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     MANUSCRIPTS and ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

Plantation life -- Virginia

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 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