Waterfront at Wheeling, West Virginia – Vintage 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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A window into the past: Waterfront at Wheeling, West Virginia, preserved in this historic image. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Water front at Wheeling, W. Va.
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Waterfront at Wheeling, West Virginia
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Wheeling, on the Ohio River in the northern panhandle of West Virginia, stood at the center of the region's iron and steel trade in 1909. The city had long been known for its nail works, glassworks and the Wheeling Steel and Iron Company, and its riverfront served as a busy link between mills, coal barges and the railroads that ran along the bottomland. The Baltimore and Ohio's main line through the city made it a major rail junction, and the Wheeling Suspension Bridge, completed in 1849, still carried traffic across the river to Ohio. Residents of the day knew the city as a manufacturing town shaped by the river and the rail yards, with its waterfront a daily scene of steamboats, freight and workers headed to the mills.
| Created / published | 1909 |
|---|---|
| Creator | haines photo co. (conneaut, ohio) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--West Virginia |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 879 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Water front at Wheeling, W. Va. |
| Reference | WV Waterfront at Wheeling |
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