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A Window on Williamsburg
A Window on Williamsburg is an intimate glimpse of the eighteenth-century capital of Virginia, restored now to the days of its colonial greatness.
Two hundred years ago Williamsburg was about to close out its career as the seat of government of England's largest colony in America. For a few years, during the Revolution, it would continue as capital of the new state of Virginia, then fade into the background of history--an outdoor storehouse, so to speak, of relics and memories of America's founding.
Today the old city looks much as it did when Patrick Henry thundered his defiance of King George III and the Virginia Convention of Delegates voted its historic resolution for independence. Williamsburg's intangible meaning for Americans and its appearance out of the past make it today a paradise for the history buff and the camera bug alike.
In this revision and expansion of A Window on Williamsburg, with 35 new pictures from the imaginative lens of Taylor Lewis, the character and spirit of the restored city have been captured as never before. The architecture so uniquely Virginian, the antiques that constitute one of the world's finest collections of eighteenth-century furnishings, the gardens ever changing with the seasons, the people of the colonial city going about their daily tasks in the working garb of another age--all form pieces of the colorful mosaic that is now twentieth-century Williamsburg.
This is truly a "window on Williamsburg"--120 pictures in full color of the city that turned back time.
Two hundred years ago Williamsburg was about to close out its career as the seat of government of England's largest colony in America. For a few years, during the Revolution, it would continue as capital of the new state of Virginia, then fade into the background of history--an outdoor storehouse, so to speak, of relics and memories of America's founding.
Today the old city looks much as it did when Patrick Henry thundered his defiance of King George III and the Virginia Convention of Delegates voted its historic resolution for independence. Williamsburg's intangible meaning for Americans and its appearance out of the past make it today a paradise for the history buff and the camera bug alike.
In this revision and expansion of A Window on Williamsburg, with 35 new pictures from the imaginative lens of Taylor Lewis, the character and spirit of the restored city have been captured as never before. The architecture so uniquely Virginian, the antiques that constitute one of the world's finest collections of eighteenth-century furnishings, the gardens ever changing with the seasons, the people of the colonial city going about their daily tasks in the working garb of another age--all form pieces of the colorful mosaic that is now twentieth-century Williamsburg.
This is truly a "window on Williamsburg"--120 pictures in full color of the city that turned back time.
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First published January 1, 1975
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July 2, 2021
Basically a photo album of history is Williamsburg, Virginia. Forty-five years after the book’s printing the photos aren’t nearly as sharp or colorful as what we find today. It just took me a long time to put it in the to-read stack.
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