FE111 Hancock-Clay
description: In the Coulter Building, the Hancock-Clay Company opened a department store in 1926. This interior view shows some of the dry goods and notions sold by Hancock-Clay. The firm became bankrupt in the early 1930s.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1926
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE112 First Presbyterian
description: First Presbyterian Church, located at 2101 Jefferson Street SW.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1940
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE116 Roanoke Country Club
description: Roanoke Country Club, located at 3360 Old Country Club Road NW, shortly after completion of the clubhouse.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1925
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE117 Salvation Army Hotel
description: Salvation Army Hotel, formerly located at 201 2nd Street SW.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: December 1928
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE120 N&W General Offices
description: Norfolk & Western General Offices, located at 8 N. Jefferson Street, replaced the old General Offices after they were destroyed by fire in 1896. This building would be used in this capacity until 1932 when the new office building was completed.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1925
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE121 Belmont School
description: Belmont Elementary School was located on Dale Avenue in southeast Roanoke. The school was built in 1891 and remained in operation until 1974 when Fallon Park Elementary School was completed.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1925
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE123 Ponce de Leon Hotel
description: The second Ponce de Leon Hotel located at 131 Campbell Avenue SW.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1942
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE124 Commerce Street School
description: Commerce Street School, also called First Ward School, was located at the corner of Church Avenue and 2nd (Commerce) Street. Built in 1890, it was razed in 1929 to make room for the post office.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1922
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE126 Harrison School
description: The Harrison School was completed in 1916. Two years later, the first high school classes for African American students began at Harrison School. Three students graduated in 1924, due largely to the persistence of Harrison's principal, Lucy Addison. The building is located at 523 Harrison Avenue, NW.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1923
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE128 Sherwood Forest
description: Entrance to Sherwood Forest subdivision, located at Yellow Mountain Road and Nottingham Road.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1927
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE130 Morice Twine Mills
description: The Morice (formerly Roanoke) Twine Mill in Norwich. Built to house the Norwich Lock Company in 1891, the lock company was a short-lived enterprise. In 1901, the Roanoke Cotton Mill moved into the abandoned building.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1920
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE131 Boggs & Havnaer
description: Boggs & Havnaer Laundry and Dry Cleaning supplies and equipment, formerly located at 912 3 1/2 Street SE.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1950
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE136 Morningside Elementary
description: Morningside Elementary School, located at 1716 Wilson Street SE.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1930
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE137 Stonewall Jackson Middle
description: Stonewall Jackson Middle School located at 1004 Montrose Avenue SE shortly after completion. The school's name was changed to John P. Fishwick Middle School in 2018.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1925
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE138 Jamison School
description: Jamison Elementary School was located on the southwest corner of Jamison Avenue and 14th Street SE. The school was built in 1916 and razed in 1975.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1925
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE139 Lucy Addison High
description: Lucy Addison High School opened in 1928. Located at 40 Douglass Avenue NW, the building now houses Roanoke City Public Schools Administrative Offices.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1928
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE140 Stonewall Jackson Middle
description: Stonewall Jackson Middle School located at 1004 Montrose Avenue SE. The school's name was changed to John P. Fishwick Middle School in 2018.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1926
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE142 Roanoke Printing Company
description: Roanoke Printing Company occupies the Bolling Building, formerly located on the southwest corner of Church Avenue and 1st Street SW.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1920
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE144 Highland Park Elementary
description: Built in 1920, Highland Park Elementary School is located at 1212 5th Street SW.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1925
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE146 Roanoke Hospital
description: Roanoke Hospital was built in 1893 with the aid of Norfolk & Western and the Roanoke Gas and Water Company. Carilion Roanoke Memorial now occupies the site of the old hospital.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1902
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE147 State & City Bank
description: Built in 1905, the building located at 116 Campbell Avenue SW was home to two banks in its early years, State & City Bank in this photograph and Day & Night Bank.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1928
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE150 Jefferson High School
description: Originally constructed in 1922, Jefferson High School was Roanoke's largest high school for half a century.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1942
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE151 Wasena Elementary
description: Wasena Elementary School is located at 1125 Sherwood Avenue SW.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1942
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE153 Roanoke Country Club
description: Roanoke Country Club, located at 3360 Old Country Club Road NW.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1925
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE156 Crystal Spring Laundry
description: Crystal Spring Laundry was located at 720 Franklin Road SW.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1945
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE157 Ole Monterey
description: Built in 1920, Ole Monterey Golf Course is the second oldest golf course in the City of Roanoke.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1930
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE159 Mountain View
description: Mountain View, a 40 room elegant turn-of-the-century mansion, was built in 1907 by Junius B. Fishburn. Mr. Fishburn donated Mountain View to the City in 1955 with the stipulation that it be used solely and exclusively for public recreation purposes. It is located at 714 13th Street SW.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1940
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE162 N&W General Offices
description: Completed in 1883 by the Shenandoah Valley Railroad, the general office building housed the offices for Norfolk & Western after they were moved from Lynchburg. The building was located on the northwest corner of Jefferson Street and Shenandoah Avenue where the present "old" general offices are located. The building was destroyed by fire on January 4, 1896.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1890
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE171 Roanoke Photo Finishing
description: An interior view of Roanoke Photo Finishing Company with George Davis behind counter.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1910
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE175 Roanoke High School
description: Roanoke High School was built in 1898 on the northeast corner of Church Avenue and 3rd Street SW. It became the school administration building in 1924 after Jefferson High School opened. It was razed in 1968 for construction of the Municipal Building annex.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1930
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE178 Elmwood Park
description: A scene in Elmwood Park.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE182 Jefferson Street
description: Looking south on Jefferson Street from the Colonial Bank building.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1927
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE185 Campbell Avenue
description: Looking east from the 100 block of Campbell Avenue.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1945
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE188 Burrell Memorial
description: Roanoke's first African American hospital, Burrell Memorial, was founded in 1915 in a small cottage on Henry Street. It soon outgrew the Henry Street location and moved into the former Alleghany Institute, a school for boys located at 611 McDowell Avenue, in 1921. By the early 1950s, Burrell Memorial had outgrown this building and a new hospital was constructed in 1955 on the same site.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1925
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE189 Fenton China
description: Fenton China and House Furniture, formerly located at 306 S. Jefferson Street.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1926
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE195 Campbell Avenue
description: Lyle's Drugstore occupied the right half of this building, located at 101 Campbell Avenue SW.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1890
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE196 Roanoke Baseball
description: Roanoke Baseball Team. Front row, left to right: Dusty Coons, ? Wrigley, ? Lynch; middle row, L to R: unidentfied, unidentfied, Pop Tate (manager), G. McGann, ? Hill; back row, L to R: Ed McGinnis, unidentified, unidentified, and ? Williams.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1905
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE198 Mountain Trust Bank
description: The temporary quarters of Mountain Trust Bank, formerly located at 34 W. Church Avenue.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1920
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE199 Terra Alta
description: "Terra Alta" located at 1348 Prospect Road SE.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1930
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE200 WDBJ Radio
description: Virginia's second commercial radio station, WDBJ-AM, had been broadcasting for twelve and a half years when it moved to its new quarters at 124 Kirk Avenue SW in January 1937.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1940
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE201 State & City Building
description: State & City Building, located at 102 Campbell Avenue SW.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1928
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE202 Blue Ridge Springs
description: Blue Ridge Springs was one of a number of summer resorts in Southwestern Virginia. It boasted the healing powers of dyspepsia in its natural spring. Like many resorts of its kind, Blue Ridge Springs fell into disrepair during the Great Depression. The hotel burned in 1936.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1925
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE203 Virginia College
description: The Virginia College for Young Women was located in the South Roanoke neighborhood at the end of Rosalind Avenue. The college closed in 1933.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1925
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE205 Police Switchboard
description: Switchboard at Police headquarters. Sargeant Dick Arnold uses the phone as motorcycle officer John Lemon looks on.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1925
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE206 Mountain Lake
description: Canoers on Mountain Lake. The second Mountain Lake Lodge, built in 1875, can be seen in the distance. The current stone lodge replaced this structure in 1936.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1925
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE208 Crockett Springs
description: Crockett Springs Resort, near Shawsville, was one of a number of summer resorts in Southwestern Virginia that boasted the healing powers of its spring waters. The resort opened in 1889 and closed shortly before 1940. The hotel was razed in 1966.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1925
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE211 Witten-Martin Furniture
description: Located at 213 1st Street SW, the Masonic temple was constructed in 1911. For many years, the first floor was occupied by various retail establishments, as evidenced in this photograph when Witten-Martin Furniture Company occupied the space.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1927
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE214 Campbell Avenue
description: Looking west on Campbell Avenue.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1925
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE222 Primitive Dentistry
description: Onlookers in Ballyhack watch as the seated gentleman in this photograph is having a tooth extracted by the lady in front of him, while the one behind him holds his head still.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1890s
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE224 Grandin Road
description: Looking south on Grandin Road from the 1700 block.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1927
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE225a Westover Avenue
description: Looking east on the 2000 block of Westover Avenue SW. The neighborhood is still under development at the time of this photograph.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1927
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image
title: FE225b Maiden Lane
description: Looking east on the 2000 block of Maiden Lane SW. The neighborhood is still under development at the time this photograph was taken.

