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Plantation life -- Virginia

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Bruce Kennett photographs

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2023-0120

Bruce Kennett photographs of Bremo; Enslaved Housing at Carters Grove, and other projects

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16826
Content Description This collection contains photographs and negatives of subjects and properties for projects of photographer Bruce Kennett. Most of the images are of Bremo, John Hartwell Cocke's nineteenth-century home. Kennett was invited to photograph the property, and much of Kennett's work was included in a monograph titled "Birth of a Virginia Plantation House: The Design and Building of Bremo." Also included are images of Carter's Grove Housing (quarters) for Enslaved People in Colonial...
Dates: 1989 - 2012

Philip Slaughter daybook

 Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: ViU-2018-0021

Shirley Plantation records- addition 1

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2022-0068

Philip Slaughter daybook

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS 6556
Scope and Contents

Plantation owner of Culpeper County, Va., and Captain in the Continental Army.

Dates: 1808-1816

Wickham family papers

 File
Identifier: MSS 15753
Scope and Contents The Wickham family papers (1704-1950; 9.5 cubic feet) consist of papers of Richmond, Virginia and “Hickory Hill” plantation in Hanover County, Virginia, including the families of John Wickham (1763-1839), his son, William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880), grandson, Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), and great-grandson, Henry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943). The collection contains business correspondence, chiefly concerning legal and agricultural pursuits; family correspondence with...
Dates: 1704-circa 1950