Birds eye view Wheeling, West Virginia – Vintage Map 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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This historic image of Birds eye view Wheeling, West Virginia brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: [Bird's eye view of Wheeling, W. Va.]
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Birds eye view Wheeling, West Virginia
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Wheeling, West Virginia, sat on a narrow bend of the Ohio River in 1909, a manufacturing city squeezed between the water and steep hills. Its mills and factories, especially iron, steel, nails, and window glass, drew workers and kept river barges and rail lines busy. The old National Road crossed the river here on the Wheeling Suspension Bridge, a link that still mattered to the city's sense of itself as a crossroads between the East and the Midwest. Wheeling had also been the seat of the wartime government of Virginia's western counties and had served as West Virginia's capital until 1870, so local residents took pride in a civic past that reached back well before the state's founding.
| 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 × 808 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | [Bird's eye view of Wheeling, W. Va.] |
| Reference | WV Birds eye view Wheeling |
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