Adopt Virginia History
Help the Library of Virginia conserve the treasures of the Commonwealth. By adopting an item for conservation in your name, or as a gift to honor others, your fully tax-deductible donation will keep Virginia’s history accessible and alive for generations to come!
Item #1: $500
Metric System by the American Metrological Society. Poster
This poster is part of the Library’s visual studies collection. The poster needs cleaning, mending, and other stabilization to prepare it for scanning and public use.
Item #2: $500
Posters. American Federation of Organizations for the Hard of Hearing. “The Deafened Adult Needs” and “Education for the Hard of Hearing Child Needs”, 2 Posters
These posters are part of the Library’s visual studies collection. Each poster needs cleaning, mending, and other stabilization to prepare it for scanning and public use.
Item #3: $1,000
View of the Island of Virginius, Harper’s Ferry, 1850s
This poster is part of the Library’s visual studies collection. The poster needs cleaning, mending, and other stabilization to prepare it for scanning and public use.
Item #4: $2,500
Map of the Wm. Callen previous Allen /Addition / (Monument Avenue) Richmond Va.
This architectural plan is part of the Richmond Office of the City Engineer, 1809-1975, records. This collection documents the important period of expansion in post-Reconstruction Richmond.
Item #5: $500
15th Amendment, Celebrated May 19, 1870. Thomas Kelly, 1870
This poster is part of the Library’s visual studies collection. The poster needs cleaning, mending, and other stabilization to prepare it for scanning and public use.
Item #6: $2,000
4 Prints from the Edmund Flagg Collection, 1840s - 1850s
Part of the Library’s visual studies collection, these prints were collected by Edmund Flagg (1815-1890). Titles include: “Cornelius Vroman” 1853, “Mexican Rulers” 1846, “McColloch’s Leap” 1851, and “Positions on Fencing” no date. These prints need cleaning, mending, and other stabilization to prepare it for scanning and public use.
Item #7: $500
Poster, View of the University of Virginia, 1856.
This poster is part of the Library’s visual studies collection. The poster needs cleaning, mending, and other stabilization to prepare it for scanning and public use.
Item #8: $500
Poster, Health, Strength, Joy - Dept. of Interior Bureau of Education. No Date
This poster is part of the Library’s visual studies collection. The poster needs cleaning, mending, and other stabilization to prepare it for scanning and public use.
Item #9: $1,500
Prince George County, List of Insolvents, 1810
This manuscript is from the Library’s local records collection. The six-page list of insolvents from Prince George County needs cleaning and mending. In addition the document will be scanned and uploaded into the Library’s digital collection catalog.
Item #10: $1,000
Prince George County
Election record, 1776
This manuscript is from the Library’s local records collection. The four-page apprenticeship indenture from Prince George County needs cleaning and mending. In addition the document will be scanned and uploaded into the Library’s digital collection catalog.
Item #11: $16,000
Middlesex County, Order Book,
1673-1680
This item is from the Library’s local records collection. The Middlesex County Order book contains Orders, Deeds, Wills, Inventories and other records. The nearly 300-page order book has previously been desilked and deacidified prior to lamination but needs stabilization for continued preservation.
Item #12: $16,000
Henrico County, Proceeding of Commissioners Respecting the Records of Henrico Court Destroyed by the British 1774-1782.
This item is from the Library’s local records collection. The 130-page original volume of proceedings needs stabilization for continued preservation.
Item #13: $4,000
Topographical map of Danville Pittsylvania Co., Va., from actual surveys and records, 1877
Topographical map of Danville Pittsylvania Co., Va., from actual surveys and records, 1877, The treatment would include delamination, cleaning, deacidification, rejoining sections and lining with Japanese tissue.
Item #14: $1,000
Gray's New Map of Culpeper, Culpeper County, Virginia. 1878. On verso: Map of Orange Court House, Orange County, Virginia & Gray's New Map of Gordonsville, Orange County, Virginia, 1878.
This is part of a series of maps published by O. W. Gray and Son, Philadelphia in the 1870s. The treatment will be to remove lamination, de-acidify, and repair on fold.
Item #15: $1,000
Gray's New Map of Leesburg, Loudoun Co., Va. 1878
This is part of a series of maps published by O. W. Gray and Son, Philadelphia in the 1870s. The treatment will be to remove lamination, de-acidify, and repair on fold.
Item #16: $1,000
Gray's New Map of Liberty, Bedford County, Virginia. 1878?
This is part of a series of maps published by O. W. Gray and Son, Philadelphia in the 1870s. The treatment will be to remove lamination, de-acidify, and repair on fold.