Blue Ridge Farm aerial photograph Blue Ridge Farm aerial photograph MSS 16161

Blue Ridge Farm aerial photograph MSS 16161

Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
P.O. Box 400110
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
URL: https://small.library.virginia.edu/

Ellen Welch

Repository

Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Identification

MSS 16161

Title

Blue Ridge Farm aerial photograph 1934

URL:

https://archives.lib.virginia.edu/ark:/59853/312

Quantity

0.03 Cubic Feet, One folder in a document box BW 7.

Language

English .

Administrative Information

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation

MSS 16161, Blue Ridge Farm aerial photograph, Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia

Immediate Source of Acquisition

This collection was purchased from Heartwood Books by the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia on June 24, 2016.

Biographical / Historical

The Ortman family (previously Ortmann) owned Blue Ridge Farm and were a wealthy family from Chicago. Randolph Ortman (born Rudolph Ortmann) was a founder of the Farmington Hunt.

Blue Ridge Farm aerial photograph, 1934, a Western Albermarle County estate, inscribed "Much love from Blanche Ortman Merry Xmas 1934" totaling 0.03 cubic feet. Sepia toned photograph inscribed in black ink on the front and captioned in pencil on the verso.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Aerial photographs