Graphic Design
Education and Tourism Materials Created for Employers
Along with creating photographs for employers I also stepped up to create flyers and other graphic material.
Handout created to accompany a display created for the Virginia Beach History Museums.
I created the copy and layout. Photographs were sourced from the internet.
Self-guided walking tour of the property.
Images and copy are a mix of previously created content and content I created.
Flyer announcing upcoming events created from existing images and copy.
Museum Panel
In June 1864 the Union Army built a pontoon bridge over the James River at Weyanoke Point. In order to protect the bridge earthworks were constructed across Kittiewan Plantation. In June 2014 exhibits were created to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the crossing. I research and wrote an exhibit panel on how the Civil War impacted the enslaved at Kittiewan.
Panel Text
From the first, African-Americans were vital to the success of Kittiewan as a viable agricultural operation and in the plantation household. Nearly nothing is known about their role in the earliest history of the property, but by the 1840s, the names of individual Selden family slaves appear in the baptismal and death records of Westover Church and Charles City County. Patsy (Wyatt) Hilton, Pleasant Whiting, Amy Whiting and Edmund Johnson are the only complete names of slaves from Kittiewan Plantation. Slaves with the given names of William, Bob, Nancy, Ned, and Miles also died and were buried on the property. However, no surnames have yet been linked to those individuals, nor has the cemetery in which they were interred been located.
After the Civil War, former slaves from Kittiewan and neighboring plantations continued to live in the area around Charles City. Census listings from the 1870s onward show that, while many individuals continued to work as farm laborers, they also purchased their own properties in the neighborhood, particularly along Weyanoke Road. The community they formed came to be known as Parrish Hill; one tangible reminder of that Parrish Hill community is the ca. 1917 schoolhouse that still stands at the intersection of Route 5 and Weyanoke Road. Two former Kittiewan slaves—“Aunt” Patsy Hilton and Pleasant Whiting—were photographed at Kittiewan during this period, as was the unidentified youngster posing with the ox cart. He well may have been Josh Barbour who, in 1932, wrote Loren Clark from New York City to ask for a job recommendation.