Community History: 250W

Historic and rare materials in the UVa Library collection. No appointment necessary!

The local historical society houses many primary documents related to the area. Not all are searchable online.

The Daily Progress is Charlottesville's local paper. Currently the digital edition covers 1892 to 1964. It provides scans only, no full text searching. Offered by UVA and the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library.

Manuscripts, museum objects, photographs, and books related to the history of museums. Only 5% of the collection is digitized.

Digitized images from the Historical Society's collections.

These include the Holsinger Collection, which documents a great deal of historic Charlottesville in the first half of the 20th century.