Richmond, Virginia, 1919 – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Richmond, Virginia, 1919. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Richmond, Va.
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Richmond, Virginia, 1919
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Richmond, Virginia, in 1919 was a tobacco and manufacturing city still recovering from the national demobilization that followed the Armistice the previous November. Tobacco plants, cigarette and plug factories, and the warehouses along the river drove much of its payroll, and many of its workers were Black Richmonders who labored in those plants under segregation laws. Broad Street served as the main shopping and streetcar corridor, while the James River falls and the rail yards kept freight moving through the city. Residents who had lived through the fall 1918 influenza epidemic would have remembered closed schools and crowded hospitals, and they were watching the city grow past 170,000 people.
| Created / published | 1919 |
|---|---|
| Creator | g.l. hall opt. co. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Virginia |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,256 × 775 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Richmond, Va. |
| Reference | VA Richmond 1919 |
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