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
Main Street Station, Exterior
1901-1925
Glass plate negative of Main Street Station, 1500 E. Main Street in Shockoe Bottom, Richmond, Virginia; image shows the front and east sides of the R…
Main Street Station, Exterior
1901-1925
Glass plate negative of Main Street Station, 1500 E. Main Street in Shockoe Bottom, Richmond, Virginia; image shows the front and east sides of the R…
Southern Railway Freight Depot, Exterior
1880-1920
Glass plate negative of the Southern Railway Freight Depot at 14th and Canal Streets in Shockoe Slip, Richmond, Virginia; image shows a two-story bri…
St. Emma Industrial and Agricultural Institute
Circa 1900
Glass plate negative showing the school baseball team of St. Emma Industrial & Agricultural Institute at Belmead Plantation, Powhatan County; image o…
Tobacco Barn
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing a two-story frame tobacco barn; two horse-drawn wagons wait to unload tobacco into the barn.
Broad Street (Union) Station, Interior
1919-1925
Glass plate negative of Broad Street (Union) Station, 2500 W. Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia; image shows the main waiting area in the terminal bui…
Broad Street (Union) Station, Exterior
8/1920
Glass plate negative of Broad Street (Union) Station, 2500 W. Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia; image shows the neoclassical style building from acro…
Broad Street (Union) Station, Exterior
1918-1919
Glass plate negative of Broad Street (Union) Station, 2500 W. Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia; image shows the nearly complete neoclassical style bu…
Broad Street (Union) Station, Interior
1918-1919
Glass plate negative of Broad Street (Union) Station, 2500 W. Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia; image shows the nearly completed main waiting room; c…
Broad Street (Union) Station, Interior
1919-1925
Glass plate negative of Broad Street (Union) Station, 2500 W. Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia; image shows the main concourse in the terminal buildi…
Broad Street (Union) Station
Pre 1919-1925
Glass plate negative of Broad Street (Union) Station, 2500 W. Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia; image shows a drawing of the front facade of the buil…
St. Emma Industrial and Agricultural Institute
Circa 1900
Glass plate negative showing the dairy barn at St. Emma Industrial & Agricultural Institute at Belmead Plantation, Powhatan County; image of several …
Old Cold Harbor Tavern
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing the Old Cold Harbor Tavern (Burnett's Inn) in Mechanicsville, Hanover County, Virginia; small frame structure with dorme…
Broad Street (Union) Station, Exterior
1919-1925
Glass plate negative of Broad Street (Union) Station, 2500 W. Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia; image shows the east side and rear of the neoclassica…
Broad Street (Union) Station, Exterior
3/30/1921
Glass plate negative of Broad Street (Union) Station, 2500 W. Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia; image shows the front of the building from across Bro…
Broad Street (Union) Station, Interior
1919-1925
Glass plate negative of Broad Street (Union) Station, 2500 W. Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia; image shows the main lobby waiting area; large column…
Broad Street (Union) Station, Exterior
1919-1925
Glass plate negative of Broad Street (Union) Station, 2500 W. Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia; image shows neoclassical building from the east; Broa…
Union Theological Seminary, Watts Hall, Exterior
1896-1920
Glass plate negative of Watts Hall, on the campus of Union Theological Seminary, Ginter Park, Richmond, Virginia; image shows a large brick building …
Union Theological Seminary, Watts Hall, Exterior
1896-1920
Glass plate negative of Watts Hall, on the campus of Union Theological Seminary, Ginter Park, Richmond, Virginia; image shows a large brick building …
Union Theological Seminary, Spence Library, Inter…
1897-1920
Glass plate negative of Spence Library, Westwood Avenue, on the campus of Union Theological Seminary, Ginter Park, Richmond, Virginia; image shows tw…
Union Theological Seminary, Watts Hall, Exterior
1896-1920
Glass plate negative of Watts Hall, on the campus of Union Theological Seminary, Ginter Park, Richmond, Virginia; image shows a large brick building …
Union Theological Seminary, Spence Library, Inter…
1897-1920
Glass plate negative of Spence Library, Westwood Avenue, on the campus of Union Theological Seminary, Ginter Park, Richmond, Virginia; image shows tw…
Union Theological Seminary, Classroom
1880-1920
Glass plate negative of a classroom in a building on the campus of Union Theological Seminary, Ginter Park, Richmond, Virginia; image shows room with…
Union Theological Seminary, Interior
1880-1920
Glass plate negative of a room in a building on the campus of Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia; image shows a fireplace with carved ove…