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Easley Bridge, Spanning Norfolk Southern Corporation railroad tracks on Poplar Street, Bluefield, Mercer County, WV

Easley Bridge, Spanning Norfolk Southern Corporation railroad tracks o...

Significance: The 14-span Easley Bridge is representative of the many mid-scale urban bridges built throughout West Virginia during the first half of the twentieth century which emphasized reduced material requ... More

Easley Bridge, Spanning Norfolk Southern Corporation railroad tracks on Poplar Street, Bluefield, Mercer County, WV

Easley Bridge, Spanning Norfolk Southern Corporation railroad tracks o...

Significance: The 14-span Easley Bridge is representative of the many mid-scale urban bridges built throughout West Virginia during the first half of the twentieth century which emphasized reduced material requ... More

Coal miners waiting along road for bus to take them home. In Welch, Bluefield section, West Virginia

Coal miners waiting along road for bus to take them home. In Welch, Bl...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railway tracks, train station, railroad building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Neoclassical Law & Commerce Building, the first modern office building in Bluefield, West Virginia, was completed in 1918., marked the city's entrance into the twentieth century

The Neoclassical Law & Commerce Building, the first modern office buil...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The six-story Neo-Classical Revival building was finished in 1918. Stone pilasters, Doric columns and a projecting stone balcony, comb... More

Easley Bridge, Spanning Norfolk Southern Corporation railroad tracks on Poplar Street, Bluefield, Mercer County, WV

Easley Bridge, Spanning Norfolk Southern Corporation railroad tracks o...

Significance: The 14-span Easley Bridge is representative of the many mid-scale urban bridges built throughout West Virginia during the first half of the twentieth century which emphasized reduced material requ... More

Easley Bridge, Spanning Norfolk Southern Corporation railroad tracks on Poplar Street, Bluefield, Mercer County, WV

Easley Bridge, Spanning Norfolk Southern Corporation railroad tracks o...

Significance: The 14-span Easley Bridge is representative of the many mid-scale urban bridges built throughout West Virginia during the first half of the twentieth century which emphasized reduced material requ... More

Part of coal mining town in Welch. Bluefield section of West Virginia

Part of coal mining town in Welch. Bluefield section of West Virginia

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A building in Bluefield, West Virginia, that once housed a shop that sold "retread" tires

A building in Bluefield, West Virginia, that once housed a shop that s...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Retreading, also known as "recapping," or "remolding" involved applying new treads to worn tires, a less-expensive alternative to repl... More

Easley Bridge, Spanning Norfolk Southern Corporation railroad tracks on Poplar Street, Bluefield, Mercer County, WV

Easley Bridge, Spanning Norfolk Southern Corporation railroad tracks o...

Significance: The 14-span Easley Bridge is representative of the many mid-scale urban bridges built throughout West Virginia during the first half of the twentieth century which emphasized reduced material requ... More

Easley Bridge, Spanning Norfolk Southern Corporation railroad tracks on Poplar Street, Bluefield, Mercer County, WV

Easley Bridge, Spanning Norfolk Southern Corporation railroad tracks o...

Significance: The 14-span Easley Bridge is representative of the many mid-scale urban bridges built throughout West Virginia during the first half of the twentieth century which emphasized reduced material requ... More

Easley Bridge, Spanning Norfolk Southern Corporation railroad tracks on Poplar Street, Bluefield, Mercer County, WV

Easley Bridge, Spanning Norfolk Southern Corporation railroad tracks o...

Significance: The 14-span Easley Bridge is representative of the many mid-scale urban bridges built throughout West Virginia during the first half of the twentieth century which emphasized reduced material requ... More

A black and white photo of a small town, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a small town, West Virginia. Farm Security ...

Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Coal mining town in Welch. Bluefield section of West Virginia

Coal mining town in Welch. Bluefield section of West Virginia

Public domain photograph of a historic place in Virginia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Easley Bridge, Spanning Norfolk Southern Corporation railroad tracks on Poplar Street, Bluefield, Mercer County, WV

Easley Bridge, Spanning Norfolk Southern Corporation railroad tracks o...

Significance: The 14-span Easley Bridge is representative of the many mid-scale urban bridges built throughout West Virginia during the first half of the twentieth century which emphasized reduced material requ... More

B.E. view of Bluefields [sic], West Virginia.

B.E. view of Bluefields [sic], West Virginia.

Public domain photograph - 19th-century gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Coal mining town in Welch. Bluefield section of West Virginia

Coal mining town in Welch. Bluefield section of West Virginia

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of coal miners, workers, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Coal mining town in Welch, Bluefield section of West Virginia

Coal mining town in Welch, Bluefield section of West Virginia

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of coal miners, workers, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Elizabeth Kee Federal Office Building and Post Office in Bluefield, West Virginia

The Elizabeth Kee Federal Office Building and Post Office in Bluefield...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by James Knox Taylor, the building opened in 1911 Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive... More

Coal miners waiting for bus to take them home. In Welch, Bluefield section, West Virginia

Coal miners waiting for bus to take them home. In Welch, Bluefield sec...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of coal miners, workers, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Coal miners waiting along road for bus to take them home. In Welch, Bluefield section, West Virginia

Coal miners waiting along road for bus to take them home. In Welch, Bl...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of coal miners, workers, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Backyard of miner's home near Bluefield, West Virginia

Backyard of miner's home near Bluefield, West Virginia

Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Easley Bridge, Spanning Norfolk Southern Corporation railroad tracks on Poplar Street, Bluefield, Mercer County, WV

Easley Bridge, Spanning Norfolk Southern Corporation railroad tracks o...