FE226 Maiden Lane
description: Looking west from the 1900 block of Maiden Lane. The neighborhood is still under development at the time of this photograph.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1927
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE236 N&W Shops
description: Aerial view of Norfolk & Western east end shops.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: circa 1940
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE239 Grandin Road
description: Looking northeast on Grandin Road at the intersection with Shirley Avenue.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1928
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE241 Blue Ridge Springs
description: Blue Ridge Springs was one of a number of summer resorts in Southwestern Virginia. It boasted the healing powers of dyspepsia in its natural spring. Like many resorts of its kind, Blue Ridge Springs fell into disrepair during the Great Depression. The hotel burned in 1936.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1924
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE250 Police Car
description: Parked in front of the city jail, is this blue and white, fifty horsepower Cadillac patrol wagon. It could carry as many as eight prisoners in its enclosed compartment, while the policeman had to ride exposed to the elements.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1913
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE255 Jefferson Hospital
description: Jefferson Hospital, founded in 1907 by Dr. Hugh Trout, was the predecessor of Carilion Roanoke Community Hospital. Formerly located at 1313 Franklin Road SW, the hospital closed in 1967 and was later razed.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1920
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE256 Stone Printing
description: Stone Printing Company began doing business at this location in 1891. The stone veneer was added to the building, located at 116 N. Jefferson Street, in 1907.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1930
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE257 Lee Junior High
description: Lee Junior High School was built in 1912 at the intersection of Franklin Road and 2nd Street SW. It was razed in 1973 to clear the site for construction of the Richard H. Poff Federal Building.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1925
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE258 Jefferson Street
description: Looking south on Jefferson Street from Salem Avenue.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1942
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE260 Jefferson Street
description: Looking north on Jefferson Street from the 300 block.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1942
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE261 Christ Episcopal
description: Christ Episcopal Church, located at 1101 Franklin Road SW.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1940
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE263 Day & Night Bank
description: Built in 1905, the building located at 116 Campbell Avenue SW was home to two banks in its early years, Day & Night Bank in this photograph and State & City Bank.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1924
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE265 Mill Mountain
description: A view of Mill Mountain showing a relatively undeveloped foreground.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1910
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE266 Lorraine Apartments
description: Shown under construction are the Lorraine Apartments, located at 1221 S. Jefferson Street.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1935
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE267 Williamson Building
description: Intersection showing the Williamson Building on the northwest corner of Church Avenue and Jefferson Street. At the time of this photo it was occupied by the Sportsman, Deb Fashions, Thom McCann Shoes. The building was razed in 1977.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1951
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE268 Lorraine Apartments
description: Shown under construction are the Lorraine Apartments, located at 1221 S. Jefferson Street. This view shows the rear of the building from Maple Avenue SW.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1935
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE269 Roanoke Knitting Mills
description: Roanoke Knitting Mills began operations in 1903 at 306 Elm Avenue SE. It closed by 1909.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1925
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE270 Main Street
description: Aerial viewing showing Main Street in Salem near the intersection with Union Street and Academy Street.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1962
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE271 Roanoke Public Warehouse
description: Roanoke Public Warehouse was located at 403 Salem Avenue.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1927
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE272 Ponce de Leon Hotel
description: The original Ponce de Leon Hotel located at 131 Campbell Avenue SW. The elegant verandas are gone by the time this photograph was taken. In December 1930, the building was totally destroyed by fire, killing one resident and injuring others. It was replaced with the current structure, known as the Crystal Tower, shortly thereafter.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1927
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE273 Market Building
description: The Market Building appears largely unchanged today from when it was built in 1922.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1923
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE274 Victory Stadium
description: Athletic field and grandstands at Victory Stadium. The stadium was built in 1942 and razed in 2006.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1942
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE275 Victory Stadium
description: Athletic field and grandstands at Victory Stadium. The stadium was built in 1942 and razed in 2006.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1942
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE276 Municipal Building
description: The Municipal Building was built in 1915.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1920
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE277 Municipal Building
description: The Municipal Building at night.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1920
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE278 Prospect Road
description: Mill Mountain’s Prospect Road, commonly called the Loop Road or Old Toll Road, still has the same basic design when it originated as a graded carriage road in 1891. Today, the road is part of the Roanoke Valley’s greenway system within Mill Mountain Park.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1927
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE279 McBain Building
description: The McBain building, located at 34 Campbell Avenue.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1915
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE280 Hammond Printing
description: Hammond's Printing and Litho Works, formerly located on the southeast corner of Jefferson Street and Luck Avenue,
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1925
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE281 Phelps & Armistead
description: Phelps & Armistead Furniture, formerly located at 312 2nd Street SW. The building would later be occupied by Grand Piano.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1925
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE283 Post Office
description: Roanoke's second federally funded post office was constructed on the same site as the first, the corner of Church Avenue and 1st Street. It was built in 1914 and replaced in 1933.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1915
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE284 Roanoke Lodge #197
description: Roanoke Lodge #197 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. The lodge stood on the southeast corner of Jefferson Street and Franklin Road
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1930
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE285 Colonial Bank Building
description: Colonial National Bank building, located at 202 S. Jefferson Street.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1928
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE286 Roanoke Auditorium
description: Roanoke Auditorium was located along Wells Avenue NE, between Williamson Road and 2nd Street. Built in 1916, it was purchased in 1947 by the American Legion and thence called the American Legion Auditorium. It served the city well as an all-purpose civic center until destroyed by fire in 1957.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1920
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE287 Roanoke High School
description: Roanoke High School was built in 1898 on the northeast corner of Church Avenue and 3rd Street SW. It became the school administration building in 1924 after Jefferson High School opened. It was razed in 1968 for construction of the Municipal Building annex.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1919
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE288 McBain Building
description: The McBain building, located at 34 Campbell Avenue.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1915
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE289 Medical Arts Building
description: Located at 30 Franklin Road, the Professional (or Medical) Arts Building was built in 1929.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1940
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE290 City Hotel
description: City Hotel was built in 1886 on the southeast corner of Jefferson Street and Salem Avenue.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1888
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE291 School Administration
description: Roanoke High School was built in 1898 on the northeast corner of Church Avenue and 3rd Street SW. It became the school administration building in 1924 after Jefferson High School opened. It was razed in 1968 for construction of the Municipal Building annex.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1965
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE292 Crystal Spring
description: A view of Crystal Spring Park, pump house, and reservoir. Crystal Spring was one of the city's earliest landscaped parks. It was designed and managed by Roanoke Gas and Water Works.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1915
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE293 Jefferson Apartments
description: The Jefferson Apartments, formerly located at 820 S. Jefferson Street. This view looks west on Mountain Avenue.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1915
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE294 Shenandoah Building
description: The Shenandoah Building is located at 305 1st Street.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1920
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE295 Peoples Bank
description: People's Bank building located at 201 S. Pollard Street in Vinton.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1912
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE296 McGuire Building
description: The McGuire Building and Market Square.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1941
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE297 Jackson Ferry Shot Tower
description: Jackson Ferry Shot Tower in Wythe County. The tower is 75 feet tall and was used for manufacturing lead shot. Construction began shortly after the American Revolution and was completed in 1802. The shot tower is now Shot Tower State Park.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE298 Coulter Building
description: Built in 1926, the Coulter Building is located at 601 S. Jefferson Street.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1930
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE299 Buena Vista
description: Buena Vista was contructed by Colonel George P. Tayloe around 1840.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1930
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE300 Roanoke Auditorium
description: Roanoke Auditorium was located along Wells Avenue NE, between Williamson Road and 2nd Street. Built in 1916, it was purchased in 1947 by the American Legion and thence called the American Legion Auditorium. It served the city well as an all-purpose civic center until destroyed by fire in 1957.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1920
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE301 Market Square
description: In the days before trucks were ubiquitous, farmers brought their goods to the City Market in buckboards, carts, and Conestoga wagons.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1917
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE302 Melrose Baseball
description: Melrose Athletic Club baseball team and mascot.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1905
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE303 Prospect Road
description: Mill Mountain’s Prospect Road, commonly called the Loop Road or Old Toll Road, still has the same basic design when it originated as a graded carriage road in 1891. Today, the road is part of the Roanoke Valley’s greenway system within Mill Mountain Park.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1927
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE304 Observation Tower
description: The first observation tower on Mill Mountain was constructed in 1910 and destroyed by a violent wind storm in 1914. It was replaced shortly thereafter by another observation tower, which burned in 1936.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1912
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

FE305 Roanoke Country Club
description: Greens and fairways at Roanoke Country Club. The clubhouse is just visible in the background.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Circa 1925
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

Floyd Press Obituary Index: 1944-1990
description: This document is an alphabetical listing of nearly 10,000 obituaries printed in the Floyd Press from 1944-1990. The Floyd Press is available on microfilm in the Virginia Room for these years.
creator: Judy Pruett
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1944-1990
format: pdf
type: Text

Gainsboro Library Funeral Program and Obituaries Index
description: The Funeral Program and Obituary Index includes funeral programs, in memoriam articles and obituaries that are housed at the Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries.
creator: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
format: pdf

Gainsboro Library Vertical Files and Surname Files Index
description: The Vertical Files and Surname Files Index is an alphabetical list of over 250 topical files. Vertical files may include pamphlets, news clippings and other materials that do not merit a call number, but are arranged for ready reference on a given topic.
creator: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
format: pdf
type: Text

GB 142
description: “Old First Baptist Church & St. Andrews Catholic Church, November 3,1990-Roanoke Va.” (Reprint, library owns digital copy only, not original.)
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: November 3, 1990
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of the Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.

GB 144
description: “Ricardo C. Stovall & Bike on Patton Ave. N.E (Claytor House in Background) about 1959” (Reprint, library owns digital copy only, not original.)
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: circa 1959
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use

GB01 Dr. Lawrence E. Paxton
description: Dr. Lawrence E. Paxton operated a dental practice on Wells Avenue.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB03 Lucy Addison High School Majorettes
description: Lucy Addison High School Majorettes in front of the Gainsboro Library.
creator: Steve Brody
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: May 1959
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB04 Lucy Addison High School Girls' Basketball Team
description: Lucy Addison High School Girls' basketball team.
creator: Sonny Nathaniel "Bay" Hale
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Unknown
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB05
description: Aladdin Temple #34 on parade, Patton Avenue in front of St. Andrew’s Catholic Church.. “Miss Bertha White, Ill. Commandress, Roanoke, VA.”
creator: Steve Brody
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB06 Burrell Memorial Hospital
description: Groundbreaking for the new Burrell Memorial Hospital 2 August 1953. Photographer: Steve Brody.
creator: Steve Brody
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Unknown
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB08 W. F. Hughes
description: W. F. Hughes of Hughes Funeral Home.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Unknown
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB09 Nursing staff of Burrell Memorial Hospital
description: The nursing staff of Burrell Memorial Hospital at an unidentified function on the hospital's grounds.
creator: Steve Brody
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Unknown
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.

