County
Editorial Advisory Board
Karen Cox, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Ellen Eslinger, DePaul University
Kevin Levin, St. Anne’s-Bellfield School
Scott R. Nelson, College of William and Mary
John R. Pagan, University of Richmond
Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer
Richard S. V. Heiman
Director of Education
William B. Obrochta
Director of Library Services
Frances S. Pollard
Vice President for Advancement
Pamela R. Seay
Director of Manuscripts and Archives and Sallie and
William B. Thalhimer III Senior Archivist
E. Lee Shepard
Thad W. Tate, Williamsburg
Louis L. Tucker, Boston, Mass.
Minnie Bassett Lane, Altavista
Hugh D. Keogh, Richmond
John R. Nelson, Richmond
E. Claiborne Robins, Jr., Richmond
Michael Sesnowitz, Richmond
Maryan D. Smith II, Oakton
Thomas G. Snead, Jr., Richmond
Joseph L. Williams, Richmond
Loraine Stewart, Virginia Commonwealth
University
Thelma Williams Tunstall, Richmond
Jim Weigand, Amelia County
Sabra Willhite, Henrico County
Elisabeth E. Wray, University of Richmond
Victoria Wray-Alley, Richmond
Michal Jan Rozbicki, Saint Louis University
Anthony Stanonis, Queen’s College, Belfast
Brent Tarter, Library of Virginia
Heather A. Williams, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill

Former Members of the Board of Trustees
John B. Adams, Jr., Richmond
Gerald L. Baliles, Charlottesville
C. Phillip Barger, Charlottesville
FitzGerald Bemiss, Richmond
J. Alfred Broaddus, Richmond
Austin Brockenbrough, III, Manakin-Sabot
Josiah Bunting III, Upperville
Robert L. Burrus, Jr., Richmond
M. Caldwell Butler, Roanoke
Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Winchester
B. Noland Carter II, Richmond
Gene R. Carter, McLean
Stuart G. Christian, Jr., Richmond
George M. Cochran, Staunton
Lee Stuart Cochran, Staunton
John R. Curtis, Jr., Williamsburg
W. Hunter deButts, Jr., Marshall
W. Heywood Fralin, Roanoke
Anne Hobson Freeman, Callao
Susan S. Goode, Norfolk
Bruce C. Gottwald, Richmond
Elmon T. Gray, Waverly
Brenton S. Halsey, Richmond
William R. Harvey, Hampton
Mary Buford Hitz, Alexandria
Richard R. G. Hobson, Alexandria
A. E. Dick Howard, Charlottesville
Cecelia Howell, Falmouth
Robert E. R. Huntley, Lexington
Presidents of the Virginia Historical Society (after 2001 the title changed to Chairman of the Board)
John Marshall 1831–1835
Henry St. George Tucker 1836–1847
William Cabell Rives 1847–1868
Hugh Blair Grigsby 1870–1881
Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart 1881–1891
William Wirt Henry 1891–1892
Joseph Bryan 1892–1902
William Gordon McCabe 1903–1905
Joseph Bryan 1906–1908
William Gordon McCabe 1909–1920
Edward Virginius Valentine 1921–1929
Daniel Grinnan 1930–1935
John Stewart Bryan 1936–1937
Joseph Dupuy Eggleston 1938–1943
Alexander Wilbourne Weddell 1944–1948
Edmund Randolph Williams 1948–1952
Samuel Merrifield Bemiss 1952–1958
Wyndham Bolling Blanton 1958–1960
George MacLaren Brydon 1960 1963
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Ronald C. Johnson, Alexandria
Joseph F. Johnston, Jr., Alexandria
Daniel P. Jordan, Charlottesville
Mark J. Kington, Alexandria
John O. Marsh, Jr., Winchester
John Lee McElroy, Jr., Manakin-Sabot
Hunter H. McGuire, Jr., Richmond
Eddie N. Moore, Jr., Ettrick
Roger Mudd, McLean
Shirley Carter Olsson, West Point
Merrill D. Peterson, Charlottesville
Charles Larus Reed, Jr., Richmond
James I. Robertson, Jr., Blacksburg
Toy D. Savage, Jr., Norfolk
Elliot S. Schewel, Lynchburg
Jane Bassett Spilman, Bassett
Hugh R. Stallard, Richmond
Robert Lee Stephens, Irvington
Henry F. Stern, Richmond
Charles W. Sydnor, Jr., Richmond
Nancy St. Clair Talley, Millwood
Nicholas F. Taubman, Roanoke
Suzanne Foster Thomas, Alexandria
Eugene P. Trani, Richmond
B. Walton Turnbull, Richmond
Melvin I. Urofsky, Midlothian
L. Dudley Walker, Martinsville
Hugh V. White Jr., Richmond
Anne R. Worrell, Charlottesville
Beverley Randolph Wellford 1960–1963
David John Mays 1963–1966
Eppa Hunton IV 1966–1969
Virginius Dabney 1969–1972
Edwin Cox 1972–1975
Joseph Clarke Robert 1975–1978
David Tennant Bryan 1978–1981
FitzGerald Bemiss 1981–1984
Lawrence Lewis, Jr. 1984–1986
John L. McElroy, Jr. 1987–1988
Stuart G. Christian, Jr. 1989–1991
C. Coleman McGehee 1992–1994
Brenton S. Halsey 1995–1997
Austin Brockenbrough, III 1998–1999
Gerald L. Baliles 2000–2001
Hugh R. Stallard 2002–2003
Hugh V. White Jr. 2004–2005
E. Claiborne Robins, Jr. 2006–2007
J. Stewart Bryan, III 2008 –2009

