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Introduction:  Advertisements of Ourselves

We’re starting the next decade of the 21st century.  In 2012 our community will mark the 250th anniversary of Charlottesville’s founding.  To help us prepare for this time of celebration, the Society’s next exhibit “Advertisements of Ourselves” will take us back to our community during the late 19th century and first half of the 20th century.  The display will consist of items identified with local businesses, places, people, schools, and events.  Some of them are handsome or useful, while others are simply amusing.  We hope that careful looking at these objects will stimulate reflection on what local life was like in our not too distant past. 

A guide will be printed for those who want to learn more about the objects’ stories.  The guide is based on information found by the exhibit’s curator, Gayle Schulmann, in the Society’s collection, with the help of Margaret M. O’Bryant, Librarian.  The objects themselves are on loan from Pat Powell. 
Among the items on display is a cane carved by Thomas J. Craddock, who lived in Milton and is well known for his canes that commemorate events in the life of Thomas Jefferson.  Another item is a stoneware whisky jug labeled “Pace and Marshall” from Zanesville Marshall’s distillery just northwest of Fray’s Mill.

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