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Abraham Family photographs
African American Cabinet Cards
African American Family Photo Album
African American Family Photographs
African American Stereoview Collection
This collection contains numerous stereograms taken throughout the Jim Crow Era. The stereograms portray the racist attitudes of the time period. Stereograms are an early form of photography which was often used for educational purposes. When a view finder is used to look at the stereograms, the images appear to be three dimensional.
Vito L. Bianco collection of African American photographs
This collection contains one bound album of 18 photographs of African Americans, including children, women, as well as men in military uniforms. Photographs were taken by multiple studios in Virginia including the E.C. Leath Photograph Gallery in Petersburg and the Virginia, Evans and Son Gallery in Norfolk, virginia. Other photographs were produced by New York based studios including Adams Studio and Richard Ward Studio. The photographs include carte de visites, tintypes and postcards.
Leonard Born Papers
James W. Caywood Papers
Charles Edward Gary, Jr. Papers
Civilian Conservation Corps Photographs, Petersburg and Waverly, Virginia
Henry Denison Cole Papers
Georgia Ragsdale Curtis Papers
Charles H. Dimmock Papers
Farrar Family Papers
George Oscar Ferguson Photographs
Photographs taken by George Oscar Ferguson. Subjects include a parade in Williamsburg, Va., African-American schools in Virginia, Camp Lee, Virginia, rural scenes in western Virginia, and Ferguson.
Obelia "Bee" Graves Papers
Hart Papers I and II
Holmes Family photograph album
Photograph album, circa 1930s, of the Rufae Holmes and Samuel B. Holmes families of Richmond, Virginia. Includes photographs of family members, including A.B. Holmes; schools, including Douglas High School in Baltimore; students; and activities including football and a road trip taken on the Skyline Drive in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. In 2014, family descendant Carole Osmet added six additional photos of the family.
John Tuthill Papers
New Zion Baptist Church records
Photograph Album (Hampton, Virginia)
Racial and Ethnic Ephemera Collection
St. Emma's Industrial and Agricultural Institute Photographs
Fourteen photographs showing the grounds, buildings, and students of St. Emma's Industrial and Agricultural institute, a school for Black boys founded in 1895 in Powhatan County, Virginia. It was renamed St. Emma's Military Academy and closed in 1972.
Virginia Cities Collection
Artificial collection of papers relating to various cities in the Commonwealth of Virginia.