Governor's Palace Supper Room, Williamsburg, Virginia
Governor's Palace (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 20. Building 03.
Public buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Lantern slides - Hand-colored - 1930-1940
Interior of the Supper Room in the Governor's Palace, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1935. A Chinese wallpaper pattern is visible on the walls, though it has since been removed. Among the room's furnishings, an elegant marble-topped sideboard table (accession # 1930-196) stands against the wall to the left. A dining table and chairs, a settee, and side chairs complete the ensemble of furniture.
Interior furnishings and decor reflect curators' views in the 1930s as to how Williamsburg's historic interiors may have looked in the eighteenth century. Nevertheless, with the advance of new research findings over the years, the interiors of the Governor’s Palace have changed to reflect a more authentic and accurate view of the building’s likely contents and room arrangements
Circa 1930s
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Blue and Crimson Bedroom, Governor's Palace, Williamsburg, Virginia
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Governor's Palace (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 20. Building 03.
Public buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Lantern slides - Hand-colored - 1930-1940
Furniture - Virginia - Williamsburg
Interior of the Governor's Bedroom in the Governor's Palace, view toward the bed, 1935. Interior furnishings and decor reflect curators' views in the 1930s as to how Williamsburg's historic interiors may have looked in the eighteenth century. Nevertheless, with new research advancements over the years, the interior furnishings of the Governor’s Palace have changed to reflect a more authentic and accurate view of the building’s likely contents and room arrangements.
Lincoln, F.S.
Late 1930s
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Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia
Raleigh Tavern (WIlliamsburg, Va.)
Block 17. Building 06.
Public buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Historic buildings - Virginia - WIlliamsburg
Taverns (Inns) - Virginia - Williamsburg
Lantern slides - Hand-colored - 1930-1940
Lincoln, F.S.
Entrance detail of the Raleigh Tavern's southern facade, viewed from the southwest along Duke of Gloucester Street, 1935. The tavern's signboard and a fence stand in the foreground, while the front entrance of the building is visible in the background. A lead bust of Sir Walter Raleigh, the noted navigator-explorer, is featured in the broken pediment above the tavern's front doors. Eighteenth-century spelling was not exact and Raleigh most often wrote his name without the “i”.
The Raleigh Tavern was the frequent scene of both jollity and consequence. Burned to the ground in 1859, the tavern was reconstructed from published illustrations, insurance policies, and archaeology that uncovered most of the original foundations.
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Governor's Palace Bedchamber, Williamsburg, Virginia
Governor's Palace (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 20. Building 03.
Public buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Bedrooms - Virginia - Williamsburg
Furnishings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Lantern slides - Hand-colored - 1930-1940
View of the southeast bedchamber at the Governor's Palace as it appeared in the 1930s. Surviving inventories of colonial governors provided guidance to curatorial staff as they furnished the reconstructed Palace.
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Garden Parterre, Williamsburg, Virginia
Gardens - Virginia - Williamsburg
Lantern slides - Hand-colored - 1930-1940
A section of a garden parterre featuring a decorative shell border is shown along a brick pathway in an unidentified garden at Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia, circa 1930s.
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Governor's Palace Gardens, Williamsburg, Virginia
Gardens - Virginia - Williamsburg
Lantern slides - Hand-colored - 1930-1940
Governor's Palace (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 20. Building 03.
Boxwood hedges and flowering trees accent a walled garden within the grounds of the Governor's Palace, Williamsburg, Virginia, circa 1930s.
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Governor's Palace Gardens, Williamsburg, Virginia
Lincoln, F.S.
Gardens - Virginia - Williamsburg
Governor's Palace (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 20. Building 03.
Lantern slides - Hand-colored - 1930-1940
A costumed interpreter pauses at the top of the steps leading to the canal on the Governor's Palace grounds, Williamsburg, Virginia, circa 1930s.
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Colonial Williamsburg Parking Lot, Williamsburg, Virginia
Parking lots - Virginia - Williamsburg
Lantern slides - Hand-colored - 1930-1940
Automobiles parked in a lot adjacent to Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia, circa 1930s.
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Travis House Restaurant, Williamsburg, Virginia
Travis House (Williamsburg, Va.)
Restaurants - Virginia - Williamsburg
Block 13. Building 23.
Lantern slides - Hand-colored - 1930-1940
Close-up view of a meal typically served in the Travis House restaurant when located on Duke of Gloucester Street, Williamsburg, Virginia, circa 1930s.
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Travis Tea House, Williamsburg, Virginia
Block 13. Building 23 C.
Travis House (Williamsburg, Va.)
Lantern slides - Hand-colored - 1930-1940
Teahouses - Virginia - Williamsburg
Teahouse in the garden behind the Travis House restaurant when it was located on Block 13 along Duke of Gloucester Street, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1935.
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1935
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Prentis Barber Shop, Williamsburg, Virginia
Prentis Shop (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 17. Building 11.
