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April 2009: We are in the process of creating a new way to access our digital collections. All of the digital images that are accessed via this page are now also available via VIRGObeta. VIRGObeta will soon become the only access point for all U.Va. Library digital texts and images. Watch this space and the U.Va. Library Pressroom for updates!
Featured Image Collections
Alex MacLean Aerial Photographs
Over 300 aerial photographs taken by Alex MacLean documenting and deciphering the clues that are hidden in city grids, suburban developments, and in agricultural tracts. This is a licensed collection: use of large and high-resolution images is restricted to the UVA Community.
Architecture of Jefferson Country
Central Virginia architectural inventory compiled by University of Virginia Professor Emeritus K. Edward Lay.
Archivision Digital Research Photo Library
On-site photography documenting architecture, gardens, parks, and landscape architecture worldwide, from Ancient to Modern. This is a licensed collection: use of large and high-resolution images is restricted to the UVA Community.
Flora Material for the Study of Landscape Architecture
Documentation of trees, shrubs, and flowers used for identification and reference in the study of landscape architecture. This is a restricted collection: use of large and high-resolution images is restricted to the UVA Community.
Frances Benjamin Johnston Photograph Collection
Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) was one of the first American women to achieve distinction as a photographer. UVA has over 900 photographs taken by Johnston of Virginia architecture from 1929-1935. Her photographs are breathtaking examples of the American built environment that has been largely erased from today's architectural landscape.
Jackson Davis Collection of African-American Educational Photographs
Jackson Davis, an educational reformer and amateur photographer, took over 5,000 photographs of African American schools, teachers and students throughout the Southeastern United States. His photographs, housed at UVA's Small Special Collections Library, provide a unique view of southern education during the first half of the twentieth century.
Smithsonian American Art Museum Catlin Indian Paintings Collection
Over 400 portraits of Native Americans and cultural documentation landscapes by American artist George Catlin (1796-1872) from his travels with William Clark and on his own through the western frontier in the early 1830s. Of particular note is the authoritative identification of the tribal affiliations.
UCLA Fowler Museum Collection
Images of 1,200 selected prehistoric, historic, and contemporary African objects, Pre-Columbian ceramics, and textiles from the Fowler Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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