Bluefield, West Virginia, 1911 – Antique Map Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Bluefield, West Virginia, 1911. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Aero view of Bluefield, West Virginia 1911
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Bluefield, West Virginia, 1911
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Bluefield, West Virginia, in 1911 was a young coal and railroad town on the state's southern edge, near the Virginia line. Its growth followed the rich bituminous seams of the Pocahontas and Flat Top fields and the Norfolk and Western Railway, which carried coal from the surrounding mountain camps to markets and ports to the east. Residents would have known the town as a busy rail junction where mine payrolls, freight traffic, and the storefronts along the main commercial streets rose and fell together. The map's careful rendering of the rail yards, depots, and downtown blocks reflects the commercial energy of a place that had grown quickly within a generation.
| Created / published | 1911 |
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| Creator | fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer), fowler & basham |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Bluefield, West Virginia, drawn in 1911. Bird's-eye view maps were drawn by travelling artists who walked a town street by street, sketching every building from an imagined vantage point in the air, then sold the finished lithograph door to door by subscription. Roughly five thousand American towns were recorded this way between the 1860s and the 1920s, and for many of them the panoramic map is the most complete picture of the place that survives. Reproduced from the original in the Library of Congress collections. Printed to order on archival paper. Free shipping on all US orders. |
| Subjects | Panoramic maps--West Virginia |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 11,738 × 8,304 px · prints to 39 × 28 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Aero view of Bluefield, West Virginia 1911 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491487 |
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