Virginia Room Digital Collection

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The Virginia Room Digital Collection includes photographs, oral histories, books, pamphlets and finding aids to items in the Virginia Room. Continue to check back for new additions.

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This photograph shows track crews at work along the N&W line. Track laying and maintenance was an awesome undertaking, given the thousands of miles of track owned and operated by N&W. Only in the middle part of the 20th Century did track work…

Center Parkway, 9th Street SE.

Side view of the Walnut Avenue and Jefferson Street bridges.

Removal of street railways on Campbell Avenue at the intersection with Jefferson Street.

Removal of street railways on Campbell Avenue at the intersection with Jefferson Street.

Removal of street railways on Campbell Avenue at the intersection with Jefferson Street.

Removal of street railways on Campbell Avenue at the intersection with Jefferson Street.

Removal of street railways on Campbell Avenue at the intersection with Jefferson Street.

Tracks of the Mill Mountain Incline.

Mill Mountain Incline shortly after completion.

N&W Railroad - View looking east down tracks - N&W General Offices, Hotel Roanoke, and depot at Jefferson Street crossing all visible.

Intersection of Jefferson Street and Campbell Avenue. Sign for Rialto Theater visible on right. The Rialto was known for showing westerns.

A view of 2nd Street. George Davis is leaning against the lamp post.

Streetcar tracks on the 700 block of Memorial Avenue.
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