Tap Room of the Raleigh Tavern
Raleigh Tavern (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 17. Building 06A.
Historic buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Postcards - Virginia - Williamsburg
Postcard, “Tap Room of the Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Va."
Text on verso reads: 'The Tap Room of "the Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia, the most famous of colonial taverns, where Washington, Jefferson, and other great patriots stayed.'
Colonial Williamsburg
Curteich-Chicago
1951
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Raleigh Tavern Bar, Williamsburg, Va.
Raleigh Tavern (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 17. Building 06A.
Furniture - Virginia - Williamsburg
Taverns (Inns) - Virginia - Williamsburg
Lantern slides - Hand-colored - 1930-1940
Interior of Raleigh Tavern's Bar Room, 1935. The Raleigh Tavern was the frequent scene of both jollity and consequence. Burned to the ground in 1859, it was reconstructed from published illustrations, insurance policies, and archaeology that uncovered most of the original foundations.
Among the furnishings, earthenware jugs (accession # 1930-305) stand atop the cupboard against the right wall of the room. Windsor armchairs (accession # 1930-64) surround a table in the center of the room. Interior furnishings and decor reflect curators' views in the 1930s as to how Williamsburg's historic interiors may have looked in the eighteenth century. Nevertheless, with new research advances over the years, the Raleigh Tavern's interiors have changed and evolved to reflect a more authentic and accurate view of each room's likely contents and arrangements.
Lincoln, F.S.
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Barber and Peruke Maker's Shop, Williamsburg, Virginia
Prentis Store (Williamsburg, Va.)
Block 18-1. Building 05.
Historic buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Wigmakers - Virginia - Williamsburg
Postcard featuring a costumed interpreter smoking a pipe outside the Prentis Store when it housed the Barber and Peruke Maker's Shop, published by Colonial Williamsburg, Inc., ca. 1947.
Caption reads: "Originally an apothecary shop in the early 18th-century, this structure has been restored to its early appearance, and is now furnished as a typical colonial barber and wig maker's establishment."
The composition of this postcard is based upon a photograph taken by Colonial Williamsburg's first staff photographer, Thomas Williams, in 1947 (image # 1947-W-737.) Mr. Sam Helfrich posed as the 18th-century barber sitting outside his shop.
Colonial Williamsburg, Inc.
ca. 1947
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