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Library Catalog

Our Library Catalog contains items such as books, journals, newspapers, articles, business and organizational records, personal papers and other genealogical materials, sheet music, broadsides, and maps.

Our Museum Objects Catalog contains items such as decorative arts, furniture, photographs, glass plate negatives, packaging, paintings, prints, postcards, weapons, and militaria. 

The Museum Objects Catalog also houses the Confederate Memorial Literary Society (CMLS) Image Collection, which includes items from the American Civil War Museum, including daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, cartes-de-visite, albumen prints, cabinet cards, stereographs, glass negatives, and lantern slides. Learn more and browse the collection.

 

We hope that you will find what you are looking for within our online catalogs, but if you are in need of additional assistance, please contact our research staff.

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Do you have a question about our library or museum collections?

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Photocopies and digital reproductions

Do you need to order a photocopy or a digital reproduction of an item in our collection?

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Make an appointment to view photographs and museum objects

Contact our Collections Manager to schedule a time to view items not currently on display.

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VMHC will re-open July 1 with early access for members June 27-30. Click here for details. 

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