Va-Hist and Va-Roots subscribers:

I am pleased to post the following announcement about records recently
processed and now made available at the Library of Virginia.

Brent Tarter
The Library of Virginia
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The Library of Virginia is pleased to announce the availability of the
Virginia Fire and Police Museum Photographs, ca. 1875-ca. 1985 (LVA acc.
37327a) which document more than a century of fire fighting in Richmond.
Photographs include images of fire companies, fire fighters, fires, and
fire fighting, training, equipment, vehicles, ruins, and street scenes.
Of particular interest are photographs of Richmond's African American
fire fighters. There are also clippings about fires in and around
Richmond. 
The Library is also pleased to announce the availability of the Virginia
Fire and Police Museum Collection, 1879-1985 (LVA acc. 37327), on
microfilm. The collection consists of records of the Richmond, Virginia
Fire Department, including log books, supply books, insurance brochures,
reports on personnel and equipment, account books, requisitions,
inventories, correspondence, house fund books, directories, lists of
personnel, personnel histories, leave log books, Fireman's Mutual Aid
Society records, burial funds, Fort Lee Fire Department time and
attendance books, Board of Fire Commissioners meeting minutes, records
of fires in Richmond, visitors register to the Virginia Fire and Police
Museum, and miscellaneous loose papers. Log books contain company
rosters, duties, watches, daily and monthly reports, alarms, equipment
checks, leaves, absences, addresses and telephone numbers, supplies,
accounts, weather observations, and other information. Loose papers
consist of advertisements, calendars, department orders, receipts,
vehicle reports, and other miscellaneous items. 
The collection is on long-term deposit from the Virginia Fire and Police
Museum.


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