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Williamsburg, Virginia items given by Will Molineux, mostly via the Williamsburg Historic Records Association. Some items are personal papers (newspaper articles, etc.) of Will Molineux. The photograph collection covers the entire Williamsburg area, including James City County and York County. Subjects include people, places, buildings, events, Colonial Williamsburg as well as the College of William & Mary.

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Labeled “Staff Photo by Thom Slater” on the back.

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Williamsburg, Virginia items given by Will Molineux, mostly via the Williamsburg Historic Records Association. Some items are personal papers (newspaper articles, etc.) of Will Molineux. The photograph collection covers the entire Williamsburg area, including James City County and York County. Subjects include people, places, buildings, events, Colonial Williamsburg as well as the College of William & Mary.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Williamsburg, Virginia items given by Will Molineux, mostly via the Williamsburg Historic Records Association. Some items are personal papers (newspaper articles, etc.) of Will Molineux. The photograph collection covers the entire Williamsburg area, including James City County and York County. Subjects include people, places, buildings, events, Colonial Williamsburg as well as the College of William & Mary.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Williamsburg, Virginia items given by Will Molineux, mostly via the Williamsburg Historic Records Association. Some items are personal papers (newspaper articles, etc.) of Will Molineux. The photograph collection covers the entire Williamsburg area, including James City County and York County. Subjects include people, places, buildings, events, Colonial Williamsburg as well as the College of William & Mary.

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From The Governor’s Palace in Williamsburg: A Cultural Study, by Graham Hood. Distributed by the University of North Carolina Press for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Photograph courtesy of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

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One of Williamsburg’s Most Historical Buildings is the Colonial Capitol where virginia’s General Assembly convened from 1704 to 1780. Here an embarrassed and stammering George Washington was applauded by fellow burgesses for his part in the French and Indian War; here Patrick Henry defiantly protested the Stamp Act until accused of treason; and here George Mason’s Virginia Declaration of Rights was passed. (large-sized photo)

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The Hall of the House of Burgesses in Williamsburg’s Capitol building reminds visitors of stirring events at the time of the American Revolution. Patrick Henry’s personal copy of his resolves against the Stamp Act is on display, along with the city’s mace and the original Speaker’s Chair, reinstalled when the Capitol was opened in 1934. (large-sized photo)

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Williamsburg, Virginia items given by Will Molineux, mostly via the Williamsburg Historic Records Association. Some items are personal papers (newspaper articles, etc.) of Will Molineux. The photograph collection covers the entire Williamsburg area, including James City County and York County. Subjects include people, places, buildings, events, Colonial Williamsburg as well as the College of William & Mary.

Scope and Contents The Public Hospital was America’s First Public Institution Devoted Exclusively to the Care and Treatment of the Mentally Ill. With the completion of the hospital, Colonial Williamsburg has reconstructed the last of the 18th-century capital city’s major public buildings. In the 18th century, the hospital was the last public building constructed prior to the outbreak of the American Revolution in town. It grew from this original building to a complex of many before it burned on the night of...

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Williamsburg, Virginia items given by Will Molineux, mostly via the Williamsburg Historic Records Association. Some items are personal papers (newspaper articles, etc.) of Will Molineux. The photograph collection covers the entire Williamsburg area, including James City County and York County. Subjects include people, places, buildings, events, Colonial Williamsburg as well as the College of William & Mary.