‘200 Years, 200 Stories’: Library of Virginia kicks …
In 1823, Virginia’s General Assembly adopted legislation to create an institution devoted to organizing, managing and caring for the state’s official records and collections, some of which date back to the colonial era. Now, as the Library of Virginia turns 200 years old, with more than 130 million records on hand, they’ve sifted through them to create “200 Years, 200 Stories.”
The exhibit celebrates the library’s bicentennial by honoring 200 Virginians whose life narratives are documented in some way among the records, images and artifacts held there.