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The Chesterfield Apartment Building
1903-1920
Glass plate negative of The Chesterfield apartment building at Shafer and Franklin Streets, in the Fan District, Richmond, Virginia; image shows a mu…
Streetcar and Apartment Houses
1922
Original film negative showing a Richmond streetcar driving north on Sheppard Street, approaching Monument Avenue, Richmond, Virginia; a pair of smal…
Apartment House on Monument Avenue
1922
Original film negative showing an apartment house at the corner of Monument Avenue and Robinson Street in Richmond, Virginia; three-story brick build…
Monument Avenue Apartment Houses
1900-1925
Glass plate negative of the Stratford Court and The Kenilworth apartment houses in the 2500 blocke of Monument Avenue, Richmond, Virginia; image show…
Gresham Court Apartment House
Circa 1900-1920
Glass plate negative of the Gresham Court apartment house at the corner of Franklin and Ryland Streets, in the Fan District, Richmond, Virginia; imag…
Monroe Terrace Apartments
1915-1920
Glass plate negative of the Monroe Terrace Apartments, at the corner of Franklin and Laurel Streets, in the Fan District, Richmond, Virginia; image s…
Stuart Court Apartments
7/8/1926
Original film negative showing the Stuart Court apartments at 1600 Monument Avenue and Lombardy Street, in the Fan District, Richmond, Virginia; imag…
Hyde House
1933
Original film negative showing an interior of the Tristram T. and Mabel Hyde house at 3216 Chamberlayne Avenue in Ginter Park; image of a formal parl…
Dr. Stuart McGuire House
1922
Original film negative showing an interior of the Dr. Stuart and Ruth Robertson McGuire house at 2304 Monument Avenue in the Fan District, Richmond, …
Dr. Stuart McGuire House
1922
Original film negative showing an interior of the Dr. Stuart and Ruth Robertson McGuire house at 2304 Monument Avenue in the Fan District, Richmond, …
Waddill House
9/9/1921
Glass plate negative of the Samuel P. and Fannie H. Waddill residence at 2 Oak Lane in Hampton Gardens, Richmond, Virginia; image shows a two-story b…
Berger House
1920
Glass plate negative of the Berger house, likely on Forest Hill Avenue in Richmond, Virginia; image shows a two-story frame house with gambrel roof a…
Harvesting Peanuts
Circa 1890
Glass plate negative of a peanut harvest in Surry County, Virginia; image shows a young woman posing in front of a stack of newly harvested peanut pl…
Unidentified House, Garden
1920-1930
Original film negative showing the back yard or garden of an unidentified house in Richmond, Virginia; large trees, shrubs and wisteria vines; house …
1002 E. Broad Street
12/1920
Glass plate negative showing a three-story brick house with raised basement at 1002 E. Broad Street in Richmond, Virginia; entrance on first level; d…
Home of James H. Barton
1880-1920
Glass plate negative of "Corner Minor", a home built by James H. Barton, the developer of the Barton Heights neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia; imag…
Picking Cotton in the South
Circa 1890
Glass plate negative of African American workers picking cotton, likely near the Ozark Cotton Mill in Gastonia, North Carolina; image shows a man emp…
Harvesting Peanuts
1880-1920
Glass plate negative of African American workers harvesting peanuts in Nansemond County Virginia; image shows two men, a woman and two children stack…
Picking Cotton in North Carolina
1880-1890
Glass plate negative of a young man picking cotton in Gastonia, North Carolina; man wears dark overalls, shirt and cap; stoops to pluck cotton boll f…
Harvesting Peas
1880-1890
Glass plate negative of workers picking peas or beans in a field in Norfolk, Virginia; image shows men and women working along rows of low plants; fa…
Gate Opener at Sabine Hall
1880-1920
Glass plate negative of an unidentified African-American woman standing beside a wooden gate at Sabine Hall, Warsaw, Virginia (?); woman wears long s…
St. Emma Industrial and Agricultural Institute
Circa 1900
Glass plate negative showing a group of students pulling a fire wagon at the St. Emma Industrial & Agricultural Institute at Belmead Plantation, Powh…
Mount Calvary Cemetery - Carroll
Circa 1900
Glass plate negative showing the Carroll family section in Mount Calvary Cemetery on S. Randolph Street, Richmond, Virginia; marker for Thomas and Ca…
Henry Clay
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing a statue of Henry Clay in Capitol Square, Richmond, Virginia; statue stands in a gazebo surrounded by columns and cast i…