Edith Shelton’s Richmond exhibition is now available online

Our popular exhibition Edith Shelton’s Richmond is now viewable online through the Google Cultural Institute. In addition to exploring Richmond’s neighborhoods through amateur photographer Edith Shelton’s mid-20th century imagery, see what each location looks like today using Google Street View.

 533 Brook Road, Jackson Ward Edith K. Shelton, photographer

533 Brook Road, Jackson Ward
August 1955
Edith K. Shelton, photographer
V.91.42.175
The Valentine

Now the site of Abner Clay Park.


Our popular exhibition Edith Shelton’s Richmond is now viewable online through the Google Cultural Institute. In addition to exploring Richmond’s neighborhoods through amateur photographer Edith Shelton’s mid-20th century imagery,  see what each location looks like today using Google Street View.

Meg Hughes
Curator of Archives