Lantern slides - Hand-colored - 1930-1940
Historic buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
A costumed interpreter smokes a pipe outside the Prentis Shop during the period when it housed the Barber and Peruke Maker's Shop. The Ludwell-Paradise House is visible in the background.
Circa late 1930s
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Bridge Over Governor's Palace Canal
Governor's Palace (Williamsburg, Va.)
Gardens - Virginia - Williamsburg
Block 20. Building 03.
Footbridges - Virginia - Williamsburg
Lantern slides - Hand-colored - 1930-1940
A Chinoiserie style footbridge in the Governor's Palace garden arches gracefully over the canal, Williamsburg, Virginia, circa 1930s.
A.D. Handy Co.
Circa 1930s
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Governor's Palace Canal and Grounds
Governor's Palace (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 20. Building 03.
Gardens - Virginia - Williamsburg
Lincoln, F.S.
Lantern slides - Hand-colored - 1930-1940
View of the Governor's Palace canal, 1935. The canal, in addition to the garden terraces to the left (also known as "falling gardens") and Ice House (out of view), are original eighteenth-century features of the Palace gardens. The structure to the left of the Canal is the Palace’s Toolhouse, and behind the Toolhouse, the cupola of the Governor’s Palace is visible. To the far right of the Canal, above the treeline, the steeple of Bruton Parish Church is observable in the distance.
Lincoln, F.S.
1935
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Palace Canal
Governor's Palace (Williamsburg, Va.)
Canals - Virginia - Williamsburg
Gardens - Virginia - Williamsburg
Block 20. Building 03.
Lantern slides - Hand-colored - 1930-1940
View of the Governor's Palace canal, circa 1935. The canal, in addition to the garden terraces to the left (also known as "falling gardens") and Ice House (out of view), are original eighteenth-century features of the Palace gardens. In the distance, the cupola of the Governor’s Palace is visible.
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Circa 1935
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Governor's Palace Terraces, Williamsburg, Virginia
Governor's Palace (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 20. Building 03.
Gardens - Virginia - Williamsburg
Lantern slides - Hand-colored - 1930-1940
View of the garden terraces, also known as "falling gardens," leading down towards the Governor's Palace canal, circa 1935. The canal, in addition to the garden terraces, are original eighteenth-century features of the Palace gardens.
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Circa 1935
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Governor's Palace Gardens, Williamsburg, Virginia
Governor's Palace (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 20. Building 03.
Gardens - Virginia - Williamsburg
Lantern slides - Hand-colored - 1930-1940
Lincoln, F.S.
Museum docents - Virginia - Williamsburg
View of the Governor's Palace garden terraces, also known as "falling gardens," 1935. In the foreground, a female costumed interpreter (originally referred to as a "hostess") sits on a bench. These falling gardens, in addition to the canal (at base of stair, out of view) and the ice mount (also out of view) are original eighteenth-century features of the Palace gardens.
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1935
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Courtyard Garden, Governor's Palace, Williamsburg, Virginia
Governor's Palace (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 20. Building 03.
Gardens - Virginia - Williamsburg
Lantern slides - Hand-colored - 1930-1940
Geometric parterres form a small courtyard garden beside the outbuildings on the left side of the Governor's Palace complex, Williamsburg, Virginia, circa 1935.
Circa 1935
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Governor's Palace Gardens, Williamsburg, Virginia
Cemeteries - Virginia - Williamsburg
Governor's Palace (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 20. Building 03.
Gardens - Virginia - Williamsburg
Lincoln, F.S.
Lantern slides - Hand-colored - 1930-1940
View of the Revolutionary War burial ground, behind the formal gardens of the Governor's Palace, 1935. Soldiers' bodies were interred here when the Palace served as a hospital during the Revolution. The structure to the far right, built into the corner of the Palace garden wall, is one of two privies (also referred to as "necessaries") on the outskirts of the Palace property.
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1935
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Governor's Palace Kitchen, Williamsburg, Va.
Governor's Palace (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 20. Building 03.
Kitchens - Virginia - Williamsburg
Kitchen gardens - Virginia - Williamsburg
Lantern slides - Hand-colored - 1930-1940
View through a window of the Governor's Palace Kitchen, Williamsburg, Virginia, looking towards the kitchen garden, where a costumed interpreter is at work, 1935.
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1935
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Governor's Palace Kitchen, Williamsburg, Virginia
Governor's Palace (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 20. Building 03.
Kitchens - Virginia - Williamsburg
Museum docents - Virginia - Williamsburg
Lincoln, F.S.
Lantern slides - Hand-colored - 1930-1940
Interior of Governor’s Palace Kitchen, 1935. The Governor's Palace opened to the public in 1934. In addition to viewing the lavish public rooms and private quarters of Virginia's colonial governors, visitors could also learn about colonial domestic life and cooking techniques in the Palace Kitchen. A costumed interpreter added commentary and demonstrated food preparation.
Lincoln, F.S.
1935
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