GB10 Lucy Addison High School Football Game
description: Lucy Addison High School football game at Victory Stadium.
creator: Steve Brody
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: September 24, 1959
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: South Roanoke

GB100
description: Group of women in formal attire in front of a stage with instruments.
creator: Lawson L. Reeves
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB101
description: Unidentified group photograph at night.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB102
description: Unidentified group photograph of women.
creator: Lawson L. Reeves
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB103
description: Unidentified group photograph of men at a table.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB104
description: Economy Shoe Repair on Henry Street. Shop owner Earnest O. Greene.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB104.1
description: Economy Shoe Repair on Henry Street.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB105
description: Gainsboro Library, exterior, with a children’s class.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB106
description: Children dressed in costume in front of the Gainsboro Library.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB107
description: Group of children in front of the Gainsboro Library.
creator: Reeves Studio
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB108
description: Gainsboro Library, interior, with a group of library patrons. YMCA location.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB109
description: Gainsboro Library, interior. Virginia Y. Lee, center.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB110
description: Gainsboro Library, interior, with children.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB110.1
description: Gainsboro Library, interior, with children.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB110.2
description: Gainsboro Library, interior, with children.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB111
description: Gainsboro Library, interior, child sitting at a table.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB112
description: Gainsboro Library, interior.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB112.1
description: Gainsboro Library, interior.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB113
description: Virginia Y. Lee at the Gainsboro Library.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB114
description: Library display at the Gainsboro Library.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB115
description: Gainsboro Library display with Virginia Y. Lee.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB116
description: Young man reaching for a book at the Gainsboro Library
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB117
description: Children reading books at the Gainsboro Library.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB118
description: Children working on a project at the Gainsboro Library.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB119
description: Mother and infant at the Gainsboro Library.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB12 Dr. J. H. Roberts
description: Dr. James H. Roberts was a co-founder of Burrell Memorial Hospital, Magic City Medical Society, and the William A. Hunton YMCA.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Unknown
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB120
description: Children posing in front of a Book Week display at the Gainsboro Library.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB120.1
description: Children posing in front of a Book Week display at the Gainsboro Library.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB121
description: Geneva Ford, library staff member, at the Gainsboro Library.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB122
description: Group of children sitting in a room.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB123
description: Group of children participating in a pageant or play.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB124
description: Group portrait
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB127
description: St. John’s AME Zion Church.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB128
description: St. Gerard’s Catholic Church.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB13 C. C. Williams
description: Christopher Chamberlin Williams of Williams Funeral Home, now Serenity Funeral Home. Mr. Williams served on the Board of Trustees for both the Gainsboro Library and the William A. Hunton YMCA.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Unknown
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB130
description: Millie Paxton.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB135
description: Rev. Lylburn L. Downing of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB136
description: Gainsboro Library from Gainsboro Rd., St Andrew's Church in background. Two automobiles present.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.

GB137
description: "Vacation Reading Club", "Gainsboro Branch Library" stamp, dated Dec.1959
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: December 1959
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.

GB138
description: Gainsboro Branch Library Vacation Reading Club. Not marked as such, but is near replica of GB137. “00907”
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Photograph

GB139
description: School Picture Outside. “00907.”
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.

GB139.1
description: School Picture Outside. “00907.”
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.

GB14
description: Girls’ athletics group and spectators.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB140
description: School Book Week Set-up
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.

GB141
description: Church Altar with Pulpit. Color Photograph. “Clark Studio Herman R. Clark Propriet Portrait and Commercial Photography Phone 342-3372 - Phone 342 [blurred] 20 Gilmer Ave., N.W., Roanoke, Va. 24016.”
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.

GB143
description: Old First Baptist Church & St Andrews Catholic Church view from Gainsboro Rd (Reprint, library owns digital copy only, not original.)
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073

GB145
description: “Oscar, Jr. Ronald, Patricia Jenkins Artie Lee Otey, Clarence Blake Jr. Ricardo Stovall about 1959” St Andrews Catholic Church in background (Reprint, library owns digital copy only, not original.)
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: circa 1959
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use

GB16 African American Railroad Workers
description: African American railroad workers.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Unknown
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.

GB17 Harrison School Boys Choir
description: Harrison School Boys choir.
creator: Lawson L. Reeves
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Unknown
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB18 Oliver Hill
description: Civil rights attorney Oliver W. Hill in front of his childhood home at 401 Gilmer Avenue, now the Oliver Hill House.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Unknown
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB21 First Baptist Church Gainsboro, interior
description: Interior of the original sancuary of the First Baptist Church in Gainsboro. The building was designed by architect Henry Harwell Huggins and was located at 407 North Jefferson Street. A cornerstone for the church was laid and ground was broken in 1898 while the building was dedicated on May 6, 1900. The building continued to be the home of the First Baptist Church until 1982 when the congregation moved to its current location at 310 North Jefferson Street. The old sanctuary at 407 North Jefferson Street was destroyed by fire in April 1995.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Unknown
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB22
description: Group photograph with Atwood’s Capitol View Tours bus.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB23 Freemasons Group
description: African American Freemasons group.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Unknown
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraires
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.

GB24 Virginia Y. Lee
description: Virginia Y. Lee was the Gainsboro Library's fourth librarian (1928 – 1971). She was born on November 22, 1906 in McComas, West Virginia and raised in Roanoke, Virginia. She graduated Valedictorian from Lucy Addison High School in 1924 and earned her degree from Hampton Institute's School of Library Science. Lee is credited with acquiring funds from the City of Roanoke for a new library to be built in Roanoke's Gainsboro Neighborhood after the existing library outgrew its location in the basement of the William A. Hunton YMCA. The new library was dedicated on May 10, 1942 at 15 Patton Avenue NW. Lee is also recognized for compiling a literary and historical African American collection that drew opposition from Roanoke City Council. When asked to remove the collection from the library, Lee hid the collection in the basement and continued collecting materials. Today the Gainsboro Library’s Virginia Y. Lee Collection is named in her honor. Virginia Y. Lee died January 11, 1992.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Unknown
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB25 Virginia Y. Lee
description: Virginia Y. Lee was the Gainsboro Library's fourth librarian (1928 – 1971). She was born on November 22, 1906 in McComas, West Virginia and raised in Roanoke, Virginia. She graduated Valedictorian from Lucy Addison High School in 1924 and earned her degree from Hampton Institute's School of Library Science. Lee is credited with acquiring funds from the City of Roanoke for a new library to be built in Roanoke's Gainsboro Neighborhood after the existing library outgrew its location in the basement of the William A. Hunton YMCA. The new library was dedicated on May 10, 1942 at 15 Patton Avenue NW. Lee is also recognized for compiling a literary and historical African American collection that drew opposition from Roanoke City Council. When asked to remove the collection from the library, Lee hid the collection in the basement and continued collecting materials. Today the Gainsboro Library’s Virginia Y. Lee Collection is named in her honor. Virginia Y. Lee died January 11, 1992.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Unknown
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB28
description: Virginia Y. Lee and unknown woman.
creator: Sonny Hale
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB29 Lucy Addison
description: Lucy Addison was born enslaved in Fauquier County, Virginia on December 8, 1861. After graduating from the Quaker-run Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia in 1882 with a degree in teaching, Addison began her life-long career as an educator. In 1886 she relocated to Roanoke, Virginia to take a teaching position at the Gregory and Gainsboro Schools. She was promoted to Assistant Principal in 1888 and accepted a position as Principal for Harrison School in 1917. After expanding the curriculum to include high school classes at Harrison, Addison repeatedly lobbied the Virginia Board of Education for full accreditation. Addison’s efforts were finally recognized in 1924 when the Virginia Board of Education accredited Harrison School as a secondary school. In 1927 Addison retired from Roanoke City Public Schools. A year later Lucy Addison High School was built and named in her honor. Lucy Addison High School served as Roanoke’s only African American high school until desegregation, finally closing as a high school in 1973. During her life, Addison served on several advisory boards including the Board of Trustees for the Burrell Memorial Hospital and the Advisory Board for the Gainsboro Library. Addison died in Washington D.C. on November 13, 1937.
creator: George C. Davis
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Unknown
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB30 Daisy Schley
description: Daisy Schley was a nurse at Burrell Memorial Hospital.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Unknown
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB31 Dr. John B. Claytor Sr.
description: Dr. John B. Claytor Sr. was born April 2, 1878 in Floyd County, Virginia. In 1907 Claytor began a medical practice in Roanoke, Virginia. Claytor was a founder of Burrell Memorial Hospital and was Emeritus Chief of the hospital’s department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Claytor was the Chairman of the Board of Trustees for First Baptist Church in Gainsboro and a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. Dr. John B. Claytor Sr. died October 23, 1951.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Unknown
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB32 Dr. John B. Claytor Sr.
description: Dr. John B. Claytor Sr. was born April 2, 1878 in Floyd County, Virginia. In 1907 Claytor began a medical practice in Roanoke, Virginia. Claytor was a founder of Burrell Memorial Hospital and was Emeritus Chief of the hospital’s department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Claytor was the Chairman of the Board of Trustees for First Baptist Church in Gainsboro and a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. Dr. John B. Claytor Sr. died October 23, 1951.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Unknown
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB33 Dr. F. W. Claytor
description: Dr. Frank William Claytor was born April 8, 1913 in Roanoke, Virginia. He was the oldest son of Dr. John B. Claytor Sr. and Roberta M. Woodfin Claytor. After graduating from Knoxville College in 1933, Claytor earned his medical degree from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee in 1937. Claytor was Chief of the Department of Medicine and Medical Director at Burrell Memorial Hospital. Dr. Frank W. Claytor died October 6, 1972.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Unknown
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB35
description: Dr. John B. Claytor Jr.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB36
description: Dr. Elwood D. Downing, front far left, and an unidentified group of men.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB37
description: Group photograph with Ruth Claytor (in light colored coat) in front of Canada’s Ice Cream on Henry Street.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB39
description: Left to right: John Claytor III, Sandra Elizabeth Claytor Peery, John B. Claytor Jr., and Ruth Williams Claytor. “Easter 1969.”
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
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coverage: Gainsboro

