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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500 block E. Broad Street
1924
Glass plate negative showing the 500 block of E. Broad Street in downtown Richmond, Virginia; view looking east; Woolworth's on right; cars parked al…
6th Street, looking north from Broad Street
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing 6th Street, looking north from Broad Street in Richmond, Virginia; Richmond Light Infantry Blues armory visible in backg…
610 E. Broad Street
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing the Evening Journal building at 610 E. Broad Street in downtown Richmond, Virginia. Geographic Description: Richmond, V…
615 E. Broad Street
1911
Glass plate negative showing Monticello Hall at 615 E. Broad Street in downtown Richmond, Virginia. Inscription: Written __"Monticello Hall [between…
613-617 E. Broad Street
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing The Globe clothing store at 613-617 E. Broad Street in downtown Richmond, Virginia. Inscription: Written __"Monticello …
Sickel Cleaning Company
1880-1920
Original film negative showing the exterior of the Sickel Cleaning Company, 409 W. Broad Street in Richmond, Virginia; gas station at left. Geograph…
Stephen Putney Shoe Company
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing the Stephen Putney Shoe Company on W. Broad Street in Richmond, Virginia; large, low, factory building painted with adve…
117-119 W. Broad Street
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing three storefronts at 117-119 W. Broad Street in Richmond, Virginia; four story brick building houses Stieff Pianos and C…
United Motors Corporation
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing a man parked in an automobile in front of the United Motors Corporation building at 318 W. Broad Street in Richmond, Vir…
United Motors Corporation
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing an automobile parked in front of the United Motors Corporation building at 318 W. Broad Street in Richmond, Virginia. G…
W. Broad and Shafer Streets
1922
Original film negative showing the intersection of W. Broad Street and Shafer Street in Richmond, Virginia; view looking west down cobblestone street…
Duncan Lodge
Pre 1906
Glass plate negative showing a view of Duncan Lodge (also known as Pinel Hospital), a former farm and private hospital (ca. 1874-1886) at 330 W. Broa…
Kingan & Company Provisions
1890-1916
Glass plate negative showing the Kingan & Company Provisions building at E. Cary and 15th Streets in Richmond, Virginia; three-story brick building w…
Dietz Press
1880-1920
Original film negative showing the Dietz Press building at 109 E. Cary Street in Richmond, Virginia; two-story brick building. Geographic Descriptio…
Dietz Press
1880-1920
Original film negative showing a Keystone Industrial Film Company crew filming in front of the Dietz Press building at 109 E. Cary Street in Richmond…
W. Cary Street
1912
Glass plate negative showing a horse-drawn wagon driving on W. Cary Street in Richmond, Virginia; view looking east from the Boulevard; muddy, rutted…
11th and Clay Streets
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing the Brockenbrough-Caskie House at 11th and Clay Streets in downtown Richmond, Virginia; three-story stucco house with fo…
5th and Clay Streets
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing a two-story brick house on the corner of 5th and Clay Streets in Jackson Ward, Richmond, Virginia. Geographic Descripti…
1105 E. Clay Street
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing the Maupin-Maury House, a three-story brick town house at 1105 E. Clay Street in the Court End neighborhood of Richmond,…
1100 block, E. Clay Street
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing a view of several town houses on the 1100 block of E. Clay Street in the Court End neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia; t…
1201 E. Clay Street
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing 1201 E. Clay Street, the White House and Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia; three-story stucco house on th…
12 E. Franklin Street
1904-1920
Glass plate negative showing an exterior view of the Kent-Valentine House at 12 E. Franklin Street in Monroe Ward, Richmond, Virginia; three-story ho…
12 E. Franklin Street
1904-1920
Original film negative showing an exterior view of the Kent-Valentine House at 12 E. Franklin Street in Monroe Ward, Richmond, Virginia; three-story …
4th and E. Franklin Streets
1928
Original film negative showing the northeast corner of 4th and E. Franklin Streets in Richmond, Virginia; large, three-story brick home or apartment …