Significance: The 14-span Easley Bridge is representative of the many mid-scale urban bridges built throughout West Virginia during the first half of the twentieth century which emphasized reduced material requ... More

Easley Bridge, Spanning Norfolk Southern Corporation railroad tracks on Poplar Street, Bluefield, Mercer County, WV

Easley Bridge, Spanning Norfolk Southern Corporation railroad tracks o...

Significance: The 14-span Easley Bridge is representative of the many mid-scale urban bridges built throughout West Virginia during the first half of the twentieth century which emphasized reduced material requ... More

Coal mining town in Welch, Bluefield section of West Virginia

Coal mining town in Welch, Bluefield section of West Virginia

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Coal miners waiting along road for bus to take them home. In Welch, Bluefield section, West Virginia

Coal miners waiting along road for bus to take them home. In Welch, Bl...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of coal miners, workers, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a village, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a village, West Virginia. Farm Security Adm...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Easley Bridge, Spanning Norfolk Southern Corporation railroad tracks on Poplar Street, Bluefield, Mercer County, WV

Easley Bridge, Spanning Norfolk Southern Corporation railroad tracks o...

Significance: The 14-span Easley Bridge is representative of the many mid-scale urban bridges built throughout West Virginia during the first half of the twentieth century which emphasized reduced material requ... More

Artist Larry Akers's "Beginning of an Era Gone By" on a downtown Bluefield, West Virginia, building depicts the days when Bluefield was a booming railroad town, often called the "Camelot of Appalachia"

Artist Larry Akers's "Beginning of an Era Gone By" on a downtown Bluef...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

Easley Bridge, Spanning Norfolk Southern Corporation railroad tracks on Poplar Street, Bluefield, Mercer County, WV

Easley Bridge, Spanning Norfolk Southern Corporation railroad tracks o...

Significance: The 14-span Easley Bridge is representative of the many mid-scale urban bridges built throughout West Virginia during the first half of the twentieth century which emphasized reduced material requ... More

Easley Bridge, Spanning Norfolk Southern Corporation railroad tracks on Poplar Street, Bluefield, Mercer County, WV

Easley Bridge, Spanning Norfolk Southern Corporation railroad tracks o...

Significance: The 14-span Easley Bridge is representative of the many mid-scale urban bridges built throughout West Virginia during the first half of the twentieth century which emphasized reduced material requ... More

Easley Bridge, Spanning Norfolk Southern Corporation railroad tracks on Poplar Street, Bluefield, Mercer County, WV

Easley Bridge, Spanning Norfolk Southern Corporation railroad tracks o...

Significance: The 14-span Easley Bridge is representative of the many mid-scale urban bridges built throughout West Virginia during the first half of the twentieth century which emphasized reduced material requ... More

Part of coal mining town of Welch, West Virginia. Bluefield section

Part of coal mining town of Welch, West Virginia. Bluefield section

Picryl description: Public domain image of railway tracks, train station, railroad building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Father and son from Bluefield, West Virginia Both employed at powder plant. Radford, Virginia. In boardinghouse room which they share with four others

Father and son from Bluefield, West Virginia Both employed at powder p...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s Virginia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Secretarial staff for Liberian President. Miss Aurelia Toyer and Miss Torreceita E. Pinder, stenographers in the United States State Department, were assigned to the staff of his Excellency, Edwin Barclay, President of the Republic of Liberia, during his stay at the historic Blair House in Washington, D.C. Miss Toyer seated at typewriter is a native of Bluefield, West Virginia and Miss Pinder comes from Gainesville, Florida

Secretarial staff for Liberian President. Miss Aurelia Toyer and Miss ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Easley Bridge, Spanning Norfolk Southern Corporation railroad tracks on Poplar Street, Bluefield, Mercer County, WV

Easley Bridge, Spanning Norfolk Southern Corporation railroad tracks o...

Significance: The 14-span Easley Bridge is representative of the many mid-scale urban bridges built throughout West Virginia during the first half of the twentieth century which emphasized reduced material requ... More

Artist Larry Akers touches up his mural depicting days in Bluefield, West Virginia, when, as Nikki Bowman wrote in "WV Living" magazine in 2012, "coal was king . . . the constant rumbling of trains whistled through the mountains, and Bluefield was booming" to the point that the largely distressed town was called the "Camelot of Appalachia"

Artist Larry Akers touches up his mural depicting days in Bluefield, W...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bluefield, Mercer County, West Virginia

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bluefield, Mercer County, West Virgini...

