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VA -- Richmond -- Virginia Museum of History and Culture (VMHC) -- Exhibit: Treasures of Virginia:

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Description of Pictures: Treasures of Virginia
From May 14, 2022
This gallery features a rotating display of extraordinary items related to individuals or events that shaped the identity of our state and nation.
Square feet: 400
Number of artifacts: 7
About the Exhibition: The objects in this gallery inspire awe, while also prompting reflection about what we treasure as individuals, as communities, and as a society.
Highlights: Artifacts of note include a writing desk used by Lynchburg poet and civil rights activist Anne Spencer (1882-1975); a personal diary kept by George Washington (1732-1799) during his first term as president; a flight jacket worn by Tony Dowd (1924-2015) while serving as a B-24 bomber tail gunner in China during WWII; the lunch counter from Richmond’s F.W. Woolworth Store where Black civil rights activists staged a sit-in to protest racial discrimination in 1960; The Virginia Declaration of Rights penned by George Mason (1725-1792) in 1776 which was part of the state constitution when Virginia claimed independence from Britain; and more!

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. VHSTRE_220515_001.JPG: Treasures of Virginia This gallery features a rotating display of extraordinary items related to individuals or events that shaped the identity of our state and nation. They inspire awe, while also prompting reflection about what we treasure as individuals, as communities, and as a society.
2. VHSTRE_220515_015.JPG: Power to the People James Madison opened the US Constitution (1787) with the immortal words, "We the People." He got this idea from this document in which Mason writes "all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people." The Constitution also adopts Mason's three branches of government.
3. VHSTRE_220515_017.JPG: The Virginia Declaration of Rights 1776
4. VHSTRE_220515_021.JPG: Equality for All? Mason was a planter and politician. Although he and other Founding Fathers championed liberty and human rights, many of them were also slaveholders. Realizing the ideals expressed in our nation's founding documents continues to be a work in progress.
5. VHSTRE_220515_036.JPG: Staff Sergeant Anthony Dowd's Flight Jacket about 1943
6. VHSTRE_220515_064.JPG: Celeron Plate In French, translates to: “In the year of 1749, of the reign of Louis the 15th, King of France, we C�loron, commander of a detachment sent by Monsieur the Marquis de la Gallissonier�, Governor General of New France, to reestablish tranquility in some Indian villages in these provinces, have buried this plate at the mouth of the River Chinodahichiltha on the 18th of August near the River Ohio, otherwise Beautiful River, as a monument of the renewal of the possession we have taken of the said River Ohio, and of all those which empty into it, and of all the lands on both sides as far as the sources of said rivers, as enjoyed or ought to have been enjoyed by the kings of France preceding, and as they have there maintained themselves by arms and by treaties, especially those of Ryswick, Utrecht, and Aix la Chapelle.”
7. VHSTRE_220515_069.JPG: Original Inhabitants
8. VHSTRE_220515_070.JPG: C�loron Plate Time Period 1623 to 1763 One of the most important artifacts to survive from Virginia’s colonial period, this lead plaque was placed at the junction of the Kanawha and Ohio Rivers in 1749 by Captain Pierre Joseph C�loron de Blainville. Five other plates were laid along other tributaries of the Ohio River to assert France's claims to all the lands watered by those rivers. Under its 1609 charter, Virginia claimed those lands, too. News of the lead plates reached Williamsburg, and a young Lt. Col. George Washington was sent west by the royal governor to confront the French. The battle Washington initiated in May 1754 resulted in an escalation of hostilities between France and Great Britain that erupted in the Seven Years’ War in Europe and the French and Indian War in North America. This is the only plaque that survives intact.
9. VHSTRE_220515_076.JPG: Celeron Plate 1749
10. VHSTRE_220515_077.JPG: From War to Revolution
11. VHSTRE_220515_085.JPG: Robert E. Lee's General Order No. 9 1865
12. VHSTRE_220515_096.JPG: The Author
13. VHSTRE_220515_111.JPG: Anne Spencer's Writing Desk about 1910
14. VHSTRE_220515_117.JPG: "Poet of National Note"
15. VHSTRE_220515_120.JPG: Nature as Muse
16. VHSTRE_220515_123.JPG: Civil Rights Activist
17. VHSTRE_220515_132.JPG: Richmond Protests, February 1960
18. VHSTRE_220515_135.JPG: The Aftermath
19. VHSTRE_220515_140.JPG: Lunch Counter and Stools from Richmond's F.W. Woolworth Store, about 1950
20. VHSTRE_220515_145.JPG: Laying the Groundwork
21. VHSTRE_220515_156.JPG: President George Washington's Diary March 1790-May 1791
22. VHSTRE_220515_197.JPG: Proper but not Too Fancyu
23. VHSTRE_220515_204.JPG: Fit for a President
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