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Hydraulic Mills/Earlysville Tour
Below are a few photos from Saturday’s tour of the Hydraulic Mills/Earlysville area and some of the sites that are among the remaining connections to the rural African-American community that once...
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Montalto Album # 2
After running the Monalto Challange 5K race with my son Stephen a couple of weeks ago I was inspired to dig through my archives of photographs and post an album here of some of them. Digging even...
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Holsinger At 100: May 17, 1913
Exactly 100 years ago Rufus Holsinger took this photograph of a building on The Corner at the University of Virginia. Temperance Hall, built in the 1850s, later served as a student union building and,...
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Walking Down Wertland
Enjoyed a walk down Wertand Street in Charlottesville last week with friend Fred Dove. Wertland is parallel to Main Street and just behind the Corner at UVA. Fred’s family owned businesses on The...
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Films of C’ville
The Charlottesville Historical Image Library is pleased to announce our show for June, 2013. We have been studying two films from two independent sources. One was shot in 1929 and the other around...
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Holsinger at 100: May 1913
The next in our series of Holsinger images revisited after 100 years, this one might be a bit hard to fathom… This image was taken by Rufus Holsinger in May, 1913. It shows some pasture land which...
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Dome Debate
Lately there has been a debate around Grounds and around town over whether the new copper dome of the Rotunda should be painted as planned. Now that the glistening, new, copper dome is in place, fans...
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C’ville Then and Now
Most of the visitors to this site are already familiar with our work over the past few years on Charlottesville Then and Now, covering many stories from Charlottesville’s past through photographs. In...
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C’ville Coffee
If you’re not already familiar with C’ville Coffee on Harris Street, you should stop by. It is one of the more spacious and welcoming coffee houses in Charlottesville. Owner Toan Nguyen has been...
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Finish Line
Perhaps the most inspiring finish line of any local race, this was the scene at the end of today’s 4 the Wounded 5K, which raises money to help U.S. soldiers injured in war. A good cause, a...
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Charlottesville Hardware Fire, 1909
Yesterday’s fire at historic Frager’s Hardware Store on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. reminded us of our own historic hardware store in Charlottesville which suffered a massive fire in 1909. A news...
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Holsinger At 100: June 4, 1913
Exactly 100 years ago, Rufus Holsinger captured this image of a group of school kids and their teachers attending a school picnic at Fry’s Spring at the end of Jefferson Park Avenue in Charlottesville....
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Films of C’ville
This Thursday, June 13th, at 7 p.m. at C’ville Coffee on Harris Street, the next in our monthly series will feature two extended film clips taken circa 1929 and 1939. These are hand-held early home...
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First Showing of “Films of C’ville”
Last Thursday we presented “Films of C’ville” at our monthly show at C’ville Coffee. We usually feature still photographs in a slideshow format, but this month we featured two film clips from 1929 and...
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Linden Lane Farm Antique Car Show
Earlier this month a fantastic selection of antique cars were on display under beautiful skies at Linden Lane Farm in Keswick. The show was part of the Historic Farm Tour organized by volunteers from...
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Barracks Road Shopping Center, 1963
Going through a number of Ed Roseberry’s photos of the Emmet St./Barracks Rd. part of town I got drawn in by this one from September 1963. (Click on above image for larger version). For long-time...
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Happy 88th, Mr. Roseberry!
My wife, Karyn and I were honored to host a birthday party to celebrate Ed Roseberry’s 88th. Family came from as far away as California to wish Ed well, with many of his more local family joining in....
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This Week: “Roseberry’s Charlottesville”
This month’s photo presentation is “Roseberry’s Charlottesville: The Photography of Ed Roseberry 1940s-1970s” It is a photo presentation produced by Charlottesville Historical Image Library and...
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Now on Sale: Roseberry Classics
Now, for the first time, Charlottesville Historical Image Library is offering prints for sale. We are please to offer 5 classic Roseberry prints as a set from the Roseberry Collection at CHIL. The 5...
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Thursday Night’s Show
Thursday night’s showing of “Roseberry’s Charlottesville” is the first of two showings of the special “88th Birthday Edition” for Ed Roseberry. While we have done many different slide show...
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