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Nottoway River Interpretive Tour

Armistead S. Nickens Historic Highway Marker

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 — Edward Bland and Party Encounter the Nottoway Indians

Logo for the Nottoway Indian Tribe of Virginia

State 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 — Nottoway Reservation Land Sales

Printed page showing the Virginia Indian signers of the Treaty of Middle Plantation, and the signs they used in agreeing to the terms — Signers of the Treaty of Middle Plantation

Nottoway Indian woman wearing a blue, dotted dress and traditional beaded jewelry and headdress — 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

Two young white men deconstruct packing crates with tools while an older man in suit and tie looks on — Deconstructing Packing Crates

Teacher in jacket and tie points to a transistor radio board in 1965 while teaching three students in the electronics program — Electronics Students Study a Transistor Receiver Board

Teacher in shirt and tie instructs a Black student in the use of a drafting machine — Class Involving Drafting Skills

Newspaper page featuring articles and photographs of the new Northern Virginia Technical College — “Technical College Hit By Applicant ‘Flood'”

Northern Virginia Technical College Scrapbook

Bucolic scene of George Washigtion overseeing his farm hands at Mount Vernon — Washington as a Farmer at Mount Vernon

George Washington and a white hunting comrade being served refreshments by Martha Washington and her two children while two enslaved laborers look on — Mount Vernon in the Olden Time. Washington at 30 Years of Age

Satellite view of the convergence of rivers into the Hampton Roads harbor — Hampton Roads

The Technician 1966

Virginia Industrialization Group Appeals to the Governor

General William Henry Harrison, Candidate of the People for President of the United States.

Yellowed cover of the 1844 edition of Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy — Cover of Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy

Mulier Anglica habitans in Pago.

Wallace

D-Day Landing in Normandy

Replica of the blue 1962 Chevrolet race car used by Wendell Oliver Scott, which includes advertising stickers on the body of the car and his race number "34" on the door and front lights — Replica of Wendell Oliver Scott’s Race Car

Scott Torino

Wendell Scott Race Car Drive number 34

Early Days of Racing

Interior of the 1880 Republican National Convention in Chicago, with a standing James A. Garfield delivering an address to a packed audience — 1880 Republican National Convention

Republican candidates for President and Vice-President, James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur

Louisa County Courthouse

Colored Emigrants Seeking Homes in the North

Horse and carriage in front of the Virginia State Pentitentiary in Richmond, a large complex of brick and white colored buidings — State Penitentiary, Richmond, Va.

Colored map showing southeastern Virginia — Map of Southeastern Virginia

Nottoway County Courthouse

A brown-toned photograph shows a group of men, two with bikes and one holding a child's hand, in front of a sign for the Burkeville train station — Burkeville Train Station

Map of Nottoway County

Wooden blockhouse and surrounding picket fence at Fort Meigs — Fort Meigs

Marble sculpture of the figure of the dying Shawnee chief Tecumseh, as he clutches his long tomahawk — The Dying Tecumseh

Colonial-era workers, both male and female, harvest tobacco leaves from the field, as a large sailing vessel sits in a waterway in the distance — Seventeenth-Century Harvesting Scene

Seventeenth-century engraving showing a series of scenes in a week of marriage — Gender Conventions in the Seventeenth Century

Colonial-era women being gently escorted off a rowboat onto the shores of Jamestown, as a large sailing vessel can be seen in the distance — Wives for the Settlers at Jamestown.

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