List of Photograph Subjects
The majority of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's photo archives—over 780,000 black and white photos, slides, and transparencies—are organized by subject. Browse this alphabetical list for a glimpse of the types of images that are filed in the archives.
Subject Headings in the Photo Archive
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Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum (AARFAM)
- Exterior
-
Interior
- With Children
- Carolina Room
- Offices and Storage
- Books
- Calligraphy
- Ceramics
- Chalkware
- Circus Figures
- Cutwork Pictures & Collage (note: includes silhouettes)
- Decorative Sculpture
- Decoys
- Documents
- Figureheads
- Fire Marks
- Fractur & Records
- Furniture
-
Genre
- Historical Events
- Lewis Miller Sketchbook
- Glass
- Gravestones
- Historical Events
- Hooked Rugs
- Landscapes
- Mourning Pictures
-
Portraits
- Adults
- Children
- Grouped
- Prints
- Quilts & Coverlets
- Samplers
- Scrimshaw & Eskimo Bone Carving
- Seascapes
- Sewing Accessories
-
Signs
- 2 Dimensions
- 3 Dimensions
- Still Life
- Store Figures
- Stove Plates
-
Toys
- Grouped
- Utilitarian Objects
- Weathervanes
- Items, Not CW
- Reference Materials
- Accidents
-
Aerial Views
- Bruton Parish Church Area
- Capitol Area
- Carter's Grove Area
- Magazine & Courthouse Area
- Visitor's Center Area
- Williamsburg Inn & Golf Area
-
Afro-Americans
- History
-
Animals
- Dogs
- Horses
- Oxen
- Palace Canal
- Palace Green
- Sheep
-
Archaeology (DAR Materials Filed By Site)
-
Artifacts (by Site)
- Archibald Blair
- Campbell's Site
- Carter's Grove
- Coke Garrett
- Custis Site
- Firehouse
- Flowerdew Hundred
- Gaol
- Geddy, James
- Governor's Palace
- Green Hill
- Hay, Anthony
- Hospital, Public Site
- Marot's Ordinary
- Morris House
- Nicholas Tyler
- Post Office (New)
- Prentis Store
- Printing Office
- Reid, George
- Saunders Site (Golf Course)
- Scott, Peter
- Travis Site
- Wetherburn Tavern
- Wythe House
-
Artifacts (note: by Material or by Type)
-
Ceramics
- Pipes
- Tiles
- Glass
- Metal
-
Ceramics
-
Artifacts, Metal
- Axeheads
- Cloak Pins
- Coins
- Garden Tools
- Spoons
- Tools
- Upholstery Tacks
-
Artifacts, Not CW (by Site)
- Ceramics
- Glass
- Metal
- Textiles
- Toys
- Wood
-
Artifacts, Not CW (by Material)
- Ceramics
- Glass
- Metal
- Textiles
- Toys
- Wood
-
Excavations, Not CW (note: for CW sites, see "Block and Building")
- Arlington
- Challis Site
- College Landing Site
- Guthrie-Bates
- Harwood Farm
- York Co., VA
- Field Processes
- Lab Processes
-
Artifacts (by Site)
-
Architectural Details (note: effective June 1984, building ID takes precedence; unidentified details filed here by Type)
-
Exterior
- Brickwork
- Cornices
- Doors
- Dormers
- Lightning Rods
- Locks
- Roofs
- Siding
- Steps
- Windows
-
Interior
- Cornices
- Doors
- Flooring
- Hardware
- Mantels
- Paneling
- Stairs
- Windows
-
Exterior
- Architectural Research and Conservation
-
Architecture
- Canada
- Egypt
- England
- France
- Germany
- Ireland
- Italy
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Scotland
- Switzerland
- Turkey
-
United States
- Arizona
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- District of Columbia
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Illinois
- Iowa
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New York
- North Carolina
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
-
Virginia (note: specific building type takes precedence over city or county except in Williamsburg)
- Churches
- Courthouses
- Homes
- Lighthouses
-
Cities
- Williamsburg (note: filed by Block and Building Number)
- Counties (ARUSVA buildings filed by county name)
- Unidentified
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wales
-
Artwork
- Advertisements
-
Agriculture
- "Harvest Home"
- Tobacco
- Tools
- Allegorical Scenes
- Archaeology
- Architectural Details
- Arms & Armor
-
Artists
- Studios
- Asia & Africa
- Canada
-
Cartoons
- Political
-
Costumes
- Caricatures
- Uniforms
- Courtship
-
Crafts
- Barber & Peruke
- Blacksmith
- Bourlier
- Carpenters
- Construction
- Clothing Making
- Diderot
- Glass Making
- Leatherwork
- Metalsmith
- Mills (Water & Wind)
- Printing & Papermaking
- Roubo
- Spinning & Weaving
- Tools
- Wine & Cidermaking
- Reference
- Crime & Punishment
- Death & Mourning
