Browse Collections (21 total)
Selections from the Frank Nivison Photograph Collection
Frank Reginald Nivison served as a contract photographer for Colonial Williamsburg during the initial restoration of the town between 1930 and 1935.…
Selections from the Clyde Holmes Photograph Collection
“Since 1924, a young man in Williamsburg, Mr. Clyde Holmes, has been collecting newspaper clippings and taking photographs in connection with the…
D.N. Davidson Photograph Collection
In 1933, the Williamsburg Holding Corporation acquired a set of over one hundred photographs from Newport News photographer D.A. Davidson. Described…
Earl Gregg Swem Photograph Collection
Dr. Earl Gregg Swem served as a librarian at the College of William and Mary from 1920-1944. A graduate of Lafayette College, he began building his…
Richard Garrison Photography Collection
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Richard Garrison was a New York photographer with a studio at 52 Vanderbilt Avenue in New York City. His architectural…
Highlights of the Susan Higginson Nash Photograph Collection
Susan Higginson Nash was born in Brookline, Massachusetts on August 8, 1893 and died in Boston on July 25, 1971. She served as a consultant on…
Peter Hornbeck Lantern Slide Collection
Mr. Peter Hornbeck, a Landscape Architect and Harvard professor who died in 1998, assembled the Peter Hornbeck Lantern Slide Collection. He collected…
Elizabeth G. Elliott Papers
Legal documents, correspondence, and receipts retained by Sydney Smith; the bulk pertaining to the estates of Kemp P. and Elizabeth G. Elliott.…
Distinguished Visitors to Colonial Williamsburg
Colonial Williamsburg has played host to numerous distinguished visitors in the form of foreign dignitaries and heads of state, royalty, musicians,…
Pacific Stereopticon Company Lantern Slides
Produced by the Pacific Stereopticon Company of Los Angeles, this collection of forty-five lantern slides depicts individuals involved in the…
Centennial Photographic Company Albumen Prints
Some of the earliest pre-restoration photos held in the library's archives are albumen prints. Dating to circa 1875, the photos were produced by the…
Selections from the Postcard Collection
The Postcard Collection housed at the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library consists of postcards of Williamsburg and surrounding areas dating from the late…
Adam Cuninghame journal and letters, 1728-1736
Journal and correspondence of Adam Cuningham (b. ca. 1705). Cuningham was the son of Sir William Cuningham of Caprington, Ayr, Scotland and Janet Dick…
Tappahannock Seminary on the Rappahannock River records
The Tappahannock Female Seminary was founded by Lucy Yates Wellford Gray in 1818 as an educational institution for young girls. The wife of Dr. Thomas…
Singleton P. Moorehead Streetscapes
Singleton P. Moorehead (1900 – 1964), was born in Saranac, NY, attended Harvard (BA, 1922; M. Arch, 1927), and was employed in 1928 by the Boston…
An Architect of the Restoration: The Pencil Sketches of Thomas Mott Shaw, F.A.I.A.
BIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS MOTT SHAW, F.A.I.A.
Thomas Mott Shaw is best known as one of the founding partners and principal architects of the prominent…
Highlights of the Albert Durant Photography Collection
The Albert Durant Photography Collection encompasses photoprints, negatives, slides, and personal papers that document the photographic production of…
The American Revolution
This collection contains letters, commissions, journals, maps and images documenting the American Revolution. Materials are drawn from American,…
F.S. Lincoln Photography Collection
The FS Lincoln Collection
Biographical Sketch
Mr. Fay S. Lincoln (known professionally as F.S. Lincoln) operated a photography studio in New York…
African Americans, Slavery and the Slave Trade
This collection contains items related to the history of African Americans, slavery and the slave trade. Virginia materials in this collection include…