GB40
description: Large group at a long table. Dr. Harry Penn, second from right, back row, plaid suit.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB41
description: Group photograph.. Dr. Harry Penn, back row, first from left.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB43 Dr. Ellwood Downing and Mrs. Della Downing
description: Dr. Ellwood Davis Downing was prominent dentist and civic leader. Downing was born September 9, 1891. He was the son of Rev. Lylburn L. Downing, pastor of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. Downing served as an officer in WWI and WWII and was an avid tennis player, having twice won the ATA National Doubles Tennis Championship and served as General Field Secretary for the American Tennis Association. Downing also served as President of the Board of Trustees for Burrell Memorial Hospital and President of the Magic City Medical Society; was a 32 degree Freemason and a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. Downing died October 29, 1963.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Unknown
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB44 Bings Social Club
description: Bings Social Club
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Unkown
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB45 Dr. Elwood Downing
description: Dr. Ellwood Davis Downing was prominent dentist and civic leader. Downing was born September 9, 1891. He was the son of Rev. Lylburn L. Downing, pastor of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. Downing served as an officer in WWI and WWII and was an avid tennis player, having twice won the ATA National Doubles Tennis Championship and served as General Field Secretary for the American Tennis Association. Downing also served as President of the Board of Trustees for Burrell Memorial Hospital and President of the Magic City Medical Society; was a 32 degree Freemason and a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. Dr. Elwood Downing died October 29, 1963.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: April 25, 1945
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB58 First Baptist Church Gainsboro, interior
description: First Baptist Church Gainsboro can trace its origins back to September 30, 1867, when a small congregation held service, led by Rev. Edmond Johnson, in a dwelling on Hart Avenue, establishing the Big Lick Colored Baptist Church. As membership increased, the congregation moved several times until, in 1876, they purchased the old brick St. John’s Episcopal Church at Big Lick. In the mid-1890s, trustees of the Big Lick Colored Baptist Church, then known as the First Baptist Church, Colored, purchased land on the corner of Gilmer Avenue and Jefferson Street. Under the leadership of Rev. Richard R. Jones, the church began efforts to build a new place of worship, finally laying a cornerstone and breaking ground in 1898. The Gothic brick sanctuary with an imposing gable façade tower was designed by architect Henry Harwell Huggins and was dedicated on May 6, 1900. By the time Rev. Richard Jones’ retirement in 1904, most of the church’s construction debt was repaid. Over the following years the congregation, led by Rev. E. E. Ricks, raised funds to place pews in the gallery and match a financial gift from Andrew Carnegie to install a pipe organ. From 1918 to 1957, Rev. Arthur L. James was pastor. Notably, he began the first daily vacation bible school in the city; presided over the Helping Hands Club and the Men’s Club, who were responsible for publication of The Church News, which was reported to be the only black newspaper in Southwest Virginia at the time; and began a weekly radio broadcast, the Black Home Devotional Hour, with the help of the church’s senior choir. From 1959 to 1966, the church was under the leadership of Rev. E. L. Green, who in addition to serving the congregation was a member of two biracial committees that were credited with aiding the integration of public facilities in Roanoke. Rev. David Lee Collins was the pastor from 1968 to 1970, followed by Rev. Kenneth B. Wright from 1973 to 2015. Wright led the congregation to build a new sanctuary a block t…
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Unknown
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2540 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB59 Rev. Arthur L. James
description: Rev. Arthur L. James was born August 1, 1877 in Madison, Florida Howard and Lula James. During WWI James served overseas with the American Expeditionary Forces as secretary under the War Work Council of the Y. M. C. A. From 1918 to 1957, James served as pastor at First Baptist Church Gainsboro. During his leadership the church experienced its highest membership, peaking at 2,193. Notably, James began the first daily vacation bible school in the city; presided over the Helping Hands Club and the Men’s Club, who were responsible for publication of The Church News, which was reported to be the only black newspaper in Southwest Virginia at the time; and began a weekly radio broadcast, the Black Home Devotional Hour, with the help of the church’s senior choir. Rev. Arthur L. James died September 8, 1968.
creator: George C. Davis
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Unknown
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB60 First Baptist Church Gainsboro, Bible School
description: First Baptist Church Gainsboro can trace its origins back to September 30, 1867, when a small congregation held service, led by Rev. Edmond Johnson, in a dwelling on Hart Avenue, establishing the Big Lick Colored Baptist Church. As membership increased, the congregation moved several times until, in 1876, they purchased the old brick St. John’s Episcopal Church at Big Lick. In the mid-1890s, trustees of the Big Lick Colored Baptist Church, then known as the First Baptist Church, Colored, purchased land on the corner of Gilmer Avenue and Jefferson Street. Under the leadership of Rev. Richard R. Jones, the church began efforts to build a new place of worship, finally laying a cornerstone and breaking ground in 1898. The Gothic brick sanctuary with an imposing gable façade tower was designed by architect Henry Harwell Huggins and was dedicated on May 6, 1900. By the time Rev. Richard Jones’ retirement in 1904, most of the church’s construction debt was repaid. Over the following years the congregation, led by Rev. E. E. Ricks, raised funds to place pews in the gallery and match a financial gift from Andrew Carnegie to install a pipe organ. From 1918 to 1957, Rev. Arthur L. James was pastor. Notably, he began the first daily vacation bible school in the city; presided over the Helping Hands Club and the Men’s Club, who were responsible for publication of The Church News, which was reported to be the only black newspaper in Southwest Virginia at the time; and began a weekly radio broadcast, the Black Home Devotional Hour, with the help of the church’s senior choir. From 1959 to 1966, the church was under the leadership of Rev. E. L. Green, who in addition to serving the congregation was a member of two biracial committees that were credited with aiding the integration of public facilities in Roanoke. Rev. David Lee Collins was the pastor from 1968 to 1970, followed by Rev. Kenneth B. Wright from 1973 to 2015. Wright led the congregation to build a new sanctuary a block t…
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Unknown
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB61 Rev. E. E. Ricks
description: Rev. E. E. Ricks was served as pastor of First Baptist Church Gainsboro from 1915 to 1918.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Unknown
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB67 Harrison School
description: Students playing on the basketball court at Harrison School. Harrison School was built in 1916 for the cost of $31,818 and opened in the winter of 1917. Lucy Addison served as the school’s first principal. Addison was responsible for gradually expanding the curriculum to include high school classes at Harrison and she repeatedly lobbied the Virginia Board of Education for full accreditation. Addison’s efforts were finally recognized in 1924 when the Virginia Board of Education accredited Harrison School as a secondary school. That same year, Harrison School graduated its first class high school class, becoming the first public high school for African Americans in Southwest Virginia. After the opening of a Lucy Addison High School in 1928, Harrison School continued as an elementary school until the 1960s. From 1985 to 2009 the Harrison School building housed the Harrison Museum of African American Culture.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Unknown
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB67.1 Harrison School
description: Students playing on the basketball court at Harrison School. Harrison School was built in 1916 for the cost of $31,818 and opened in the winter of 1917. Lucy Addison served as the school’s first principal. Addison was responsible for gradually expanding the curriculum to include high school classes at Harrison and she repeatedly lobbied the Virginia Board of Education for full accreditation. Addison’s efforts were finally recognized in 1924 when the Virginia Board of Education accredited Harrison School as a secondary school. That same year, Harrison School graduated its first class high school class, becoming the first public high school for African Americans in Southwest Virginia. After the opening of a Lucy Addison High School in 1928, Harrison School continued as an elementary school until the 1960s. From 1985 to 2009 the Harrison School building housed the Harrison Museum of African American Culture.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Unknown
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB67.2 Harrison School
description: Students playing on the basketball court at Harrison School. Harrison School was built in 1916 for the cost of $31,818 and opened in the winter of 1917. Lucy Addison served as the school’s first principal. Addison was responsible for gradually expanding the curriculum to include high school classes at Harrison and she repeatedly lobbied the Virginia Board of Education for full accreditation. Addison’s efforts were finally recognized in 1924 when the Virginia Board of Education accredited Harrison School as a secondary school. That same year, Harrison School graduated its first class high school class, becoming the first public high school for African Americans in Southwest Virginia. After the opening of a Lucy Addison High School in 1928, Harrison School continued as an elementary school until the 1960s. From 1985 to 2009 the Harrison School building housed the Harrison Museum of African American Culture.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Unknown
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB67.3 Harrison School
description: Students playing on the basketball court at Harrison School. Harrison School was built in 1916 for the cost of $31,818 and opened in the winter of 1917. Lucy Addison served as the school’s first principal. Addison was responsible for gradually expanding the curriculum to include high school classes at Harrison and she repeatedly lobbied the Virginia Board of Education for full accreditation. Addison’s efforts were finally recognized in 1924 when the Virginia Board of Education accredited Harrison School as a secondary school. That same year, Harrison School graduated its first class high school class, becoming the first public high school for African Americans in Southwest Virginia. After the opening of a Lucy Addison High School in 1928, Harrison School continued as an elementary school until the 1960s. From 1985 to 2009 the Harrison School building housed the Harrison Museum of African American Culture.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Unknown
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB67.4 Harrison School
description: Students playing on the basketball court at Harrison School. Harrison School was built in 1916 for the cost of $31,818 and opened in the winter of 1917. Lucy Addison served as the school’s first principal. Addison was responsible for gradually expanding the curriculum to include high school classes at Harrison and she repeatedly lobbied the Virginia Board of Education for full accreditation. Addison’s efforts were finally recognized in 1924 when the Virginia Board of Education accredited Harrison School as a secondary school. That same year, Harrison School graduated its first class high school class, becoming the first public high school for African Americans in Southwest Virginia. After the opening of a Lucy Addison High School in 1928, Harrison School continued as an elementary school until the 1960s. From 1985 to 2009 the Harrison School building housed the Harrison Museum of African American Culture.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Unknown
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB67.5
description: Students playing on the basketball court at Harrison School. Harrison School was built in 1916 for the cost of $31,818 and opened in the winter of 1917. Lucy Addison served as the school’s first principal. Addison was responsible for gradually expanding the curriculum to include high school classes at Harrison and she repeatedly lobbied the Virginia Board of Education for full accreditation. Addison’s efforts were finally recognized in 1924 when the Virginia Board of Education accredited Harrison School as a secondary school. That same year, Harrison School graduated its first class high school class, becoming the first public high school for African Americans in Southwest Virginia. After the opening of a Lucy Addison High School in 1928, Harrison School continued as an elementary school until the 1960s. From 1985 to 2009 the Harrison School building housed the Harrison Museum of African American Culture.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Unkown
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB67.6 Harrison School
description: Students playing on the basketball court at Harrison School. Harrison School was built in 1916 for the cost of $31,818 and opened in the winter of 1917. Lucy Addison served as the school’s first principal. Addison was responsible for gradually expanding the curriculum to include high school classes at Harrison and she repeatedly lobbied the Virginia Board of Education for full accreditation. Addison’s efforts were finally recognized in 1924 when the Virginia Board of Education accredited Harrison School as a secondary school. That same year, Harrison School graduated its first class high school class, becoming the first public high school for African Americans in Southwest Virginia. After the opening of a Lucy Addison High School in 1928, Harrison School continued as an elementary school until the 1960s. From 1985 to 2009 the Harrison School building housed the Harrison Museum of African American Culture.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Unknown
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB68 Harrison School
description: Mr. Thomas Payne's first class. Harrison School was built in 1916 for the cost of $31,818 and opened in the winter of 1917. Lucy Addison served as the school’s first principal. Addison was responsible for gradually expanding the curriculum to include high school classes at Harrison and she repeatedly lobbied the Virginia Board of Education for full accreditation. Addison’s efforts were finally recognized in 1924 when the Virginia Board of Education accredited Harrison School as a secondary school. That same year, Harrison School graduated its first class high school class, becoming the first public high school for African Americans in Southwest Virginia. After the opening of a Lucy Addison High School in 1928, Harrison School continued as an elementary school until the 1960s. From 1985 to 2009 the Harrison School building housed the Harrison Museum of African American Culture.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Unknown
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB69 Harrison School
description: Harrison School Faculty 1948/1950. Harrison School was built in 1916 for the cost of $31,818 and opened in the winter of 1917. Lucy Addison served as the school’s first principal. Addison was responsible for gradually expanding the curriculum to include high school classes at Harrison and she repeatedly lobbied the Virginia Board of Education for full accreditation. Addison’s efforts were finally recognized in 1924 when the Virginia Board of Education accredited Harrison School as a secondary school. That same year, Harrison School graduated its first class high school class, becoming the first public high school for African Americans in Southwest Virginia. After the opening of a Lucy Addison High School in 1928, Harrison School continued as an elementary school until the 1960s. From 1985 to 2009 the Harrison School building housed the Harrison Museum of African American Culture.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1948
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB71
description: Dinner at the Hunton Branch YMCA, Gainsboro Road. Circa late 1930’s or Early 1940’s.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB72
description: First Baptist Church of Gainsboro. Roy Williams.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB72.1
description: First Baptist Church Gainsboro. Rev. Charles Green.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB72.3
description: First Baptist Church of Gainsboro. Dr. Noel C. Taylor.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB73
description: Bishop L. E. Willis, Wilbert McNair, Shadrack Brown Jr., Samuel Wade, and Norton B. Wilder.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB73.1
description: Bishop L. E. Willis and Shadrack Brown Jr.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB74
description: Rev. Douglas and unidentified woman.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB75
description: Unidentified man playing piano and unidentified woman singing. Far right: Mr. Dowe and third from right: Rev. Edwards.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB77
description: Unidentified group photograph in front of a transformer station.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB77.1
description: Unidentified group photograph in front of a transformer station.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB78
description: Woman’s Professional & Business Club.
creator: Sonny "Bay" Hale
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB79
description: Virginia Y. Lee and unidentified woman in front of the Gainsboro Library.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB80
description: Gainsboro Library when it was located in the old Odd Fellows/YMCA Building. Gainsboro Reading Club
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB80.1
description: Gainsboro Library when it was located in the old Odd Fellows/YMCA Building. “First persons to register at GB.” Right to Left: Mrs. Sally Lawson, C. C. Williams, J. L. Reid, Mrs. E. R. Dudley, Rev. A. L. James, Dr. E. R. Dudley and Mrs. Ida Closs
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB81
description: Virginia Y. Lee at the Gainsboro Library.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB87
description: Ebenezer A. M. E. Church.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB91
description: Order of the Eastern Star group photograph in front of the Allegany-Dunbar Freemason’s Prince Hall.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB93
description: Order of the Eastern Star group photograph.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB94
description: Burrell Memorial Hospital. Construction of the 1955 building.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1955
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB94.1
description: Burrell Memorial Hospital. Construction of the 1955 building.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1955
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro
title: GB94.2

