The Ridge: Blue Ridge Parkway map with sketched vignettes – Antique Wall Map
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Step back in time with The Ridge: Blue Ridge Parkway map with sketched vignettes, an antique map rich in period detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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The Ridge: Blue Ridge Parkway map with sketched vignettes
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The Ridge is less a photograph than a working map, with small pen-and-ink vignettes sketched into the margins and along the route of the Blue Ridge Parkway. The parkway itself was conceived in the 1930s as a scenic road linking Shenandoah National Park in Virginia with the Great Smoky Mountains in North Carolina and Tennessee, and it was built over several decades as a New Deal-era project. Pictorial maps like this one were a popular way to promote such roads, presenting the drive as a continuous series of views, overlooks and mountain farms. Look closely at the small scenes to see what travelers were meant to notice along the way.
| Original scan | 14,457 × 9,840 px · prints to 48 × 33 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 00003a |
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