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The Taliaferro-Cole Shop (r) and other buildings before The Restoration. The Clyde Holmes Photography Collection. This image appears in the book, "Restoring Williamsburg". -- Visual Resources Collections.

Interior of the Harvey House Restaurant with staff in the Business Block, November, 1948. Block 23, Building 8A. The restaurant opened on September 24, 1948 and closed in March of 1949. The building was originally known as the Stringfellow Building. Today the area is called Merchants Square. This image appears in the book, "Restoring Williamsburg" -- Visual Resources Collections.

Front view of Market Square Tavern (formerly the Raleigh Hotel), north elevation, before its restoration in 1931-1932. The Market Square Tavern is one of the original 88 buildings in the Historic Area. Frank Nivison Photography Collection. This image appears in the book, "Restoring Williamsburg". -- Visual Resources Collections. For more information about this collection go to: https://rocklib.omeka.net/collections/show/29

Looking north from Francis Street the Courthouse (extreme left of frame) and the octagonal roof of the Powder Magazine can be seen amidst assorted nineteenth and twentienth century buildings and automobiles in the late 1920s before the Restoration of Colonial Williamsburg. This image appears in the book "Restoring Williamsburg". -- Visual Resources Collections.

The Prentis Store when it was the Barber and Peruke Maker, 1940. The Prentis Store is one of the original 88 buildings in the Historic Area. This image appears in the book, "Restoring Williamsburg". -- Visual Resources Collections.

The foundations of the Capitol, 1928. This image appears in the book, "Restoring Williamsburg". Frank Nivison Photography Collection. -- Visual Resources Collections. For more information about this collection go to: https://rocklib.omeka.net/collections/show/29

The Ludwell-Paradise House was restored in 1931 and is one of the 88 original buildings in the Historic Area. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller's folk art collection was first displayed inside the house in 1935 as seen in this photograph from the Frank Nivison Photography Collection. This image appears in the book, "Restoring Williamsburg". -- Visual Resources Collections. For more information about this collection go to: https://rocklib.omeka.net/collections/show/29

Roofing of tunnel for the Colonial Parkway through Market Square in the Historic Area during construction by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1941. The Courthouse, one of the original 88 buildings, can be seen to the right. Frank Nivison Photography Collection. This image appears in the book, "Restoring Williamsburg". -- Visual Resources Collections. For more information about this collection go to: https://rocklib.omeka.net/collections/show/29

Roofing of tunnel for the Colonial Parkway through Duke of Gloucester Street and the Historic Area during construction by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1941. Frank Nivison Photography Collection. This image appears in the book, "Restoring Williamsburg". -- Visual Resources Collections. For more information about this collection go to: https://rocklib.omeka.net/collections/show/29

The Scrivener house, c. 1900, which was torn down in 1906 before the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg. The building was rebuilt in 1941. Frank Nivison Photography Collection. -- Visual Resources Collections. This image appears in the book, "Restoring Williamsburg". For more information about this image go to: https://rocklib.omeka.net/collections/show/29.

The Prentis Store before The Restoration, 1928. The Prentis Store, built 1739-1740, is one of 88 original buildings in the Historic Area and the oldest surviving store in Williamsburg. Frank Nivison Photography Collection. Visual Resources Collections. This image appears in the book, "Restoring Williamsburg". For more information about this image go to: https://rocklib.omeka.net/collections/show/29.

Wetherburn's Tavern, 1928. Wetherburn's is one of the 88 original buildings in the Historic Area. Frank Nivison Photography Collection. -- Visual Resources Collections. For more information about this collection go to: https://rocklib.omeka.net/collections/show/29

A fire gutted the interior of the Courthouse in 1911. It took only months to make repairs and install columns out front. The Courthouse is one of 88 original buildings in the Historic Area. Frank Nivison Photography Collection -- Visual Resources Collections. For more information about this collection go to: https://rocklib.omeka.net/collections/show/29

The Raleigh Tavern site before its restoration in 1929. The L.W. Lane, Jr. store and the store to its left occupy the original spot of the tavern that burned down in 1859. The Raleigh Tavern was the first building chosen to be reconstructed in The Restoration of Colonial Williamsburg. Frank Nivison Collection. This image appears in the book, "Restoring Williamsburg". -- Visual Resources Collections. For more image about this collection go to: https://rocklib.omeka.net/collections/show/29

The Charlton House, 1928. Thomas Layton Photography Collection. This image appears in the book, "Restoring Williamsburg". -- Visual Resources Collections.

The John Crump House, 1892. A year after this photograph was taken the building was declared a fire hazard and town down. In was rebuilt in 1941. This image appears in the book, "Restoring Williamsburg".

Rare Books: Sunflower from John Edwards, "The British Herbal...," London: Printed for the Author; sold by J. Edmonson and J. Walter, 1770. -- Special Collections

Plate L. Argemone. Plate 50 of Miller, Philip. Figures of the most beautiful, useful, and uncommon plants described in the Gardeners Dictionary ... London : Printed for the author ..., 1771. vol. 1

Rare Books: Plate CCXLVIII. Cnicus. Plate 248 of Phillip Miller, "Figures of the most beautiful, useful, and uncommon plants described in the Gardeners Dictionary ..." London : Printed for the author ..., 1771. vol. 2.-- Special Collections

Rare Books. Plate CC. Pentapetes. Plate 200 of Phillip Miller, "Figures of the most beautiful, useful, and uncommon plants described in the Gardeners Dictionary ..." London : Printed for the author ..., 1771. vol. 2 -- Special Collections

Rare Books: Plate CCXXIV. Fig. 1. Rudbeckia ... Fig. 2. Coreopsis ... Plate 224 of Phillip Miller, "Figures of the most beautiful, useful, and uncommon plants described in the Gardeners Dictionary ..." London : Printed for the author ..., 1771. vol. 2 -- Special Collections

Rare Books: Plate CLXXXIII. Fig. 1. Monarda, capitulis terminalibus ... Fig. 2. Monarda, floribus capitatis sub-didynamis ... Plate 183 of Phillip Miller, "Figures of the most beautiful, useful, and uncommon plants described in the Gardeners Dictionary" ... London : Printed for the author ..., 1771. vol. 2. -- Special Collections

Plate CCXIV Quamoclit. Plate 214 of Miller, Philip. Figures of the most beautiful, useful, and uncommon plants described in the Gardeners Dictionary ... London : Printed for the author ..., 1771. vol. 2

Rare Books: Amaranthus cristatus - Crested Amaranth. Plate 75 of Edwards, John. The British herbal : containing one hundred plates of the most beautiful and scarce flowers and useful medicinal plants ... London : Printed for the author ..., 1770 -- Special Collections. This image appears in the Colonial Williamsburg book, "Flowers and Herbs of Early America".

Rare Books: Delphinum hortense - Garden Larkspur. Plate 61 of Edwards, John. The British herbal : containing one hundred plates of the most beautiful and scarce flowers and useful medicinal plants ... London : Printed for the author ..., 1770 -- Special Collections. This image appeared in the Colonial WIlliamsburg book, "Flowers and Herbs of Early America".