Pocahontas, Virginia, 1911 – Antique Wall Map
(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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This antique map of Pocahontas, Virginia, 1911 brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Aero view of Pocahontas, Va. 1911
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Pocahontas, Virginia, 1911
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Pocahontas, Virginia, in 1911 was a coal town in the Tazewell County hills of the southwestern part of the state, built around the rich seam of bituminous coal that gave the surrounding field its name. The coal was valued for its low smoke and high heat, and it moved out by rail on the Norfolk and Western line, which had made the mining towns of this district possible. Mining companies owned much of the housing, stores and churches, and the workforce drew heavily on immigrants from southern and eastern Europe alongside Black and white miners from the region. Life centered on the shift whistle, the company store and the rail yards, and residents knew the town first as a place that shipped coal. This drawing records the streets and buildings at the moment that trade was at its height.
| Created / published | 1911 |
|---|---|
| Creator | fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Pocahontas, 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--Virginia |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,088 × 5,232 px · prints to 27 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Aero view of Pocahontas, Va. 1911 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491148 |
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