Roanoke City, Virginia, 1915 – Antique Photo 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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Step back in time with Roanoke City, Virginia, 1915, a historic image rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Birds eye view of Roanoke City, Va.
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Roanoke City, Virginia, 1915
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Roanoke, Virginia, in 1915 was a railroad city that had grown quickly from a small crossroads settlement called Big Lick, which took the name Roanoke when it was incorporated as a city in 1884. The Norfolk and Western Railway's large shops and rail yards gave the town much of its payroll, drawing machinists, brakemen, and their families from the surrounding countryside and from across the Blue Ridge. Wholesale trade, banking, and a growing number of brick office buildings and churches reflected a local economy that residents proudly called the "Magic City." Life still moved at the pace of the trains, with the whistles and switching engines marking the shifts of a town that expected to keep expanding.
| Created / published | 1915 |
|---|---|
| Creator | g.n. wertz studio |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Virginia |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,158 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birds eye view of Roanoke City, Va. |
| Reference | VA Roanoke City 1915 |
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