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Dublin Core
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Title
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E.L. Owens Photograph Album
Subject
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Historic buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Historic buildings - Virginia - Yorktown
Historic buildings - Virginia - Jamestown
Monuments & memorials - Virginia
Architecture, Domestic - Virginia - Williamsburg
Williamsburg (Va.) - Photographs
Public buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
Architecture, Colonial - Virginia - Williamsburg
Creator
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Owens, E.L.
Date
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1911
Description
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Photograph album compiled by E.L. Owens in 1911 which encompasses images of street scenes, historic sites, monuments, and memorials that drew visitors to the Historic Triangle of Williamsburg, Jamestown, and Yorktown in early twentieth-century Virginia. It is an example of a travel album documenting the beginnings of the region's role as a tourist destination.
The period from the 1890s-1930s witnessed a rise in the production of many such personal mementoes. The Rockefeller Library holds a number of examples ranging from anonymous albums of pre-restoration photos, to scrapbooks compiled by families who lived in Williamsburg’s historic homes, to those documenting the early impressions of tourists between the 1930s-1950s.
Scrapbooks first became popular in the Victorian era as a place to collect and preserve cards, magazine articles, labels, autographs, and colorful prints. After the introduction of the Brownie camera in 1900, the photographic medium became more affordable for the average American and allowed photographs to act as a personal diary of activities. Around this same time, Williamsburg’s residents began working through organizations such as the APVA to rally efforts to preserve some of the town’s eighteenth-century structures and associated history.
Turn-of-the-century albums in the collection such as this one reveal local resident’s experimentation with photos and notations to record their responses to Williamsburg’s historic past.
Still Image
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Original Format
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Gelatin silver print
Physical Dimensions
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8 x 10 inches
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Title
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Main Street in Yorktown
Description
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An African American man driving an ox cart along Main Street in Yorktown, Virginia
Creator
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Owens, E. L.
Date
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1911
Date Created
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1911
Is Part Of
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E. L. Owens Photograph Album, Box 1
Format
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jpeg
Extent
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1 photograph
Type
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image
Identifier
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Owens022
Rights Holder
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Special Collections, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Subject
The topic of the resource
African American men - Virginia - Yorktown
African Americans - Virginia - Photographs
Yorktown (Va.)
Streets - Virginia - Yorktown
African American Men
Carts
E.L. Owens
Main Street
Oxen
Street Scenes
Virginia
Yorktown