1732 - George Washington - 1799
1 drawing : graphite, ink and watercolor. | Bust portrait of United States president George Washington as an older man is design for enamel mosaic in Alexandria, Virginia.
Contributor:
Facchina, Victor
Date:1930-06-21
Photo, Print, Drawing
A Continental enemal [sic] mosaic
1 drawing : graphite, ink and watercolor. | Bust portrait of United States president George Washington as a young man is design for enamel mosaic in Alexandria, Virginia.
Contributor:
Facchina, Victor
Date:1930-06-14
Photo, Print, Drawing
[Miss Etta Josselyn Giffen]
1 drawing : charcoal. | Memorial bust portrait drawing of Miss Etta Josselyn Giffen, director of the National Library for the Blind in Washington, DC. In 1897 when the Library of Congress set aside a special room for the blind, she took charge, campaigned for a universal Braille system, and introduced readings by local notables. She established a system to send books in braille…
The governor's palace Williamsburg
1 drawing : pencil. | Drawing shows the governor's palace rising above a stone wall. Three people in colonial dress stand before the wall or at the gate. The Governor's Palace was completed in 1722, after 16 years of fitful building. It served as the focus of the city's fashionable society and finest entertainments. Colonial Williamsburg purchased the property in 1928. Nearly two years…
Contributor:
Verner, Elizabeth O'Neill
Date:1936-01-01
Photo, Print, Drawing
Davidson shop Williamsburg
1 drawing : pencil. | Drawing shows people in contemporary dress standing outside the Davidson shop at Colonial Williamsburg. Verner was commissioned to draw Williamsburg by the Rockefellers in 1936.
Contributor:
Verner, Elizabeth O'Neill
Date:1936-01-01
Photo, Print, Drawing
Up town Williamsburg
1 drawing : pencil. | Drawing shows people in contemporary dress standing outside grocery and drug stores in Williamsburg, Virginia. Verner was commissioned to draw Williamsburg by the Rockefellers in 1936.
Contributor:
Verner, Elizabeth O'Neill
Date:1936-01-01
Photo, Print, Drawing
Travis House good eating
1 drawing : pencil. | Drawing shows a colonial house behind a picket fence in Williamsburg, Virginia that served as a tavern in the eighteenth century and when Verner sketched it. Verner was commissioned to draw Williamsburg by the Rockefellers in 1936.
Contributor:
Verner, Elizabeth O'Neill
Date:1936-01-01
Photo, Print, Drawing
The capitol Williamsburg
1 drawing : pencil. | Drawing shows the capitol building in Williamsburg. Based on Henry Cary's 1705 structure, the building is the third on that site. The Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities deeded the grounds to Colonial Williamsburg in 1928, which reconstructed the Capitol of 1705-1747. The new Capitol was dedicated with a ceremonial meeting of the General Assembly on February 24,…
Contributor:
Verner, Elizabeth O'Neill
Date:1936-01-01
Book/Printed Material
On Palace Green : a wedding in Williamsburg, 1807, in the letters of those who were there
Wedding in Williamsburg, 1807, in the letters of those who were there
"In my work I have the privilege of reading hundreds of historic letters preserved in libraries and other archives. There is an excitement in being handed a folder of unseen letters from the past ... I have composed this small book to enable others to experience that same delight. Transcribed in full is an exchange of fifty-six letters written in the winter of 1806-1807…
Contributor:
Verner, Elizabeth O'Neill - Tucker, St. George - Cabell, William H. - Tucker, Henry St. George - Cabell, Joseph C. (Joseph Carrington) - Coles, Isaac A. - Heffernan, Patrick J.