Family Portraits: Virginia Indians at the Turn of the 20th Century

Exhibition of Photographs presented by Sweet Briar College

August 23, 2007 through January 13, 2008

Online Exhibit

Paying Tribute to the Governor of Virginia, Chickahominy Indians, Valentine Richmond History Center, p.45.15.960 Intertribal Powwow: Chickahominy Adkins family, Windsor Shades, New Kent County, Virginia, c. Late 1920s, Courtesy of the Virginia State Library and Archives #56053 Chickahominy Bradby Children, Providence Forge, Virginia, Photographed by James Mooney, Smithsonian Institution, #57,031 Chickahominy Bradby Family, Photographed by James Mooney, Courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution #856 Bradby, Stewart, & Allmond Families, c. 1900, Chickahominy Tribe, Photographed by James Mooney, Smithsonian Institution #857 Chickahominy Maggie Adkins, Photographed by James Mooney, Smithsonian Institution #57,030
Mary Adkins, Chickahominy Tribe, Photographed by James Mooney, Smithsonian Institution #864 Chickahominy Indians at Intertribal Powwow, Virginia State Library and Archives #56078 ChickahChickahominy Indians Paying Tribute to the Governor of Virginia, The front steps of the executive mansion, Richmond, Virginia, December 10, 1919, Photographed by James Mooney. Courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution #57,032 Hampton Young Girls at Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, c. 1880, Valentine Richmond History Center, p.73.10.3 Young Men at Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, Virginia, November 1878, Valentine Richmond History Center, p.73.10.2 Young Men at Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, 1880, Hampton, Virginia, March 20, 1880, Valentine Richmond History Center, p.73.10.1
Parkey Major, West Point, Virginia, c. 1900, Mattaponi Tribe, Smithsonian Institution #849-A Old woman in door of log cabin. Picture used on Illiteracy Bulletin 1914, Amherst County, Virginia, Monacan Tribe, Copyright ©1999 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia, Negative Number: 0032 Falling Rock School in Amherst, 1914, Monacan Tribe, aUniversity of Virginia Library, #23 Falling Rock School in Amherst, 1914, Monacan Tribe, University of Virginia Library, #25 Falling Rock School in Amherst, 1914, Monacan Tribe, University of Virginia Library, #24 A Family Portrait, Portsmouth/Virginia Beach, Virginia, c. 1900, Nansemond Tribe, Smithsonian Institution #869
Seated Man and Unidentified Child with Wooden Mortar, Portsmouth/Virginia Beach, Virginia, c. 1900, Nansemond Tribe, Smithsonian Institution #868 Thelma Dennis, Pocahontas Cook, Walter Bradby(?), Pamunkey Tribe, Richmond, VA c. 1920. Virginia Historical Society,Foster Collection # 27610 Captola Cook, 1900, Pamunkey Tribe, Smithsonian Institution #57040 Children of George Major Cook, 1899, Pamunkey Tribe, Smithsonian Institution #57,047 Family of George Major Cook, 1899King William, Virginia, c. 1899, Pamunkey Tribe, Photographed by D.L. Gill, Smithsonian Institution #880  
Keziah Dennis, c.1899, Pamunkey Tribe, Smithsonian Institution #888 Dennis Family at the Old Spring, Pamunkey Tribe, Smithsonian Institution #900 Reverend Thomas W. Langston, c. 1899, Pamunkey Tribe, Smithsonian Institution #891 Pamunkey School Children & Teacher,Richmond, Virginia, c. 1920, Pamunkey Tribe, Virginia Historical Society, Foster Collection #27610   Unidentified Family, Bowers Hill, Virginia, Nansemond Tribe, Smithsonian Institution #870
Theophilus Dennis, c. 1899, Pamunkey Tribe, Photographed by D.L. Gill, Smithsonian Institution #887-a   Mrs. Theodora Dennis Cook wearing a cape made of wild turkey and duck feathers, King William, Virginia, c. 1900, Pamunkey Tribe, Smithsonian Institution #57036   Pamunkey and Chickahominy Indians Paying a Tribute of Game to the Governor of VirginiaRichmond, Virginia, c. 1926-1930, Pamunkey and Chichahominy Tribes, Valentine Richmond History Center, Cook Collection #1377  
Yorktown Centennial, c.1899, Pamunkey Indians, Valentine Richmond History Center, Cook Collection Elsie Nelson, Indian Neck, Virginia, c. 1914-1925, Rappahannock Tribe, Smithsonian Institution #57,054 Intertribal Powwow, Windsor Shades, New Kent County, Virginia, c. Late 1920s, Chickahominy, Pamunkey, and Mattaponi Tribes, Virginia State Library and Archives #56,745 Intertribal Pow-wow