GB94.3
description: Burrell Memorial Hospital. Construction of the 1955 building.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1955
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB94.4
description: Burrell Memorial Hospital. Construction of the 1955 building.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1955
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB94.5
description: Burrell Memorial Hospital. Construction of the 1955 building.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1955
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB94.6
description: Burrell Memorial Hospital. Construction of the 1955 building.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1955
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB95
description: Rev. Arthur L. James, First Baptist Church.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB96
description: Ella F. Bowden, First Librarian of the Gainsboro Library, 1921-1923.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB97
description: Group portrait of teachers. Front row seated, second from left, Mattie Bell Morris; third from left, Sadie Lawson; front row seated, first on right, Marie Bailey; third from right, Ms. Hackley. Back row, fourth from left, Ms. Hackley.
creator: Clark Studio
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB98
description: Teachers on an Appalachian Electric Power Company Tour. First from left, Hollis Williams (Carver High); fourth from left, unnamed but identified as a Home Economics teacher at Addison; first from right, Coach Cannanday (Carver High); third from right, Mr. Fulton (Addison High).
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Fall 1953
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GB99
description: Gainsboro School First Grade Class 1946. Teacher Mattie Bell Morris (back row).
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1946
contributor: Gainsboro Branch of Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
coverage: Gainsboro

GBOV01
description: Unknown man. Donated by the Gainsboro Family YMCA in 2012.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2540 for permission to use.

GBOV02
description: Mr. Roscoe R. Banks. First YMCA Member, Past Chairman of the Board of Members, Elected Honorary Board Member William A. Hunton Branch YMCA, Roanoke, VA. 1927-1956. Photographer: Clark Studio. Donated by the Gainsboro Family YMCA in 2012.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2540 for permission to use.

GBOV03.01
description: Harrison School Trip to Washington D. C. May 1950.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2540 for permission to use.

GBOV03.02
description: Harrison School Trip to Washington D. C. May 1950.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2540 for permission to use.

GBOV04
description: William A. Hunton Branch YMCA.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
relation: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2540 for permission to use.

GBOV07
description: Photograph of a young Virginia Y. Lee. She is seated in this sepia toned image.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2540 for permission to use.

General 1948
subject: Lee Junior High School
description: The General was the annual for Lee Junior High School.
creator: Lee Junior High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1948
format: Yearbook
type: Text

General 1949
subject: Lee Junior High School
description: The General was the annual of Lee Junior High School.
creator: Lee Junior High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1949
contributor: Ambrielle Viney
format: Yearbook
type: Text

General 1950
subject: Lee Junior High School
description: The General was the annual for Lee Junior High School.
creator: Lee Junior High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1950
format: Yearbook
type: Text

General 1951
subject: Lee Junior High School
description: The General was the annual for Lee Junior High School.
creator: Lee Junior High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1951
format: Yearbook
type: Text

General 1952
subject: Lee Junior High School
description: The General was the annual for Lee Junior High School.
creator: Lee Junior High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1952
format: Yearbook
type: Text

General 1953
subject: Lee Junior High School
description: The General was the annual of Lee Junior High School.
creator: Lee Junior High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1953
contributor: Ambrielle Viney
format: Yearbook
type: Text
identifier: General 1953

General 1955-1956
subject: Lee Junior High School
description: The General was the annual of Lee Junior High School.
creator: Lee Junior High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1955-1956
format: Yearbook
type: Text

General 1956-1957
subject: Lee Junior High School
description: The General was the annual of Lee Junior High School.
creator: Lee Junior High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1956-1957
contributor: Ambrielle Viney
format: Yearbook
type: Text

General 1957-1958
subject: Lee Junior High School
description: The General was the annual of Lee Junior High School.
creator: Lee Junior High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1957-1958
contributor: Ambrielle Viney
format: Yearbook
type: Text

General 1959
subject: Lee Junior High School
description: The General was the annual of Lee Junior High School.
creator: Lee Junior High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1959
contributor: Ambrielle Viney
format: Yearbook
type: Text

General 1960
subject: Lee Junior High School
description: The General is the annual for Lee Junior High School.
creator: Lee Junior High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1960
format: Yearbook
type: Text

General 1961
subject: Lee Junior High School
description: The General was the annual for Lee Junior High School.
creator: Lee Junior High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1961
format: Yearbook
type: Text

General 1962
subject: Lee Junior High School
description: The General was the annual for Lee Junior High School.
creator: Lee Junior High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1962
format: Yearbook
type: Text

General 1964
subject: Lee Junior High School
description: The General was the annual of Lee Junior High School.
creator: Lee Junior High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1964
contributor: Ambrielle Viney
format: Yearbook
type: Text

General 1965
subject: Lee Junior High School
description: The General was the annual for Lee Junior High School.
creator: Lee Junior High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1965
format: Yearbook
type: Text

General 1966
subject: Lee Junior High School
description: The General was the annual for Lee Junior High School.
creator: Lee Junior High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1966
format: Yearbook
type: Text

General 1967
subject: Lee Junior High School
description: The General was the annual for Lee Junior High School.
creator: Lee Junior High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1967
format: Yearbook
type: Text

General 1970
subject: Lee Junior High School
description: The General was the annual of Lee Junior High School.
creator: Lee Junior High School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1970
contributor: Ambrielle Viney
format: Yearbook
type: Text
identifier: General 1970

GM001 Glenn-Minnich
description: The Glenn-Minnich store, formerly located at 108 W. Campbell Avenue, on closing day. Glenn-Minnich operated from 1913 until 1960 and was founded by C.B. Minnich, Myrl Glenn, and H.A. Glenn.
creator: Deyerle Studios
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 18 February 1960
contributor: LeCompte Glenn Deyerle
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Photograph
type: Still Image

GM002 Glenn-Minnich
description: Cutting a cake celebrating Glenn-Minnich's Rub Jubilee or forty years in business are, left to right, Estelle Penn, Nancy P. Deyerle, LeCompte Glenn Deyerle, unidentified, and Mildred Glenn.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: September 1953
contributor: LeCompte Glenn Deyerle
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Photograph
type: Still Image

GM003 Glenn-Minnich
description: The Boy Scout Department after a recent remodel at Glenn-Minnich, formerly located 108 W. Campbell Avenue.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 25 January 1947
contributor: LeCompte Glenn Deyerle
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Photograph
type: Still Image

GM004 Glenn-Minnich
description: Interior of Glenn-Minnich after a recent remodel.
creator: Parker Studios
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 25 January 1947
contributor: LeCompte Glenn Deyerle
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Photograph
type: Still Image

GM005 Glenn-Minnich
description: The College Shop in Glenn-Minnich shown after a recent remodel.
creator: Parker Studios
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 25 January 1947
contributor: LeCompte Glenn Deyerle
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Photograph
type: Still Image

GM006 Glenn-Minnich
description: Interior of Glenn-Minnich after a recent remodel.
creator: Parker Studios
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 25 January 1947
contributor: LeCompte Glenn Deyerle
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Photograph
type: Still Image

GM007 Glenn-Minnich
description: Interior of Glenn-Minnich after a recent remodel.
creator: Parker Studios
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 25 January 1947
contributor: LeCompte Glenn Deyerle
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Photograph
type: Still Image

GM008 Glenn-Minnich
description: Amy Jo Glenn (left) and Vetty Beckwith Glenn cutting cake inside Glenn-Minnich on the occasion of the store's Ruby Jubilee or fortieth anniversary.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: September 1953
contributor: LeCompte Glenn Deyerle
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Photograph
type: Still Image

GM009 Glenn-Minnich
description: Street-level entrance of Glenn-Minnich, formerly located at 108 W. Campbell Avenue.
creator: Parker Studios
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 22 April 1948
contributor: LeCompte Glenn Deyerle
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Photograph
type: Still Image

GM010 Glenn-Minnich
description: The shoe department at Glenn-Minnich.
creator: Parker Studios
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 22 April 1948
contributor: LeCompte Glenn Deyerle
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Photograph
type: Still Image