- Domestic Industries & Skills
-
Domestic Interiors
- Kitchens
- Duels & Fighting
- Eating & Drinking
-
Education
- Manual of Elementary Education
- England
- Europe
-
Explorers
- Columbus
- Faces
- Fires & Firefighting
- Flags
-
Flora & Fauna
- Catesby
- Ferbur
- Food
-
Furnishings
- Chippendale's Directoire
- Floor Coverings
-
Highmore
- Pamela, Story
-
Hogarth
- Prentice Set
- Rake's Progress
-
Holidays
- Christmas
-
Indians (note: for Indians at Jamestown, see "Jamestown")
- Attacks & Wars
- Industry
-
Jamestown
- Arrivals & Departures
- Government & Politics
- Hardships
- John Smith
-
Indians
- Pocahontas
- Settlers
- Judicial
- Landscapes
-
Medical Science
- Apothecaries
- Illness
- Military
- Morality (note: includes depictions of moral values)
-
Music
- Instruments
- Mythology
- Natural Phenomena
- Occupations
- Pastoral Scenes
- Political Events (note: for political events during Rev. War, see "Wars Am Rev Events")
- Portraits
- (by Last Name)
-
Roman Portraits
-
Washington, George
- As a Youth
- Family & Friends
- As President
- Grouped
- 20th Century
- Unidentified
-
Washington, George
-
Religion
- Church Interiors
- Science & Inventions
- Sculpture
- Seasons
- Shells
-
Ships
-
At Harbor
- Details
- At Sea
- Construction
- The Robert Albion Slides
-
At Harbor
- Shops & Markets
- Signs
- Slavery
- Social Gatherings
-
Sports & Amusements
- Billiards
- Cards
- Children's Games
- Fairs
- Horse Riding & The Hunt
- Ice Skating
-
Street Vendors & Peddlars
- Sanby Prints
- Surveying
- Taverns, Inns and Coffee Houses
- Theaters & Actors
-
Transportation
- Accessories
- Boats
- Carriages
- Carts & Wagons
- Railroads
-
United States
- By State Or District
-
Virginia
-
Williamsburg
- By Name of Building
- Yorktown
-
Williamsburg
-
Wars
-
American Revolution
- Allies
-
Battles
-
Land
- (by Name of Battle)
- Naval
-
Yorktown Campaign
- Surrender
-
Land
- Civilian Life
-
Encampments
- Valley Forge
-
Events
- Pre-War
- Wartime
- Post-War
- Military Meetings
- Spies & Traitors
- Troop Activities
- Civil
- French & Indian
-
American Revolution
- Awards
-
Charts
- Archaeological
- Financial
- Organizational
- Products
- Visitation
- Community Activities and Civic Groups
-
Construction
- Street Construction and Paving
- Materials
- Conventions and Committee Meetings – Not CW
-
Costumed People (note: see also "Entertainment – Drama – Living History")
- Exterior
- Interior
- Children
- Faces
- 17th Century
-
Crafts (note: pattern for Crafts is as follows – ext, int, CU process, finished items)
- Apothecary, Pasteur-Galt
- Apothecary, McKensie's
- Bakery, Raleigh Tavern
- Barber & Peruke
- Basketmaking
- Blacksmith, Anderson, James
- Bookbinding
- Bootmaking
- Brickmaking
- Cabinetmaking
- Calligraphy
- Candlemaking
- Carpenters
- Cooking
- Cooper
- Dyeing
- Flaxbreaking
- Fruitdrying
- Gunsmith
- Harnessmaking
- Ironmaking (Bloomery)
- Millinery, Margaret Hunter
- Musical Instrument Maker
- Papermaking
- Post Office
- Printing Office
- Shinglemaking
- Silversmith, Geddy
- Silversmith, Golden Ball
- Tailor
-
Textiles
- Needlework
- Spinning & Weaving
- Wheelwright
- Windmill, Robertson's
-
Special Programs
- Agricultural
-
Beekeeping
- Corn
- Rye
-
Tobacco
- Carter's Grove
- Windmill
-
Tools
-
Wheat
- Carter's Grove
- Windmill
-
Wheat
- Coach & Livestock Program
- Foodways
- Herbal Traditions
- Hog Butchering
- Linen Manufacture
- Palace Walnut Tree
- Wool Manufacture
-
Reference Material
- Bookbinding
- Leatherwork
- Silversmith
- Crime
- Curator (note: filed by type in black and white only; filed by accession number in slides)
-
Items
- Accessories
- Ceramics
- Clocks
- Costumes
-
Fabrics
- Carter's Grove, McCrea Samples
- Swatches
- Quilts and Coverlets
- Furniture
- Glass
- Lanterns and Lighting Fixtures
-
Metal
- Brass, Pewter, Silver
- Trademarks and Hallmarks
- Money
- Musical Instruments
- Rugs
-
Toys
- Dolls
-
Storage
- To 1959
- Post 1959
- Woolcott Tools
-
Reference Material
- Ceramics
- Costumes and Costume Accessories
- Tomlinson Collection
-
Damage
- Curator Items
- Weather
-
Documents
- 17th Century
-
18th Century
-
Accounts
- Burwell Papers
- Scotia – Glen Sanders Papers
- Blathwayt Papers
- Books and Book Excerpts
- Bookplates
- Diaries and Letters
- Horn Papers
- Insurance
- Inventories
- Legal
- Newspapers
- Playbills
- Political (note: for acts and declarations, etc.)
