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11.5 x 7.5 cm
Black & White

Class of 1860. 2nd son of David Meade Bernard Sr. and his wife Sally Ann Field (Bernard). This is a photograph of the oil painting of Bernard Jr. who was judge of the Hasting's Court of the City of Petersburg, VA. The painting hangs in the court…

21 December, 1978. Taken in Philip Key's Home.

Leiden, ca. 1708-1728; A prolific publisher, editor, and bookseller, Peter vander Aa included the arrival of John Smith to America in his map of Virginia. He published a similar map in his Atlas Nouveau Et Curieux (1714), but with a French title and…

Class of 1868. From a photograph sent January 1937 by his sister Mrs. J. S. Royster.

Class of 1884

8 x 5 cm
Color
Typed on Back: “Dormitory, built 1822"

A letter about the newly founded Prince Edward Academy

Concerned Citizens for Public Education Constitution / "Purpose: The general intent of this organization if to foster and promote good citizenship through informed and responsible participation in the total life of our country, as described in the…

"Plea” to local churches to appoint representatives to a committee / "We, a group of Christians who have been meeting at College Church, Hampden-Sydney, for prayer and study, respectfully urge each church in Prince Edward County, white and colored,…

February, 1964 starting “For more than a year a group of adults, who either are members of or regularly attend College Church, have been meeting…” / A letter describing the formation of the interracial study group started at College Church in the…

Typed document starting “Differences of opinion about its role in dealing with current social issues often cause tension in a church. Here, frequently, a wide gulf between pulpit and pew shows up. In many ways, the hardest thing a minister has to do,…