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SELECTED ACCESSIONS: Museum Collections

Broadside printed on silk (mounted on linen), "Tribute to Patriotism," lauding the "Petersburg Volunteers" under Captain Richard McRae followed by a list of the company, by rank, and a testimonial by Robert Butler, acting assistant adjutant general. Purchased with funds provided by Nicholas F. Taubman, Alan M. Voorhees, L. Dudley Walker, and Anne R. Worrell.

One early 20th century influenza quarantine sign; oyster can of "W. A. ADAMS, ACCOMAC, VA." for "Chincoteague and Metompkin Bay Salt Water Oysters"; oyster can for "Lance G. Fisher Co., Sanford, Va." illustrated with map of Eastern Shore of Virginia; knife autographed by John Wayne Bobbitt; photographic print of Scarlett O'Hara with beaux, from Gone With the Wind; photographic print of Scarlett O'Hara with Ashley Wilkes, from Gone With the Wind; Gone With the Wind cookbook; M*A*S*H pencil holder; 1963 TV Guide, featuring George C. Scott on cover; album cover for Patton, album cover for The Original Carter Family, two First Day covers with stamps of the Carter Family. Purchased for Our Times: A Virginia Century exhibition.

Collection of about 150 35 mm. slides of Richmond: Monument Avenue, Downtown, Maymont, Country Club of Virginia, Bryan Park. Gift of Robert Posture Gonzalez.

Seven photographs of the presentation of a sword to Richard E. Byrd by the City of Philadelphia in 1926. Gift of W. E. Chesson.

Carved headboard and footboard of one bed, and carved footboard only of another bed, both c. 1860-70, attributed to Hiram K. Starnes (1820-1890) of Starnes' Bend (now Fort Blackmore), Scott County, Va. Purchased with funds provided by Nicholas F. Taubman, Alan M. Voorhees, L. Dudley Walker, and Anne R. Worrell.

The Original Tomb of Washington, oil on canvas signed Russell Smith, 1836. Purchased with funds provided by Nicholas F. Taubman, Alan M. Voorhees, L. Dudley Walker, and Anne R. Worrell.

Plaster bust of Governor Colgate Darden done from life in Norfolk in 1977 by Chase Decker. The bronze made from this cast is at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, Charlottesville, Va. Gift of the sculptor.

Model of the 1879 Virginia pilot boat Katy of Norfolk. Gift of Kermit V. Anderson.

Unique large pewter slave passport inscribed, "Aunt Jemima Johnston, Born 1799, Nicholas Plantation, Warrenton, Virginia," on obverse; crude folk art representation of the master's house and slave quarter on reverse. Ca. 1825-30. Purchased with funds provided by Nicholas F. Taubman, Alan M. Voorhees, L. Dudley Walker, and Anne R. Worrell.

Large coin silver poultry tongs marked "Mitchell & Tyler" [Richmond]; coin silver tablespoon with exceedingly rare eagle mark and "J[ohn] Adam" [Alexandria], c. 1790-1805. Purchase. James H. Willcox, Jr., Fund.

Scarecrow, oil on canvas painting of African Americans working in a field beside a dead crow on a pole, by Alien C. Redwood (1834-1922), native of Lancaster County, Va., and veteran of 55th Va. Infantry, CSA, c. 1870s. Purchased with funds provided by Lora M. Robins.

Silver gelatin photograph inscribed "For Virginia [Griffith] with every best wish, sincerely Joseph Cotten." Purchase. William Anderson Hagey Fund.

Collection of fifty-five Civil War firearm projectiles in a shadow box. Gift of Jacqueline S. George.

Souvenir program from premiere of 1941 film, The Vanishing Virginian. Purchase.

Copper token of the American Colonization Society. Obverse has African American with Liberty tree, ship [to Liberia], and date 1837. Reverse reads "Founded AD 1816." Purchase.

Cardboard poster for "Negro History Week," 33rd celebration, 1958, with portraits of Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Virginia-born Carter G. Woodson, founder of what is now Black History Month. Purchase.