GM011 Glenn-Minnich
description: LeCompte Glenn in front of Glenn-Minnich, formerly located at 108 W. Campbell Avenue.
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 22 September 1949
contributor: LeCompte Glenn Deyerle
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Photograph
type: Still Image

GM012 Glenn-Minnich
description: Window display of Glenn-Minnich after remodeling. The slogans of the store were, "The store with the friendly door." and "Clothes for men and men who stay young."
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1947
contributor: LeCompte Glenn Deyerle
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital Photograph
type: Still Image

Grandin Court Elementary School 1976
description: 1976 annual for Grandin Court Elementary School.
creator: Grandin Court Elementary School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1976
rights: No known restrictions. Virginia Room copy fees apply.
format: Yearbook
type: Text

Grandin Court Elementary School 1978
description: 1978 annual for Grandin Court Elementary School.
creator: Grandin Court Elementary School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1978
rights: No known restrictions. Virginia Room copy fees apply.
format: Yearbook
type: Text

Headlight
description: Headlight is a special edition periodical featuring Roanoke and scenes along the Norfolk & Western Railroad.
creator: J.W. Beard and C.A. Collier
publisher: J.W. Beard and C.A. Collier
date: Circa 1899
rights: No known copyright restrictions
format: periodical
type: Text

Henry S. Trout
description: Date of Birth: October 15, 1841 Mayor from July 1, 1892 to June 30, 1894 Other offices held: Virginia House of Delegates, December 5, 1877 to December 3, 1879; Senator, Virginia's 4th District, December 5, 1883 to December 8, 1887; City Council, July 1, 1890 to July 1, 1891 Date of Death: April 16, 1918
creator: unknown
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: unknown
format: Photograph
type: Still Image

Historic Garden Week in Virginia Homes Index
description: An index to homes from Roanoke, Salem, and the surrounding areas profiled in Historic Garden Week in Virginia, 1938-2010.
creator: Roanoke Public Libraries
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1938-2010
format: pdf
type: Text

