Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper

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Folder 2

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1. July 31, 1858 - "Outside of the Warwick Mill, in which the city of Richmond Feasted the Seventh Regiment and Richmond Volunteers."
2. June 24, 1865 - "View of Belle Island on the James River, Opposite Richmond."
3. August 19, 1865 - "The new market, Corner of Market and Sixth Street, Richmond, Va."
4. November 17, 1866 - "The Misses Cooke's School Room, Freedman's Bureau, Richmond, Va."
5. March 30, 1867 - "Provincial Government House, Richmond, Va."
6. April 27, 1867 - "Union Cemetery recently completed at Cold Harbor, Va."
7. June 1, 1867 - "The arrival of Jefferson Davis in Richmond, on Saturday, May 11th - Passing up Main Street under Escort of Gen. Burton and U.S. Calvary."
8. June 1, 1867 - "The arrival of Jefferson Davis on Board the Steamer John Sylvester, at Rockets's Landing, James River, Va., Saturday, May 11th."
9. February 15, 1868 - "The state convention at Richmond, VA., In Session."
10. January 19, 1878 - "Virginia. - The inauguration of Governor F.W.M. Holliday, At Richmond, January 1st."
11. March 16, 1878 - "Virginia. - The Lewis Brooks Museum at the University of Virginia, In Charlottesville."
12. November 8, 1879 - "Virginia. - Preliminary Celebration of the Centennial of Cornwallis's Surrender to Washington, at Yorktown, Oct. 23rd."
13. June 17, 1882 - "Virginia. - The home and Tomb of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello."
14. March 22, 1884 - "Virginia - The terrible disaster at the Pocahontas coal mines, March 13th - A young wife discovers the dead body of her husband, blown from the mouth of the mine."
15. March 22, 1884 - "Virginia - The frightful disaster at the Pocahontas Coal Mines, March 13th - Scenes at the mouth of the mines after the explosion."
16. May 31, 1884 - "The Virginia Battlefields - Visit of Members of the First Army Corps and Confederate officers to Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and the Wilderness, May 15th-17th."
17. February 21, 1885 - "Virginia. - The unfinished monument of the mother of Washington, at Fredericksburg."
18. August 22, 1885 - "Virginia. The Home of the Ex-Confederate soldiers and sailors at Richmond."; November 14, 1885 - "Scenes and incidents of a tour through Virginia. - A 'Construction-Train' on the Norfolk and Western Railroad."
19. December 11, 1886 - "Virginia. - Richmond College, as Completed, with its new dormitories, library, museum and art halls."
20. January 8, 1887 - "Virginia. - The new building of the Young Men's Christian Association, Richmond, just erected by the ladies of the city."
21. May 21, 1887 - "Virginia. - Dedication of a monument to General John Sedgwick on the battlefield of Spottsylvania, May 12th."
22. November 5, 1887 - "Virginia. - Southern Honors to the memory of the great Confederate chieftain - laying of the corner stone of the Robert E. Lee Monument at Richmond, October 27th."
23. September 8, 1888 - "President Cleveland's fishing excursion to the headwaters of the James River - scene in New River Valley, one of the famous trouting resorts of the region."

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