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Directors of the Virginia Historical Society (after 2001 the title changed to President and CEO)
Thomas Hicks Wynne 1870–1875
Robert Alonzo Brock 1875–1892
Philip Alexander Bruce 1892–1898
William Glover Stanard 1898–1933
Robert A. Lancaster 1933–1940
William Clayton Torrence 1940–1953
John Melville Jennings 1953–1978
Edwin L. Dooley, Jr. 1979–1980
Society Guild Volunteers
William M. E. Rachal (interim) 1980–1988
Paul Chester Nagel 1981–1985
Virginius C. Hall, Jr. (interim) 1985–1986
Donald Haynes 1986–1988
Virginius C. Hall, Jr. (interim) 1988–1988
Charles F. Bryan, Jr. 1988–2008
Paul A. Levengood 2008–2008
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 Taylor
Cherry • 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 • Randee
Humphrey • Janet Jenkins • Pat Jordan • Sheila Keating • John Kelzer • Karen Kincaid • Emily Damerel King • Joseph
G. 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 • James
F. Pierson • Virginia Refo • Peter M. Rippe • Diane Roberts • Helen Rolfe • Edward Rose • Patricia L. Rose • Winnie
Rymer • 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 • Phebe
Van Valen • Ronald Waller • Kathy Watkins • Jonathan Weiler • Patricia Wells • E. Parke West • Anita Williams •
Thomas Wilson

ACTIVITIES AND AWARDS
Exhibitions
Temporary Exhibitions
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
Long-Term Exhibitions
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
Traveling Exhibitions
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
2008 Annual Report • 23
Made possible with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities • The E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter
Foundation

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Sites and Stories: African American History in Virginia
With support from the Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Lectures
Stuart G. Christian, Jr., Trustees Lecture
Charles Mann, “Tobacco, Mosquito Slave: Colonial Virginia and the Dawn of Globalization,” 10 April 2008
J. Harvie Wilkinson, Jr., Lecture
Ken Burns, “The War: An Intimate History, 1941–1945,” 23 October 2008
Alexander W. Weddell Trustees Lecture
Charles F. Bryan, Jr., “History Begins at Home: A Personal Journey” 19 November 2008
Banner Lecture Series
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 September
2008
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
GALLERY TALKS
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
Awards
Wyndham B. Blanton Scholarship • Excellence in scholarship by a high school student in 2008
Olga Korostelina, W. T. Woodson High School, Fairfax County
2008 Annual Report • 25
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
Research Fellows (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.

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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, including
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 during
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 governor
of Florida from 1822 to 1834
Carol Emberton, University at Buffalo • research on how Virginia’s Readjuster Party used the issue of corporal punishment,
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

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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
Schools Served in 2008 (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 • Baileys
Elementary (Fairfax County) • Barron Elementary School (Hampton) • Beech Tree Elementary (Fairfax County) • Belle
View Elementary (Fairfax County) • Belview Elementary (Montgomery County) • Bethel Elementary (Gloucester
County) • Bon Air Elementary (Chesterfield County) • Botetourt Elementary (Gloucester County) • Boushall Middle
School (Richmond) • Boydton Elementary (Mecklenburg County) • Braddock Elementary (Fairfax County) • Bristow
Run 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 Point
Elementary (Prince William County) • Charter House School • Cherry Run Elementary (Fairfax County) • Chimborazo
Elementary (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 (Prince
William County) • Ettrick Elementary (Chesterfield County) • Evergreen Elementary (Chesterfield County) • Fair Oaks
Elementary (Henrico County) • Fairfield Elementary (Virginia Beach) • Fairhill Elementary (Fairfax County) • Faith
Christian 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 Roads
Academy • Hanover High School (Hanover County) • Harrison Road Elementary (Spotsylvania County) • Harvey
Elementary School (Henrico County) • Henning Elementary (Chesterfield County) • Hopkins Elementary (Chesterfield
County) • Hybla Valley Elementary (Fairfax County) • J. B. Watkins Elementary (Chesterfield County) • J. E. B. Stuart

