Red Cross 1940
Click here to get your copy of this historic image In April and May 1940, volunteers with the Chesterfield County branch of the American Red Cross Production Corps put in 314 collective hours of work...
View ArticleDecember 1971
Click here to get your copy of this historic image This December 1971 photo shows the old Memorial Guidance Clinic in Highland Park in Richmond. The youth psychiatric facility, one of 10 original child...
View ArticleDecember 1962
Click here to get your copy of this historic image In December 1962, children crowded the bookmobile when it stopped at 25th and Q streets in Richmond’s East End. In just four weeks of visits, the...
View ArticleMay 1952
Click here to get your copy of this historic image In May 1952, children at the Belle Bryan Day Nursery prepared for an open house. The nursery was a Community Chest agency (now United Way). Each day...
View ArticleApril 1966
Click here to get your copy of this historic image This April 1966 image shows the interior of one of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts’ Artmobiles – the nation’s first state-sponsored traveling art...
View ArticleApril 1951
Click here to get your copy of this historic image In April 1951, three American Red Cross canteeners, representing three war periods, gathered for the Richmond chapter’s rally marking the graduation...
View ArticleJune 1946
Click here to get your copy of this historic image In June 1946, 3,000 Shriners staged a parade downtown as part of the 60th anniversary celebration for Richmond’s ACCA Temple. Nearly 300 candidates...
View ArticleNovember 1947
Click here to get your copy of this historic image In November 1947, the James River Garden Club sponsored a tour of five houses to raise funds to restore the gardens at the Valentine Museum, shown...
View ArticleOctober 1942
Click here to get your copy of this historic image In October 1942, the Richmond chapter of the American Red Cross moved into its new headquarters in the Hancock-Wirt-Caskie House at Fifth and Main...
View ArticleAugust 1961
Click here to get your copy of this historic image In August 1961, Mrs. S.A. Rhyne and nine of her 11 children lined up at the Pamunkey Regional Library’s bookmobile. The children (from left) are...
View ArticleNovember 1953
Click here to get your copy of this historic image In November 1953, Natalie Curtis (right), superintendent of Sheltering Arms Hospital, pointed out some of its needs to Mrs. Earl Brown, president of...
View ArticleMarch 1962
Click here to get your copy of this historic image In March 1962, Lee Hazelgrove, 4, took to his fire engine to test the new sidewalks at the Richmond Home for Boys in Henrico County. About 400 feet of...
View ArticleNovember 1963
Click here to get your copy of this historic image In November 1963, with polio a major concern, Sabin vaccine was loaded from a helicopter to an ambulance to be distributed at 15 clinics in the...
View ArticleMid-1949
Click here to get your copy of this historic image In mid-1949, youths from the Richmond Boys Home were eager to appear in This is Our Way, a 20-minute movie that told the story of the Community...
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