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The Highlands: Blue Ridge Parkway pen-and-ink illustrated map – Antique Wall Map

The Highlands: Blue Ridge Parkway pen-and-ink illustrated map — antique map
The Highlands: Blue Ridge Parkway pen-and-ink illustrated map. Antique map from the Blue Ridge Parkway collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare antique map captures The Highlands: Blue Ridge Parkway pen-and-ink illustrated map in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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The Highlands: Blue Ridge Parkway pen-and-ink illustrated map

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A pen-and-ink map of the Blue Ridge Parkway, titled "The Highlands," stands apart from the usual photographs on this board because it shows the road as a drawn landscape rather than a view from it. The Parkway was begun in 1935 as a scenic route linking Shenandoah National Park in Virginia with the Great Smoky Mountains in North Carolina and Tennessee, and it was built as a work of design as much as engineering. Illustrated maps like this one helped travelers see the road's overlooks, mountain ridges and historic sites at a glance, and they are worth noticing for the fine linework that turns a route into a place.

Original scan2,000 × 1,347 px · prints to 7 × 4 in at 300 dpi
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