Media

Media Types:

Virtual Tours

Campbell County Training School

Aerial panoramic image of Jamestown — Jamestown

Virtual Tour of the Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery, Alexandria

Virtual Tour of Julius Rosenwald High School, Reedville

3D Objects

Brick with Finger Indentations

Stone Pipe

Videos

Richard Holmquist Praises Industrial Growth in Danville

Amputations and Artificial Limbs in the Civil War

Podcasts & Audio

Recalling the Destruction of Hurricane Camille

George Washington and Slavery

The Relationship Between Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement

Images

Trees overhang the muddy waters of the Nottoway River in Southampton County on Nottoway Indian tribal land — Nottoway River

Chief Lynette Allston of the Nottoway Tribe poses in a woven blue shawl and long beads — Nottoway Indian Chief Lynette Allston

Hand-drawn map showing the Nottoway River and the land allotments given to individual members of the Nottoway tribe — Nottoway Reservation Allotments 1847 – 1871

Printed first page of The Discovery of New Brittaine (1651) by Edward Bland, Abraham Woode, Sackford Brewster, and Elias Pennant — Edward Bland and Party Encounter the Nottoway Indians

Logo for the Nottoway Indian Tribe of Virginia

Senate Recognition of the Nottoway Indian Tribe of Virginia

A single page with reproductions of original documents and accompanying text blocks describing the sellling off of Nottoway reservation lands and a succesful lawsuit by the tribe against a former trustee who had mismanaged tribal funds — Selling off Nottoway Reservation Land from 1735 to the Late 1800s

Printed page showing the Virginia Indian signators—and the signs they used—in agreeing to the terms of the Treaty of Middle Plantation — Signators to the Treaty of Middle Plantation

Nottoway Indian woman wearing a blue, dotted dress and traditional beaded jewelry and headdress — Nottoway Indian Woman at an Annual Powwow

Hundreds of men are packed into a convention hall festooned with flags and campaign banners — 1896 Republican National Convention

Fashionably dressed light-skinned Black woman, wearing lace gloves and holding a fan — Daguerreotype Portrait of Jane Waring Roberts

Long line of Black men pose formally in military-like attire in front of a grandstand filled with people — Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America

Low slung modern buildings of Roanoke Technical Institute with mountains in the distance — Roanoke Technical Institute

A teacher in shirtsleeves explains engineering principles in a series of intricate drawings on a blackboard — Teaching Engineering Principles

Two Black students purchase books for classes at Northern Virginia Technical College — Buying Books at Northern Virginia Technical College

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