HNWR001
description: Locomotive No. 1219 arrives in Roanoke. The Class A was considered to be one of the "Magnificent Three" designs developed by a Norfolk & Western team headed by J.A. Pitcher, G.P. McGavok, and C.H. Faris. The Class A would break all previous performance records held by N&W engines.
creator: W.E. Warden
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: June 1955
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR002
description: Amongst the clerks, boilermakers, carpenters, mechanics, and engineers were a slew of instrumentalists, singers, song writers, and composers. Together, they formed the Roanoke Shop Band. Here the band stands on the grounds of the Hotel Roanoke. Members of the band were responsible for composing the music for "Tech Triumph", which was adopted by the Cadet Corps of VPI as their victory song. So plentiful was the music talent amongst the N&W employees that each division could organize its own band for special events and local parades.
creator: unknown
date: 11 January 1924
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR003
description: The carpenter crew has almost completed work on the station at Vicker, Virginia in this photo. Carpenters built everything from depots to boxcars and cabooses, to the finished interiors of passenger coaches.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR004
description: This photograph captures the station and crew at Welch, West Virginia. It is believed that the building in the background is the courthouse. Notice the freight car to the left.
creator: unknown
date: Circa 1900
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR005
description: Here is the Old Yard Office located upstairs from the N&W Passenger Station at Radford. Pictured from right to left are Zince, Stump, E.E. Allen, Lawrence Allen, Louis Lucas, Horace Price, Tom Heslep, H.A. Hall, J.C. Turner, O.C. Charlton, J.H. Barnett, T.D. Gravah, Tebe Lawrence, Arthur Roberto, Kuhn Barnett.
creator: unknown
date: 1916
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR006
description: Employees at the N&W roundhouse in Lynchburg. While Lynchburg served as the divisional point for the N&W during its first few years, increased coal and ore traffic caused the N&W to move its divisional points farther west in 1888.
creator: unknown
date: 1887
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR007
description: Working for the railroad was not always about work. Here is the 1895 N&W General Office Building Baseball Team. Team members are from left to right: (front row) ? Coleman, Winfree Reed, Max Howe, and G.F. Butler; (middle row) Harry Moore, Garnet Junkin, George Bentley, and Dupuy Coleman; (back row) Tate Greer, Bob Ott, Julian Barksdale (manager), Arthur Woodson, and unidentified. The railroad sponsored baseball teams, bowling leagues, and even employee tennis tournaments during its history.
creator: unknown
date: 1895
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR008
description: An early N&W mail car. The N&W purchased the car, which was built in 1892. Railroads were a popular and effective way to distribute mail around the country. Clerks aboard the cars would actually cancel the letters en route with the initials RPO, meaning Rail Post Office.
creator: unknown
date: 1910
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR009
description: On July 2, 1889, a night storm swelled Wolf Creek near Thaxton, Virginia, which rose out of its banks just as passenger train No. 2 was crossing. The situation became N&W's first major disaster. There was only one survivor, trainmaster James Cassell, who was swept along by the current but managed to cling to a tree until rescued.
creator: unknown
date: 2 July 1889
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR010
description: An N&W passenger train speeds between Roanoke and Christiansburg, Virginia. The N&W provided extensive passenger service through southwestern and southeastern Virginia, the Shenandoah Valley, West Virginia, and into parts of North Carolina. With connections, N&W passengers could easily travel from Alabama to New York.
creator: unknown
date: 1920
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR011
description: This photograph of the crew of Engine No. 82 was taken when Goodwin, West Virginia was a western terminus. The engine was standing on the Wye track. Crew members are S.D. Clowers, engineer; R.S. Brown, engineer; James Emmons, fireman; George Thomas, conductor; James Price, brakeman; and Essie Shell, baggage master.
creator: unknown
date: 1888
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR012
description: Engine No. 500 pulls out of Norfolk with the Pocahontas. The Pocahontas' maiden run occurred on November 21, 1926, when she ran between Norfolk and Columbus, Ohio. That run replaced the former "Norfolk-Chicago Express".
creator: unknown
date: 1937
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR013
description: Passengers board an N&W coach. Passenger service when into a steep decline after the mid-1940s. In 1946, for example, the N&W carried 3.4 million passengers. By 1950, that figure was about 900,000. The automobile was taking its toll on the railroad industry.
creator: unknown
date: 1947
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR014
description: The crew of Engine No. 102, shortly after the engine was taken over by the N&W, included Conductor Lawrence Boyles, Engineer George Agee, Fireman Harley Pugh, and Brakeman Jesse Honaker and R.C. Warden.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR016
description: This photograph captures a proud moment in the development of the N&W. Rolled out from the shop is the first locomotive built by Roanoke Machine Works. Roanoke Machine Works would later become the N&W Roanoke Shops. The engine is a Class I.
creator: unknown
date: September 1884
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR019
description: This photograph was taken at east Radford coal wharf. It depicts Engine No. 138 and crew. Mr. Akers, engineer; Charlie Roby, fireman; Mr. Allen and Mr. Adkins.
creator: unknown
date: 4 July 1887
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR020
description: Rail workers watch a safety film inside the N&W's motion picture car.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR021
description: In the late 1920s, the N&W developed a new strategy in rail safety education - the motion picture car. Carrying the "Safety First" logo, the car traveled various rail lines of the N&W as a mobile classroom for the purpose of providing safety instruction with films. The N&W earned numerous safety awards for its exemplary safety record
creator: unknown
date: 1934
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR022
description: The caboose functioned in may was as the train's office. Often train orders and other paperwork were handled aboard the caboose, which come on the scene in the late 1800s to serve as living quarters as well as an office for the crew. With the repeal of caboose laws that mandated their use and since it was a non-revenue car, railroads discontinued its use in the 1980s.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR023
description: A foreman gauges track to make certain the distance between the rails is exactly 4 feet, 8 inches. In 1883, the N&W operated primarily on a 5-foot gauge; however, on June 1, 1886, the N&W and other southern railroads adopted the now-standard gauge of 4 feet, 8 1/2 inces. At daybreak on June 1, the N&W ceased all freight and passenger train operations and labor gangs began respiking the rails. By early afternoon, the job was complete. It is estimated that the N&W and other southern railroads changed 11,000 miles of track that day. One N&W historian noted that this was the single, greatest one-day change ever to occur in the history of the railroad.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR024
description: This photograph shows the interior of a 52-foot long baggage and express car built in 1892. Notice the hanging oil lamp and stove at the mid-point.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR025
description: Commonly called the "boxcar", this particular model was used by N&W in 1960. The small numbers along the side under the logo indicated its hauling capacity, weight and load limits, measurements, when it was built, and when it was most recently painted.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR026
description: A hopper with coal is ready to go. 1970 was the peak for N&W coal traffic, when the railway carried 90.6 million tons of coal. While coal was profitable, it was not always a source of revenue. Floods, miner strikes, and other labor disputes cut deeply into N&W's coal traffic. During the 1978 strike of BRAC, for example, the amount of coal hauled dropped to 47 million tons.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR028
description: Engine No. 2165 is northbound near Waynesboro, Virginia, hauling a small but varied freight load.
creator: W.E. Warden
date: 1956
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR029
description: A freight train pulled by Engine No. 1228 moves eastbound near Bonsack.
creator: W.E. Warden
date: 1958
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR030
description: Locomotive No. 1212 pulls a load in a scene of the past: a steam engine at work. The N&W was the last major American railroad to abandon the steam engine in favor of the diesel engine. The designers and engineers of the N&W developed the steam locomotive to its highest potential. As one observer noted about the N&W and steam, "No one taught them anything. They were the ones that wrote the book". The last steam engine produced by N&W was a switcher engine that rolled out of the Roanoke Shops in December 1953. After 70 years of steam engines, N&W began buying diesel engines in 1955.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR031
description: Engine No. 1442 is placed on the new 115-foot turntable and in the new roundhouse of the Shenandoah Division. For this moment, the men of the roundhouse take a break to pose in recognition of achievement.
creator: unknown
date: 3 July 1919
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR032
description: Electric engines acquired by the N&W were from Baldwin-Westinghouse. There were 16 locomotives in all. The system, including overhead catenary wires and a generating plant, was completed in 1916. Engine No. 2506 makes the Bluefield run. In 1950, a new tunnel at Elkhorn was built, eliminating the need for the electric engines.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR033
description: This electric locomotive, Engine No. 126, was from the Virginian Railway. The Virginian was formed by Henry Rogers for $30 million in 1907. Having made his fortune in oil, Rogers died a month after the Virginian was officially formed and his position was assumed by his son. Known for its smooth runs and efficient bottom line, the Virginian made a record 4-hour run from Roanoke to Norfolk in 1918. Three years later, it set another record: a coal train of 110 cars carrying 17,050 tons of coal moved from Roanoke to Sewells Point, the location of its coal pier. In 1958, N&W approached the Virginian about a merger and the following year, the Interstate Commerce Commission approved the sale.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR034
description: Engine No. 1 was the switching locomotive used at the Roanoke Machine Works (later Roanoke Shops) in 1886. Standing in the cab of the engine is H.S. German. Others, from left, are Brakemen W.H. Hall and W.W. Rule, Engineer Paul DeArmond, and Conductor Tim Patterson.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR035
description: Engine No. 345 was the first compound engine owned by N&W. This photograph was taken at Crewe, Virginia. Crew members include A.D. Lane, engineer, and Julian Hark, fireman.
creator: unknown
date: 1885
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR036
description: During the first part of the 20th Century, N&W tried to cultivate agricultural products and freight as possible revenue. Rail agents often advertised farmland near N&W depots to encourage such activity. Here a "farm train" stops as men gather around some stock cars with livestock. A banner reads "Better Farming Special". Location unknown.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR037
description: The railroad employed a number of young boys to serve as apprentices during the advent of child labor laws. This photograph shows the Roanoke Shops machinist apprentices. A young apprentice would work a 10 hour day and often overtime on weekends. The apprenticeships opened doors of opportunity for later railroad employee and/or college admissions.
creator: unknown
date: 1907
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR038
description: 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 become more mechanized.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR039
description: Unidentified employees at the Roanoke roundhouse pose with locomotive wheels. Notice the various tools each is holding, which suggest the different types of work done at the roundhouse.
creator: unknown
date: Circa 1910
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR040
description: N&W employed a wide variety of skilled laborers. In this photograph, upholsterers in the Roanoke Shops prepare seats for passenger coaches. In addition to outfitting trains, the upholstery shop also fitted office furniture and some items for the Hotel Roanoke.
creator: unknown
date: 1928
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR041
description: Roanoke Boiler Shop employees at the corner of Salem Avenue and Commerce Street. Pictured from left to right (front row): Frank Bianchi, T.D Equi, John Griffin, P.E. Lawhorn, F.H. Wigmore, George Leisinger, T.J. Murray, James Conway, Edward Irvin, Louis Litsinger, Oren Ruefly (and his Irish Setter), and F.E. Feterman; (middle row): Mike Fitzgerald, J.L. McDonald, E.S. Kaetzel, Thomas Dugan, William Hough, Pete Conway, Edgar Davis, J.T. Withers, John Smith, B.I. Wade, W.E. Drabble, G.H. Hann, W.F. Dupree, W.D. Cassidy, E.F. Horgan, W.G. Hardy, F.L. Zeone, F.L. Pitzer, W.A. Kimmerling, and Ed Roderick; (back row): H.H. Lawhorn, Paul Wiegland, L.L. Hough, C.G. Fridinger, J.F. Horton, and Ike Neff.
creator: unknown
date: 1905
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR042
description: Carpenter Force No. 1, Pocahontas Division at Richlands, Virginia. From left are R.L. Sorah, J.A. Dye, Dayton Henderson, O.J. Lawson, R.L. Maxwell, J.D. Farmer, T.R. Stinson, S.T. Sparks, G.W. Petts, E.W. Clay, A.G. Quillen, R.H. Honaker. Notice the camp cars behind them where the men ate and slept.
creator: unknown
date: 1928
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR043
description: Drawing room employees in the N&W office building. Pictured from left are: John Worthington, Charles Jacobsen, James Woods, Fred Scuiffer, two unidentified, George Worthington, Otis Bellingrodh, Servelius Bisphan.
creator: unknown
date: 1888
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR044
description: This history of the Nickel Plate Railroad is an amassment of histories from other lines, such as Lake Erie and Western, Clover Leaf, and the Wheeling and Lake Erie. The Nickel Plate was officially the New York, Chicago, and St. Louis Railroad Company, which opened in 1882. By 1950, the Nickel Plate has 2,266 miles of track and over 16,000 employees. N&W approached the Nickel Plate in early 1960 about a merger, which consummated in 1964. A $2,000 investment in Nickel PLat stock in 1947 would have yielded $63,000 at the time of the merger, excluding two decades worth of dividends. Shown here is Engine No. 303.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR045
description: Like many railroads, the lines of the Wabash Railway Company predated the company's formation in 1877. The history of the Wabash is long and complicated, involving certain dubious personalities, mergers, receiverships, and a wavering bottom line. In 1920, Decatur, Illinois became the hub of the Wabash's activities. In 1931, the Wabash became the first American railroad to go into receivership due to the Depression. In 1941, it was controlled by Pennsylvania interests. Although solvent, the Wabash was plagued by intense competition and a precarious profit margin. Thus, the Wabash welcomed N&W's leasing of the company in 1964. Shown here is Wabash Engine No. 2515 at the Wabash yard in Decatur, Illinois.
creator: unknown
date: 2 October 1938
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR046
description: In addition to Engine No. 1776, N&W also had painted certain cars within their rolling stock to highlight the Bicentennial. Here a caboose wears the nation's colors.
creator: unknown
date: 1976
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR048
description: Public relations was not always left to copy editors and high-ranking N&W officials. This photograph shows a "train" built by the men at the Roanoke Shops for advertising purposes.
creator: unknown
date: 1927
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR049
description: The station at Schooler, Virginia was operated by W.H. Cord (left). The small station operated from March 1883, when coal first began to move from Pocahontas to Norfolk, until 1900 when the station was bypassed by new track. The young man in the photograph is W.H. Kegley.
creator: unknown
date: July 1900
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR050
description: Locomotive No. 37 was used in 1871 when the South Side, Norfolk and Petersburg, and Virginia and Tennessee Railroads were consolidated, forming the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad. The AM&O was the forerunner of N&W.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR051
description: Coal Pier 4 at Lamberts Point. The pier served N&W for nearly half a century.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR052
description: This aerial view shows the N&W coal piers at Lamberts Point. Coal Pier 4 (center) was built in 1914. At the time of its initial construction, the pier was 1,200 feet long, 70 feet wide, and 90 feet above the water. It could empty 600 cars per day. Pier 4 was "retired" in 1963, having loaded some 200 million tons of coal since its first day of operation in 1914. In September 1963, Pier 6 replaced Pier 4.
creator: unknown
date: 1950s
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR053
description: At Coal Pier 4 at Norfolk, hoppers are dumped into pier cars which carry coal to the loading shutes. In the background is a portion of N&W's 12,000 car classification and storage yards.
creator: unknown
date: 1950s
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR054
description: Coal quickly became N&W's leading freight commodity. Here an employee loads an N&W hopper with coal.
creator: unknown
date: Circa 1945
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR055
description: N&W hoppers at a West Virginia coal tipple are loaded for their eastbound trip to Lamberts Point near Norfolk. In 1883, N&W moved nearly 106,000 tons of coal. A century later, N&W moved 75 million tons annually.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR056
