Visual Resources
The Visual Resources Collection, part of the Special Collections Department,
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.
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Image Samples
- This section provides a small sampling of images from the Visual Resources
Collection arranged into several broad subject categories.
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