Tobacco Farmers, color screen print from an edition of 300, signed by artist Robert Gwathmey, 13 x 10 inches, 1947. Purchase.

Fourteen watercolors, pencil sketches, and etchings of Virginia (mostly Richmond and near Blacksburg) by Chester Leich (1889-1978), 1930s. Purchase.

Collection of 250 black-and-white captioned photographs of railroad trains and streetcars in Virginia, mostly 1930s and 1940s. Purchase. Betty Sams Christian Business History Fund.

Three signed photographs of James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) and two engraved portraits, one by Arthur Hawkins, the other by Bernhardt Wall, from the Dr. J. Thomas Head Collection of "Branchiana." Purchase.

Group of ten Civil War albumen views: "Ruins of Stone Bridge at Bull Run," 1862; "Ruins of the armory at Richmond, Va. and the Petersburg & Richmond railroad bridge," 1865; "Pontoon bridge across the Potomac at Berlin, Maryland," November 1862, by Alexander Gardner; "Earthen walls, Ft. Sedgwick," May 1865, attributed to Timothy O'Sullivan; "Quaker Gun, Centerville, Va.," 1865, by Barnard & Gibson; "Second corps hospital, Brandy Station, Va.," February 1864, negative by James Gardner, print by Alexander Gardner; "View on the canal in Richmond," 1865, by Alexander Gardner; "A field workshop in the 9th Army Corps, Before Petersburg," February 1864, negative by Timothy O'Sullivan, print by Alexander Gardner; and "Union camp scene," "African-American workers loading a caboose." Purchase.

Quilt made c. 1790 by Frances Bland Randolph Tucker, mother of John Randolph of Roanoke. Gift of Susan Gladding Malbon Cocke.

Virginia Mud, etching with plate toning, by Edward King, 1923. Purchase.

Wool sweater with insignia of Richmond Howitzers, c. 1914; photograph of Richmond Howitzers basketball team, 1913-14. Gift of Dr. William M. McCarty.

Lithograph of portrait of Ulysses S. Grant mounted on canvas. Gift of Floyd Hedburg.

Christening cap thought to have been for General Thomas Nelson; sash worn by Confederate Colonel William Nelson of Oakland. Gift of Margaret Page Bemiss.

Carte-de-visite photograph of Anthony Rosenstock; postcard photograph of Alexander Myers; two photographs of Hortense Saal Rosenstock Winsten; group photograph of Anthony and Cecilia Rosenstock and family c. 1893 by C. R. Rees of Petersburg; photograph of 50th anniversary of A. Rosenstock & Co., Petersburg, in 1909; three photographs of A. Rosenstock & Co. store fronts; framed Confederate military pass issued 1863 to A. Rosenstock for travel from Petersburg to Wilmington, N.C.; two framed certificates of exemption for A. Rosenstock from CSA service, 1862 and 1863; two sale of slave receipts, 1859 and 1862; framed sale of slave receipt, 1862, with small flag; framed CSA passport for A. Rosenstock and family, 21 September 1863. Gift of Louis A. Rosenstock III.

Cobalt blue decorated salt-glazed stoneware pitcher: "J. HICKERS[ON]/ STRASB[URG]," c. 1875-1900. Purchase.

Five [from a set of twelve] signed etchings of Williarnsburg by Earl Horter (1881-1946), 1930s, each number one of an edition of eight: "Capitol Building, Williarnsburg"; "Hoke-Garrett House"; "Ludwell Paradise House"; "William and Mary College" [Wren Building]; and "Old Bruton Church." Purchase. Frank G. Byram Fund.

Handpainted, silk Masonic apron with retailer's label on reverse reading "McDonald & Lyons/I.O.O.S of T/I.O.R/and other/Regalia & Jewels/Richmond, Va." from the family of Mrs. Baird Duggins, Petersburg, Va. Purchase. William Anderson Hagey Fund.

