Girard Avenue Bridge
- Categories
- Appalachian Collections > Willis W. Vail Glass Slide Collection
- Subject
- Coal--Appalachian Mountains
- Photography--West Virginia
- Landscapes
- Creator
- Vail, Willis W., 1868-1951
- Type
- glass slide
- Coverage - Temporal
- 1890-1896
- Identifier
- 256 - PRR and Girard Avenue Bridges.jpg
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Radford University. McConnell Library. Archives & Special Collections.
- Description
- Train crossing the Girard Avenue Bridge. The Willis W. Vail Glass Slide Collection is one of three significant collections of mine-related photography aggregated in the George and Melody Bragg New River Coal Fields Photographic Collections housed in Archives & Special Collections in Radford University's McConnell Library. Employed primarily as a surveyor in the years 1890-1896, Willis W. Vail (1868-1951) documented through photography the towns and scenery of the New River Gorge mining companies, especially in Raleigh, Fayette, and McDowell Counties.
- Rights
- Materials in the Willis W. Vail Glass Slide Collection are in the public domain. No copyright permissions are needed. Acknowledgement of Archives & Special Collections, McConnell Library, Radford University as a source for borrowed images is requested.
