Browse Collections (53 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.…

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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…

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Sidney E. King Paintings

A set of four paintings, oil on board, created by artist Sidney E. King to illustrate important events in Virginia history, including the arrival of…

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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…

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Southern Colonial Places Ink on Linen Drawings Collection

Final ink on linen landscape drawings of gardens at various historic sites throughout Virginia executed by Landscape Architect Arthur A. Shurcliff and…

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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…

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The American Revolution

This collection contains letters, commissions, journals, maps and images documenting the American Revolution. Materials are drawn from American,…

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The James Lee and Ethel M. Fisher Family Archives

Consisting of a scrapbook and fifty-one associated black and white photographs, the archives document the wartime experiences of Dr. James Lee Fisher,…

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Thomas Layton Photograph Collection

A series of eight hundred progress photographs taken by Thomas Layton, a contract photographer for the Williamsburg Restoration between 1928-1930, to…

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Todd and Brown Inc. Photograph Collection

Todd and Brown, Incorporated, a subsidiary firm of Todd, Robertson and Todd Engineering Corporation, headquartered in New York City, entered into a…

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Vernon M. Geddy Jr. Photograph Collection

Sixty-five black and white photographs of the exterior, interior, outbuildings, and various architectural details of Rosewood, King and Queen County,…

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Vernon M. Geddy Jr. Photograph Collection

Collection of sixty-five black and white photographs donated by Vernon M. Geddy Jr., a local attorney and long-time Williamsburg resident whose…

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Williamsburg Record Photographs

Arthur A. Shurcliff [ne Shurtleff] (1870 – 1957) was the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation’s first landscape architect. A student of Frederick Law…

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