Six watercolors by English artist Lefevre Cranstone (active in U.S. 1859-60): View near Harpers Ferry, Va.; Bigler's Mills, York River, Va.; York River near Bigler's Mills, Va.; Negro Shanty, Va.; Irish Log Huts near Wheeling; and Rippon Hall, York River, Va. Gift of Estate of Paul Mellon.

Marriage of Pocahontas and Rolfe puzzle of twenty wooden blocks with colored paper surfaces, in original decorative wooden box with color illustration of assembled puzzle, manufactured by S. L. Hill, Williamsburgh, Long Island, with presentation inscription 1868. Gift of Estate of Paul Mellon.

Nineteen pen-and-ink or pen, ink, and wash drawings, mostly signed, by Alfred Wordsworth Thompson from the opening months of the Civil War: Irregular Troops of Virginia. "Riflemen of theAlleganies"; Camp life in the Confederate Army-Mississippians practicing with the Bowie knife; Market Place in Winchester, Va. Rendezvous of the Militia of the lower Valley of the Shenandoah; Death of Johnson [soldier sitting on his coffin] Fryday Dec. 13th 1861; A Family of Virginians leaving their Home and going South on the advance of Genl Patterson's army from Martinsburg [fuller account on verso]; unidentified camp scene with 5th Mass [or Miss.?] Battery; Destruction of the Great Rail Road Bridge over the Potomac at Harpers Ferry at sunrise on the Morning of the 15th of June; Jackson's Army. 2nd Mississippi (Wild Cats) passing along Main Street, Winchester, on their way to Bunker Hill; Locomotive and Tender Thrown from the Rail Road Bridge at Harpers Ferry by the Secessionists [fuller text on verso]; Intrenchments on the Martinsburg Turnpike near Winchester, Va.; Crossing of the Manassas Gap Rail Road & the Alexandria and Warrington [Warrenton] Turnpike at White Plains. Camp of the Tiger Zouaves of Louisiana. Arrival of reinforcements for Beauregard's Army; Aqueduct of the Chesapeak [sic] & Ohio Canal at the mouth of the Monocacy River -- The position of Genl Banks' [Union] Army; Parisian street scene with musicians; Destruction of Cars at Harpers Ferry by the Missip [Mississippians?]; The Fair Grounds near Winchester. The Camp ofthe 1st Brigade of the Confederate Army; Hotel at Centerville, Va.; Drainsville [battle] 17th, 1861; and Capture of Tom Yewley [?]. Rebel Picket at Shroud's farm. Oct. 20th 1861. Gift ofthe Estate of Paul Mellon.

"Britannia's Triumph in the Year MDCCLXII [1762]," a series of twelve folio-size, hand-colored engravings of the British capture of Havana, Cuba, June 3-August 14, 1762, at the end of the Seven Years War, by Philip Orsbridge, Dominic Serres, and P. C. Carnot, published in London, 1766. Gift of Estate of Paul Mellon.

Fifty-six original watercolors by Edwin Sheppard (1837-1904), 1850-55, for a proposed publication that never materialized, The Birds of Virginia, U. S. Drawn From Nature. Gift of the Estate of Paul Mellon.

Seven prints: cover illustration and six "Campaign Sketches" by Winslow Homer, a unique set in that each print is signed by the artist (probably a proof edition). Printed in Boston by L. Prang & Co., c. 1865. Gift of the Estate of Paul Mellon.

Sewing table, poplar and walnut, c. 1850-75, with label reading "J. Mount & Son/ Manufacturers/Waterford, VA." Purchased with funds provided by Nicholas F. Taubman, Alan M. Voorhees, L. Dudley Walker, and Anne R. Worrell.

Pair of coin silver goblets marked "Myers & Janke" [who worked in Richmond, 1852-58], each inscribed "Jno. Rutherford" [probably John Rutherford, governor of Virginia, 1841-42]. Purchased with funds provided by Nicholas F. Taubman, Alan M. Voorhees, L. Dudley Walker, and Anne R. Worrell.

