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The Adolph B. Rice Studio Collection comprises an original photographic record of life in Richmond, Virginia, from 1949 to 1961. The Library provides right here electronic variations of over 400 of 16, 000 images from Rice's commercial studio, covering studio portraits, aerial views, marketing shots for regional shops, and local religious and educational occasions. This collection is also available on Flickr. If you are acquainted with the people, places, and occasions covered in the Rice range, you could add responses and metadata that will assist us determine the information better still.

Pictures from Doran S. Callahan collection depicting moments from counties of Accomack and Northampton. Topics feature domiciles, churches, gravestones, essential landmarks, courthouses, alongside structures. 85 pictures taken between 1895 and 1900.

The Carneal & Johnston digital collection is composed of 215 photos created from glass-plate negatives documenting some of the many styles produced by the Richmond architectural firm, including inside and exterior views of numerous commercial structures and exclusive residences designed by the company. William Leigh Carneal Jr. (1881-1958) and James Markam Ambler Johnston (1885-1974) began their company about 1908 after spending a year working independently while revealing office space. The company continued to become probably the most respected and long-established architectural techniques in the state by 1950 had assisted to mold the architectural environment of main Virginia, specially Richmond. in charge of above 1, 300 structures, Carneal and Johnston applied in many project kinds, from the boring to your monumental. A few of the most notable structures represented in collection include very first Virginia Regiment Armory (1913), the Richmond Dairy (1914), the Colonial Theater (1919-1920), the Virginia State workplace (1922-1923), and various structures regarding campuses of Richmond College (today the University of Richmond) and Virginia Military Institute. The collection, purchased at auction by the Library of Virginia Foundation in '09, complements a number of the Library's a few Carneal & Johnston architectural drawings and plans linked to state government buildings.

The Library of Virginia is very happy to host an innovative new sampling of pictures from the Virginia place in the Fairfax County Public Library. This collection includes digitized images depicting everyday activity inside county over a beneficial the main belated nineteenth and a lot of of 20th hundreds of years. The photographs and postcard images cover activities & events from all across the county, including the Civil War, and tv show farms, businesses, schools, churches, and much more. Search through the complete collection or search to refine your results.

Included listed here are approximately 190 pictures that are the main Henry H. Douglas Collection of Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Photographs, 300 photographs which illustrated the Fairfax County Extension provider Annual Reports issued between 1922 and 1948, and seven photographs initially published in a write-up about Joseph Beard into the Washington celebrity Magazine, April 26, 1953.