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Elementary (Richmond) • J. L. Francis Elementary (Richmond) • John B. Cary Elementary (Richmond) • Jouett
Elementary (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 • Laburnum
Elementary (Henrico County) • Lake Ridge Elementary (Prince William County) • Laurel Ridge Elementary (Fairfax
County) • Lees Corner Elementary (Fairfax County) • Loch Lomond Elementary (Prince William County) • Lorton
Station Elementary (Fairfax County) • Loudoun Country Day • Machem Elementary (Hampton) • Marguerite Christian
Elementary (Chesterfield County) • Mary Munford Elementary (Richmond) • Matoaca Elementary (Chesterfield
County) • McNair Elementary (Fairfax County) • Merrimack Elementary (Hampton) • Midlothian Children Academy •
Midlothian Middle School (Chesterfield County) • Miles Jones Elementary (Richmond) • Montclair Elementary (Prince
William County) • Mt. Eagle Elementary (Fairfax County) • Mt. Vernon Elementary (Fairfax County) • Nansemond
Parkway Elementary (Suffolk) • Nansemond River High School (Suffolk) • New Bridge Academy • Northumberland
Elementary (Northumberland County) • Nuckols Farm Elementary (Henrico County) • Oak Grove Elementary
(Richmond) • Oakton Elementary (Fairfax County) • Occoquan Elementary (Prince William County) • Orchard House
School • Parklawn Elementary (Fairfax County) • Petsworth Elementary (Gloucester) • Poplar Tree Elementary (Fairfax
County) • Potomac View Elementary (Prince William County) • Providence Middle School (Chesterfield County) •
Richmond Preparatory Christian Academy • Riverside Elementary (Henrico County) • Roanoke City Schools/Plato
Program (Roanoke) • Robious Middle (Chesterfield County) • Rolling Valley Elementary (Fairfax County) • Rosa Parks
Elementary (Prince William County) • Ruby F. Carver Elementary (Henrico County) • Salem Christian School • Salem
Church Middle School (Chesterfield County) • Salem Elementary (Virginia Beach) • Sangster Elementary (Prince William
County) • Seaford Elementary (York County) • Sheffield Elementary (Lynchburg) • Skipwith Elementary (Henrico
County) • South Hill Elementary (Mecklenburg County) • Southside Elementary (Dinwiddie County) • St. Anne’s
Belfield Schools • St. Bridget’s School • St. Catherine’s School • St. Gertrude’s School • St. Joseph’s Villa/Lewis Children
Center • 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 Oaks
Elementary (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 Perry
Elementary (Waynesboro) • Woodville Elementary (Richmond) • Woolwine Elementary (Patrick County) • W. W.
Gordon Elementary (Chesterfield County) • W. W. Robinson Elementary (Shenandoah County)

Virginia Historical Society
Statement of Activity
Year Ended December 31, 2008
2008
2007
Temporarily Permanently
Unrestricted Restricted Restricted Total Total
234,291
1,100,095
7,340,036
893,018
1,656,651
377,052
2,822
282,420
236,033
3,068
-
12,125,486
240,290
1,100,490
(15,968,137)
2,828,027
2,006,057
381,084
2,275
288,580
216,781
1,612
-
(8,902,941)
-
-
-
804,028
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
804,028
-
-
(6,892,170)
1,681,109
1,963,197
-
-
-
15,174
-
(8,442,211)
(11,674,901)
Support and revenue (loss):
Membership dues 240,290
Annual giving 1,100,490
Investment (loss) return (9,075,967)
Contributions 342,890
Grants 42,860
Publications and merchandise sales 381,084
Royalties 2,275
Rental income 288,580
Fees and admissions 201,607
Other 1,612
Net assets released from restrictions 8,442,211
Total support and revenue (loss) 1,967,932
2,397,937
1,605,950
3,212,367
2,409,365
1,837,480
2,374,120
1,550,924
1,353,680
1,576,202
1,053,537
10,120,858
9,250,704
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Expenditures:
Program Services:
Library 2,409,365
-
Publications / education 1,837,480
-
Museums/exhibits 2,374,120
-
Supporting services: -
General administration 1,576,202
-
Fundraising / public relations 1,053,537
-
Total Expenditures 9,250,704
-
(304,047)
(531,783)
-
-
Fair value of interest rate swaps (531,783)
1,700,581
(18,685,428)
804,028
(11,674,901)
Change in net assets (7,814,555)
81,214,528
-
81,214,528
82,915,109
-
82,915,109
29,239,925
(905,625)
28,334,300
12,835,218
12,490,827
25,326,045
Net assets, beginning of year, previously stated 40,839,966
Change in accounting principle (11,585,202)
Net assets, beginning of year, restated 29,254,764
Net assets, end of year $ 21,440,209 $ 13,651,144 $ 29,138,328 $ 64,229,681 $ 82,915,109