Keystone, West Virginia, 1911 – Antique Wall Map
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Keystone, West Virginia, 1911. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Aero view of Keystone, West Virginia 1911
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Keystone, West Virginia, 1911
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Keystone, in McDowell County in the southern coalfields of West Virginia, was a coal town in 1911, built around the mines and the railroad that carried their output out of the mountains. The coal boom that reached the region in the decades before drew miners from across Appalachia, from eastern and southern Europe, and from Black communities of the Upper South, so the town's streets held many languages and many churches. Company housing, company stores, and the shift whistle set the rhythm of daily life, and a mine's payroll often decided whether a family could afford food that season. Labor conflict would sharpen across the southern coalfields in the years after, but in 1911 most residents would have known Keystone chiefly as a place of steady work and hard living.
| Created / published | 1911 |
|---|---|
| Creator | fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Keystone, West Virginia, drawn in 1911. 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--West Virginia |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 6,408 × 3,944 px · prints to 21 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Aero view of Keystone, West Virginia 1911 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491497 |
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