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Gallego Mills
1870-1879
Original film negative (ca. 1920) showing the exterior of Gallego (Flour) Mills, 12th and Canal Streets, Richmond, Virginia; multi-story brick wareho…
Gallego Mills
1870-1879
Glass plate stereograph negative showing the Gallego (Flour) Mills in Rocketts Landing, Richmond, Virginia; view of the multi-story brick building fr…
Richmond Locomotive Works
Circa 1900
Glass plate stereograph negative showing the Richmond Locomotive Works buildings; image of a complex of brick buildings near the banks of the James R…
Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corporation, Interior
1920-1929
Original film negative of an interior of the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corporation, 11-13 S. 12th Street, Richmond, Virginia; image shows several me…
Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corporation, Interior
1920-1929
Original film negative of an interior of the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corporation, 11-13 S. 12th Street, Richmond, Virginia; image shows men workin…
Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corporation, Interior
1920-1929
Original film negative of an interior of the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corporation, 11-13 S. 12th Street, Richmond, Virginia; image shows a man work…
Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corporation, Interior
1920-1929
Original film negative of an interior of the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corporation, 11-13 S. 12th Street, Richmond, Virginia; image shows a man work…
Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corporation, Interior
1920-1929
Original film negative of an interior of the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corporation, 11-13 S. 12th Street, Richmond, Virginia; image shows men workin…
Plug Tobacco Presses
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing plug tobacco presses in an unidentified tobacco warehouse; image of several men in work clothing standing next to large …
Ozark Cotton Mill Interior
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing the interior of the Ozark Cotton Mill, Gastonia, North Carolina; image of a large room with high ceiling and rows of thr…
Circus Parade on Main Street
Circa 1905
Glass plate negative of a circus parade on Main Street in downtown Richmond, Virginia; image shows horse-drawn wagon with performers riding on roof; …
Westbrook
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing Westbrook, a frame Victorian-style farm house near the Bellevue neighborhood, Richmond, Virginia; used as a country resi…
Albemarle Paper Company, Interior
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing an interior of the Albemarle Paper Company on Tredegar Street, Richmond, Virginia; image of large room with newly made b…
Tobacco Which Has Been Stripped
1890-1899
Glass plate negative showing men working with stripped tobacco leaves in a large unidentified warehouse room; the men, in work clothing, use pitchfor…
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Renolds [sic] Tobacco, Interior
1912
Glass plate negative showing the interior of Reynolds Tobacco Company, Richmond, Virginia; image of a large room with high ceiling and large windows;…
Stemming Machine in Tobacco Factory
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing a large tobacco stemming machine in use at an unidentified tobacco factory; image of a man in foreground loading leaves …
Stemming Tobacco by Machinery
Circa 1910
Glass plate negative of women operating tobacco stemming machines at the American Tobacco Company factory, Richmond, Virginia; image shows machines l…
Prizing Tobacco
1880-1920
Glass plate negative of men prizing tobacco (put into barrels for transport) at the S. P. Carr & Company tobacco grading facility in Richmond, Virgin…
Tobacco Factory Interior
1880-1920
Glass plate negative of men processing tobacco with machines in a large open room; "Siting Bull" boxes in aisle between rows of machinery; possibly t…
Allen and Ginter Tobacco Factory, Interior
Circa 1915
Original film negative showing women packaging Fatima cigarettes at the Allen & Ginter tobacco factory, 7th and Canal Streets, Richmond, Virginia; wo…
P. Lorillard & Company, Whitlock Branch, Exterior
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing employees of the Whitlock Branch of the P. Lorillard tobacco company, Richmond, Virginia, welcoming home veterans of Wor…
Counting Cigarettes at Allen & Ginter
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing women counting cigarette box fronts at the Allen & Ginter tobacco factory, 7th and Canal Streets in Richmond, Virginia; …
Tobacco Factory, Interior
1880-1920
Glass plate negative showing men working with tobacco processing machines at an unidentified tobacco factory; the men, in work clothes and caps proce…
Tobacco Factory, Hand Work
1890-1899
Glass plate negative showing men and women stripping tobacco by hand; image shows a small group of workers sitting outside (?) in a cobblestone court…