Browse Collections (52 total)
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…
Corrine Montague Mustin Murray Cyanotype Collection
Cyanotypes are a distinctive photographic process characterized by a Prussian blue hue that date back to 1842, when Sir John Herschel perfected this…
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…
Arthur Shurcliff's Landscape Proposals for Carter's Grove
Arthur A. Shurcliff [ne Shurtleff] (1870 – 1957) was the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation’s first landscape architect. A student of Frederick Law…
Arthur Shurcliff Bird's-Eye View Pencil Sketches
Arthur A. Shurcliff [ne Shurtleff] (1870 – 1957) was the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation’s first landscape architect. A student of Frederick Law…
Arthur Shurcliff Boxwood Research Collection
Arthur A. Shurcliff [ne Shurtleff] (1870 – 1957) was the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation’s first landscape architect. A student of Frederick Law…
Armistead Family Scrapbook
This small sixteen page booklet composed of blue paper pages tied together with a red ribbon is example of an album of pre-restoration era photos…
Architectural Photo Albums Collection
The Williamsburg office of architects Perry, Shaw and Hepburn began compiling this extensive collection of 367 boxes of black and white photographs in…
Andrew Hepburn Pencil Sketches
Biographical Sketch
Andrew Hopewell Hepburn was born in Catasauqua, Pennsylvania on March 6, 1880 to Robert Hopewell Hepburn and Elizabeth Hunt.…
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…
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…
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…