-
Accounts
-
Modern
- Carter's Grove
-
Drawings
- Archaeology
-
Architectural
- Bodleian Plate
-
Rawlinson Plates
- Details
- Jefferson Plan
- Prototype Plans
- Renderings
-
Historic Area
-
Exhibition Buildings
- (by Name)
- Not Historic Area
-
Exhibition Buildings
-
Not CW
- Kocher Papers
-
Gardens
- CW
- Not CW
-
Entertainment
-
Living History
- (characters CW actor as "Character", filed by Character)
- Young Gentlemen of the College
-
Music
- Black Music
- CW Quintet
- Musical Diversions
- Music Teacher's Shop
- Palace Garden Concerts
- Play Booth Theatre
-
Plays
- (by Title)
- Puppet Shows
-
Special Programs
- African American Program
- Capitol Evening, A
- Cry Witch
- Children's Interpretive Programs
- Declaration of Independence
- Evening of Military Life
- Monarch's Birthday
- Night On Palace Green, A
- Powell Program
- The Story Teller
- Williamsburg in Black and White
-
Living History
-
Exhibits (note: includes name of exhibit if known)
-
CW
-
AARFAC
- Caption Material
- Christmas
- Christmas Preparation
- Christmas White House
- Joshua Johnson
- Then and Now
- Archaeology
- Architecture
- Bassett Hall Reception Center
- Carter's Grove Reception Center
-
Craft Shops
- Curator
- Chelsea Porcelain
- Rebellion and Reconciliation
- Foundation Library
- Photographic
-
Products
- Governor's and Gentlemen
- Trade Show
- Promotional
- Public Hospital
- Visitors Center
- Williamsburg Lodge
-
AARFAC
-
Not CW
- Bedford Guns
- Decorative Arts
- Furniture of Eastern Virginia
- Moore, Henry
- Southern Antiques
-
CW
-
Films and Video (note: filed by Title)
- America's Williamsburg
- Around the World in Eighty Feet
- Art of the Conservator
- Basketmaking in Colonial Virginia
- Chinese Village
- Colonial Clothing
- Colonial Naturalist
- Colonial Printer
- Cooper's Craft
- Decision At Williamsburg
- Doorway to the Past
- Fire Engine
- Five Moods
- Folk Artist of the Blue Ridge
- Glorious System of Things, A
- Gunsmith of Williamsburg
- Howards of Virginia, The
- Information Center Film
- Master of the House, The
- Musical Instrument Maker, The
- Music of Williamsburg
- New England Folk Painter Erastus Salisbury Field
- Principles of 18th Century Deportment
- Public Hospital
- Search For a Century
- Silversmith of Williamsburg
- Story of a Patriot
- Sweet Land of Liberty
- Time To Begin
- Triangle and Anchor
- Washington, George, Story
- Wetherburn's Tavern
- Williamsburg File
- Williamsburg Restored
- Williamsburg Sampler, A
-
Filmstrips (note: filed by title)
- Basketmaker, The
- Cooper, The
- Cooking in Colonial Days
- Craftsman in Colonial Virginia, The
- Family Life in a Colonial Town
- Folk Art
- Food Orientation and Restaurant Operation
- Gunsmith
- Hammerman
- Independence in the Making
- Plantation Life in Colonial America
- Planter Statesman of Colonial Virginia, The
- Silversmith, The
- Fires and Firefighting
- Fireworks
