More than 3,000 photographs representing twelve aspects of Virginia life: scenic tours; recreation; historic homes; culture; history; colonial archaeology; scenery and natural wonders; physiography; agriculture; education; government and the…
The Doran S. Callahan collection of Eastern Shore photographs was donated to the Eastern Shore Public Library by Mrs. Doran S. Callahan (Ruby I.) on May 5, 1974. The photographs were collected by Doran Callahan's father, Griffin Clay Callahan,…
Photographs from the Charles F. Gillette Papers, 1918-1969 (Accession 34472), depicting Virginia houses, estates, gardens, and other private and corporate landscape projects designed by landscape architect Charles Freeman Gillette (1886-1969).…
This collection contains 1,365 images and includes numerous studio portraits commissioned by local residents, as well as photographs of sports teams; fraternal organizations; and musical, school, and church groups. There are also images of public…
A Norfolk, Virginia, commercial photographer, Harry C. Mann (1866-1926) specialized in landscape and industrial views and in portrait photography. His work was often featured in National Geographic and his "nature portraits" taken in and around…
Spanning nearly three decades, this collection includes candid images documenting the growth of an industrial city. In 1912, the DuPont Company selected the Hopewell area as the site of its explosive powder production operations. Completion of…
The L. H. Freeman, Jr. Photograph Collection contains more than 30,000 negatives created during the 1940s-1970s. Louis Hyme Freeman Jr. (1914-1982) was a Black freelance photographer who lived in Richmond's Jackson Ward neighborhood. His…
This collection consists of 273 images. The majority of the photographs depict Hilton Village during its construction in 1918 and 1919. The Hilton Village project was the first wartime government housing project of its kind and the prototype for…
The Portsmouth Public Library Photograph Collection consists of two digitized photograph collections housed at the Portsmouth Public Library: Portsmouth Olde Towne Photograph Collection, which consists of approximately 800 photographs of homes,…
The collection contains 221 digitized photographs from the Radford Record Album, a 1915 album that Wise Worrell, editor of the Radford Record, collected and presented to Dr. John Preston McConnell, president of Radford State Normal School (now…
The Tazewell County Public Library Photograph Collection consists of 3,890 images, depicting the personal, civic, agricultural, commercial, educational, recreational, and religious life of the Tazewell County community. The earliest image is a…
Photographs from the Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation series, 1942-1946, taken by Army Signal Corps photographers assigned to the port historian's office. The nearly 3,500 photographs depict the arrival and departure of U.S. military personnel…
This collection consists of over 6,000 digitized photographs from a group of 31,599 photographic negatives dating to the first fifty years of the Virginia Chamber of Commerce. The photographs cover the period 1922–1972 and are primarily the work…
The 1776 Virginia Constitution confirmed a bicameral legislature, consisting of the House of Delegates and Senate of Virginia. The present state Constitution provides that the House of Delegates shall consist of 90 to 100 members and the Senate…
The Waynesboro Public Library Photograph Collection consists of approximately 1,500 photographs and 380 postcards. About half of the collection is black-and-white prints, with the remainder being color, hand-tinted, or sepia-toned. All images are…
On January 7, 1919, Governor Westmoreland Davis created the Virginia War History Commission. The Commission was tasked with completing a history of Virginia’s military, economic, and political participation in the World War. As part of this…
From 1932 to 1937, the Virginia State Commission on Conservation and Development's Division of History and Archaeology received funds from the Works Progress Administration's (WPA) Federal Art Project to commission five artists—including Rex M.…
