Mary Wingfield Scott Photograph Collection
from The Valentine
This collection consists of 972 35mm slides, 99 lantern slides from older images, and 49 black and white photographs depicting demolished and extant private homes and buildings in Richmond, Virginia and surrounding counties. Many of the images were featured in Scott's books, Houses of Old Richmond (1941) and Old Richmond Neighborhoods (1950).
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Images
Hollywood Cemetery
1941-1949
Color slide showing a wrought iron gate leading to the Palmer section in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia. Geographic Description: Richmond, …
Whitlock House
Circa 1961
Color slide showing the demolition of the Whitlock House, possibly at 24th and Broad Streets in the Church Hill neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia. …
Natalie: Her Wall
8/1962
Color slide showing "Natalie" and an unidentified man standing outside near a brick wall with iron gate; likely in the Church Hill neighborhood of Ri…
Williamsburg Avenue
4/1962
Color slide showing the rear of houses on Williamsburg Avenue in the Fulton area of Richmond, Virginia; three-story brick town homes behind chain lin…
Building
1959
Color slide showing a portion of an building being demolished; likely on Main Street in the Financial District of Richmond, Virginia Geographic Desc…
Fulton
1950-1955
Color slide showing a house in the Fulton (?) area of Richmond, Virginia; small, two-story frame building with two chimneys. Geographic Description:…
Fulton
1950-1955
Color slide showing a house in the Fulton (?) area of Richmond, Virginia; small, two-story frame house with second floor porch, metal roof and brick …
Buchanan Street
1941-1949
Color slide showing a house on Buchanan Street, likely in the Union Hill area of Richmond, Virginia; two-story frame house with a pair of chimneys; s…
Venable Street
1961
Color slide showing a house on Venable Street in the Union Hill area of Richmond, Virginia; two-story brick house with frame addition on corner lot. …
Brown House
5/1962
Color slide showing the Brown House, likely on E. Franklin Street in the Church Hill neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia; two-story, five-bay house wi…
Carrington House
4/1958
Color slide showing a view of the alley behind the Carrington House at 2306 E. Grace Street in the Church Hill neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia. G…
Pollard House
4/1960
Color slide showing the Pollard House, likely in the Church Hill neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia; two-story brick town house on corner lot; two-st…
2403 E. Grace Street
5/1962
Color slide showing the house at 2403 E. Grace Street in the Church Hill neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia; two-story brick Greek Revival town house…
Myers House
3/1959
Color slide showing the demolition of the Myers House, likely in the Shockoe Bottom area of Richmond, Virginia; view of workmen sorting and shoveling…
Whitlock House
4/1959
Color slide showing the Whitlock House at 1523 E. Cary Street in the Shockoe Bottom area of Richmond, Virginia; image shows a detail of a retail sign…
W. H. Grant Factory
1941-1949
Color slide showing the W. H. Grant Tobacco Factory at 1900 E. Franklin Street in the Shockoe Bottom area of Richmond, Virginia; multi-story brick bu…
Craig House
3/1964
Color slide (of earlier image) showing the Adam Craig House at 1812 E. Grace Street in the Shockoe Bottom area of Richmond, Virginia; two-story frame…
Woman's College
1951-1955
Color slide showing a remaining portion of the Richmond Female Institute (later the Woman's College) at 10th and Marshall Streets in the Court End ar…
Governor Street
1941-1949
Color slide showing the remains of a stone wall near Governor Street in the Council Chamber Hill area of Richmond, Virginia. Geographic Description:…
Bell Tower
1941-1949
Color slide showing the Bell Tower on the west side of Capitol Square in Richmond, Virginia; built 1824. Geographic Description: Richmond, Va. --Cap…
First Baptist Church
1950-1955
Color slide showing the original First Baptist Church on Broad Street in the Court End/MCV area of Richmond, Virginia; temple form, Greek-Revival sty…
Monumental Church
1950-1955
Color slide showing a view of Monumental Church at 12th and Broad Streets in downtown Richmond, Virginia; view of memorial urn (Richmond Theatre Fire…
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
1941-1949
Color slide showing a view of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in downtown Richmond, Virginia; image shows front of church from Capitol Square lawn. Geog…
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
1941-1949
Color slide showing a view of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in downtown Richmond, Virginia; image shows front of church from Capitol Square. Geographi…