- Flags
-
Food
-
17th Century
- St. Mary's Cooking Experiment
-
18th Century
- Cooking Experiment
- Cooking Implements
- Fireplace Cooking
- Food Preparation
- Kitchen Interiors
- Table Setting
- Modern
- Reference Material
-
17th Century
-
Gardens
-
Exhibition Buildings
- Brush-Everard House
- Carter's Grove
- Geddy, James House
- Governor's Palace
- Canal
- Formal Garden
- Kitchen Vegetable Garden and Orchard
- Raleigh Tavern
- Peyton Randolph
- Wetherburn Tavern
- Wythe House
- (Other CW buildings alphabetically by Name. Note: includes restaurants)
- Accessories and Tools
- Field Crops
- Flowers
- Annual/Biennial
- Perennials/Bulbs
-
Flower Arrangements
- Dried
- Fresh
- Flower Arranging (note: includes cutting, drying, containers)
- Fruit Arrangements
- Ground Covers
- Herb
- Insects and Diseases
- Maintenance and Care
- Montages
-
Ornaments (note: includes all man-made features, i.e. benches, fences, gates, paths, urns)
- CW
- Not CW
- Precedents
- Research
- Scarecrows
- Shrubs
- Succulents
- Topiary and Espalier
-
Trees
- (by Type)
- Variegated Foliage
- Vegetable
- Vines
-
Not CW
- Boxwood Sources For CW Restoration
-
Exhibition Buildings
-
General Views
- Country Scenes
- Rooftops
-
Gifts and Givers
- Raleigh Tavern Society
-
Holidays
-
Christmas
-
Activities (note: includes name of activity when known)
- Exterior
- Interior
-
Decorations
-
Exterior
- Street Scenes
- Interior
- Preparations
-
Exterior
-
Activities (note: includes name of activity when known)
- George Washington's Birthday
- July 4th
-
Christmas
-
Hotels
-
Governor's Inn
- Motor House
-
Exterior
- Cascades Wing
- Pool
-
Interior
- Bedrooms
- Cafeteria
-
Williamsburg Inn
-
Exterior
- Clubhouse
- Lawn Bowling Green
- Pool
- Providence Hall
- Tennis Courts
- Interior
- Executive and Directors Wings
-
Golf Course
- Tournaments
- Special Services
-
Exterior
-
Williamsburg Lodge
-
Exterior
- Conference Center
-
Interior
- Auditorium
- Conference
- Tazewell Club
-
Exterior
-
Governor's Inn
- Institute of Early American History and Culture
-
Jamestown
- Expo of 1907
- Festival Park
- Island (National Park Service)
- Lectures (note: to be used for slides only; lecture slides filed as inactive)
-
Maps (note: by Country or State when applicable)
-
18th Century (circa)
- Atlantic Trade Routes
- Cartouches
-
World
-
Eastern Hemisphere
- Africa
- Asia
-
Europe
-
(by Country)
- (by City)
-
(by Country)
-
Western Hemisphere
-
North America
- (by Country)
-
United States
-
(by State)
-
(by City)
- (by Name of Map)
-
(by City)
- Chesapeake Bay Area
-
(by State)
-
North America
-
Eastern Hemisphere
-
Modern
- Williamsburg
-
18th Century (circa)
-
Militia
-
Bagpiper
- Encampment
-
Fife and Drum
- Practice Session
-
Bagpiper
-
Models
- Carter's Grove
- First Theatre
- Information Center Theater Complex
- Peacock Hill
- Robertson's Windmill
- Vehicles, 18th c.
