Armistead Family Scrapbook

Armistead Family Scrapbook

Scrapbooks

Historic buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg

Williamsburg (Va.) - Photographs

Williamsburg (Va.) - Buildings, structures, etc.

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 compiled by a Williamsburg resident as a keepsake. Julia Champion Armistead is thought to be its creator since her name is inscribed on the final page. Her family lived in what is today known as the Robert T. Armistead House, a private residence located west of Bruton Parish Church on Duke of Gloucester Street. Julia’s focus is upon the structures in Williamsburg and neighboring Jamestown Island with historical associations. She pairs photographs with brief handwritten text describing the significance of each site. Thought to date to the early 1900s, the album reflects the growing interest of Williamsburg residents in their town’s eighteenth-century history.

Gift of the National Trust for Historic Preservation after being discovered in a house in Absecon, New Jersey.

Armistead, Julia Champion

Circa 1910

16 pages