A Guide to the Virginia Maps and Prints Collection M 190
A collection in Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, M 190
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Administrative Information
Use Restrictions
There are no restrictions.
Access restrictions
The collection is open to research.
Preferred Citation
Virginia Maps and Prints Collection, 1858-1986, Collection # M 190, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
Acquisition Information
The materials in this collection were purchased in 1984 and 1996. Some items were received from unidentified donations to the department.
Scope and Contents
The collection is made up of prints (nearly 120 images of Virginia and of Richmond taken from mid-to-late 19th century magazines, including Harper's Weekly and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper) and of 30 maps as well as other miscellaneous items. The emphasis of the collection is images of Richmond. The collection ranges in date from 1833 through 1966 though the bulk of the collection is dated from the 1860s-1880s. While some of the material in the collection was found in the department unidentified, other portions were purchased in 1984 and 1996.
Arrangement
The materials are arranged by type. Periodicals are arranged alphabetically by title, then chronologically from most recent to oldest. Maps are housed in a map drawer in no particular order.
Container List
Mixed Materials folder: 1
Engravings of Unknown Origin
UndatedEnglish.
Scope and Contents
List of images
Rev. James H. Holmes, D.D.
"Virginia. - Method of removing snow from the streets of Richmond from a Sketch by C. Upham" - Showing three stereotyped African
American men and horse.
"Virginia. - The fatal explosion at the Midlothian coal mine, February 3rd - Carrying from the Shaft-cage a rescue party overcome
by gas, from a sketch by F.C. Burroughs"
"White House Landing, Pamunkey River, Va., The Grand Depot of the Commissariat and Ordnance Department of the Army Before
Richmond."
Mixed Materials folder: 2
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
1858-1891English.
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List of images
July 31, 1858 - "Outside of the Warwick Mill, in which the city of Richmond Feasted the Seventh Regiment and Richmond Volunteers."
June 24, 1865 - "View of Belle Island on the James River, Opposite Richmond."
August 19, 1865 - "The new market, Corner of Market and Sixth Street, Richmond, Va."
November 17, 1866 - "The Misses Cooke's School Room, Freedman's Bureau, Richmond, Va."
March 30, 1867 - "Provincial Government House, Richmond, Va."
April 27, 1867 - "Union Cemetery recently completed at Cold Harbor, Va."
June 1, 1867 - "The arrival of Jefferson Davis in Richmond, on Saturday, May 11th - Passing up Main Street under Escort of
Gen. Burton and U.S. Calvary."
June 1, 1867 - "The arrival of Jefferson Davis on Board the Steamer John Sylvester, at Rockets's Landing, James River, Va.,
Saturday, May 11th."
February 15, 1868 - "The state convention at Richmond, VA., In Session."
January 19, 1878 - "Virginia. - The inauguration of Governor F.W.M. Holliday, At Richmond, January 1st."
March 16, 1878 - "Virginia. - The Lewis Brooks Museum at the University of Virginia, In Charlottesville."
November 8, 1879 - "Virginia. - Preliminary Celebration of the Centennial of Cornwallis's Surrender to Washington, at Yorktown,
Oct. 23rd."
June 17, 1882 - "Virginia. - The home and Tomb of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello."
March 22, 1884 - "Virginia - The terrible disaster at the Pocahontas coal mines, March 13th - A young wife discovers the dead
body of her husband, blown from the mouth of the mine."
March 22, 1884 - "Virginia - The frightful disaster at the Pocahontas Coal Mines, March 13th - Scenes at the mouth of the
mines after the explosion."
May 31, 1884 - "The Virginia Battlefields - Visit of Members of the First Army Corps and Confederate officers to Fredericksburg,
Chancellorsville and the Wilderness, May 15th-17th."
February 21, 1885 - "Virginia. - The unfinished monument of the mother of Washington, at Fredericksburg."
August 22, 1885 - "Virginia. The Home of the Ex-Confederate soldiers and sailors at Richmond."; November 14, 1885 - "Scenes
and incidents of a tour through Virginia. - A 'Construction-Train' on the Norfolk and Western Railroad."
December 11, 1886 - "Virginia. - Richmond College, as Completed, with its new dormitories, library, museum and art halls."
January 8, 1887 - "Virginia. - The new building of the Young Men's Christian Association, Richmond, just erected by the ladies
of the city."
May 21, 1887 - "Virginia. - Dedication of a monument to General John Sedgwick on the battlefield of Spottsylvania, May 12th."
