Excerpt from The Record, Vol. 53: March 1976 The museum retains from these founding years a brass candlestick owned by Nathaniel Venable (1733 one of the College's founders. The candlestick, alone a seemingly inconspicuous item, acquires a true significance when it is learned that it once rested at Venable's plantation where the Hanover Presbytery finalized construction plans for the College in 1775. In 1777, a lottery was authorized by the Virginia legislature to procure additional funds for the institution. One of the original lottery tickets is on display in the Museum. Among the articles from the 19th Century is an exact replica of the camera used by John William Draper (1811-1882) to take the first picture of a living person. The replica was made by the Smithsonian Institution, where the original camera, owned by the College, is on loan. Draper was a professor of Chemistry at hampden-sydney from 1836 to 1839. Wooden training swords from the Civil War and the dress uniform of William Henry Venable of the Brunswick, Virginia Guard recall the years of the War Between the States from 1861 to 1865. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.