Auto road along Grandfather Mt., Linville, N.C. – Antique 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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Auto road along Grandfather Mt., Linville, N.C. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Auto road along Grandfather Mt., Linville, N.C.
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A winding automobile road follows the flank of Grandfather Mountain near Linville, North Carolina, a scene that would have been unusual in the early 1910s, when cars were still a novelty outside cities. Linville had developed into a summer resort in the Blue Ridge highlands, drawing visitors from the lowlands to escape the heat, and roads like this carried them into mountain terrain that had recently been reachable mainly by wagon or on foot. The photoprint is copyrighted by Herbert W. Pelton and dated c1912, though that information comes from an old caption card and has not been verified.
| Created / published | c1912 Dec. 31. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Photoprint copyrighted by Herbert W. Pelton. No. 7. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ph. Ind.; Hiking; Autos--1912; Geogr. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,224 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-145367 |
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