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
Life Insurance Company of Virginia, Actuary
1907
Glass plate negative showing an actuary at his desk at the Life Insurance Company of Virginia, 10th and Capitol Street, Richmond, Virginia; man in th…
Life Insurance Company of Virginia, Audit Departm…
1907
Glass plate negative showing the audit department at the Life Insurance Company of Virginia, 10th and Capitol Street, Richmond, Virginia; image of me…
Virginia State Insurance Company
Circa 1919
Glass plate negative showing employees at the Virginia State Insurance Company, Brook Road and Westwood Avenue, Richmond, Virginia; image of men and …
American National Bank, Interior
1926
Glass plate negative showing Officers windows in the lobby of American National Bank, 1001 E. Main Street, Richmond, Virginia; image of children hold…
American National Bank Interior
1926
Original film negative of vintage print (1926) showing the interior of the American National bank lobby, 1001 E. Main Street, Richmond, Virginia; ima…
Circus Parade on Main Street
Circa 1905
Glass plate negative of a circus parade on Main Street in downtown Richmond, Virginia; image shows horse-drawn wagons and carts processing down the c…
School Event
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing students and teachers from an unidentified school posed outside near a two-story frame school building; table with white…
Unidentified Frame House
Circa 1920
Glass plate negative showing a newly constructed two-story white frame house with slate roof; likely on Laburnum Avenue, Richmond, Virginia. Geograp…
Life Insurance Company of Virginia
1907
Glass plate negative showing an office at the Life Insurance Company of Virginia, 900 block E. Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia; image of room with h…
Life Insurance Company of Virginia, President
1907
Glass plate negative showing the president of the Life Insurance Company of Virginia, [John] G[arland] Walker, seated at his desk in Richmond, Virgin…
Gallego Mills
1870-1879
Original film negative (ca. 1920) showing the exterior of Gallego (Flour) Mills, 12th and Canal Streets, Richmond, Virginia; multi-story brick wareho…
Gallego Mills
1870-1879
Glass plate stereograph negative showing the Gallego (Flour) Mills in Rocketts Landing, Richmond, Virginia; view of the multi-story brick building fr…
Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corporation, Interior
1920-1929
Original film negative of an interior of the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corporation, 11-13 S. 12th Street, Richmond, Virginia; image shows several me…
Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corporation, Interior
1920-1929
Original film negative of an interior of the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corporation, 11-13 S. 12th Street, Richmond, Virginia; image shows men workin…
Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corporation, Interior
1920-1929
Original film negative of an interior of the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corporation, 11-13 S. 12th Street, Richmond, Virginia; image shows a man work…
Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corporation, Interior
1920-1929
Original film negative of an interior of the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corporation, 11-13 S. 12th Street, Richmond, Virginia; image shows a man work…
Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corporation, Interior
1920-1929
Original film negative of an interior of the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corporation, 11-13 S. 12th Street, Richmond, Virginia; image shows men workin…
Plug Tobacco Presses
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing plug tobacco presses in an unidentified tobacco warehouse; image of several men in work clothing standing next to large …
Ozark Cotton Mill Interior
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing the interior of the Ozark Cotton Mill, Gastonia, North Carolina; image of a large room with high ceiling and rows of thr…
Circus Parade on Main Street
Circa 1905
Glass plate negative of a circus parade on Main Street in downtown Richmond, Virginia; image shows horse-drawn wagon with performers riding on roof; …
Westbrook
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing Westbrook, a frame Victorian-style farm house near the Bellevue neighborhood, Richmond, Virginia; used as a country resi…
Albemarle Paper Company, Interior
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing an interior of the Albemarle Paper Company on Tredegar Street, Richmond, Virginia; image of large room with newly made b…
Tobacco Which Has Been Stripped
1890-1899
Glass plate negative showing men working with stripped tobacco leaves in a large unidentified warehouse room; the men, in work clothing, use pitchfor…
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Renolds [sic] Tobacco, Interior
1912
Glass plate negative showing the interior of Reynolds Tobacco Company, Richmond, Virginia; image of a large room with high ceiling and large windows;…