Belle Isle

Belle Isle Dam

Stevenson Family Photograph C…

4/8/1900

Mounted black and white photograph showing a dam in the James River at Belle Isle, Richmond, Virginia; water flows over dam; trees and bare hill in b…

Richmond, Va., April 1865, the Belle Isle railroa…

Civil War

1865

1 photograph : print on card mount, hand-colored ; mount 17 x 8 cm (stereograph format) | Photograph shows the ruins of a covered bridge from the sou…

Belle Isle - prisoners' camp

Civil War

1865

1 photograph : print on card mount ; mount 17 x 8 cm (stereograph format) | Photograph shows an aerial view of Belle Isle in the middle of the James …

Belle Island, James River

Civil War

between 1861 and 1865

1 photographic print on stereo card : albumen ; 18 x 10 cm. | Stereograph showing a part of Belle Island, which was the home of a Confederate prison …

Lofty encounter

Richmond Times-Dispatch Photo…

3/19/1984

Black and white photograph of two young people sitting atop a two-story abandoned hydroelectric power station building on Belle Isle; they picnic ato…

From the ground up

Richmond Times-Dispatch Photo…

10/9/1985

Black and white photograph of pilings for new Lee Bridge; construction materials and vehicles on site; part of construction of causeway from south ba…

Causeway is first step

Richmond Times-Dispatch Photo…

3/7/1985

Black and white photograph of workers laying the groundwork for a span to replace the old Lee Bridge across the James River; building a gravel causew…

[Work on Causeway]

Richmond Times-Dispatch Photo…

3/7/1985

Black and white photograph of construction vehicles driving on gravel causeway to Belle Isle; part of work on replacement for the Lee Bridge; downtow…

James River Falls

Cook Photograph Collection

1880-1920

Glass plate negative showing the falls of the James River west of Mayo's Island in downtown Richmond, Virginia; view of Belle Isle in background. Ge…

Union Prison Camp at Belle Isle

Cook Photograph Collection

Circa 1862-1865

Glass plate negative of a print entitled "The Union Prison Camp at 'Belle Isle,' Richmond, Virginia;" image shows Major Thomas P. Turner, commandant …

[Archived 4 binder. No title on slide.]

Richmond Comprehensive Planni…

September 1987

Original Binder Label: Archived 4 Subject: City planning -- Pictorial works

Belle Isle

Richmond Comprehensive Planni…

November 1965

Original Binder Label: Archived 9 Subject: City planning -- Virginia -- Richmond -- Pictorial works City/Location: Richmond (Va.)

Belle Isle

Richmond Comprehensive Planni…

Note: This item does not have a date. This collection includes images dating from the 1940s to 2000, with the majority ranging from the 70s to the 90…

James River

Reinier Hendriksen Photograph…

8/1971

Color slide showing a panoramic view of the James River in Richmond, Virginia; view looking northeast from the south bank of the river; rocks and rap…

Prisons at Richmond -- Union troops prisoners at …

Richmond Nineteenth-Century P…

December 5, 1863

City/Location: Richmond (Va.)

Belle Isle Fire

Stevenson Family Photograph C…

4/8/1900

Mounted black and white photograph showing buildings destroyed by fire on Belle Isle, Richmond, Virginia; possibly the Old Dominion Iron & Nail Compa…

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…

Richmond as seen from Belle Island

Civil War

between 1861 June and 1864 February

1 drawing on cream paper : pencil (and pastel?) ; 22.8 x 32.2 cm. (sheet). | Belle Island prison camp in foreground, detailed image of Richmond in ba…

Richmond

Civil War

1865 ca. April 3

1 drawing on brown paper : pencil and Chinese white ; 12.5 x 54.4 cm. (sheet). | Panoramic view of the city of Richmond in ruins. Subjects: drawings,…

Richmond, Va. Railroad bridge and Old Dominion Ir…

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…

Richmond, Va. The Belle Isle railroad bridge (cov…

Civil War

1865

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

Richmond, Va. View of city from Belle Isle; gun i…

Civil War

1865

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

Belle Isle, James River, Richmond, Va., April, 18…

Civil War

photographed 1865, [printed between 1880 and 1889]

1 photograph : albumen print on card mount. | Photograph shows a view of Belle Isle from Richmond side of James River with some homes in the distance…

The Union prison camp at "Belle Isle," Richmond, …

Civil War

between 1862 and 1865

1 photograph : print on card mount ; mount 10 x 18 cm (stereograph format) | Photograph shows Maj. Thomas P. Turner, commandant of the "Libby Prison,…