River front Parkers, West Virginia, 1909 – 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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This historic image of River front Parkers, West Virginia, 1909 brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: River front, Parkersburg, W. Va.
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River front Parkers, West Virginia, 1909
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Parkersburg, West Virginia, sat at the confluence of the Ohio and Little Kanawha rivers in 1909, and it served as the county seat of Wood County. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad had reached the town in the 1850s, so freight and passengers moved along both the rails and the river. Steamboats and barges still carried goods up and down the Ohio, and the waterfront was the town's commercial spine. Oil and natural gas drilling in the surrounding Ohio Valley counties brought money and workers to the region in these years. The riverfront shown here would have been the place where residents met incoming boats and loaded cargo, and where the town's commerce was most visible.
| 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 × 1,453 px · prints to 18 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | River front, Parkersburg, W. Va. |
| Reference | WV River front Parkers 1909 |
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