Browse Collections (43 total)
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,…
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…
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…
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,…
The American Revolution
This collection contains letters, commissions, journals, maps and images documenting the American Revolution. Materials are drawn from American,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Q. Wilson Hodges Photograph Collection
Nineteen albumen photographs and one silver gelatin photograph mounted on board of historic structures in Williamsburg, Yorktown, and Jamestown,…
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…
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…
Osborne Family Photos
Founded in 1736 by William Parks, the Virginia Gazette served as a critical instrument of communication in colonial Virginia throughout the…
Orin Miles Bullock Jr. Photograph Collection
Orin Miles Bullock Jr. (1905-1994), a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a native of Oakland, California, studied architecture at…
Ladies' Advisory Committee Photograph Album
Album of restoration progress photographs compiled as a commemorative gift for members of the Ladies' Advisory Committee
While an all-male Advisory…
John A. Barrows Photograph Collection
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
John A. Barrows joined the staff of the Williamsburg office of Boston architects Perry, Shaw & Hepburn as a draftsman in the…
J. Floyd Yewell Architectural Renderings
Along with the many pencil on tracing paper, ink on linen, and blueprint drawings in the Rockefeller Library’s architectural collections are some…