Going Digital
We’ve been working hard to make more of the History Center’s collection available online. What are some recent additions to our collection database? Read the post to see some examples.
We’ve been working hard to make more of the History Center’s collection available online. What are some recent additions to our collection database?
Here are some examples:
| More than 500 daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes, including the earliest known photographic view of Richmond. This half-plate daguerreotype (c. 1855) shows Richmond from Church Hill: | |
| More than 2,000 items related to Richmond’s tobacco industry, including cigarette cards, lithographic advertisements, premiums and souvenirs, films, photographs, posters, and manuscript collections. The Richmond-based Allen & Ginter tobacco company produced this souvenir booklet “Album of Celebrated American Indian Chiefs” for its loyal customers: |  |
| A dozen photograph collections, with subjects ranging from historic Virginia homes to Richmond’s African American community to local theater productions: |  |
| Eastwood, Goochland Co., VA Late 19th century Robert A. Lancaster, Jr. Collection |
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| Scene from “Salome” presented by the Richmond Theatre Guild Studio Theater, 209 West Broad Street [Marcia Silvette plays Salome] December 16-19, 1936 Leslie Banks Collection |
Independent Order of St. Luke Policy and Mortuary Department c. 1905 Independent Order of St. Luke Collection |
View these objects and more in our online database.
Meg Hughes
Director of Archives & Photographic Services
Valentine Richmond History Center
