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Virginia Warns Her People
The image comes from the Department of Historic Resources. Â
In the article attached, from 1915, the Richmond Evening Journal is writing to warn the citizens of what women could do with the right to vote. Â It highlights where there are more colored…
Unidentified Pyrite Mines Women
A portrait of and unidentified women involved somehow with the Mineral Pyrite Mines.
Three Women with a Child
Three unidentified women standing with a child
The Struggles of Women's Suffrage
The image attached shows the start of the suffrage parade in Washington, D.C. The year is unknown. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress.
The women’s suffrage movement spread nationwide, though some areas faced harsher conditions and…
The Scottish Suffragettes - Christian Guild
In 1904, at the age of 43 and with her husband and seven children, Christian Guild left her homeland of Scotland to immigrate to the United States. When she reached Dabneys, Louisa County, Virginia, she became actively involved in an attempt to start…
The Kennedy Sisters
From left to right sit Lucy Carter, Mary Alice, and Fannie Tyree Kennedy. Along with a younger and older brother, the girls were the children of John Henry and Capitola Bowles Kennedy. At the young age of 22, Mary Alice died in an “accident, 
Socialist Party National Constitution
These are scans of a booklet with the National Constitution of the Socialist Party and application for membership both belonging to Dr. Robert Shelton. These may have been for his use or possibly to distribute to new members.
Sisters Lessie and Ida Sims
Sisters Lessie and Ida Sims, daughters of Garland and Barbara Ann Butler Sims
Sarah Kennedy Butler
Sarah Kennedy Butler
Sarah Jane Butler Whitlock
Sarah Jane Butler Whitlock was the wife of John Henry Whitlock, the sister of William Samuel Butler, and the daughter of Lewis Henry Butler and Lavinia Louisa Butler.
Sarah "Sadie" Moore Butler
Sarah "Sadie" Moore Butler of Mineral, Virginia was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William S. Butler.
Rosa Toler
Rosa Toler
Reuben Lindsay Gordon Jr.
Reuben Lindsay Gordon Jr. was born January 21, 1855 in Orange County, Virginia to Reuben Lindsay Gordon and Elizabeth Somerville Beale. Gordon was a lawyer in Louisa County and served as Commonwealth’s Attorney from 1890 to 1905. He was also a…
Pyrite Mine Women
Unidentified women associated with the Mineral Pyrite Mines
Nurse
Unidentified Nurse
Mrs. Lavinia Lou Butler and Daughters
Mrs. Lavinia Lou Butler, wife of Lewis H. Butler, pictured here with her daughters Susan Jane and Barbara Ann.
Mrs. Kate Butler
Kate Towsey Butler wife of John Hugh Butler
Mrs. Josephene C. Adams
Mrs. Josephene C. Adams, wife of Colonel W. H. Adams, manager of Arminius Mines, Mineral, VA
Mrs. Eugenia Mallory and Children
This is a photograph of Eugenia Mallory, wife of Alva Mallory, and her seven children. There are no records that Eugenia ever registered to vote.
Mrs. Elizabeth Moore
Mrs. Elizabeth Moore, wife of Hugh Alexander Moore