Visual Resources Librarian: Art Librarian
Collaboratory Links
- East End Cemetery (for Volunteers)Website providing useful information on work days and the clean up project.
- Friends of East EndThe Friends of East End is an all-volunteer nonprofit working to reclaim East End Cemetery, a historic African American burial ground, from nature and neglect. With the help of thousands of other volunteers, we seek to transform the cemetery into a public site of memory, contemplation, and beauty that honors Richmond's black community and history.
- eastendcemeteryrva.com"...[A] visually dynamic, interactive resource that features photographs made at East End as well as archival images from public-domain sources and from relatives of the deceased; primary documents about the cemetery and the people buried there; and narratives that we create from these materials. The site is also designed to accept content from users—photos, documents, stories."
- East End Cemetery Map (Digital Scholarship Lab)Website links to the growing map of burial locations and additional information on those buried in East End Cemetery.
- East End GPS Data CollectionInstructions for using GPS units.
- Richmond Planet (Library of Congress)Part of the chronicling America collection.
- Early American GravestonesA guide to the Farber collection includes descriptions of shapes and iconography of early American gravestones.
- 1886, 1885, 1905 Richmond Sanborn Maps (Library of Congress)Three years of Sanborn Maps in color.
- Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970 - Virginia This link opens in a new windowLarge-scale plans of Virginia cities and towns, created to assist fire insurance companies assess the risk associated with insuring a particular property
- Ancestry Library Edition This link opens in a new windowGenealogy database with more than 1.5 billion names from 1790-1930 from U.S. and British census and immigration records. Includes historical maps and photographs.
