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African American man tintype portrait
File — Box: BW 57, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16795
Content Description
This collection features one 2.25 X4" tintype photograph of an unidentified African American man dressed in a three-piece suit with a bowtie, pocket square, and derby hat with a sash perched at a stylish angle on his head. The man leans against a marble column against a plain background in a studio. The tintype was invented in 1855, one decade before the emancipation of enslaved African Americans across the United States. His suit, medium, and background suggest a date roughly...
Dates:
Majority of material found within c. 1865-1900
Elisha F. and Sarah Callison papers
Collection — item: 1
Identifier: MSS 8713
Content Description
Framed tintype, photo, negative, and news article about Elisha and Sarah Callison.
Dates:
1851 - 2002
May family papers
File — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16057
Scope and Contents Note
The May family papers (1870-1945; 0.4 cubic feet) document the lives of a couple generations of the Richmond-based May family. Photograph subjects in the collection include J.A. May in his Confederate Army uniform post-Civil War, J. Howard May, Jr. as an infant, Virgil May, Sr., Phil May with relatives at Virginia Military Institute, and Virgil R. May, Jr. with his wife Ella and children Linda and Billy.Letters in the collection are primarily written by or to Virgil, Jr. and...
Dates:
1870 - 1945
Two African American women tintype
Collection — Box: BW 57, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16796
Content Description
This collection features an undated tintype photograph of two unidentified African American women dressed in Victorian-style dresses and hats. One of the women holds a bouquet that drapes over a bridge made of branches that the two figures are posed on in a photography studio. It measures 2.5 X 3.5 ". The tintype was invented in 1855, one decade before the emancipation of all enslaved African Americans across the United States. The medium of the photograph and the women's dress...
Dates:
Majority of material found within c. 1865-1900
Virginia photography studios photographs
Collection
Identifier: MSS 14250
Scope and Content Note:
The collection contains tintypes, cabinet cards, cartes-de-visite and photographs chiefly from studios in Staunton, Va. Studios in Bridgewater, Charlottesville, Harrisonburg, Lynchburg, and Richmond are also represented. Among the few identified subjects are Friends at Olivet Church, Staunton, Va.; D[avid] V. Ruckman Home, Long Glade, Va.; William Bedford Campbell, David Van Meter Ruckman, II, children of Uncle Glen Ruckman, Pauline Ruckman, James Buxton Perry, Sam Ruckman, Glen Huston Byrd,...
Dates:
1860s-1930s