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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Virginia Union University, Exterior
1899-1920
Glass plate negative showing the campus of Virginia Union University, Lombardy Street, Richmond, Virginia; image shows Pickford Hall at center of ima…
Virginia Union University, Exterior
1899-1920
Glass plate negative showing the campus of Virginia Union University, Lombardy Street, Richmond, Virginia; image shows a grouping of stone buildings …
Medical College of Virginia, McGuire Hall, Exteri…
1/1922
Original film negative showing McGuire Hall, on the campus of the Medical College of Virginia, 12th and Clay Street, Court End, Richmond, Virginia; i…
Monte Maria Academy, Exterior
12/1922
Original film negative showing the Monte Maria Academy building, E. Grace Street, in Church Hill, Richmond, Virginia; image of a three-story brick bu…
Franklin School (Swansboro School)
1912-1920
Glass plate negative showing Franklin School (now Swansboro Elementary School), 3160 Midlothian Turnpike in the Battery Heights neighborhood, Richmon…
Ginter Park School
2/1916
Glass plate negative showing the "new" Ginter Park [Elementary] School, 3817 Chamberlayne Avenue, Richmond, Virginia; image shows a two-story brick b…
Bainbridge (Junior High) School
1916
Glass plate negative showing Bainbridge Junion High School, 1601 Bainbridge Street, in Manchester, Richmond, Virginia; image shows a large, three-sto…
Highland Park School
1917
Glass plate negative showing a view of the Highland Park School on Brookland Park Boulevard in Richmond, Virginia; image shows the back of a two-stor…
Binford Junior High School
1916
Glass plate negative of Binford Junior High School, 1701 Floyd Avenue in the Fan District, Richmond, Virginia; image shows a three-story Gothic Reviv…
Chestnut Hill School
1880-1920
Glass plate negative of the Chestnut Hill School (Highland Park Graded School?), in Highland Park, Richmond, Virginia; image shows a two-story frame …
Site of Westhampton College
2/1911
Glass plate negative of the site of Westhampton College, Richmond, Virginia, the women's portion of the University of Richmond; image shows an empty,…
Richmond College
2/1911
Glass plate negative of the site of Richmond College, Richmond, Virginia (University of Richmond); image shows an empty, tree-filled lot on the north…
Richmond College, Jeter Hall
1915-1920
Glass plate negative of Jeter Hall (Dormitory #1) on the campus of Richmond College (University of Richmond); image shows a large brick building in t…
St. Emma Industrial and Agricultural Institute
Circa 1900
Glass plate negative showing a horse barn at St. Emma Industrial & Agricultural Institute at Belmead Plantation, Powhatan County; image of several yo…
Theodore Roosevelt's Visit to Richmond
1905
Glass plate negative showing bystanders enjoying a parade for visiting President Theodore Roosevelt; image shows a family walking along the parade ro…
Oakwood Cemetery - Confederate Monument
1919
Glass plate negative showing a monument to the Confederate dead at Oakwood Cemetery in eastern Richmond, Virginia; text of memorial reads, "In memory…
Libby Prison
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing a view of Libby Prison, E. Cary and S. 20th Streets, Shockoe Bottom, Richmond, Virginia; multi-story brick warehouse bui…
Richmond College, Refectory
1914-1920
Glass plate negative of the Refectory (Sarah Brunet Memorial Hall) on the campus of Richmond College, Richmond, Virginia (University of Richmond); im…
Richmond College, Refectory
1914-1920
Glass plate negative of the newly constructed Refectory (Sarah Brunet Memorial Hall) on the campus of Richmond College, Richmond, Virginia (Universit…
Richmond College, Jeter Hall
1915-1920
Glass plate negative of Jeter Hall (Dormitory #1) on the campus of Richmond College, Richmond, Virginia (University of Richmond); image shows a large…
Richmond College, Ryland Hall
1914-1920
Glass plate negative of Ryland Hall, an administration building on the campus of Richmond College, Richmond, Virginia (University of Richmond); image…
Richmond College, Ryland Hall
1918
Glass plate negative of Ryland Hall (Administration Building) on the campus of Richmond College, Richmond, Virginia (University of Richmond); image s…
Richmond College, Steam (Power) Plant
1914-1920
Glass plate negative of the steam (power) plant on the campus of Richmond College, Richmond, Virginia (University of Richmond); image shows a multi-s…
Richmond College, Ryland Library, Interior
1918
Glass plate negative showing an interior view of Ryland Library housed in the south wing of Ryland Hall, on the campus of Richmond College, Richmond,…