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Title: 8-2-e: Pamunkey hunter with otter skin.
Identifier(s): graphics:2359; local: APSdigobj3106
Description: Full length view of man, standing outside, holding otter skin, dog in background.; Image: 8-2-e; Freeman guide number: 4688b
Subject: Native American Images; Pamunkey Indians; Virginia
Date: 1906-1941

Title: Proceedings of the Virginia Convention of 1775; B J35.51 no.1. Virginia (Colony). Convention of 1775. Proceedings of the Virginia Convention
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:16717
Description: The proceedings of the Virginia Convention of 1775 (March 20-27 1775). The document describes the selection of the president and clerk of the convention-Peyton Randolph and John Tazewell. The document describes the deliberation over the proceedings of the Continental Congress. The document continues to describe other matters such as the conventions response to the order from George III to put for sale all vacant Virginia lands, the appointment of representatives of Virginia in Congress, the sufficiency of the state through increasing arts and manufacture of necessary goods including hemp, flax, salt, and malt liquor, the question of the "embodying", "arming", and training the militia.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Declaring Independence; Virginia--History--Revolution, 1775-1783
Date: 1775; 2022

Title: 9-43-c: Rappahannock River view
Identifier(s): graphics:2346; local: APSdigobj3084
Description: View of river with plants on both banks.; Note associated with image: "Swift water between island and main shore on Rappahannock river, at point where it breaks through from Piedmont to coastal plain, near Falmouth, Va." Image: 9-43-c; Freeman guide number: 4663a
Creator: Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950et al
Subject: Native American Images; Rappahannock River (Va.); Virginia
Date: 1906-1941

Title: 8-1-n: Two Pamunkey men digging clay along the bank of the river for pot making.
Identifier(s): graphics:2352; local: APSdigobj3105
Description: View of men digging clay, river in background.; Image: 8-1-n; Freeman guide number: 4688b
Creator: Speck, Frank Gouldsmith, 1881-1950et al
Subject: Native American Images; Pamunkey Indians; Virginia
Date: 1906-1941

Title: 8-6-l: William Terrill Bradby
Identifier(s): graphics:4163; local: APSimg6804
Description: Black and white portriat photograph of Pamunkey man, in native attire with head-dress, seated holding a stone tomahawk.; Image (8-6-L); Freeman guide #4688b.; Funding provided by: Getty Foundation
Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology.et al
Subject: Native American Images; Virginia; Pamunkey Indians
Date: 1921-1941

Title: 8-1-m: Pamunkey fisherman poling boat to visit set-lines, swamp hunting grounds in background.
Identifier(s): graphics:2362; local: APSdigobj3104
Description: View of man standing in canoe, trees in background.; Image: 8-1-m; Freeman guide number: 4688b
Subject: Native American Images; Pamunkey Indians; Virginia
Date: 1906-1941

Title: Pendleton, Edmund to [Thomas Jefferson], 1776 August 10; B J35.51 no.21. Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803. Letter to [Thomas Jefferson]
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:16731
Description: In this excerpt of a letter from Edmund Pendleton to Thomas Jefferson about the creation of government in Virginia.; Recipient's copy at the Library of Congress, this is a transcription.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Political Philosophy; Virginia--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; United States. Continental Congress; Virginia. Convention (1775-1776)
Date: 1776-08-10; 2022

Title: Negro life in a rural community
Identifier(s): text:286342
Description: Ethnographic account of a Black community in rural West Virginia.
Subject: African American anthropologists; Anthropology; West Virginia--History; African American history
Date: 1927-1931

Title: Pocahontas
Identifier(s): graphics:4313; APSimg7118
Description: Black and white engraving, full-length portrait, Powhatan woman in native attire, animal skins, necklace, holding bow and staff, Virginia.; Rare book vault; Funding provided by: Getty Foundation
Creator: Laet, Joannes de, 1593-1649
Source: Novus orbis seu descriptionis Indiae occidentalis (917.29.L12); http://opac.amphilsoc.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=133442
Subject: Native American Images; Indians of North America--Virginia; Powhatan Indians
Date: 1633

Title: Powhatan couple
Identifier(s): graphics:4300; APSimg7114
Description: Black and white engraving of Powhatan man and woman in native attire, head-dresses, cloak with bear face, with two Powhatan men wearing head-dresses, in background.; Rare book vault; Funding provided by: Getty Foundation
Creator: Montanus, Arnoldus, 1625?-1683
Source: De Nieuwe en onbekende Weerelde (917.M76); http://opac.amphilsoc.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=56692
Subject: Native American Images; Indians of North America--Virginia; Powhatan Indians
Date: 1671

