Battle Axe Shoe Co., Richmond, Virginia, 1909 – Historic Photograph 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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A window into the past: Battle Axe Shoe Co., Richmond, Virginia, 1909, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Battle Axe Shoe Co., Richmond, Va.
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Battle Axe Shoe Co., Richmond, Virginia, 1909
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Richmond, Virginia, in 1909 was a city of railroads, factories, and tobacco, and it still carried the weight of having been the Confederate capital half a century earlier. Its rail yards and river-front works drew workers from the surrounding countryside, and its cigarette and plug tobacco plants, along with iron, flour, and other manufacturing, gave the city much of its payroll. Shoe and leather works such as the Battle Axe Shoe Company were part of this mix of light industry, supplying goods that moved out by rail to markets across the South. Many residents of the period would have known Richmond as a city of neat rows of brick houses on the hills above the James River, with streetcar lines carrying workers between home and the factory gates.
| Created / published | 1909 |
|---|---|
| Creator | haines photo co. (conneaut, ohio) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Virginia |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,812 px · prints to 18 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Battle Axe Shoe Co., Richmond, Va. |
| Reference | VA Battle Axe Shoe Co., Richmond 1909 |
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