Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation

MSS 16440, Colleton estate photographs, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.

Provenance

Accession 2019-0239 Purchased, 8 April 2019; Robert and Virginia Tunstall Trust Fund, 2018/2019.

Historical Note

Colleton was a Cabell family estate on the James River in Nelson county  . Colleton was owned during the late 19th and early 20th century by Evelyn Carter Robinson (1844-1910), née Cabell, who married William Russell Robinson. Upon her death, Cabell left Colleton to her two sons: Wirt and Clifford Cabell.

According to an inscription on one of the photographs in the collection, Colleton was destroyed by neglect and was no longer standing by 1970.

Source: Materials within collection, Virginia Museum of History and Culture.

Scope and Contents Note

The Colleton estate photographs (circa 1890s-1910; 0.04 cubic foot) document the appearance of Colleton, a Cabell family estate in Nelson County . Materials include ten mounted photographs of the Colleton house and one photograph of the nearby James River. Colleton photograph subjects include rooms like the ballroom and library, along with a childhood portrait of Evelyn Byrd Robinson on the building's porch.

The collection also contains a copy of Robinson's will, where she divides Colleton between her two sons, Wirt and Clifford Cabell.

Related Material

A related Cabell family collection can be found at MSS 38-111-b, Papers of the Cabell family, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Black-and-white photographs