University of Virginia Library

Section J. Illustrations.

Among the libraries in Virginia there is a considerable number
of interesting collections of pictures, slides, films, and
other illustrative matter. Examples may be mentioned for ten or a
dozen libraries, naming them alphabetically.

At the Coast Artillery School there are approximately 3,500 negatives
on Fort Monroe history and on general military subjects, and
approximately 8,000 slides on military subjects.

Hampton Institute has 1,691 pictures in the Carnegie art
collection, twenty volumes and twenty portfolios of the Curtis
collection on the North American Indian, and 274 photographs of
various examples of Negro art.

At the Mariners' Museum there is a miscellaneous collection
of small prints and engravings numbering 2,976 items; and of photographs
there is a collection of no less than 15,380 items. These
two collections include sailing vessels, naval engagements, ports
and harbors, bridges, lighthouses, portraits, and marine paintings.

Old Petersburg is recorded in a small collection of pictures
at the Petersburg Public Library, the main emphasis being on

details of early houses of historical or architectural interest.

At the Roanoke Public Library there is a file of mounted
pictures (2,655 items in all) arranged by artist or subject.

The State Teachers College Library at East Radford also has a
picture collection of 2,271 items - 414 mounted, 1110 unmounted,
and 747 slides.

Three of the libraries at the University of Virginia contain
collections of illustrative matter. The Medical Library has extensive
sets of microscopic slides, of slides on the subject of
skin diseases, and of anatomical slides of the stereopticon type
prepared by Edinburgh University. The Fine Arts Library has on
file general collections on art and a special collection of photographs
of old houses in Virginia. At the Extension Library there
are available 309 films on general historical subjects, on world
war history, and on miscellaneous subjects, 135 colour prints
illustrating various schools of painting, and 620 slides on such
subjects as American history, nursing education, and the University
of Virginia.

In the Library of the Virginia Historical Society there are
twenty-one files and various unfiled pictures of personages,
events, houses, and scenes of historical interest. These are
indexed.

The State Library contains a printed picture collection (both
flat and vertically filed) of approximately 2,500 items, 1,500
being portraits and the rest largely historical scenes. There are
about fifty large oil paintings in the possession of the State
Library, some of considerable value; and in the J. G. and C. W.
Chapman collection there are about 500 or more small oil paintings.

A set of the Carnegie collection of prints is located at the
Library of Washington and Lee University.

The Library of the College of William and Mary possesses an
extensive and celebrated collection of portraits; it has also
approximately 3,000 engravings dating from 1780 to the present.