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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Shockoe Hill Cemetery - Allan
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing the grave markers for John Allan and Frances Keeling Allan (foster parents of Edgar Allan Poe) in Shockoe Hill Cemetery …
Panoramic View of Libby Hill
Circa 1890
Glass plate negative showing a panoramic view of the Libby Hill area, Richmond, Virginia; grassy park in foreground; large homes in background. Geog…
Virginia State Capitol Building
1906-1920
Glass plate negative showing the southern facade of the Virginia State Capitol building in Capitol Square, Richmond, Virginia; 1894 Richmond City Hal…
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…
Union Theological Seminary, Exterior
1880-1920
Glass plate negative of a pair of Gothic Revival buildings on the campus of Union Theological Seminary, Ginter Park, Richmond, Virginia; image shows …
Inauguration of Governor Harry F. Byrd
2/1/1926
Original film negative of the Virginia State Capitol building during the inauguration of Governor Harry F. Byrd; image taken looking up towards the s…
Virginia State Capitol Building
1922
Glass plate negative showing the southern facade of the Virginia State Capitol building in Capitol Square, Richmond, Virginia; ground covered with sn…
Medical College of Virginia, Egyptian Building
Circa 1925
Originial film negative of the Egyptian Building, at 1223 E. Marshall Street at College Street, Court End, Richmond, Virginia; one of the first build…
St. Emma Industrial and Agricultural Institute
Circa 1900
Glass plate negative showing the marching band of St. Emma Industrial & Agricultural Institute at Belmead Plantation, Powhatan County; image of a gro…
Theodore Roosevelt's Visit to Richmond
1905
Glass plate negative showing a parade for visiting President Theodore Roosevelt; flags fly from bunting-draped building at 5th and Main Streets in do…
Elmira Shelton House
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing the Elmira Shelton house at 2407 E. Grace Street in Richmond, Virginia; two-story brick town house with dormer windows i…
Bainbridge (Junior High) School
1915-1920
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…
John Marshall High School
1909-1920
Glass plate negative of John Marshall High School, 8th and Marshall Streets in the Court End neighborhood, Richmond, Virginia; image shows a three-st…
Binford Junior High School
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing Binford Junior High School, 1701 Floyd Avenue in the Fan District, Richmond, Virginia; image shows a brick Gothic Reviva…
Lancasterian School (Valley School)
1880-1920
Glass plate negative of the Lancasterian School (later the Valley School), 15th and Marshall Streets in Shockoe Valley, Richmond, Virginia; image sho…
Springfield School
4/29/1914
Glass plate negative of the Springfield School, 26th and Leigh Streets in Church Hill, Richmond, Virginia; image shows a three-story stone building o…
Madison School
6/12/1919
Glass plate negative of Madison School, 101 S. Madison Street in Monroe Ward, Richmond, Virginia; image shows a large brick and stone building with r…
Richmond High School
1880-1920
Glass plate negative of Richmond High School, 805 E. Marshall Street, in the Court End area, Richmond, Virginia; image shows a three-story Victorian …
Maury School
1880-1920
Glass plate negative of the Maury School in the Manchester area of south Richmond, Virginia; image shows a two-story brick building surrounded by pic…
William Fox School
9/15/1915
Glass plate negative of William F. Fox Elementary School, 2300 Hanover Avenue in the Fan District, Richmond, Virginia; image shows a two-story brick …
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, Virginia Center City Panorama
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing a panoramic view of center city, Richmond, Virginia; view looking northeast from 11th and Cary Streets towards Capitol S…
Virginia State Capitol Building
1906-1920
Glass plate negative showing the southern facade of the Virginia State Capitol building in Capitol Square, Richmond, Virginia; man stands on brick wa…