Williamsburg, Virginia: Colonial Coach at the Gates of the Governor's Palace
Governor's Palace (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 20. Building 03.
Albertype Co.
Carriages & coaches - Virginia - Williamsburg
Recto and verso of Colonial Williamsburg postcard published by The Albertype Co. in the 1930s. It features a horse-drawn carriage positioned in front of the entrance gate of the Governor's Palace. The east Advance Building is visible in the background.
The Albertype Co. of Brooklyn, NY produced some of the earliest official postcards for Colonial Williamsburg. This one promoted the newly reconstructed Governor's Palace after it opened as an exhibition building on April 22, 1934.
Albertype Co.
ca. 1930s
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Williamsburg Railroad Station
Railroad stations - Virginia - Williamsburg
Public buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Parking lots - Virginia - Williamsburg
Bird's-eye view looking northeast at proposed Railroad Station, Williamsburg, Virginia. A large parking lot is shown in front of the station with another building at its opposite end that appears to be a visitor's center for Colonial Williamsburg from which carriages are departing to transport guests to the Historic Area. An underpass for automobiles is shown running parallel to the station with pedestrian bridges stretching over it to allow travelers to walk from their automobiles into the station.
Shurcliff, Arthur
1932
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Williamsburg Inn
Landscape drawings
Williamsburg Inn (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 02. Building 65.
Preliminary landscape bird's-eye view drawing looking north from the main door of the Williamsburg Inn towards automobiles and carriages dropping off and picking up guests on the oval entrance drive, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Shurcliff, Arthur
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Williamsburg Inn
Landscape drawings
Williamsburg Inn (Williamsburg, Va)
Block 02. Building 65.
Williamsburg Inn: birds-eye view looklng southeast, with notation, "North side showing tables and chairs arranged irregularly under low growing trees to enable guests to enjoy sight of restored area and the coming and going of visitors. The capacity of the oval to accomodate at least two lanes of live parking is suggested. At left is an area to accomodate the parking of horse drawn vehicles as suggested last November. Central vista with naturalistic marginal groves is indicated" Williamsburg, Virginia.
Shurcliff, Arthur
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Visitors' Center
Visitors' centers - Virginia - Williamsburg
Public buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Streets - Virginia - Williamsburg
Hotels - Virginia - Williamsburg
View looking southeast at proposed Visitors' Center on Nicholson Street between Botetourt and Colonial Streets, Williamsburg, Virginia. The Visitors' Center is shown at the south end of the Williamsburg Railroad Station parking lot and faces Nicholson Street. Horse-drawn carriages are picking up and dropping off guests. The rough outlines of the Raleigh Tavern are depicted to the upper left while the Williamsburg Inn is shown at the end of Colonial Street at the top of the composition.
Shurcliff, Arthur
1935
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Virginia Power and Electric Company
Industrial facilities - Virginia - Williamsburg
Carriages & coaches - American - Virginia - Williamsburg
Oxen - Virginia - Williamsburg
Mr. Moquin driving an ox-drawn carriage in front of the Virginia Electric and Power Company building formerly located at the back of the Governor's Palace site alongside of the railroad tracks, Williamsburg, Virginia
Nash, Susan Higginson
Circa 1929-1934
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The Distinguished Colonists of the Early Days Attending Old Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, Va.
Bruton Parish Church (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 21. Building 01.
Church architecture - Virginia - Williamsburg
Postcards - Virginia - Williamsburg
Thompson, A. Wordsworth (Alfred Wordsworth), 1840-1896
Recto and verso of postcard illustrated with a hand-colored image of a painting titled "Bruton Parish Church in Early Colonial Days" by A. Wordsworth Thompson. The original painting is now owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Thompson was active as an artist in the late 19th-century. This composition depicts the church as it appeared before 1895.
The caption reads: "Bruton Parish Church. Oldest Episcopal Church in America in continuous use, Court church of Colonial Virginia. Worship began 1632. First brick church completed 1683. Present building 1710-15. Transepts built by and for House of Burgesses. Colonial Governor's Canopied Pew. Three sets communion silver, viz.: Jamestown, 1661; William and Mary, 1686; King George III, 1766. Jamestown Font, "Liberty Bell of Virginia," first in America to proclaim civil Independence, May 15th, 1776. George Washington's name on parish register eleven times. Lectern presented by President Theodore Roosevelt. Holy Bible by King Edward VII. Pews Memorial to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, John Tyler, John Marshall, Patrick Henry and many other distinguished worshippers."
H.D. Cole for The Albertype Co.
ca. 1930s
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The Colonial Capitol of Virginia, Williamsburg, Virginia
Capitol (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 08. Building 11.
Public buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Historic buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Postcards - Virginia - Williamsburg
Postcard depicting a horse-drawn carriage passing by the reconstructed Capitol at Colonial Williamsburg, produced by The Albertype Company, Brooklyn, NY, and published by John A. Luttrell, Williamsburg, VA, ca. 1930s.
The caption reads: "The Colonial Capitol of Virginia, Williamsburg, Virginia. This is an authentic reconstruction of the Capitol of the Virginia Colony which was erected in 1705. Here many of the acts and resolutions were adopted which brough about the American Revolution. Here Patrick Henry made his Caesar-Brutus speech. The building has been rebuilt upon its original foundations and is open to the public."
Albertype Co.
John A. Luttrell
ca. 1930s
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Street Scene, Bowden-Armistead House
Streets - Virginia - Williamsburg
Historic buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Bowden-Armistead House (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 21. Building 02.
Greek revival (Architecture) - Virginia - Williamsburg
Couple standing by ox drawn carriage on the west side of Duke of Gloucester Street with the Bowden-Armistead House in the background.
