Cumberland Knob: pen-and-ink site plan of Blue Ridge Parkway area – Antique Print
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Cumberland Knob: pen-and-ink site plan of Blue Ridge Parkway area. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Cumberland Knob: pen-and-ink site plan of Blue Ridge Parkway area
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Cumberland Knob, a rounded summit near the Virginia-North Carolina line along the Blue Ridge Parkway, is the subject of this careful pen-and-ink site plan. Drawings like this one were used to map the land before and during the parkway's construction, which began in the 1930s as a Depression-era public works project meant to link Shenandoah National Park with the Great Smoky Mountains. Site plans of this kind show contours, roads, and built features in fine line work, so they record how engineers and designers shaped the landscape around the knob. Worth noticing is the drawing's precision: each line was made by hand, offering a view of the parkway's planning that photographs of the finished road cannot provide.
| Original scan | 14,424 × 9,812 px · prints to 48 × 33 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 00013a |
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