Lead-glazed earthenware one-gallon crock marked "Heatwole," Rockingham County, Va., 1850-95. Purchased with funds provided by Nicholas F. Taubman, Alan M. Voorhees, L. Dudley Walker, and Anne R. Worrell.

In the Alley, etching by African Virginian artist Lawrence Arthur Jones (b. 1910) of Lynchburg, Va„ 1935. Purchase. William Anderson Hagey Fund.

Set of ten prints by Marguerite Kumm, 1935-50, each signed: Virginia Farmstead (Winter 1935); Virginia Barn (1938 etching); Rural Landmark (1939 etching); another version of Rural Landmark; Christ Church, Alexandria, Va. (1942 etching); Christ Churchyard, Va. (1942 etching); The Falls Church, Fairfax County, Va. (1943 aquatint); The South Lane, Mount Vernon (1944 linoleum cut); Three Virginia Sheds (1949 wood engraving); Mount Vernon dependencies (1950 color wood engraving). Purchase. William Anderson Hagey Fund.

Virginia Manufactory of Arms Collection, consisting of: Muskets: First model stamped "Norfolk County"; First model flint dated 1802 stamped "Hanover"; First model flint dated 1802 stamped "33 VA Regt. Henrico"; First model flint dated 1802 stamped "16 VA Regt. Spotsylvania"; First model flint dated 1802 stamped "88 VA Regt. Albemarle"; First model flint dated 1803 stamped "59 VA Regt. Nansemond"; First model flint dated 1804 stamped "23 VA Regt. Chesterfield"; First model flint dated 1805 stamped "Wheeler Manufactory, 52 VA Regt. Charles City"; First model flint dated 1805 stamped "7 VA Regt. Norfolk County"; First model flint dated 1806 stamped "41 VA Regt. Richmond County"; First model flint dated 1806 stamped "68 VA Regt. Williarnsburg"; First model flint dated 1807 stamped "92 VA Regt. Lancaster"; First model (percussion alteration) dated 1808 stamped "38 VA Regt. Goochland"; First model flint dated 1809 stamped "83 VA Regt. Dinwiddie"; Transitional model flint dated 1810 stamped "45 VA Regt. Stafford"; Transitional model dated 1810, Confederate percussion alteration to musketoon; Transitional model flint dated 1811 stamped "88 VA Regt. Albemarle"; Second model artillery flint dated 1812; Second model flint dated 1812; Transitional model flint dated 1813; Second model flint dated 1813 stamped "52 VA Regt. New Kent"; Second model dated 1813, Confederate percussion alteration; Second model flint dated 1814, marked "C. S."; Second model dated 1814, civilian percussion alteration; Second model flint dated 1815; Second model dated 1815, Confederate percussion alteration; Second model dated 1816, first type; Second model flint dated 1816, third type; Barrel and forestock of Second model with C. S. Richmond ramrod, used First Manassas; Second model flint dated 1817 with original bayonet and scabbard; Second model flint dated 1817; Second model dated 1817, Confederate percussion alteration; Second model dated 1817, Confederate percussion alteration perhaps used as shotgun; Second model artillery flint dated 1818; Second model flint dated 1818 with 39 inch barrel; Second model flint dated 1818 with 42 inch barrel; Second model flint dated 1820 missing forestock; Second model flint dated 1820 stamped "37"; Second model flint dated 1820; Second model flint dated 1820 stamped "GREYS"; Second model flint dated 1821; Second model flint artillery dated 1821; Confederate C. S. Richmond rifle-musket dated 1861; Transitional flint dated 1810 stamped "Petersburg"; and Second model dated 1821, Confederate percussion alteration

Musket locks: First model flint dated 1802; First model flint dated 1808; First model dated 1808, civilian percussion alteration; Transitional model flint dated 1811; Second model dated 1815, Confederate percussion alteration; Second model relic; Second model flint dated 1818; Second model flint dated 1819; and Second model flint dated 1821; Second model flint dated 1817

Musket crate of yellow pine marked "VA ARMORY/20 MUSKETS/3 FEET 6," c. 1800-21.

