Teaching with Photographs - For Students - Virginia Historical Society

For Students

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Transportation

Railroad train, Shenandoah Valley View larger image	Burkeville Train Station View larger image	Streetcar, Richmond View larger image
Old Market Street, Bristol View larger image	Auto Being Dragged Out of the Mud, 1917 View larger image	Road Building View larger image

Urbanization

Colonial Beach View larger image	Engine Company #4 Richmond, 1911 View larger image	The New York Lunch Room Norfolk, 1919 View larger image
Café, Norfolk, 1919 View larger image	Weldon's Market, Richmond View larger image	Broad Street looking east, Richmond View larger image

Industrialization

Cotton bales, Norfolk View larger image	Turkeyfoot mines, Big Stone Gap View larger image	Mining at Tom's Creek, Wise County View larger image
Larus & Brother Tobacco Company View larger image	Larus & Brother Tobacco Company View larger image	Launching of the "Herndon", Newport News View larger image

Women

Girls of Ann Smith Academy View larger image	Tobacco Factory, Richmond View larger image	Sorting Peanuts, Smithfield View larger image
Equal Suffrage League of Virginia View larger image	Sheltering Arms Hospital, Richmond View larger image	Doak Family View larger image

Rural Life

Cutting Tobacco, Southside Virginia View larger image	Digging and picking peanuts by hand View larger image	Digging and picking peanuts by machine View larger image
Lumbering, western Virginia, c. 1922 View larger image	Fish View larger image	Hay wagon, Shenandoah Valley, 1932 View larger image

Education

Possum Hollow Schoolhouse, Floyd County, 1910 View larger image	Hamilton High School, Cartersville, c. 1910 View larger image	Gumtree School, Hanover County, c. 1955 View larger image
Public school at Big Stone Gap View larger image	First Class in Agriculture, Agricultural College, Manassas View larger image	Leonie Helen Holmes, Richmond, 1911 View larger image

Jim Crow to Civil Rights

Hill, Wilkins, Griffin (Copyright Richmond Times-Dispatch, used with permission) View larger image	Martin Luther King with students (Courtesy of Virginia Union University, used with permission) View larger image	Police with dogs at a Richmond demonstration (Copyright Richmond Times-Dispatch, used with permission) View larger image
Lunch counter sit-in, Arlington, 1960 (Copyright Richmond Times-Dispatch, used with permission) View larger image	Woman protesting in Richmond (Copyright Richmond Times-Dispatch, used with permission) View larger image	Protester with sign: "Bury Jim Crow" (Copyright Richmond Times-Dispatch, used with permission) View larger image