Barrows, John A.
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Bar-015w (see also 1992-840CN)
Soviet Cosmonauts
Visitors, Foreign - USSR
Astronauts
Cosmonauts
Celebrities - USSR
Celebrities - United States
Beregovoi, Georgii Timofeevich
Feoktistov, Konstantin, 1926-2009
Anders, William A. (William Alison), 1933-
Photo taken during visit of Soviet cosmonauts Georgy Beregovoy and Konstantin Feoktistov and former U.S. astronaut William Anders. Also in party are Mrs. Beregovoy and 19 year-old Viktor Beregovoy.
1969-10
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Rockefeller's Physician Touring Colonial Williamsburg
African American Photographers
Documentary Photography - Virginia - Williamsburg
Colonial Williamsburg (Williamsburg, Va.)
Carriages & coaches - Virginia - Williamsburg
John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s personal physician riding in a carriage at Colonial Williamsburg with Mrs. Esther Ruffin and her daughters.
Durant, Albert W.
Circa 1950's
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Richard Bland Tavern
Wetherburn's Tavern (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 09. Building 31.
Taverns - Virginia - Williamsburg
Postcards - Virginia - Williamsburg
Recto and verso of postcard featuring a drawing of the exterior of the Richard Bland Tavern publlished by The Collotype Co.
Early visitors to Colonial Williamsburg could dine, lodge, and purchase souvenirs and antiques at the Richard Bland Tavern. This postcard formed part of a set that visitors most likely could find in the tavern gift shop.
The Collotype Co.
ca. 1930s
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Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Va.
Raleigh Tavern (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 17. Building 06A.
Taverns (Inns) - Virginia - Williamsburg
Historic buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Lincoln, F.S.
Lantern slides - Hand-colored - 1930-1940
A carriage passes the southern façade of the Raleigh Tavern as it proceeds along Duke of Gloucester Street, 1935. The tavern's signboard and a fence stand in the foreground, while the front entrance of the building is visible in the background. A lead bust of Sir Walter Raleigh, the noted navigator-explorer, is featured in the broken pediment above the tavern's front doors. Eighteenth-century spelling was not exact and Raleigh most often wrote his name without the “i”.
The Raleigh Tavern was the frequent scene of both jollity and consequence. Burned to the ground in 1859, the tavern was reconstructed from published illustrations, insurance policies, and archaeology that uncovered most of the original foundations.
Lincoln, F.S.
1935
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Raleigh Tavern
Garrison, Richard
Raleigh Tavern (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 17. Building 06A.
Taverns - Virginia - Williamsburg
Historic buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
A horse-drawn carriage in front of the Raleigh Tavern on Duke of Gloucester Street, Williamsburg, Virginia, circa 1930's
Garrison, Richard
Circa 1930's
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President Ronald Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
Presidents - United States
Prime Ministers - United Kingdom
Visitors, Foreign - United Kingdom
Heads of state - United Kingdom
Heads of state - United States
Reagan, Ronald
Thatcher, Margaret
President Ronald Reagan greets British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher during the welcoming ceremonies of the 1983 Economic Summit. Her visit was accompanied by the heads of state of France, Canada, West Germany, Italy, and Japan. The summit saw conversation between these leaders on topics ranging from international trade to missile deployments against the Soviet Union. It concluded with a series of economic principles the summit came to agree upon, which was titled, "The Williamsburg Declaration on Economic Recovery."
1983-05-28
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Peyton Randolph Stable
Peyton Randolph House (Williamsburg, Va.)
Stables - Virginia - Williamsburg
Parking lots - Virginia - Williamsburg
Bird's-eye view looking southwest at proposed Peyton Randolph Stable at the head of North England Street and Palace parking lot, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Shurcliff, Arthur
1935
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Peyton Randolph Stable
Peyton Randolph House (Williamsburg, Va.)
Stables - Virginia - Williamsburg
Carriages & coaches - Virginia - Williamsburg
Bird's-eye view looking northeast at the proposed Peyton Randolph Stable at head of North England Street, Williamsburg, Virginia, with the Palace parking lot beyond the trees at the rear of the property and the Grissell-Hay House garden (formerly known as the Van Garrett House) in the foreground.
Campbell, W.M.
1935-06
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Peyton Randolph House
Postcards - Virginia - Williamsburg
Peyton Randolph House (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 28. Building 06.
Architecture, Domestic - Virginia - Williamsburg
Museum docents - Virginia - Williamsburg
Recto and verso of postcard illustrated with a view of a carriage passing the front of the Peyton Randolph House, Williamsburg, Virginia. Back of card reads: "Home to one of colonial America's leading statesmen."
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
H. S. Crocker Co. Inc.
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Paul-Henri Spaak, Secretary General of NATO
Spaak, Paul-Henri, 1899-1972
Statesmen - Belgium
Williamsburg Inn (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 02. Building 65.
Paul-Henri Spaak, Secretary General of NATO and Belgian statesman, is seated in a carriage in front of the Williamsburg Inn, preparing for a ride around the Historic Area.
Crane, John
1957-10
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Palace Green, Williamsburg, Virginia
Governor's Palace (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 20. Building 03.
Historic buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Public buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Lincoln, F.S.
Lantern slides - Hand-colored - 1930-1940
Overhead view of the Palace Green, looking south from the Governor's Palace, 1935. Palace Street rings the Green. Formal gardens are visible in the forecourt of the Palace, while a carriage drawn by two horses stands outside the front gate. Two male costumed interpreters, representing enslaved coachmen, wait with the carriage.
The long, broad expanse of the Green, lined on either side by catalpa trees (also known as catawba trees), creates an impressive vista and impression of grandeur upon approach to the Palace.
Lincoln, F.S.
1935
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