- Williamsburg
- Williamsburg Lodge Conference Center
- Modern Aspects
- Mood
-
Personalities
- Bisland Family Album
- Bruton Parish
- College of William and Mary
- Goodwin
- Harris Oral History Project
- McCrea
- Pre-Restoration
-
Williamsburg
- Grouped and Unidentified
- Not Williamsburg
-
Personnel
-
(by Last Name) (note: for headshots and portraits)
-
Board Members and Meetings
- Informal Tours
- Portraits
- Retirement
- Small Groups
-
Board Members and Meetings
- (by Department) (note: for views of employees at work)
-
Activities and Hobbies Outside the Office
- A Weekend in CW
- Benefits
- Committee Meetings
- Department Activities
- Families
- Interns and Apprentices
- Promotions
- Recruitment
- Service Awards
- Suggestions and Inventions
-
Training Program
- Collections
- HAPO Interpreters Handbook
- Hotel Operations
- Museum Operations
- Course Completion
-
(by Last Name) (note: for headshots and portraits)
-
Pre-Restoration (note: for Williamsburg buildings only)
- Bruton Heights Church
- College of William and Mary
-
Exhibition Buildings
- (Other Buildings, By Name)
- Buildings Destroyed
- Street Scenes
-
Products
-
Advertising (note: for product promotion only; for other CW advertising, see "Promotion")
- CW
- Not CW
- Catalogues
- Demonstrations
- Hallmarks and Trademarks
-
Items
- Books and Prints
- Ceramics
- Consignment, Items On
- Fabrics and Needlepoint
- Folk Art Reproduction
- Furnishings
- Glass
- Handcraft Items
- Metal
- Prentis-Tarpley Store
- Record Covers
- Stationery Supplies
- Toys
- Wallpaper
-
Manufacturers
- (by Name)
- Product Development
-
Retail Outlets
-
Craft House
- Exterior
- Interior
-
Merchant Square Craft House
- Exterior
- Interior
- Williamsburg Shops
-
Craft House
- Warehouse
-
Advertising (note: for product promotion only; for other CW advertising, see "Promotion")
- Promotion (note: for Products items and Williamsburg shops, see "Products – Advertising")
-
Publications
-
CW
- (by Title)
- Authors
- Book Covers and Title Pages
- Brochures
- Magazines
-
Not CW
- (by Title)
-
CW
-
Public Hospital/Wallace Gallery
-
Exterior
- Gardens
- Interior
- Reference Material
-
Exterior
-
Restaurants
-
Campbell's, Christiana, Tavern
- Exterior
- Interior
-
Cascades, The
- Exterior
- Interior
-
Chowning's, Josiah, Tavern
- Exterior
-
Interior
- Gambols
-
King's Arms Tavern, The
- Exterior
- Interior
-
Campbell's, Christiana, Tavern
-
School Groups
-
Planned Activities
- Apprentice Program
- Colonial Fair Day
- Palace Cellar Experiment
- Young Researchers
- Powell-Waller House Program
-
Planned Activities
-
Seals and Crests
- 18th Century
- Modern
-
Seasons
- Fall
- Snow
- Spring
- Summer
- Security Systems
-
Signs
- 18th Century
- Modern
-
Special Events
- Antiques Forum (by Year)
-
Bicentennial 1976
- George Mason Lecture
- Bicentennial Yorktown 1981
- Black History Forum
- Canada Time (by Year)
-
CW 50th Anniversary
- Employee Party
- Economic Summit 1983
- EHGA Conference
- Fair Days (by Year)
- Field Music Day
- First Liberty Summit
- First Virginia Regiment Encampment (by Year)
- Garden Symposium (by Year)
- History Forum 1987
- History of Printing
- Jamestown Day (by Year)
- Learning Weekend (by Year)
- National Historic Landmark Plaque
- Occasion for the Arts
-
Open House
- Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
- CW Foundation Library
- Prelude To Independence
- Presidential Debates 1976
- Seminar For Historical Administrators (by Year)
- Seminar For Preservation and Restoration
- Southern Governor's Conference (by Year)
- Treaty of Paris
- Tribute to Freedom, A
- Virginia General Assembly (by Year)
- Wintertime Seminar (by Year)
-
Sports and Amusements
-
18th Century
- (by Type of Activity)
-
Modern
- (by Type of Activity)
-
18th Century
-
Street Scenes
- Historic Area
-
Not Historic Area
- Highways
-
Television and Radio
- (by Program Title)
- Titles
-
Tours
- (by Tour Title)
-
Transportation
- (by Type)
- Accessories
-
Visitors (note: see also "Conventions and Committee Meetings - Not CW" and "Special Events")
-
Distinguished
-
(by Country)
-
(by Name of Visitor)
- (by Year)
-
(by Name of Visitor)
-
(by Country)
- Camera Bugs
- Children
- Crowds
- Groups
- Handicapped Services
- With Historical Interpreters
- Models
- Tired
-
Distinguished
- Visitor's Center
-
Wars
- (by Name of War)
-
Weapons
- Cannons
-
Williamsburg Modern
- Anheuser-Busch
- Courthouse
- Dumps
- Eastern State
- Merchants Square
-
Offices
-
Boundary Street
- Architectural Research
- Foundation Library
- Research
- Collections
- Costume Shop
- Fifes and Drums
- Franklin Street Offices
- Goodwin Building
-
Boundary Street
- Parking Lots
- Railroad Station
- Schools and Recreation
- Shopping Centers
- Theaters
- Warehouse Area