Title: State of Virginia from the best Authorities by Samuel Lewis, 1794
Identifier(s): graphics:10291
Description: 1 of 45 maps in folio
Subject: Guthrie, W. K. C. (William Keith Chambers), 1906-; Maps; Virginia
Date: 1795

Title: A map of the most inhabited part of Virginia, containing the whole province of Maryland, with part of Pensilvania, New Jersey and North Carolina.
Identifier(s): graphics:10284
Description: Realms of Gold identifier: 1094, 654: 1755: F943vmc Large.
Subject: Maps; Virginia; Maryland; Pennsylvania; New Jersey; North Carolina
Date: 1775

Title: The Freeholders of Botetcourt, Virginia, to Andrew Lewis and John Boyer, 1775
Identifier(s): text:252100
Description: Concerning the sentiments of this part of Virginia at the outbreak of the Revolution.
Subject: United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Virginia--History; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Date: 1775

Title: John Vaughan to Julius Timoleon Ducatel, 1833 January 8
Identifier(s): text:223184
Description: To Julius Timoleon Ducatel seeking his help in securing material used by John Burk and Louis Hue Girardin in writing their history of Virginia.
Subject: Vaughan, John, 1756-1841; Ducatel, Julius Timoleon, 1796-1849; Virginia; Girardin, Louis Hue, 1771-1825
Date: 1833-01-08

Title: The seat of war of the revolution in the southern states; shewing the principal movements of the hostile armies.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3542; APSdigobj3542
Description: See: William Johnson, Sketches of the life and correspondence of Major General Greene. Charleston: Miller:1822.
Creator: Tanner, H. S. (Henry Schenck), 1786-1858
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Virginia; North Carolina; South Carolina; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Military campaigns
Date: [1822]

Title: Virginia. Convention (1775-1776), Resolution, [1776] May 15; B J35.51 no.15. Virginia. Convention. Resolutions calling for independence
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:16698
Description: The Virginia Convention calls for and supports the "General Congress" to "declare the united colonies free and independent States."; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Declaring Independence; Virginia--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803; United States. Continental Congress
Date: [1776]-05-15; 2022

Title: The Contrast between Slave Life in Jamaica and Virginia, 1760-1865
Identifier(s): video:616; 2005_11_015
Description: Dr. Dunn examines the differences and similarities in plantations in Virginia and Jamaica.
Subject: Early American History; Slavery, Virginia, History; Slavery, Jamaica, History; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2005-11-12

Title: Plan of government for Virginia by George Mason and Thomas Jefferson, 1776 June 8 - 10; Pendleton, Edmund to [Thomas Jefferson], 1776 August 10; B J35.51 no.17. Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. Plan of government for Virginia, by Mason and Jefferson
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:16665
Description: Plan of government for Virginia by George Mason and Thomas Jefferson. At the end of the document there is a transcription of a letter from Edmund Pendleton to Thomas Jefferson. The topic is Jefferson's desire to retire from Congress as well as the design of the, presumably, Virginia government. Pendleton specifically discusses how senators should be elected. The transcription of the letter is incomplete.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Political Philosophy; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Virginia--History--Revolution, 1775-1783
Date: 1776; 2022

Title: Pendleton, Edmund to Thomas Jefferson, 1775 November 16; B J35.x3. Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803. Letter to Thomas Jefferson
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:16734
Description: Letter from Edmund Pendleton to Thomas Jefferson about the current state of war in Virginia. Pendleton describes Dunmore's situation writing, amongst other things, that "[h]is slave scheme is also at an end, since it is now Public that he has sent off a sloop load to the West Indies, which has made others use every endeavor to escape from him, and will stop his further increase of that Crew."; This is a transcription of the original letter, the recipient's copy is at the Library of Congress.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Waging the War; Slavery; Slavery--United States--History--18th century; Virginia--History--Revolution, 1775-1783
Date: 1775-11-16; 2022

Title: "Map of discoveries in the Expeditions of Sir Walter Raleigh in America, 1584"
Identifier(s): graphics:5722; local: APSdigobj3448
Description: "Copied by M. S. Henry, May 1860." Includes names of Indigenous towns and other places.
Creator: Henry, Mathew Schropp, 1790-1862et al
Subject: Maps; Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618; Virginia--Maps; North Carolina--Maps; Names, Geographical
Date: 1860