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In 1857 German artist Edward Beyer traveled throughout the Old Dominion. His paintings were published in 1858 as the Album of Virginia: Illustrations of the Old Dominion. We have included a selection of plates, showing sites in Augusta county, the Shenandoah Valley, and Harper's Ferry.
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During the 1850s, David Strother, otherwise known as Porte-Crayon, an illustrator for Harper's Weekly, traveled throughout the Shenandoah Valley. He described his journey in Virginia illustrated: containing a visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the adventures of Porte Crayon and his cousins. Strother's drawings are very much in the "local color" vein, but they are still interesting representations.
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A selection of mid-1800s quilts from an exhibition held at the Woodrow Wilson Birthplace and Museum during the spring of 1995.
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Portraits of Nineteenth-Century Residents
Richard Mauzy, editor of the Staunton Spectator.
Rev. John Beale, pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist Church.
