Williams, WInslow, 1913-1993

Winslow Williams was born in New York in 1913, the son of a prominent lawyer. As a toddler, his family moved to Loudoun County, Va. He learned photography from his stepmother as a child, and worked as a photographer for the Navy during World War II. After the war, he ran a photography studio in Leesburg that closed in the early 1950s. Two years before his death in 1993, he donated his collection of negatives and prints to Thomas Balch Library in Leesburg, Va. Williams was also the owner of the Winslow Williams Real Estate company and a founding member of the Loudoun County Board of Realtors. He was an enthusiastic naturalist who enjoyed fishing, ornithology, and gardening; for many years; his garden extended from his back yard into the rear of Thomas Balch Library.