Bristol, Virginia, 1912 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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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A window into the past: Bristol, Virginia, 1912, preserved in this antique map. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Aero view of Bristol, Va. Tenn. 1912
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Bristol, Virginia, 1912
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Bristol, Virginia, in 1912 was a railroad town on the Tennessee line, with the state boundary running down the middle of its main street. Its position where the Norfolk and Western and Southern railways met made it a center for shipping and trade across the southern Appalachians, and its warehouses, mills, and businesses served the surrounding farms and mountain communities. Residents on the two sides of State Street lived under separate state laws, a division that shaped local government, schools, and commerce. The town's churches, schools, and rail yards were the everyday world of its people, and this map records the streets and buildings they walked past as the century's second decade began.
| Created / published | 1912 |
|---|---|
| Creator | fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Bristol, Virginia, drawn in 1912. Bird's-eye view maps were drawn by travelling artists who walked a town street by street, sketching every building from an imagined vantage point in the air, then sold the finished lithograph door to door by subscription. Roughly five thousand American towns were recorded this way between the 1860s and the 1920s, and for many of them the panoramic map is the most complete picture of the place that survives. Reproduced from the original in the Library of Congress collections. Printed to order on archival paper. Free shipping on all US orders. |
| Subjects | Panoramic maps--Virginia |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 10,704 × 8,448 px · prints to 36 × 28 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Aero view of Bristol, Va. Tenn. 1912 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491138 |
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