Nov 1893. 4 Sheet(s). West Virginia fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liab... More

Coal mining town in Welch. Bluefield section of West Virginia

Coal mining town in Welch. Bluefield section of West Virginia

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Easley Bridge, Spanning Norfolk Southern Corporation railroad tracks on Poplar Street, Bluefield, Mercer County, WV

Easley Bridge, Spanning Norfolk Southern Corporation railroad tracks o...

Significance: The 14-span Easley Bridge is representative of the many mid-scale urban bridges built throughout West Virginia during the first half of the twentieth century which emphasized reduced material requ... More

Aero view of Bluefield, West Virginia 1911 /

Aero view of Bluefield, West Virginia 1911 /

Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 987 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes illus. and business directory. Vault AAC... More

Artist Larry Akers touches up his mural depicting days in Bluefield, West Virginia, when, as Nikki Bowman wrote in "WV Living" magazine in 2012, "coal was king . . . the constant rumbling of trains whistled through the mountains, and Bluefield was booming" to the point that the largely distressed town was called the "Camelot of Appalachia"

Artist Larry Akers touches up his mural depicting days in Bluefield, W...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bluefield, Mercer County, West Virginia

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bluefield, Mercer County, West Virgini...

Jul 1897. 4 Sheet(s). West Virginia fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liab... More

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bluefield, Mercer County, West Virginia

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bluefield, Mercer County, West Virgini...

Jul 1897. 4 Sheet(s). West Virginia fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liab... More

Men in room at Mrs. Jones's boardinghouse. Six men live in this room. Three beds, pay eight to ten dollars a week rent. Most of them have families they left behind in Bluefield, West Virginia; Bristol, Tennessee; or High Point, North Carolina. They are carpenters, carpenters' assistants, riggers and laborers. They make sixty cents to one dollar and twenty-five cents per hour. Radford, Virginia

Men in room at Mrs. Jones's boardinghouse. Six men live in this room. ...

Public domain photograph of West Virginia in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a city and a river, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a city and a river, West Virginia. Farm Sec...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

An old coaling tower that once served Chesapeake & Ohio steam locomotives moving through Bluefield, West Virginia

An old coaling tower that once served Chesapeake & Ohio steam locomoti...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. A coaling tower or coal stage is a facility used to load coal into railway steam trains. The towers used gravity to slide coal down a ... More

Easley Bridge, Spanning Norfolk Southern Corporation railroad tracks on Poplar Street, Bluefield, Mercer County, WV

Easley Bridge, Spanning Norfolk Southern Corporation railroad tracks o...

Significance: The 14-span Easley Bridge is representative of the many mid-scale urban bridges built throughout West Virginia during the first half of the twentieth century which emphasized reduced material requ... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Downtown Bluefield, West Virginia

Carol M. Highsmith - Downtown Bluefield, West Virginia

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bluefield, Mercer County, West Virginia

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bluefield, Mercer County, West Virgini...

Nov 1893. 4 Sheet(s). West Virginia fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liab... More

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bluefield, Mercer County, West Virginia

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bluefield, Mercer County, West Virgini...

Jul 1897. 4 Sheet(s). West Virginia fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liab... More

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bluefield, Mercer County, West Virginia

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bluefield, Mercer County, West Virgini...

Nov 1893. 4 Sheet(s). West Virginia fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liab... More

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bluefield, Mercer County, West Virginia

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bluefield, Mercer County, West Virgini...

Nov 1893. 4 Sheet(s). West Virginia fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liab... More

A black and white photo of a small shack. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a small shack. Office of War Information Ph...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bluefield, Mercer County, West Virginia

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bluefield, Mercer County, West Virgini...

Jul 1897. 4 Sheet(s). West Virginia fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liab... More

Easley Bridge, Spanning Norfolk Southern Corporation railroad tracks on Poplar Street, Bluefield, Mercer County, WV

Easley Bridge, Spanning Norfolk Southern Corporation railroad tracks o...

Significance: The 14-span Easley Bridge is representative of the many mid-scale urban bridges built throughout West Virginia during the first half of the twentieth century which emphasized reduced material requ... More

Display Red Cross, Bluefield, West Virginia

Display Red Cross, Bluefield, West Virginia

Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. Group Title: U.S., Red Cross Campaign, First War Fund. Date based on date of negatives in same range. Data: [...] Photo Co. 82. Gift; American National Re... More

Downtown Bluefield, West Virginia, including the entrance to the Breadman Bakery

Downtown Bluefield, West Virginia, including the entrance to the Bread...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

Easley Bridge, Spanning Norfolk Southern Corporation railroad tracks on Poplar Street, Bluefield, Mercer County, WV

Easley Bridge, Spanning Norfolk Southern Corporation railroad tracks o...

Significance: The 14-span Easley Bridge is representative of the many mid-scale urban bridges built throughout West Virginia during the first half of the twentieth century which emphasized reduced material requ... More