Bayonets: First model musket bayonet, long model shortened; First model musket bayonet, long model; Second model; Transitional model; Second model; and Second model.

Rifles: First model flint dated 1806 stamped "83 VA Regt. Dinwiddie"; Second model flint dated 1809 (produced c. 1812); Second model dated 1809 (produced c. 1812), Confederate percussion alteration; Second model flint dated 1817; Second model flint dated 1818; Second model dated 1821, Confederate percussion alteration; Second model dated 1819, percussion alteration for commonwealth in 1861; Second model dated 1819, percussion alteration; and Virginia contract rifle by Archibald Rutherford, Harrisonburg, re-converted to flint, stamped "33 VA Regt. Henrico."

Swords: First model, wide blade; First model, wide blade; First model (with scabbard) stamped "1 VA Regt."; First model (with scabbard); First model (with Ames scabbard); First model (with Ames scabbard); First model (with Ames scabbard) and rare James Winner blade on original Model 1839 white buff leather sword belt with belt plate, stamped "4 VA Regt."; Second model (with scabbard) stamped "4 VA Regt."; Second model (with scabbard), early type blade; Second model (with scabbard), later type blade stamped "4 VA Regt."; Second model (with scabbard), early blade stamped "4 VA Regt."; Second model (with scabbard) and rare U. S. Model 1839 buff leather shoulder belt and round plate marked "H. Dingee"; Second model (with scabbard) and rare U. S. Model 1839 buff leather shoulder belt and U.S. oval plate; Second model (with Ames scabbard); Artillery model; Third model (with scabbard) stamped "2 VA Regt."; Third model (with scabbard) stamped "1 VA Regt."; Third model (with scabbard) stamped "3 VA Regt."; Third model (with scabbard) stamped "1 VA Regt." and rare U. S. Model 1839 buff leather shoulder belt and "Pittman" plate; Third model (with Confederate altered scabbard) stamped "1 VA Regt."; and Third model (with Ames scabbard).

Pistols: First model flint dated 1805 stamped "1 VA Regt."; First model flint dated 1806; First model flint dated 1807 stamped "2 VA Regt."; First model flint dated 1807 stamped "3 VA Regt." perhaps reconverted to flint; First model flint dated 1808; First model flint dated 1809; First model flint dated 1810, civilian alteration, stamped "3 VA Regt."; First model flint dated 1810 stamped "1 VA Regt."; First model flint dated 1811; Second model flint dated 1812 (with hickory ramrod) stamped "2 VA Regt."; Second model flint dated 1812 (with iron ramrod); Second model flint dated 1812 (with iron ramrod); Second model flint dated 1813 (with iron ramrod); Second model dated 1813 (with iron ramrod), Confederate percussion alteration; Second model flint dated 1814 (with iron ramrod); Second model flint dated 1815 (with iron ramrod); and Percussion pistol fashioned from 1815 dated musket. Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Bruce C. Gottwald and Mr. and Mrs. Floyd D. Gottwald, Jr.

Militia items to enhance display of Virginia Manufactory collection: American "cheese box" canteen c. 1812-50 with original dark green paint and (replaced) leather sling; seventeen U.S. regulation buttons and three muskat flints excavated with federal/state approval during bus parking lot construction at Fort Norfolk; Southwest Virginia powder horn with distinctive filler hole in the wood butt, c. 1830-50; Model 1816 musket brass pick and brush set on brass chain, c. 1816-50, used by regulars and militia; American .69 caliber cartridge box with wood block drilled for 26 cartridges, c. 1820, with c. 1830-50 white shoulder sling; Model 1839 .69 caliber cartridge box, with original linen shoulder sling and original tin liner, c. 1860; panoramic photo of Richmond showing Armory; Illustrated London News, 22 June 1861, full-page engraving "The Civil War in America: View of Richmond, the Capital of Virginia"; and Harper's Weekly, 6 April 1861, two-page engraving of "Virginia Sketches" including "Richmond Armory" and "Making Gun Carriages at the Richmond Armory." Purchased with funds provided by Nicholas F. Taubman, Alan M. Voorhees, L. Dudley Walker, and Anne R. Worrell.

