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- Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
- VHS_140112_02.JPG: This make-up palette was one of twenty-five used on actor Daniel Day-Lewis for the production of Steven Spielberg's 2012 film Lincoln. Invented by make-up artist Kenny Myers, Skin Illustrator is a system of water-and-abrasion-resistant, alcohol-activated make-up. This kid was given to Shelley Illmensee, a production assistant for the make-up department, by Myers, who served as key make-up artist on the film. Lincoln was filmed from October to December 2011 and shot entirely in the Richmond region.
- VHS_140112_31.JPG: Battle Abbey Centennial: 1912-2012:
This neoclassical structure was built in 1912 by the Confederate Memorial Association. Battle Abbey, as the building came to be known, came into the Virginia Historical Society's possession in 1946 when the two institutions merged. The VHS, a private nonprofit, was founded in 1831. The building has seen several major expansions.
- VHS_140112_49.JPG: In memory
of the one and one half million
horses and mules of the Confederate
and Union armies who were killed,
were wounded, or died from disease
in the Civil War.
- VHS_140112_58.JPG: Gift of Paul Mellon
to the Virginia Historical Society
Sculpture by Tessa Pullan, 1996
- VHS_140112_78.JPG: North Anna River Bridge
built 1926
- VHS_141227_05.JPG: Virginia Historical Society
The Battle Abbey:
On a sunny May afternoon in 1912, a crowd of onlookers watched workmen hoist into place the cornerstone of a building that would instantly become a Richmond landmark. Even before its completion, local people were calling the building Battle Abbey. Today it forms the core of the Virginia Historical Society's headquarters. Erected by a different institution that no longer exists, it has endured a long and difficult beginning, dogged by money woes and spurred on by lingering sectional animosity.
In 1894, Confederate veteran and New York business Charles Baltzell "Broadwell" Rouss pledged $100,000 toward a building to house artifacts of southern leaders. Rouss's project led veterans to create the Confederate Memorial Association (CMA). In 1898, the CMA chose Richmond as the site of its Confederte Memorial Institute. The project languished, but a rekindled fund drive prompted the Robert E. Lee Camp of Confederate veterans to grant part of its grounds to the CMA. After a national competition, the Philadelphia firm Bissel & Sinkler submitted the winning design.
When the institute opened in 1921, Confederate organizations were in decline. The CMA was fortunate to have author Douglas Southall Freeman as its president in its twilight years. He turned for help to the VHS, then residing in a cramped brick townhouse near Capitol Square. On July 8, 1946, the society authorized a merger. After another decade, the generosity of Virginia and Alexander Weddell and Paul Mellon gave the VHS the means to enlarge Battle Abbey. That took place in 1959, with later additions in 1992, 1998, and 2006. The complex now interprets Virginia history, from the prehistoric past to the present. The original central core is now itself an artifact.
- VHS_141227_13.JPG: Copper time capsule, 1912
This copper time capsule was placed in the cornerstone of the Battle Abbey on May 20, 1912. On April 18, 2012, Paul Levengood, VHS President and CEO, removed the one-hundred-year-old time capsule from the cornerstone. The box was stuffed to the lid with more than 100 items, including newspapers, postcards, Confederate army documents and currency, and materials relating to the Confederate Memorial Institute.
- VHS_141227_19.JPG: Cornerstone Laying, 1912
Walter Washington Foster
On May 20, 1912, officials of the Confederate Memorial Association laid the cornerstone of the Battle Abbey. A carved niche in the cornerstone contained the copper time capsule in this case.
- VHS_141227_24.JPG: Building the Confederate Memorial Institute, 1913
Walter Washington Foster
This photograph of the Confederate Memorial Institute, known informally as Battle Abbey, was taken on January 8, 1913, almost one year after the groundbreaking ceremony took place.
- VHS_141227_34.JPG: Werowocomoco:
The site of Werowocomoco is located nearby at Purtan Bay. This Algonquian Indian settlement was the center of power of the Powhatan paramount chiefdom when the English established James Fort in 1607. Captain John Smith was brought to Werowocomoco as a captive in December 1607 where he met the Powhatan leader Wahunsonacock and his daughter Pocahontas. Archaeologists working closely with present-day members of Virginia Indian tribes investigated the site from 2002 to 2010. They documented that Werowocomoco was an extensive settlement, including trenches defining an area of restricted access or sacred space, from the 13th century through the early 17th century.
This is a copy of the Virginia historical marker that tells people why Werowocomoco is so important. The highway marker will soon be erected close to the site of Werowocomoco in Gloucester County. You have probably seen other state historical markers around Virginia. Today, there are more than 2,400 different ones along highways and in towns. The very first historical markers were erected in 1927.
- VHS_141227_42.JPG: The Werowocomoco Site:
This is a conjectural reconstruction of the Werowocomoco Site based on the archaeological evidence. The whole site has not been investigated yet, and the full extent of the ditch and bank "earthworks" is not known. The model shows houses outside of the earthworks and the large "yehakin," or house, that was built inside the ceremonial enclosure.
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