New River
- 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
- 139 - looking up New River west of Dry Branch.jpg
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Radford University. McConnell Library. Archives & Special Collections.
- Description
- Looking up New River west of Dry Branch, an unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia. 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.