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Central Virginia History Researchers (CVHR)<\/a> \u00a0
Reginald D. Butler Local History Archive<\/a>
Burke Brown Steppe Chapter of AAHGS (BBS)<\/a>
City of Charlottesville Historic Preservation<\/a>
Charlottesville Historic Surveys – Histories of Houses<\/a>
Virginia Department of Historic Resources<\/a>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u2014 DHR Albemarle County Historic Register<\/a>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u2014 DHR Charlottesville Historic Register<\/a>
Virginia Chancery Records<\/a>
Encyclopedia Virginia<\/a>
Jefferson-Madison Regional Library Databases<\/a>\u00a0
Charlottesville – Agnes Cross-White\u00a0 (Google Books Preview)<\/a>\u00a0
The Negro in Charlottesville and Albemarle County<\/a><\/em>
\u2014 (1929 Phelps-Stokes Study by Marjorie Felice Irwin<\/em>)\u00a0
Race and Place: An African American Community<\/a>
Politics of Disfranchisement and Anti-Disfranchisement: A Local Story<\/a>\u00a0
Free Black Registers, Albemarle County<\/a>

Photograph Collections Online at the University of Virginia<\/strong>
Holsinger Collection, Small Library, University of Virginia<\/a>\u00a0
\u00a0\u00a0 \u2014\u00a0Search the Holsinger Collection on Virgo<\/a>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u2014\u00a0The Holsinger Studio Portrait Project<\/a>\u00a0
Jackson Davis Photograph Collection, Small Library, UVA<\/a>
Search UVA Visual History Collection<\/a> (15,819 images)

Newspapers<\/strong>
Daily Progress<\/em> Digitized Microfilm Online: 1893-1964<\/a>
\u2014\u00a0Search Daily Progress Digital Archive by date<\/a>
\u2014 About the Daily Progress<\/em> Digital Archive<\/a>
Virginia Chronicle <\/em>at Library of Virginia<\/a>
\u2014 (Includes Richmond Planet<\/em> and Jeffersonian Republican<\/em>)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
Norfolk New Journal and Guide<\/em> at Library of Virginia<\/a>
\u2014 (Requires LVA card\u2014<\/em>Select Proquest Historical Black Newspaper Collection)
Norfolk New Journal and Guide at the University of Virginia Library<\/a>
(Requires UVA login\u2014<\/em>Select ProQuest Historical Newspapers – Black Newspapers)
The Reflector<\/a><\/em> (1933-1935)<\/em>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u2014 About T. J. Sellers<\/a>, Editor of The Reflector<\/em>
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2014 The Reflector<\/em> (original copies) at University of Virginia Library Special Collections<\/a>\u00a0
Chronicling America<\/a><\/em> Historic Newspapers at Library of Congress\u00a0
Google News Archive Search<\/a>

Maps<\/strong>
Faded Contours: Central Virginia History Maps<\/a>
\u2014 Albemarle 1940<\/a> (Shows land ownership by race c. 1940)
Mapping Cville: Examining Equity Through History<\/a>
1877 Gray’s New Map of Charlottesville<\/a>
1907 Massie Map Of Albemarle County<\/a>
1907 Sanborn Map of Charlottesville<\/a>
1920 Sanborn Map of Charlottesville<\/a>

Cemeteries and Burial Records<\/strong>
African-American Cemeteries in Albemarle and Amherst Counties<\/a> by Lynn Rainville
J.F. Bell Funeral Home Records<\/a>
The Preservers of the Daughters of Zion Cemetery<\/a>
Find a Grave<\/a>

Online Archives: Neighborhoods<\/strong>
Vinegar Hill Project photosets (Flickr)<\/a>
Vinegar Hill<\/a>
Proffit Historic District<\/a>
Ivy Creek: Hugh Carr Family and Union Ridge<\/a>
Getting Word Oral History Project at Monticello<\/a>

Online Archives:\u00a0 Individuals<\/strong>
Benjamin F. Yancey<\/a>
Duke Family Papers, Small Library, UVA<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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