Petersburg
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Laura E. Willoughby
As curator of collections for the Petersburg Museums, Laura E. Willoughby was fortunate to cull several pictorial collections for the rarely published images included in this volume.
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INTRODUCTION
Since the 19th century, artists and photographers have been documenting places in Petersburg. The earliest images in this volume are illustrations done by William Robertson in the 1830s and 1840s. These two works capture buildings that have long since vanished. By studying these images, one gets an idea of the mid-19th-century streetscapes of a city whose land had first been settled by colonists nearly 200 years before Robertson’s sketches were produced.
The other artist represented in this volume is William S. Simpson Jr. Born in 1823, the younger Simpson followed in his father’s footsteps, becoming a prolific watercolorist. Unlike Robertson’s works, one can compare his illustration of May’s Row on High Street with the actual buildings as they still stand today.
By the outbreak of the Civil War, photography had become both an established art form and a commercial enterprise in the United States. Images of Petersburg made during this era provide documentary evidence of both military and civilian life. At least one member of prominent photographer Mathew Brady’s studio, and perhaps Brady himself, spent time in Petersburg in April and May 1865. The exterior photograph of Centre Hill included in this volume was taken by a member of Brady’s studio, and the image documents the Federal occupation of the house.
In the 1880s, several photographers had set up shop in Petersburg, including J. E. Rockwell and C. R. Rees and his sons. Rockwell appeared to have his photography business on the side, and he is listed in the 1880 city directory as the proprietor of a dry goods and millinery store as well. His commercially produced image of Blandford Church is an example of the entertainment value photographs held in the last quarter of the 19th century. In the decades before moving pictures and other technological pastimes, individuals collected and displayed photographs in albums. Landscapes, historic sites, newsworthy events, and portraits of famous individuals were conversation pieces in family