About Us
Richmond In Sight was created by Kitty Snow and Randy Jordan. Kitty, A Richmond native, is the great-granddaughter of Harris H. Stilson and grew up on her mother’s family home place in Bon Air, Virginia. She graduated from Huguenot High School and attended Longwood College and Virginia Commonwealth University.
During her career at C & P Telephone Company, she was the first female telephone installer/repairman assigned to Church Hill, Oregon Hill, Fulton Bottom, Jackson Ward and other downtown neighborhoods. This unusual job put her on the streets (and up the telephone poles) of Richmond’s oldest areas where she reconnected with the history of the city she loves. Her promotion to Bell Atlantic’s marketing department continued this familiarity when her accounts included Virginia Union University, the Eggleston Hotel, Lowe’s Theatre/Carpenter Center and other sites rich in Richmond history.
Since 1986, she has been a Realtor and is the broker for her company, Home Team, Realtors. Her passion for Richmond compliments her real estate business and provides opportunities for clients to experience Richmond in ways other Realtors can’t offer.
Upon inheriting what was thought to be the entire Stilson photography collection, Kitty was determined to share these amazing images of Richmond from the early 1900’s. The discovery of hundreds more photos, negatives, and even the Stilson movie camera, complete with instructions and price sheet crystallized this desire to share the Stilson legacy and led to the creation of Richmond In Sight.
Giving presentations in various venues allows Kitty to share these collections with our communities. They also provide opportunities to educate, to collect oral histories of Richmond natives and to find or identify the people pictured in Harry Stilson’s photographs.
Her children, Patrick Spraker, Anne Shultz, and Molly Walker have all lived in parts of Richmond recorded in their great-great-grandfather's photos, inspiring their mom to preserve this vignette of Richmond life for them and everyone who loves the River City.
Randy Jordan moved to Richmond in 1959. His family’s historical connection to Virginia evolves from the area around Hartwood Church in Stafford County, Virginia and began in the late 1600s. He graduated from the Collegiate Schools, disrupted his UVA education to serve in the Air Force and completed formal education with a M.Ed. in Instructional Technology. After working as a management consultant and training contractor from Washington, D.C. to Portland, Oregon he returned to Richmond. He provides technological and research support for Richmond In Sight.
During her career at C & P Telephone Company, she was the first female telephone installer/repairman assigned to Church Hill, Oregon Hill, Fulton Bottom, Jackson Ward and other downtown neighborhoods. This unusual job put her on the streets (and up the telephone poles) of Richmond’s oldest areas where she reconnected with the history of the city she loves. Her promotion to Bell Atlantic’s marketing department continued this familiarity when her accounts included Virginia Union University, the Eggleston Hotel, Lowe’s Theatre/Carpenter Center and other sites rich in Richmond history.
Since 1986, she has been a Realtor and is the broker for her company, Home Team, Realtors. Her passion for Richmond compliments her real estate business and provides opportunities for clients to experience Richmond in ways other Realtors can’t offer.
Upon inheriting what was thought to be the entire Stilson photography collection, Kitty was determined to share these amazing images of Richmond from the early 1900’s. The discovery of hundreds more photos, negatives, and even the Stilson movie camera, complete with instructions and price sheet crystallized this desire to share the Stilson legacy and led to the creation of Richmond In Sight.
Giving presentations in various venues allows Kitty to share these collections with our communities. They also provide opportunities to educate, to collect oral histories of Richmond natives and to find or identify the people pictured in Harry Stilson’s photographs.
Her children, Patrick Spraker, Anne Shultz, and Molly Walker have all lived in parts of Richmond recorded in their great-great-grandfather's photos, inspiring their mom to preserve this vignette of Richmond life for them and everyone who loves the River City.
Randy Jordan moved to Richmond in 1959. His family’s historical connection to Virginia evolves from the area around Hartwood Church in Stafford County, Virginia and began in the late 1600s. He graduated from the Collegiate Schools, disrupted his UVA education to serve in the Air Force and completed formal education with a M.Ed. in Instructional Technology. After working as a management consultant and training contractor from Washington, D.C. to Portland, Oregon he returned to Richmond. He provides technological and research support for Richmond In Sight.
