Richmond Union Passenger Railway

[Free Trolley Ride]

Richmond Times-Dispatch Photo…

Circa 1987

Black and white photograph of a young boy and his mother preparing to take a free ride on a trolley in downtown Richmond; the woman and her son, both…

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…

Interior of Trolley Car Barn

Cook Photograph Collection

1880-1920

Glass plate negative showing the interior of a trolley car barn; likely in Richmond, Virginia. Geographic Description: Richmond, Va.

Carnival Arch

Cook Photograph Collection

1900

Glass plate negative showing a large, temporary arch erected in the middle of Broad Street near 9th Street in downtown Richmond, Virginia; arch serve…

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…

Main Street between 9th and 11th Streets

Cook Photograph Collection

1900-1920

Glass plate negative showing E. Main Street between 9th and 11th Streets in the Financial District of Richmond, Virginia; view of brick buildings on …

Broad Street at Second Street

Cook Photograph Collection

1880-1920

Glass plate negative showing a view of East Broad Street looking east from Second Street in downtown Richmond, Virginia; both electric street cars an…

500 block E. Broad Street

Cook Photograph Collection

1919

Glass plate negative showing the 500 block of E. Broad Street in downtown Richmond, Virginia; view looking east; flags flying on light posts in media…

W. Broad Street storefronts

Cook Photograph Collection

1880-1920

Glass plate negative showing three vacant (?) storefronts on W. Broad Street in Richmond, Virginia, including the former location of The Baughman Sta…

Main Street

Cook Photograph Collection

1880-1920

Glass plate negative showing a view of Main Street between 10th and 12th Streets in downtown Richmond, Virginia; view looking east. Geographic Descr…

Broad Street (Union) Station, Exterior

Cook Photograph Collection

1919-1925

Glass plate negative of Broad Street (Union) Station, 2500 W. Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia; image shows neoclassical building from the east; Broa…

Richmond 1886 Flood

Cook Photograph Collection

1886

Glass plate negative showing Main Street during a flood of the James River at Richmond, Virginia; image of flooded street flanked by brick retail bus…

A. P. Hill Monument

Cook Photograph Collection

1892-1920

Glass plate negative showing the Lt. General Ambrose Powell (A. P.) Hill monument at the intersection of Hermitage Road and Laburnum Avenue in Richmo…

Steamer #5 at Fire

Cook Photograph Collection

1880-1920

Glass plate negative showing steamer truck #5 of the Richmond Fire Department in use at a fire near Brook Avenue (Road) and Marshall Streets in Jacks…

Carnival Arch

Cook Photograph Collection

1900

Glass plate negative showing a large, temporary arch erected in the middle of Broad Street near 9th Street in downtown Richmond, Virginia; arch serve…

Broad Street

Cook Photograph Collection

Circa 1940

Original film negative of an older stereographic image (ca. 1870) showing Broad Street between 7th and 8th Streets in downtown Richmond, Virginia; st…

Broad Street

Cook Photograph Collection

1880-1920

Glass negative showing the southeast corner of Broad and 18th Streets in the Shockoe Bottom area of Richmond, Virginia; F. W. Hagemann's Drug Store o…

Broad Street, Richmond, Va.

Rarely Seen Richmond

Note: This postcard has an undivided back -- Postcards without a dividing line on the back of the card were published in the U.S. between 1901 and 19…

E. Broad Street

Gordon E. Strause Photograph …

Circa 1935

Black and white photograph showing the 400 block of E. Broad Street (south side), in downtown Richmond, Virginia; view looking west; The Kaufman Stor…

E. Broad Street

Gordon E. Strause Photograph …

Circa 1935

Black and white photograph showing the 600 block of E. Broad Street (south side), in downtown Richmond, Virginia; The Globe Clothing Company at 617 E…

Main Street, Richmond, Va.

Detroit Publishing Company

c1905.

1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. Subjects: streets, dry plate negatives, commercial facilities, richmond, street railroads, united states, virginia Lo…

Broad Street, Richmond, Va.

Detroit Publishing Company

c1905.

1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. Subjects: streets, dry plate negatives, commercial facilities, richmond, street railroads, united states, virginia Lo…

Main Street, Richmond, Virginia

Detroit Publishing Company

1905?

1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. Subjects: streets, dry plate negatives, commercial facilities, richmond, united states, virginia Locations: united st…

Main Street from Eleventh, Richmond, Va.

Detroit Publishing Company

between 1905 and 1920

1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. Subjects: streets, dry plate negatives, commercial facilities, richmond, united states, virginia Locations: united st…