November 5, 1887 - "Virginia. - Southern Honors to the memory of the great Confederate chieftain - laying of the corner stone
of the Robert E. Lee Monument at Richmond, October 27th."
September 8, 1888 - "President Cleveland's fishing excursion to the headwaters of the James River - scene in New River Valley,
one of the famous trouting resorts of the region."
Mixed Materials folder: 3
Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion
Undated, 1853English.
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List of Images
"Method of Loading Vessels at the coal depot, at Port Richmond."
"View of Main street, Richmond, Virginia."
April 16, 1853 - "Representation of the Equestrian Statue of Washington, at Richmond, Virginia."
Mixed Materials folder: 4
Harper's Weekly
1871-1890English.
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List of images
January 14, 1871 - "Burning of the Spottswood House, Richmond."
December 30, 1871 - "Christmas in Virginia - A present from the Great House."
January 27, 1872 - "Wood-Sellers, Richmond, Virginia."
June 14, 1873 - "Richmond College, Richmond Virginia."
May 9, 1874 - "Shad-Fishing in the James River, opposite Richmond."
June 27, 1874 - "The First African Church, Richmond, Virginia."
November 17, 1877 - "The Virginia State Agricultural Fair at Richmond - Visit of President Hayes."
May 22, 1886 - "General Conference of the Southern Methodist Church at Richmond, Virginia."
January 15, 1887 (from The New South, supplement to Harper's Weekly.) - "Richmond - The Tredegar Iron Works."
October 20, 1888 - "The great Industrial and Agricultural exposition at Richmond, Virginia."
June 14, 1890 - "Scene at the Unveiling of the Monument to General Robert E. Lee at Richmond, Virginia."
Mixed Materials folder: 5
Harper's Weekly
1865-1870English.
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List of images
October 21, 1865 - "Tent of the American Union Commission, Capitol Square, Richmond, Virginia, July 4, 1865."
May 25, 1867 - "St. Philips Church, Richmond, Virginia - School for Colored Children."
June 1, 1867 - "Riot in Richmond, May 11, 1867 - The soldiers dispersing the mob."
August 17, 1867 - "Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia - Decorating the graves of the Rebel soldiers."
May 2, 1868 - "Sergeant Bates With The Flag Passing Through Richmond."
December 5, 1868 - "Chain-Gang at Richmond."
May 14, 1870 - "View of Richmond, Virginia." Canal.
May 14, 1870 - "The Richmond Calamity - Removing the dead and wounded from the capitol."
May 14, 1870 - "The Richmond Calamity - Interior of Hall of Delegates - Getting out the dead and wounded."
May 21, 1870 - "A spring scene near Richmond, Virginia."
October 22, 1870 - "The Flood in Virginia."
Mixed Materials folder: 6
Harper's Weekly
1865English.
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List of images
April 22, 1865 - "Capture of Petersburg, Virginia-The Second Michigan Raising The Stars and Stripes Over The Custom-House."
April 22, 1865 - "The union army entering Petersburg, Virginia."
April 22, 1865 - "The Union Army Entering Richmond."
April 22, 1865 - "Before Petersburg-Rebel Fort and Line of Works Near Burgess Mills, Captured by The Sixth Corps."
April 22, 1865 - "A Man Knows A Man."
April 22, 1865 - "The City of Richmond, Virginia-View From Gambles Hill."
April 22, 1865 - "Cavalry Charge, at the Battle of Five forks."
June 3, 1865 - "Richmond ladies going to receive government rations."
June 17, 1865 - "Rebel soldiers taking the oath of allegiance in the senate chamber at Richmond, Virginia."
August 5, 1865 - "The Tredegar Iron-Works, at Richmond, Virginia."
August 12, 1865 - "The Richmond Election, Polling at the City Hall, Madison Ward."
September 16, 1865 - "The Mass Meeting held at Richmond, Virginia."
September 23, 1865 - "Rocketts Landing, Richmond, Virginia."
October 14, 1865 - "The Bellzoro Gold Mine, in Goochland County, Virginia."
October 14, 1865 - "The James River and Kanawha Canal, Richmond, Virginia."
Mixed Materials folder: 7
Harper's Weekly
1863-1865English.
Scope and Contents
List of images
October 17, 1863 - "Interior view of Libey Prison, Virginia, Showing the quarters of the Union Officers confined there."
October 17, 1863 - "Exterior view of Libey Prison, Richmond, Virginia." "Encampment of Union Prisoners at Belle Isle, Richmond,
Virginia."
