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Visual Resources

Pre-restoration view of the Duke of Gloucester Street looking east from the College of William and Mary. Governor's Palace Garden from F.S. Lincoln Collection, 1935. Margaret Hunter Shop and the Golden Ball / Silversmith, 2007

Photography plays an important role in documenting the research activities, collections, architecture, and educational programming at Colonial Williamsburg. The Special Collections section of the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library houses Visual Resources, a portion of the Foundation’s vast pictorial archive, as well as a small selection of donated or purchased collections of photos, postcards, and works on paper.

Playbill for "Mr. Charlton, The Miser, and The Brave Irishman, performed by the Virginia Company of Comedians, Williamsburg, June 8, 1768." Pencil Sketch of the Capitol by Thomas Mott Shaw, ca. 1933 The Laurel Tree of Carolina from Mark Catesby's Natural History of Carolina . . .1771.