Winslow Williams photograph collection, 1925-1980.

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Winslow Williams photograph collection, 1925-1980.

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The Winslow Williams Photograph Collection consists of approximately 12,000 negatives and 1000 prints taken by Winslow Williams over the course of his life. The collection's extensiveness, both chronologically and geographically, provides excellent documentation of daily life in Loudoun County during a key period of the county's expansion. Most of the photographs in the collection are the work product of Winslow Williams's professional photography studio and document varied facets of county life during the mid-twentieth century. Agricultural activities, sports, community, and social events are well represented. Additionally, there are many photographs of members of Loudoun County's African American community, including the Loudoun County Emancipation Association, Douglass High School in Leesburg and Carver Elementary School in Purcellville. The collection is also very important for genealogical research; many of Williams's professional photographs are studio portraits of students and families.

10.7 cubic ft.

Thomas Balch Library

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Loudoun County Emancipation Association

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Williams, WInslow, 1913-1993

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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 W...

Carver Elementary School (Purcellville, Va.)

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Douglass High School (Leesburg, Va.)

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