Sampler, silk on linen, signed "Mary Respess's Sampler," Gloucester, Va., c. 1785 [Mary Respess b. 1774]. Purchased with funds provided by Nicholas F. Taubman, Alan M. Voorhees, L. Dudley Walker, and Anne R. Worrell.

Slave Hunt in the Dismal Swamp of Virginia, oil on paper, signed lower left Thomas Moran, 1864. This is a smaller version of a picture now in the Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa. Purchased with funds provided by Lora M. Robins.

Rococo revival center table with marble top, original finish, with a partial label and a complete label reading "GREEN & BRO./CABINET MANUFACTURER/ ALEXANDRIA, VA." ca. 1850-60. Purchased with funds provided by Nicholas F. Taubman, Alan M. Voorhees, L. Dudley Walker, and Anne R. Worrell.

Natural Bridge, pastel by George Douglas Brewerton, c. 1872. Purchased with funds provided by Lora M. Robins.

1888 Virginia State Democratic Convention silk delegate's ribbon. Purchase.

Group of eight photographs of Captain John B. Cussons, Forest Lodge in Glen Allen, Va., and Glen Allen Deer Park; advertising blotter for Forest Lodge in Glen Allen, Va.; and sketch for proposed school conversion in Glen Allen, signed by artist D. Watson; copy of proposed Glen Allen Recreational Association facility, 1970. Gift of Crown Collectibles.

Ribbon with bronze pin representing Battle Abbey ["Confederate Memorial Institute"], probably c. 1913. Purchase.

Earthenware storage jar with mottled yellow glaze, attributed to Obenchain Pottery, Botetourt County, c. 1870. Purchase.

Oil on canvas painting of weathervane at Mount Vernon by Dale A. Hackerman. Gift of artist, Cherry Hill, N.J.

Two airplanes from a children's ride at Buckroe Beach Amusement Park, Hampton, Va., c. 1940-60. Purchase.

Silver mug with chased image of Mount Vernon, made by Gorham of Providence, R.I., c. 1850-70. Purchase.

Oil on canvas painting, Mount Prospect, The Residence of Honorable Robert Allen, Bedford Co., Va., by Charles DeWolf Brownell (1822-1909), probably 1848. Purchase. James H. Willcox, Jr., Fund.

Oil on canvas painting, The Peaks of Otter from Mount Prospect, Residence of the Honorable Robert Allen, initialed at right margin by Charles DeWolf Brownell (1822-1909), probably 1848. Purchase. William Anderson Hagey Fund.

Wood (probably ash) beam and iron plow inscribed on blade: GEO WATT RICHMOND, VA/Patented 1858-1865/extended 1867-1869 . . . Feb 1872," after 1872. Gift of Steve and Vonnie Dabney.

Engraved portrait of Joseph C. Lewis (1772-1834), member of the Virginia House of Delegates and U.S. House of Representatives, inscribed "Taken 1805/Joseph Lewis Jr.," by C. B. J. St. Mémin (1770-1852). Purchase. Carrie Wheeler Buck Fund.

Panoramic photograph of President and Mrs. Warren G. Harding and crowd at Pohick Church, 29 May 1921. Gift of Marjorie and Nathan W. Stripling.

Fourteen photographic prints of Williamsburg and Jamestown taken c. 1925 by Walter Cline. Gift of Helen M. Maroon.

Oil on canvas portrait of Woodrow Wilson by Charles E. Drake, 1916. Purchased with funds provided by Nicholas F. Taubman, Alan M. Voorhees, L. Dudley Walker, and Anne R. Worrell.

Daguerreotype of General Walter Gwynn (1802-1882), 1850s, in pearl-inlaid lacquer case. Purchased with funds provided by Nicholas F. Taubman, Alan M. Voorhees, L. Dudley Walker, and Anne R. Worrell.

