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The Plateau: Blue Ridge Parkway pen-and-ink illustrated map – Historic Map Reproduction

The Plateau: Blue Ridge Parkway pen-and-ink illustrated map — antique map
The Plateau: Blue Ridge Parkway pen-and-ink illustrated map. Antique map from the Blue Ridge Parkway collection.

(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 The Plateau: Blue Ridge Parkway pen-and-ink illustrated map. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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The Plateau: Blue Ridge Parkway pen-and-ink illustrated map

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The Blue Ridge Parkway is a scenic road running roughly 469 miles through the Appalachian mountains of Virginia and North Carolina, and this pen-and-ink map focuses on the high country plateau the road crosses. Hand-drawn maps like this one were often made to show travelers the sequence of overlooks, gaps, and mountain views along the route rather than to serve as precise survey documents. The parkway was built during the 1930s as a Depression-era public works project and was designed to link Shenandoah National Park with Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Its ink linework invites a closer look at how the artist rendered the rugged terrain and the winding course of the road.

Original scan14,445 × 9,821 px · prints to 48 × 33 in at 300 dpi
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