Cook Photograph Collection
from The Valentine
This collection of more than 10,000 glass-plate and film negatives and several hundred photographic prints was created and compiled by the Cook Studio of Richmond. It encompasses the photography of George Smith Cook (1819-1902) and his son Huestis Pratt Cook (1868-1951). The collection also includes the work of other Richmond photographers, including David H. Anderson, Vannerson & Jones and the Lee Gallery.
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Images
County Fair or Horse Show
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing a horse show, or horse judging event at a fair in Orange County, Virginia; several men on horseback at base of two-story…
County Fair or Horse Show
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing a horse show, or horse judging event at an unidentified county fair (?); image shows spectators in a grandstand watching…
Parcels Post Exhibit
1914
Glass plate negative showing the Parcels Post exhibit at the State Fair of Virginia (1914) in Richmond, Virginia; two men in suits sit at a booth dec…
Little Billies Baseball Team
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing the Little Billies baseball team; image of a group of men in loose fitting uniforms and baseball caps posing in front of…
Ice Skating on Jahnke's Pond
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing a group of men, women and children ice skating on Jahnke's Pond in Chesterfield County, Virginia; two children pulled on…
Boating on Lake in Chesterfield County
Circa 1895
Glass plate negative showing two groups of men and women boating on a private lake in Chesterfield County, Virginia; the groups, in formal clothes, s…
Lakeside Park
Circa 1895
Glass plate negative showing dock and boat house at Lakeside Park in Henrico County, Virginia; image, taken from dock, shows man standing in moored r…
Boating Party
Circa 1900
Glass plate negative showing a group of men and women boating on Westhampton Lake, Richmond, Virginia; women in hats and men in suits sit in a small …
Three Men at Bosher's Dam
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing three men in suits and hats sitting and standing on the shores of the James River near Bosher's Dam, Richmond, Virginia.…
Merchants National Bank Baseball Players
Circa 1919
Glass plate negative showing two members of the Merchants National Bank baseball team; the men stand side-by-side outside in a park; both wear baseba…
School Baseball Team
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing an unidentified (school or club) baseball team posed on the steps of a brick building; twenty-two young men in baseball …
Group at Hot Springs
1870-1879
Glass plate negative, one half of a stereoview (likely taken by David Anderson) showing a group of men, women and children posing on a lawn at the Ho…
Group at White Sulphur Springs
1880-1920
Glass plate negative (partial) showing a group of men and women posing on the lawn at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia during a Reconstruction Co…
Playing Cards at the Resort
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing a group playing cards at an unidentified resort, likely Hot Springs or White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia; group sits …
Socialites at White Sulphur Springs
1925
Glass plate negative showing a group of men and women gathered on the lawn at White Sulpur Springs, West Virginia; men in suits and women in long dre…
School for the Deaf
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing a dilapidated brick house said to be a [former?] school for deaf mutes in Manchester, Virginia (associated with Bollings…
Richmond Public Schools Classroom Scene
1880-1920
Glass plate negative of a Richmond (Virginia) Public Schools classroom; image shows boys and girls seated at desks facing the chalkboard at the front…
School Project
1930
Original film negative showing a classroom project on "desert life" presented at Bellemeade or Bellevue school in Richmond, Virginia; image shows a l…
Prizing Tobacco
1880-1920
Glass plate negative of a group of men in vests and hats prizing tobacco (preparing to load barrels) in a large open warehouse room of an unidentifie…
Northside Junior High School
1926-1930
Original film negative showing a sewing class at Northside Junior High School on Brookland Park Boulevard near the Brookland Park neighborhood of Ric…
W. H. Ruffner Students
2/1917
Glass plate negative of a group of W. H. Ruffner School students posing outside on the steps of the school at 407 N. 12th Street in downtown Richmond…
Prizing Tobacco
1880-1920
Glass plate negative of a group of men in vests and hats prizing tobacco (preparing to load barrels) in a large open warehouse room of an unidentifie…
McCabe's University School Baseball Team
Circa 1925
Glass plate negative showing the baseball team from McCabe's University School, 401 E. Cary Street in Gambles Hill, Richmond, Virginia; image of a gr…
Monte Maria Academy
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing students at the Monte Maria Academy, a private Catholic girls school on Church Hill in Richmond, Virginia; image shows y…