Keeneys Creek, West Virginia
- 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
- 218 - Tangent in upper grade of Keeneys Creek Branch.jpg
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Radford University. McConnell Library. Archives & Special Collections.
- Description
- Train tracks along the upper grade of the Keeneys Creek Branch. Keenys Creek was an unincorporated community in Fayette 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.