by Bernard K. Means, Director of the Virtual Curation Laboratory (VCL)
Today’s animation is a hornfels biface fragment scanned in the Virtual Curation Laboratory. This point was on loan from the Fort Lee Regional Archaeological Curation Facility (RACF) to aid in the development of a digital type collection of chipped stone tools, and for replication to be used in public programs.
by Bernard K. Means, Director of the Virtual Curation Laboratory
Today’s animation is a miniature representing a French 54th Line Regiment Grenadier Company soldier from the Napoleonic Wars. Virginia Commonwealth University undergraduate student Chelsea Miller brought this figurine to the Virtual Curation Laboratory from the Virginia War Memorial, where she is currently an intern. The figurine was scanned as part of an effort to digitally highlight part of the Virginia War Memorial’s collection, which includes an extensive collection of historic-period miniatures.
by Bernard K. Means, Director of the Virtual Curation Laboratory
Today’s animation is a miniature representing a French 54th Line Soldier from the Napoleonic Wars. Virginia Commonwealth University undergraduate student Chelsea Miller brought this figurine to the Virtual Curation Laboratory from the Virginia War Memorial, where she is currently an intern. The figurine was scanned as part of an effort to digitally highlight part of the Virginia War Memorial’s collection, which includes an extensive collection of historic-period miniatures.
by Bernard K. Means, Director of the Virtual Curation Laboratory (VCL)
Today’s animation is an iron alloy bomb fragment recovered archaeologically by Jamestown Rediscovery. This object was involved in the September 19, 1676 attack led by Nathaniel Bacon against the colonial capital and Governor William Berkely.
French soldier with bomb, ca. 1660-1696. Adapted from Plate 61, Racinet’s Full-Color Pictorial History of Western Costume, 1987, Dover Publications, Inc.
by Bernard K. Means, Director of the Virtual Curation Laboratory
Today’s animation is a piece of kiln furniture recovered from salvage excavations at the 19th-century Francis Bell Pottery site located in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Details on the salvage excavations can be found here.
by Bernard K. Means, Director of the Virtual Curation Laboratory
Today’s animation is a monument miniature to Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign. Virginia Commonwealth University undergraduate student Chelsea Miller brought this figurine to the Virtual Curation Laboratory from the Virginia War Memorial, where she is currently an intern. This monument was scanned as part of an effort to digitally highlight part of the Virginia War Memorial’s collection, which includes an extensive collection of historic-period miniatures.
by Bernard K. Means, Director of the Virtual Curation Laboratory
Today’s animation is a miniature representing an Egyptian Arab that is associated with a display related to the Napoleonic Wars. This figurine was scanned onsite at the Virginia War Memorial on Saturday, November 22, as part of a public program. The figurine was scanned as part of an effort to digitally highlight part of the Virginia War Memorial’s collection, which includes an extensive collection of historic-period miniatures.
by Bernard K. Means, Director of the Virtual Curation Laboratory
Today’s animation is a miniature representing a French 3rd Regiment soldier from the Napoleonic Wars. Virginia Commonwealth University undergraduate student Chelsea Miller brought this figurine to the Virtual Curation Laboratory from the Virginia War Memorial, where she is currently an intern. The figurine was scanned as part of an effort to digitally highlight part of the Virginia War Memorial’s collection, which includes an extensive collection of historic-period miniatures.
by Bernard K. Means, Director of the Virtual Curation Laboratory
Today’s animation is a miniature representing a 12th Brandenburg Regiment Prussian soldier from the Napoleonic Wars. Virginia Commonwealth University undergraduate student Chelsea Miller brought this figurine to the Virtual Curation Laboratory from the Virginia War Memorial, where she is currently an intern. The figurine was scanned as part of an effort to digitally highlight part of the Virginia War Memorial’s collection, which includes an extensive collection of historic-period miniatures.
by Bernard K. Means, Director of the Virtual Curation Laboratory
Today’s animation is a miniature representing a 92nd Highlander from the British Second Battalion from the Napoleonic Wars. Virginia Commonwealth University undergraduate student Chelsea Miller brought this figurine to the Virtual Curation Laboratory from the Virginia War Memorial, where she is currently an intern. The figurine was scanned as part of an effort to digitally highlight part of the Virginia War Memorial’s collection, which includes an extensive collection of historic-period miniatures.
Virtual Curation Museum 