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Towne Theater

Richard Cheek Photograph Coll…

Circa 1982

Black and white photograph showing the Towne Theater at 708 E. Broad Street in the Court End area of Richmond, Virginia; multi-story Italianate style…

[C & O Trestle Fire]

Finnegan Photograph Collection

6/1/1936

Black and white photograph showing the C & O (Chesapeake and Ohio) branch trestle on fire, Richmond, Virginia; the Richmond city gas works (Fulton?) …

Marcus-David Peters Circle

Mobilus In Mobili

2020-11-05 15:19:10

Untitled

Will Fisher

2011-03-27 16:26:11

VCU celebrates the NCAA victory over Kansas

Rubido [sic] Mountain, Riverside, California

Panoramic Photographs

c1908.

1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 7 x 37 in. Subjects: scenic overlooks, california, landscape photographs, panoramic photographs, united state…

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Guyon Rhodes

2020-05-30 06:10:01

C. and O. Ry. station, Richmond, Va.

Detroit Publishing Company

between 1900 and 1905

1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. Subjects: dry plate negatives, railroad stations, richmond, united states, virginia Locations: united states, richmon…

Richmond, Va. General view, with ruins, from Gamb…

Civil War

1865 April.

1 negative : glass, wet collodion. | Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865. Subjects: united states, wet …

St. John's Church, Richmond, Va.

Detroit Publishing Company

c1901.

1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. Subjects: dry plate negatives, cemeteries, churches, richmond, united states, virginia Locations: united states, rich…

Richmond, Va.

Detroit Publishing Company

between 1900 and 1915

4 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in. Subjects: dry plate negatives, richmond, cityscape photographs, panoramic photographs, united states, virginia Locat…

Pratt's Castle, Richmond, Va.

Detroit Publishing Company

between 1905 and 1920

1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. Subjects: dry plate negatives, dwellings, richmond, united states, virginia Locations: united states, richmond, virgi…

Belle Isle and the James River Falls, Richmond, V…

Detroit Publishing Company

c[1908]

1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. Subjects: rivers, dry plate negatives, islands, james river, bridges, richmond, united states, virginia Locations: ja…

Union [i.e. Main Street] Station, Richmond, Va.

Detroit Publishing Company

between 1910 and 1920

1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. Subjects: dry plate negatives, railroad stations, richmond, united states, virginia Locations: united states, richmon…

Richmond, Va. Guns and ruined buildings near the …

Civil War

1865 April.

1 negative (2 plates) : glass, stereograph, wet collodion. | Photograph of the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865. Subject…

Libby Hill Park

Maurice Duke Photograph Colle…

8/3/2011

Digital photograph of a view in Libby Hill Park, 2801 E. Franklin Street in the Church Hill neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia. Geographic Descripti…

Excavation for skyscraper's foundation and parkin…

Richmond Times-Dispatch Photo…

6/15/1984

Black and white photograph of a 60-foot hole on construction site where new skyscraper's foundation is being built; building constructed at 6th and M…

Toll Road Swings Around Main Street Station, Sout…

Richmond Times-Dispatch Photo…

9/22/1957

Black and white photograph of construction of the Richmond-Petersburg Turnpike; image shows the path of the toll road bridge over the James River at …

Looking West on Main Street

Richmond Times-Dispatch Photo…

8/23/1969

Black and white photograph of man in small power boat, looking out at the flooding on Main Street in downtown Richmond, Virginia; water level reaches…

Richmond Chamber of Commerce building, under cons…

Carneal and Johnston Negative…

ca. 1912-1913

Chamber of Commerce building under construction at 530 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia. | Lab# 10_0038_CJ_150

British-American Tobacco Company

Cook Photograph Collection

Circa 1902

Glass plate negative showing a shift change (?) at the British-Amercan Tobacco Company, 900 N. Lombardy Street, near the Carver area of Richmond, Vir…

Panorama of Richmond - Main Street

Cook Photograph Collection

9/1/1910

Glass plate negative showing a panoramic view of Richmond, Virginia center city looking west from a building in the 900 block of East Main Street. I…

Train Engine on Ashland Viaduct

Cook Photograph Collection

Circa 1907

Glass plate negative showing a locomotive and two train cars testing the Ashland Viaduct (Richmond Ashland Railway car line) over the Seaboard Railwa…

Tobacco Field with Lee Monument

Cook Photograph Collection

1917-1919

Glass plate negative showing the Robert E. Lee equestrian monument rising out of a field of tobacco planted on Monument Avenue, Richmond, Virginia; m…

Main Street between 10th and 11th Streets

Cook Photograph Collection

1880-1920

Glass plate negative showing E. Main Street between 10th and 11th Streets in the Financial District of Richmond, Virginia; view of brick buildings li…