Print of the Bodleian Plate, depicting the colonial architecture of Williamsburg, Virginia. The plate, discovered in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, was critical to the reconstruction of Williamsburg in the early-mid 20th century.
Collection: A. D. White Architectural Photographs, Cornell University Library
Accession Number: 15/5/3090.00557
Title: College of William and Mary
Map date: ca. 1781-ca. 1782
Photograph date: ca. 1935
Location: North and Central America: United States; Virginia, Williamsburg
Materials: gelatin silver print
Image: 7 x 9 1/4 in.; 17.78 x 23.495 cm
Provenance: Transfer from the College of Architecture, Art and Planning
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