Yorktown Centennial, 1881

Yorktown Centennial, 1881

Virginia Indians, Pamunkey

Pamunkey Indians pose for an unknown photographer at the Yorktown Centennial, celebrating George Washington's victory at the Battle of Yorktown. Festivities were held from October 18 until October 21, 1881.

Standing from left to right are an unidentified man, an unidentified man, Theodora O. Dennis Cook (wife of George Major Cook), Theophilis Dennis, Paul Miles, Dick Allmond, an unidentified man, George Major Cook, and an unidentified man. Seated from left to right are Chief George Major Cook, Howard Lee Allmond, Albert Page, John Dennis, and Herbert Bradby.

Unknown

W. Palmer Gray Collection, Valentine Richmond History Center

October 1881

Special thanks to Ken Bradby for correcting some of the identifications in this photograph and sharing more family photos.

Courtesy of the Valentine Richmond History Center

late nineteenth century

central Virginia

Yorktown

Photograph