Browse Collections (53 total)
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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'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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Donald MacDonald Millar Photograph Collection
A pioneer in the fledgling field of architectural history in America, Donald MacDonald Millar contributed his expertise to some of the earliest…
Donald MacDonald Millar Sketchbook
A pioneer in the fledgling field of architectural history in America, Donald MacDonald Millar contributed his expertise to some of the earliest…
E.L. Owens Photograph Album
Photograph album compiled by E.L. Owens in 1911 which encompasses images of street scenes, historic sites, monuments, and memorials that drew visitors…
Earl Gregg Swem Photograph Collection
This collection of sixty-two black and white photographs primarily documents buildings in pre-restoration era Williamsburg at the beginning of the…
Edward Beckwith Photograph Collection
Another collection of photos purchased by the Boston architectural firm of Perry, Shaw & Hepburn in 1930 originated with photographer and town…
Elizabeth Coleman Photograph Collection
This collection was donated by the Coleman sisters: Cynthia (Mrs. Singleton Peabody Moorehead) and Janet (Mrs. Raymond Kimbrough), in 1950. Their…
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.…