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Thursday, May 5, 2011

Multiple Exposure: Catablog of the Prints and Photographs Collection at the Library of Virginia

"The Library of Virginia's Special Collections is proud to announce the launch of its new catablog!

http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/multiple_exposure/

Multiple Exposure: Catablog of the Prints and Photographs Collection @ the Library of Virginia is an interactive catalog created with WordPress blogging software - hence it is referred to as a “catablog.” Each post will include a description of the collection or file, a small visual sampling, notes on provenance and arrangement, and links to fuller, more complete finding aids and inventories when available. In an attempt to bring greater visibility to our print and photograph holdings, the catablog will be an ongoing project and we will be incrementally adding new posts on a regular basis."

Contributors:

Ray Bonis:

Ray worked at VCU Libraries' James Branch Cabell Library from 1989 until 2021. He is the co-author of Virginia Commonwealth University (2006) and Greetings from Richmond (2009) - an architectural history of the city.

Selden Richardson:

Architectural historian and author of Built By Blacks: African American Architecture and Neighborhoods in Richmond, Virginia (2006), The Tri-State Gang in Richmond: Murder and Robbery in the Great Depression. (2012), and Richmond Murder & Mayhem (2023)

On History:

"The dead were and are not. Their place knows them no more and is ours today...The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation vanishing into another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone, like ghosts at cockcrow."
-- G. M. Trevelyan (1876-1962) from his "Autobiography of an Historian," An Autobiography and Other Essays (1949).

Key Dates in Richmond History
(more to follow)

1737 – William Mayo laid out the original street plan for the town of Richmond on land provided by William Byrd II.

1742 – Chartered as a town

1780 – Virginia’s state capital moved from Williamsburg to Richmond.

1782 – Incorporated as a city.

1788 - Virginia State Capitol building completed.

1860-1865 – Serves as capital of the Confederate States of America.

1910 - Manchester, the city located just south of the James, is consolidated with Richmond.

1949 - Oliver Hill (1907-2007) elected to City Council, first African American since Reconstruction.

1968 - Virginia Commonwealth University created by the merger of the Medical College of Virginia and Richmond Professional Institute.

1977 - Henry Marsh elected as first African American mayor of Richmond.

2009 – Shockoe Examiner founded.

The Shockoe Examiner
Blogging the History of Richmond, Virginia

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Multiple Exposure: Catablog of the Prints and Photographs Collection at the Library of Virginia

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