UVa Library Press Releases

U.Va. Library Celebrates Completion of New Building with Opening of Harrison Institute and Two New Exhibits

Contact: Charlotte Morford at (434) 924-4254 or cwm6z@virginia.edu

Below are images and captions with links to downloadable files. Please contact Charlotte Morford if you have trouble downloading.

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	The Mary and David Harrison Institute occupies the top two floors of the Library's newest building, which it shares with the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library.	web (72dpi) newspaper (150dpi) book/magazine (300dpi)
	Image from a 1495 printed version of Christopher Columbus' letter about his voyage to the New World.	web (72dpi) newspaper (150dpi) book/magazine (300dpi)
	Seventeen year-old Phillis Wheatley was the first African American to publish a volume of poetry with Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, 1773.	web (72dpi) newspaper (150dpi) book/magazine (300dpi)
	The book that launched Mark Twain's career as a humorist: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches, 1867.	web (72dpi) newspaper (150dpi) book/magazine (300dpi)
	From the Flowerdew Hundred exhibit: Map by Peter Jefferson and Joshua Fry that includes the Flowerdew Hundred estate, 1751.	web (72dpi) newspaper (150dpi) book/magazine (300dpi)