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Images Relating to Slavery/African-Americans

The Visual Resources Collection contains color slides and black and white photos of various documents, paintings, prints, and objects relating to African-American life and to slavery in Virginia. These photos are of items from the Department of Collections, the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, the Department of Archaeology, and the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library. A small sampling of available images is listed below. Please contact the Visual Resources staff at 757-565-8540 or vrc@cwf.org for information about additional holdings.