Daguerreotype believed to be Walter Gwynn Turpin (1828-1874), 1850s, in lacquer case with fabric interior marked "Pratt Studio/Richmond." Purchased with funds provided by Nicholas F. Taubman, Alan M. Voorhees, L. Dudley Walker, and Anne R. Worrell.

Gold pocket watch bearing three nineteenth-century Virginia watchpapers. Purchased with funds provided by Nicholas F. Taubman, Alan M. Voorhees, L. Dudley Walker, and Anne R. Worrell.

Matching coin silver sugar and creamer marked by William Mitchell, Jr„ Richmond, 1830s. Purchased with funds provided by Nicholas F. Taubman, Alan M. Voorhees, L. Dudley Walker, and Anne R. Worrell.

Coin silver porringer marked by John Adam, Alexandria, c. 1805. Purchased with funds provided by Nicholas F. Taubman, Alan M. Voorhees, L. Dudley Walker, and Anne R. Worrell.

Eleven pen-and-ink drawings by Eimo Jones, 1950-70: Founding of Phi Beta Kappa, December 1776; George Rogers Clark at Williamsburg; Henry Spelman among the Indians; Pocahontas traded by copper kettle; King Carter at Carter's Grove; Wm. Byrd at Westover; George Mason at Gunston Hall; Benjamin Harrison of Berkeley; James Monroe, student at William and Mary; Moore House, Yorktown, October 17, 1781; and Church Tower, Jamestown; twenty pen-and-ink sketches of eighteenth-century craftsmen at work, by Veron Wooten, 1950-70. Purchase. William Anderson Hagey Fund.

Falling Springs and Warm Springs, two lithographs from Edward Beyer's Album of Virginia, c. 1858. Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Porter Echols, Jr.

Collection of 112 glass lantern slides (positive images) of Virginia, all c. 1890-95, consisting of 8 of Richmond, including St. John's Church; 22 of Lexington, including VMI and Washington and Lee; 2 of Natural Bridge; 1 of Goshen Pass; 20 of Lynchburg; 4 of Hot Springs; 3 of Covington; 3 of Clifton Forge; 1 of Roanoke; 3 of Luray; 1 of Falling Springs; 2 of Winchester; 4 of Harpers Ferry; 2 of the James River; 1 of Manassas; 1 of Stonewall Jackson; 3 of Charlottesville; 8 of Lower Brandon including interiors; 1 of Montpelier; 2 of Tuckahoe; 1 of City Point; 1 of General Grant; 2 of Dismal Swamp; 1 of Jamestown; 2 of Westover; 4 of Arlington; 1 of Alexandria; 1 of Mt. Vernon; 1 of Fredericksburg; 3 of Fortress Monroe; and 3 scenes of people unidentified by place. Purchased with funds provided by Nicholas F. Taubman, Alan M. Voorhees, L. Dudley Walker, and Anne R. Worrell.

Collection of Richmond police medals, ribbons, and awards to Joseph T. Higgins. Gift of Joseph T. Higgins.

"Virginia Slave Children Rescued by Colored Troops," a pair of cartes-de-visite showing slaves of Thomas White of Mathews County, Va., in rags in 1864 and neatly dressed after being taken to Philadelphia. Purchased with funds provided by Nicholas F. Taubman, Alan M. Voorhees, L. Dudley Walker, and Anne R. Worrell.

Five stereograph slides of Hampton Institute, 1870s: "Student's room," "Students in the library," "Group portrait at Virginia Hall," "Chapel in Virginia Hall," and "Treasurer's residence." Purchased with funds provided by Nicholas F. Taubman, Alan M. Voorhees, L. Dudley Walker, and Anne R. Worrell.

Oval salt photographic print of General Winfield Scott (1786-1866), 1850s. Purchased with funds provided by Nicholas T. Taubman, Alan M. Voorhees, L. Dudley Walker, and Anne R. Worrell.

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