The Media Collection

A tailor uses scissors to cut fabric along suit pattern lines on a table in the Tailor's Shop.

A tailor uses his scissors to cut fabric on a table in the Tailor's Shop.

An historic trades tailor discusses fabric choices with a customer.

Still life of a drawer filled with trim material in the Tailor's Shop:

Still life of a drawer filled with tools and supplies in the Tailor's Shop.

Still life of tools and supplies needed for a tailor to make cloth covered buttons: scissors, thread, cloth, and buttons.

A still life of fabric and trim available in the Tailor's Shop.

Interpreters talk with each other outside the George Wythe South Office on a warm winter day.

Interpreters chat with one another on the steps of the Greenhow Tenement while another interpreter peers into her bag outside the Shoemaker's Shop.

A winter street scene showing the (l-r) Russell House, Millinery Shop, the Golden Ball, Unicorn's Horn and John Carter's Store on Duke of Gloucester Street.

The cupola and weathervane of the Courthouse at dawn on a snowy winter morning. The Courthouse is one of the original 88 buildings in the Historic Area.

A bright red cardinal sits on a branch of the live oak on Market Square during an early morning snowstorm in the Historic Area.

Character interpreters portray Thomas Jefferson and Jupiter in the program "Jefferson and Jupiter: Across the Board," in the Raleigh Tavern. Program description: Over a game of chess Thomas Jefferson and his manservant, Jupiter, challenge and amuse each other. In this depiction of a private moment in the life of a very public figure, chess becomes a metaphor for the power dynamics present in the master/slave relationship.

Character interpreters portray Thomas Jefferson and Jupiter in the program "Jefferson and Jupiter: Across the Board," in the Raleigh Tavern. Program description: Over a game of chess Thomas Jefferson and his manservant, Jupiter, challenge and amuse each other. In this depiction of a private moment in the life of a very public figure, chess becomes a metaphor for the power dynamics present in the master/slave relationship.

An interpreter walks up the steps to the second floor of the Governor's Palace on a late winter afternoon.

Men's and women's wigs smartly styled by Colonial Williamsburg wigmakers stand on a table in the Wigmaker's Shop.

Close-up of the hands of a weaver using his spinning wheel to spin thread in the Weaver's Shop.

Interpreters stand at the northern gates of the Capitol on a brisk winter day in the Historic Area.

A pair of interpreters guide a team of oxen towards the Gaol on a winter's day in the Historic Area.

An interpreter stands in the doorway of the Millinery Shop during the Christmas season.

Historic Trades carpenters and Historic Area interpreters work together to raise the tobacco barn at Great Hopes Plantation.

Orange and red fall leaves hang from the trees in the Historic Area as a horse drawn carriage passes by on Nicholson Street.

Hot chocolate is poured into a cup on a table in R.Charlton's Coffeehouse.

Portrait of an historic trades silversmith.

In the Peyton Randolph Kitchen, a Foodways Journeywoman cuts a lemon on a work table filled with a cooked ham and a variety of side dishes.