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Memorial Hospital 1903 Jan 1903

Memorial Hospital 1903

VCU University History Books

The Charlotte Williams Memorial Hospital, a private hospital in Richmond, Virginia, opened as a private hospital in 1903. The hospital advertised its aim as relieving "suffering humanity by every means known to medical science." It had private rooms for paying patients and separate wards for "charity" patients. The aim was to make no profit and increase the number of free beds quickly. The hospital was deeded to the Medical College of Virginia (MCV) in 1913 and used as a teaching hospital; it later housed nursing students. In 1986, the building was sold, and the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) headquarters …

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Artistic Tiles, American Encaustic Tiling Co. Jan 1900

Artistic Tiles, American Encaustic Tiling Co.

Artistic Tiles from the American Encaustic Tiling Company

A manufacturer's catalog consisting of 89 unnumbered leaves of photographs and illustrations of embossed art tiles, some displayed as surrounding a mantle and some displayed on their own. Details for the tiles are given including size of tiles and assigned numbers, presumably corresponding to their manufacturing number. Included is a drawing of "a modern bathroom," as well as "profiles, of a few of our base, cap, cove, bead, and door trim tiles."

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Ceramic Mosaic Tile : Mounted On Paper, American Encaustic Tiling Co. Jan 1900

Ceramic Mosaic Tile : Mounted On Paper, American Encaustic Tiling Co.

Artistic Tiles from the American Encaustic Tiling Company

A manufacturer's catalog consisting of seventy-one color plates which depict available patterns, sizing, colors, lettering and numbers for myriad styles of floor tile design.

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Art Work Of Richmond Jan 1897

Art Work Of Richmond

Richmond Illustrated Imprints

Publication detailing the history of Richmond, Virginia, accompanied by black and white photographs of city locations. Published in nine parts.

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Richmond, Virginia: Photo-Gravures Jan 1895

Richmond, Virginia: Photo-Gravures

Richmond Illustrated Imprints

Includes images of monuments, capitol buildings, city halls, church buildings, streetscapes, hotels libraries, portraits, museums, depots, college buildings, bank buildings, domestic architecture, hotels, monuments, parks, prisons, seminaries, rivers, and cemeteries.

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Letter From Griffin & Randall To James W. Allison, 1894 October 30, Griffin & Randall Oct 1894

Letter From Griffin & Randall To James W. Allison, 1894 October 30, Griffin & Randall

Building VCU’s President's House

Letter from Griffin & Randall to James W. Allison defining specifications and values for crystal plate, polished plate, and plate glass.

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Baist Atlas Of Richmond, Va 1889, G. Wm. (George William) Baist Jan 1889

Baist Atlas Of Richmond, Va 1889, G. Wm. (George William) Baist

Baist Atlas Indexes

Compiled and published by G. Wm. Baist topographical engineer 906 Walnut St. Philadelphia. 1889. Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1889 by G. Wm. Baist, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D.C.

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Illustrated Catalogue Of Art Tiles Made By J. G. & J. F. Low (1887), J.G. & J.F. Low (Firm) Jan 1887

Illustrated Catalogue Of Art Tiles Made By J. G. & J. F. Low (1887), J.G. & J.F. Low (Firm)

Low Art Tile Book Collection

Photographs and color illustrations of tiles. This 1887 catalogue is incomplete. Compared with a 1990 reproduction of an intact 1887 catalogue, VCU Libraries’ copy lacks the following: six of 51 plates of unglazed designs (1-4, 12, and 51), the front and back covers, a title page, a reference key, a price list, and at least three pages of advertisements. Of particular note, however, are four lithographed plates (7-10) labeled “Moorish Designs,” which are not present in other Low catalogues.

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Plastic Sketches Of J.G. And J.F. Low, J.G. & J.F. Low (Firm) Jan 1887

Plastic Sketches Of J.G. And J.F. Low, J.G. & J.F. Low (Firm)

Low Art Tile Book Collection

This is a special series of 47 unglazed tiles modeled by Arthur Osborne. It was published in 1882 as a small, inexpensive booklet and, later, in 1886 as a deluxe edition with a satin cover. The digitized version is of an incomplete deluxe edition of 27 of the plates. Arthur Osborne’s signature, the letter “A” inside a circle, is evident in the bottom right corner of each modeled tile.Photographs of reproduction tiles made after the original plastic sketches of Arthur Osborne. Includes: 1. Eureka -- 3. Monks going to Mass -- 7. An Elizabethan lady -- 8. A courtier of …

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Illustrated Catalogue Of Art Tiles Made By J. G. & J. F. Low (1884), J. G. And J.F. Low Jan 1884

Illustrated Catalogue Of Art Tiles Made By J. G. & J. F. Low (1884), J. G. And J.F. Low

Low Art Tile Book Collection

Text includes: Chronology of Low's Tiles; Reference Key; Price List of Low's Art Tiles; Plates I-XXX, and Trade advertisements (36 p.). This catalog includes two photographic plates of fireplaces and 28 plates of unglazed designs, a historical chronology, a reference key for the plates depicted, a price list of Low’s art tiles, and 36 pages of advertisements. The VCU Libraries’ copy also is inscribed, "Compliments of J.G. & J.F. Low." This digitized copy is a combination of two copies held by VCU Libraries in order to create the most complete copy possible. Pages 2, 3 and 39-75 are from the …

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Illustrated Atlas Of The City Of Richmond, Va.: Richmond City Business Notices Index Dec 1875

Illustrated Atlas Of The City Of Richmond, Va.: Richmond City Business Notices Index

Beers Atlas Indexes

Index to the Richmond City Business Notices section of the Illustrated Atlas of the City of Richmond, Va., by F.W. Beers, published in 1876.

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Illustrated Atlas Of The City Of Richmond, Va., F.W. (Frederick W.) Beers Dec 1875

Illustrated Atlas Of The City Of Richmond, Va., F.W. (Frederick W.) Beers

Beers Atlas Indexes

In addition to maps of Richmond, the atlas contains views of St. James Hotel, Richmond; Richmond Stove Company; St. Claire Hotel, Richmond; Healing Springs, Virginia; Wallawhatoola Springs, Virginia; Old Sweet Springs, West Virginia; and American Hotel, Richmond.

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Illustrated Atlas Of The City Of Richmond, Va. With Business Notices Index And Street Index Dec 1875

Illustrated Atlas Of The City Of Richmond, Va. With Business Notices Index And Street Index

Beers Atlas Indexes

Illustrated Atlas of the City of Richmond, Va. with Business Notices Index and Street Index.

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Illustrated Atlas Of The City Of Richmond, Va.: Street Index Dec 1875

Illustrated Atlas Of The City Of Richmond, Va.: Street Index

Beers Atlas Indexes

Street index to the Illustrated Atlas of the City of Richmond, Va., by F.W. Beers, published in 1876.

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