October 24, 1863 - "View of Richmond, Virginia, from the Libey Prison."
December 5, 1863 - "The Prisons at Richmond - Union troops prisoners at Belle Island."
March 5, 1864 - "The Escaped Refugees from the Libey Prison."
June 4, 1864 - "Army of the Potomac - Scene of General Sedgwick's death."
October 29, 1864 - "Richmond refuges on board the United States Sanitary Commission Boat, at City Point, Virginia."
February 11, 1865 - "The Rebel Iron-clad fleet forcing the Obstructions in James River."
February 25, 1865 - "Negro Quarters, Army of the James."
Mixed Materials folder: 8
Harper's Weekly
1862-1863English.
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List of images
July 12, 1862 - "Birds eye view of Richmond and the vicinity."
September 6, 1862 - "The last reconnaissance of the war balloon on the James River."
December 6, 1862 - "Map of Richmond, Virginia, and its Environs, showing the Rebel Forts, Etc."
December 20, 1862 - "Belle plains, on the Potomac - Burnside's Principal Commissary Depot."
December 27, 1862 - "A Topographical Map of Eastern Virginia from 'Fredericksburg' to 'Richmond'".
Harper's Weekly Civil War Round Table Collection: January 1863 - "Departure of the Great Southern Expedition from Beaufort,
NC."
Harper's Weekly Civil War Round Table Collection: February 1863 - "The Effects of Proclamation - Freed Negroes."
Harper's Weekly Civil War Round Table Collection: February 14, 1863 - "The Cold Heart."
Harper's Weekly Civil War Round Table Collection: February 14, 1863 - "The Happy Heart."
Harper's Weekly Civil War Round Table Collection: February 21, 1863 - "Ogeechee Harbor, Mr. J. Ross Browne."
May 16, 1863 - "Pontoon Bridges Erected for General Sedgwick's Corps to Cross."
May 23, 1863 - "The Battles at Chancellorsville - From Sketches by Mr. A.R. Waud."
May 23, 1863 - "General Hooker's Head-Quarters in the Field."
Mixed Materials folder: 9
Harper's Weekly
Undated, 1858-1862English.
Scope and Contents
List of images
Harper's Weekly Civil War Round Table Collection: "Advertisements and image of "United States Military Shaving Shop."
"Assembling for the Meet. A scene on the lawn in front of the Deep Run Hunt Club, Richmond, Virginia."
"First Municipal Election in Richmond since the end of the War - Registration of Colored Voters."
Harper's Weekly Civil War Round Table Collection: Views of "Arkansas Post", Arkansas.
February 20, 1858 - "The Washington Monument at Richmond, Virginia."
October 19, 1861 - "An Alabama regiment marching through Capital Square, Richmond, on their way to join rebel forces under
beauregard."
February 1, 1862 - "Released prisoners returning to the camp of the Thirty-First Regiment New York Volunteers (Franklin's
Division), From Richmond, Virginia."
February 22, 1862 - "The Prisoners and Jailors at Richmond."
Harper's History of the Great Rebellion: May, 1862 - "Army Scenes on the Chickahominy."
June 7, 1862 - "Cold Harbor, Nine miles from Richmond, Va., near General McClellan's head-quarters Scene of a skirmish on
May 24."
June 14, 1862 - "Our troops marching down into the trenches before Richmond."
June 21, 1862 - "The army of the Potomac - General Davidson's Brigade taking possession of Mechanicsville, near Richmond,
Virginia, May 21, 1862."
Mixed Materials folder: 10
The Illustrated London News
1856-1863English.
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List of images
September 27, 1856 - "Slave Auction at Richmond, Virginia." "Slaves waiting for sale, Virginia." "The Negre Reveillee, Charleston."
March 23, 1861 - "The inauguration of the Hon. Jefferson Davis as President of the Provisional Government of the New Southern
Confederacy of America."
July 26, 1862 - "The Civil War in America. High-Street, Richmond, Virginia."
November 15, 1862 - "The Civil War in America. Drury's Bluff, a Confederate position on the James River, near Richmond."
May 16, 1863 - "The Inverness and Ross-Shire Railway: Viaduct Over the River Ness."
May 23, 1863 - "Indian Tramway Constructed by His Highness The Guicowar of Baroda."
May 23, 1863 - "Epsom Downs On A Derby Morning."
June 27, 1863 - "Map of the seat of war in Virginia."