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
Confederate Memorial Institute (Battle Abbey), Ex…
Circa 1925
Original film negative of the Confederate Memorial Institute (Battle Abbey), now the Virginia Historical Society, 428 N. Boulevard in the Museum Dist…
Confederate Memorial Institute (Battle Abbey)
7/25/1916
Glass plate negative of the Confederate Memorial Institute (Battle Abbey), now the Virginia Historical Society, 428 N. Boulevard, in the Museum Distr…
Masons' Hall (Randolph Lodge), Exterior
1880-1920
Glass plate negative of Masons' Hall-Randolph Lodge No. 19, at 18th and E. Franklin Streets in Shockoe Bottom, Richmond, Virginia; image shows a two-…
Masonic Temple, Exterior
1880-1920
Glass plate negative of the Masonic Temple, 101-107 W. Broad Street, in Monroe Ward, Richmond, Virginia; image shows a large, brick Richardsonian Rom…
Henrico Union Lodge (Ancient Free and Accepted Ma…
1880-1920
Glass plate negative of the Henrico Union Lodge of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, 713 N. 25th Street, in Union Hill, Richmond, Virginia; image…
Masons' Hall (Randolph Lodge), Interior
1880-1920
Glass plate negative of Masons' Hall-Randolph Lodge No. 19, at 18th and E. Franklin Streets in Shockoe Bottom, Richmond, Virginia; image of a ceremon…
(Mozart) Academy of Music
1886-1927
Glass plate negative of the (Mozart) Academy of Music on 8th Street, between Grace and Franklin Streets in downtown Richmond, Virginia; image shows a…
Broad Street (Union) Station, Aerial View
Post 1919
Glass plate negative of Broad Street (Union) Station, 2500 W. Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia; aerial view of the train station and surrounding neig…
Byrd Street Station (Union Depot), Exterior
1880-1920
Glass plate negative of the Byrd Street Station (Union Depot) on Byrd Street, between 7th and 8th Streets, in downtown Richmond, Virginia; image show…
Southern Railway Depot (Hull Street Station)
1915-1925
Glass plate negative of the Southern Railway Depot (Hull Street Station) at 1st and Hull Streets, in Manchester, Richmond, Virginia; image shows a lo…
Broad Street (Union) Station, Exterior
1919-1925
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
12/7/1918
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, Exterior
1919-1925
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
Post 1921-Pre 1925
Originial film negative of Broad Street (Union) Station, 2500 W. Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia; image shows the front of the building from across …
Union Theological Seminary, Spence Library, Exter…
1897-1920
Glass plate negative of Spence Library, Westwood Avenue, on the campus of Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia; image shows a multi-story b…
Richmond Female Institute, Exterior
1890-1924
Glass plate negative showing the Richmond Female Institute, northeast corner of 10th and Marshall Streets, Court End, Richmond, Virginia; four-story …
Robert E. Lee equestrian statue
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing the Robert E. Lee equestrian statue on Monument and Allen Avenues in Richmond, Virginia; grassy median with plantings in…
Richmond Professional Institute, Saunders House
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing an interior view of Saunders House (now Founders Hall), 827 W. Franklin Street, on the campus of Richmond Professional I…
Robert E. Lee equestrian statue
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing the Robert E. Lee equestrian statue on Monument and Allen Avenues in Richmond, Virginia; view looking northwest; Jeffers…
Virginia Union University, Exterior
1899-1920
Glass plate negative showing Pickford Hall, a building on the campus of Virginia Union University, Lombardy Street, Richmond, Virginia; image shows a…
Fairmount School
1908-1920
Glass plate negative showing Fairmount School, 1501 N. 21st Street, in Fairmount, Richmond, Virginia; image shows a two-story Gothic Revival building…
Capitol Square
Post 1905
Glass plate negative showing a view of Capitol Square taken from the roof of a building on 9th Street (Federal Reserve?); George Washington equestria…
Bellevue School
1914
Glass plate negative showing Bellevue [Elementary] School, 23rd and E. Grace Streets in Church Hill, Richmond, Virginia; image of a two-story brick G…
Barton Heights School
1906-1920
Glass plate negative of Barton Heights School, 200 Wickham Street, Richmond, Virginia; image shows a newly constructed two-story brick building with …