The collection contains approximately 100 printer's blocks of images that were used in the book "The History of Lower Tidewater Virginia" written by Rogers Dey Whichard, a foreign languages instructor at the Norfolk Division of the College of William and Mary. The book was published by Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc. in 1959. Each printer's block is wrapped in newspaper with a photograph of the corresponding image from the book taped to the outside.

From Volume I, page 61

From Volume I, page 265

From Volume I, page 290

From Volume I, page 507

From Volume I, page 212

From Volume I, page 215

From Volume I, page 348

From Volume I, page 182

From Volume I, page 272

From Volume I, page 92

From Volume I, page 358

From Volume I, page 220

From Volume II, Frontispiece

From Volume II, page 33

From Volume II, page 114

From Volume II, page 173

From Volume II, page 49

From Volume II, page 139

From Volume II, page 24