Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

Historic Virginia Sites Photographs, Accession 11267, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Acquisition Information

These photographs were purchased by the University of Virginia Library on October 22, 1996.

Funding Note

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Scope and Content

This collection consists of four hand colored, silver-print photographs of historic Virginia sites, taken in 1926 by D.N. Davidson of Davidson's Educational Art Pictures , and each signed by the photographer and accompanied by an informational card glued to the mat surrounding the photograph.

The four historic sites include: Gunston Hall , Fairfax County, Virginia ; the Carlyle House , Alexandria, Virginia ; St. John's Church , Richmond, Virginia ; and the College of William and Mary .