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Visual Resources

Fife and drum corps

The Visual Resources Collection encompasses over 500,000 items, including black and white photographs, slides, large format transparencies, postcards, digitized images, and negatives. These images include photography taken to support Colonial Williamsburg's marketing, publications, products, education, and museum programs. Record photographs taken by the departments of Archaeological Research, Architectural Research and Collections document research projects, buildings and objects owned by Colonial Williamsburg. A photographic study collection includes images of artwork, maps, manuscripts, and rare books relating to eighteenth-century American history.

Collections
Visual Resources contains several named collections of archival photographs donated by or purchased from individuals who photographed the Historic Area and the city of Williamsburg.
Finding Aids
Finding aids are guides to assist you in finding specific images or image collections. Our staff has compiled a series of Finding Aids to help you locate what you are looking for in our collections.
Image Samples
This section provides a small sampling of images from the Visual Resources Collection arranged into several broad subject categories.