Box 5
Contains 57 Results:
Slavery and race relations
Nat Turner Rebellion, Slave codes, attempts to reopen the slave trade, the North and slavery, slave life and labor, free slaves and colonization, slave insurrections, slavery - general problem, fugitive slaves, slave trade, Norfolk health, 'A Long-Forgotten Student Oratim. 1847, 1850-1860, 1944. 9 items.
Virginia social customs
Train between Richmond and Amelia Court House, 'Petersburg's Racing History,' tournament lectures, libraries, fairs, Richmond Atheneum, Philanthropic Literary Society, Womens Dress, 'Knights of Old Virginia...' epidemics in Portsmouth schools. 1849, 1851-1855, 1857-1859, 1931, 1936. 1 item.
Virginia springs
Travel to them, 'The Springs of Virginia,' notes on written sources, articles on White Sulphur Springs and sounding of Richmond Blues, descriptions, 'Heat of Virginia Spring Said Due to Pressure Deep Below Earth.' B&O route from Berkley Springs, 'The Springs of Yesteryear,' 'Epistles from the Springs of Virginia.' 1850-1852, 1856-1860, 1932, 1942. 3 items.
Death of L. W. Tazewell.
1860. 1 item.
Temperance reform
Letters of John H. Cocke to Joseph C. Cabell, Virginia Historical Register and Literary Yearbook, Sons of Temperance, Anti-Tobacco movement, outline of history of temperance, Richmond drunkeness, 1851-1869, 1870. 1 item.
Letter from the New York Public Library concerning John C. Underwood., 1930
Letter from New York Public Library concerning sources of information on John C. Underwood. 1930. 1 item.
Virginia Historical Society
Meetings, death of William Maxwell. 1850, 1852, 1857. 1 item.