description: Engine No. 1200. As part of the Class A engines, No. 1200 was the first to be built by N&W between 1936 and 1950. Maximum horsepower was 6,300 at 45 miles per hour.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR057
description: Front view of Engine No. 1200, a Class A built in 1936.
creator: unknown
date: 9 May 1936
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR058
description: Engine No. 114 was a member of the K-1 Class of N&W locomotives. This class of engine, numbering 100 to 115, was built between 1916 and 1917. The Class K engines were built to pull more weight since new steel passenger cars were replacing those made earlier from wood.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR059
description: The sleek, Class K-2, Engine No. 118 was acquired by N&W in 1919. These engines, numbering 116 through 125, were rebuilt later and streamlined by N&W.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR060
description: Steam Engine No. 130, a Class K-2A locomotive.
creator: W.E. Warden
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR061
description: Engine No. 209.
creator: unknown
date: 1926
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR062
description: The Class M Engine No. 1112 was built in 1910. Their purchase was almost solely in response to the increased demands for hauling coal.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR063
description: Engine No. 37 was a Class N, as were all engines numbered 28 through 37. These engines, purchased by N&W, were made between 1887 and 1888. This photograph was taken at Wakefield, Ohio.
creator: unknown
date: 12 March 1902
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR064
description: Engine No. 76 was a Class U engine. On the N&W line, these engines were numbered 71 through 85.
creator: unknown
date: 1892
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR065
description: Engine No. 800 was an N&W Class W-6. These engines, numbered 800 through 814, were made between 1898 and 1899.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR066
description: Engine No. 2023 was a Class Y-3 locomotive. This was one of 50 built between 1919 and 1923.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR067
description: The Class Y-3A engines included No. 2058. These engines, numbering 2050 through 2079, were built in 1923. This photograph was taken in Cincinnati.
creator: unknown
date: 1945
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR068
description: The Class Y-4 engines were developed by N&W in 1927. Only 10 were produced, with Engine No. 2087 among them.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR069
description: In an effort to heavier freight, N&W developed the Y-6 locomotive. While retaining many of the design elements of the previous Y models, the Y-6 had a new steel frame, roller bearings, and mechanical lubrication at 213 points. A peak horsepower of 5,500 was achieved at 25mph. The Y-6 models were made between 1936 and 1940. In this photograph is Engine No. 2139.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR070
description: Engine No. 2156
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR071
description: Between 1948 and 1952, 30 Class Y-6B engines were produced by N&W. Engine No. 2200, the last of the Y-6Bs, is shown here at Roanoke.
creator: unknown
date: 1953
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR072
description: Engine No. 1438 was one of many Class Z-1A engines used by N&W. This particular engine was built in January 1916 in Schenectady, New York. These engines, numbered 1315 through 1438, were built between 1912 and 1917. A number of them were purchased to enhance N&W's ability to keep up with its rapidly expanding business.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWr073
description: To join the celebration of the nation's bicentennial, N&W painted this diesel locomotive red, white, and blue. The engine's number was appropriately 1776.
creator: unknown
date: 1976
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR074
description: The Shenandoah Valley Railroad operated a 239-mile line from Hagerstown, Maryland to Roanoke, Virginia, which was completed in 1883. Norfolk & Western purchased the railroad in 1890. The Shenandoah Valley's president, Fredercik Kimball, would become one of N&W's early and most visionary presidents. In this photograph is Engine No. 42, a Class I 2-8-0.
creator: unknown
date: 1884
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR075
description: Union Local 440 entered this "Safety First" float in a Roanoke parade. It testifies to the cooperation by rail unions and officials to improve worker safety.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR076
description: Safety became a paramount concern of the railroad. Pictured is the Eckman Shop Safety Committee on Engine No. 1343. In 1893, Congress passed the Railroad Safety Appliance Act and in 1916, rail employees won Congressional approval for an 8-hour work day, as opposed to 10 hours.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR077
description: The shop gang of the Portsmouth (Ohio) Shop pose in front of Engine No. 600. In 1901, N&W purchased the Cincinnati, Portsmouth, and Virginia Railroad for $2.5 million. Portsmouth would become a major location in the future operations of N&W.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR078
description: Some "cars" were used for necessary tests to properly maintain a railroad track. One example is the Scaletest Car in this photograph. The car was used to test the scales on the N&W system that weighed the rolling stock. Instructions on the car read, "Handle on rear of train ahead of caboose". This particular car was built in 1924.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR079
description: This N&W ambulance from the 1920s signifies the hazards of being a rail worker. In fact, N&W financed the hospital in Roanoke for its first two years of operation so rail families could get necessary medical services.
creator: unknown
date: 1920s
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR080
description: Passenger coaches went through numerous stages of development. From wood to steel construction, and from basic amenities to luxurious accomodations, the coach was designed for both comfort and safety. This is an early passenger coach used by N&W.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR081
description: Henry Fink, president of N&W from 1895 until 1902, was the chief operating officer for Mahone's AM&O Railroad. A life-long bachelor, Fink had immigrated to the United States with his brother in 1851 and became a railroad engineer four years later. While N&W president, Fink often directed the railway's activities from his New York office. Though providing N&W steady leadership, Fink made one significant error in judgment; he saw little future in coal. During a visit to the Norfolk division in 1895, his superintendents pleaded for him to approve sidings and storage tracks for more coal traffic. Fink reportedly replied, "What would we do with coal when we got it down here?" No one will buy it. And none of us can eat it. Wait awhile."
creator: unknown
date: Circa 1900
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR082
description: General William Mahone served as the president of the AM&O Railroad for its 10-year existence. Gen. Mahone first gained attention during the Civil War as a field commander, notorious for his unorthodox battle antics. Following the war, Mahone immersed himself in the political and business affairs of Virginia, becoming president of three different railroads at the same time. His energy and political savvy led the Virginia legislature to approve merging his three railroads into the AM&O. His detractors said the initials "AMO" stood for "All mine and Otelia's", Otelia being Mahone's wife.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR083
description: The Pocahontas moves east through Blue Ridge, Virginia pulled by Diesel No. 1014. The engine, though bearing the N&W name, was a diesel originally belonging to the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac. By the late 1950s, as the N&W was transitioning to diesel, a number of RF&P engines were bring used by N&W for its passenger trains.
creator: W.E. Warden
date: September 1959
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR084
description: Electric engines were developed in 1914 so crews could safely navigate the tunnel at Coldale, West Virginia. Slow-moving steam engines choked the badly ventilated tunnel to the detriment of the crew's health. The electrified line ran between Bluefield and Hull, West Virginia. Pictured is Engine No. 2512.
creator: unknown
date: 1920s
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR085
description: Diesel Engine No. 1633, photographed shortly after being built. Notice the railroad's last corporate logo, the more streamlined "NW". The white-on-black design was introduced by John Fishwick when he was the railroad's president in 1971.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR086
description: Diesel engines could operate more efficiently than the steam engine and American railroads were quick to make the switch. Between 1941 and 1955, the number of diesel locomotives in use went from 1,200 to 20,000. Pictured is Engine No. 8511.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR087
description: The diesel engine was developed in 1890 by Rudolph Diesel. The Central Railroad of New Jersey was the first to use a diesel locomotive in 1925. It was not until 1955 that N&W began to order diesel locomotives, primarily from American Locomotive Company and General Motors. Pictured is Engine No. 1645.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR088
description: After the first N&W office building burned in 1896, this building took its place. Constructed on the same location as the old, one section was completed in 1896 and the other in 1907. The building is now used for upscale apartments.
creator: unknown
date: Circa 1930
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR089
description: Passenger locomotive No. 29 pulls into the Winston-Salem yard in 1890. This train may have been operating on the former Roanoke and Southern track that was absorbed into the operations of N&W in 1892.
creator: unknown
date: Circa 1890
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR090
description: Engine No. 1100, a Class M-2, was one of a number of engines purchased by N&W in 1910. The Class M, as rebuilt, had a 4-8-0 wheel alignment, allowing it to meet the freight demands of the railroad.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR091
description: Given the hazards of early railroading, even Mother Nature did not cooperate at times. This image shows a collapsed car shop in Roanoke, a result of a heavy snow storm in 1890.
creator: unknown
date: 17 December 1890
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR093
description: A school group lines up to board the Powhatan Arrow. The name of the train was the result of a contest conducted by N&W, wherein 140,000 entries were submitted. The winner of the $500 first place prize was an N&W retiree, Leonard A. Scott.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR094
description: Virginia and Tennessee Railroad named rather than numbered their locomotives. This locomotive was Roanoke. Chartered in 1849 and completed in 1856, the V&T ran from Lynchburg to Bristol and later merged with the AM&O.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR095
description: The Powhatan Arrow boasted the finest passenger service amenities when introduced, including a tavern-lounge car. Here the Arrow moves from Roanoke to Bluefield and was photographed at Singer, Virginia. The round-end tavern car, No. 581, allowed the Arrow to truly be considered as a "streamliner".
creator: unknown
date: 8 December 1949
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR096
description: Called a "vestibule car", this interior shot shows passenger seating in an 1892 coach. Notice the window shutters, ornate interior design, and fold-down seats. Despite its comfortable feel, early trains of this era were unsafe and not that pleasant compared with modern service.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR097
description: Engine No. 475 steams out of Roanoke. In 1946, the year considered to be the beginning of N&W's modern passenger service, an average ridership per train was 118. By 1971, when N&W discontinued passenger trains, the number had dropped to less than 30.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR098
description: The Pocahontas traveling along the New River. This route was the most spectacular and difficult. After leaving the New River Valley, The Arrow climbed abruptly to Bluefield and then downhill along the Tug River at Williamson.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR099
description: This head-on collision occurred at Rippon, Virginia. Engine No. 481 is at left.
creator: unknown
date: 1918
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR100
description: A closer view of the Thaxton wreck shows the debris pile. Engineer Pat Donovan's body was so badly mangled he was only identified by his clothing. The entire woodwork of the train was burned due to exploding gas lights in the coaches. Seven cars were destroyed and six employees and eleven passengers lost their lives. Engine No. 43 is handing the wreck car.
creator: unknown
date: 2 July 1889
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR101
description: Engines No. 14 and No. 37 collided at Rural Retreat. Note the collapsed front half of the first baggage coach. While engines could often withstand collisions, the wood-constructed baggage and passenger coaches were extremely vulnerable.
creator: unknown
date: 20 October 1920
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR102
description: One of the largest freight depots along the N&W line was in Roanoke. Today, the freight depot is home to the Virginia Museum of Transporation, wherein are housed many N&W artifacts and archival material, as well as some steam engines in the outdoor exhibit area.
creator: unknown
date: 1931
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR104
description: This view shows the early Roanoke passenger station (center),the N&W office building (center right), and the Hotel Roanoke (right).
creator: unknown
date: 1890
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR105
description: "Roanoke Wheel Shop 1927" is stamped on the axel of the car wheel displayed by the men of the wheel shop. Individuals unidentified.
creator: unknown
date: 1927
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR107
description: Engine No. 53 and her crew excavate for new track near Bluefield, West Virginia. N&W pioneered and financed early coal production in the mountains of West Virginia and carved the rail beds that allowed the "black gold" to move east.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR108
description: The blacksmith gang at the Bluefield Shops. Blacksmithing was rugged and often dangerous work, but a necessary trade to make the railroad operate. Individuals unidentified.
creator: unknown
date: 1927
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR109
description: Freight Engine No. 173 of the Radford Yard is depicted at a Radford pipe shop.
creator: unknown
date: Circa 1900
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR110
description: Employees of Roanoke Machine Works build a caboose. They are, left to right: W.E. Meadows, Ted Swain, William Patterson, R.L. Daddow, R.L. Funk, and T.S. Jones.
creator: unknown
date: 1888
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR111
description: Diesel Engine No. 1590 passes through Buena Vista, Virginia. Notice the train order raised to be grabbed by the engineer as the train passes.
creator: unknown
date: 1968
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR112
description: This is an unidentified station office. Pictured left to right are: C.E. Moore, C.C. McPherson, W.L. Bingham, Harvey Call, and W.G. Light.
creator: unknown
date: 1914
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR113
description: An interior view of a sleeper car.
creator: unknown
date: Circa 1930s
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR114
description: This image symbolizes the commercial ventures of N&W - a coal train enters the picture as a passenger train, the Powhatan Arrow, leaves. Engine No. 1213 is westbound out of Williamson, West Virginia, to deliver coal to the Great Lakes region. The engine is a Class A with an auxiliary water tank; allowing it to run non-stop between major terminals. The Arrow is on its eastbound route from Cincinnati to Norfolk.
creator: unknown
date: 1953
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR115
description: Unidentified men work in a standard rail mail car. The United States Postal Service discontinued use of the railroad post office in 1967.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR116
description: This photograph includes three types of modern, coal-burning steam locomotives designed and built by N&W. These represent the best elements of steam engine design: low initial investment, high utilization, low-cost operation and maintenence, and reliable performace. The engines are from left: the J-600, A-1203, and Y-2123.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR119
description: Passengers enjoy a ride on a N&W coach.
creator: unknown
date: June 1938
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR120
description: Engine No. 17 is surrounded by rail employees in this photograph taken near Elkton, West Virginia. On the ground at the extreme left is G.W. Pile; standing fourth from the left is H.S. Walker; standing second from the right is C.C. Edmondson; and R.H. Miller is standing on the pilot. All others unidentified.
creator: unknown
date: Circa 1892
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR121
description: One of the largest freight depots along the N&W line was in Roanoke. Today, the freight depot is home to the Virginia Museum of Transporation, wherein are housed many N&W artifacts and archival material, as well as some steam engines in the outdoor exhibit area.
creator: unknown
date: 1931
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR122
description: The station at Christiansburg, Virginia awaits freight and passengers. Note the mail and express carts to the right.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR123
description: The N&W, like all major railroads, served its country well during World War II for the movement of troops and military freight. In fact, passenger service reached its zenith during wartime. While the exact location of this scene is unknown, it certainly represents what was a common occurrence at rail stations across the country - men leaving with family and loved ones bidding them goodbye. In World War I, the Federal Government had taken over the railroads to manage military transportation. In World War II, however, the railroads railroads organized themselves, allowing the Federal Government to only coordinate (not control) military transportation. During World War II, the N&W moved the most freight in its history. Nearly ten percent of the N&W's workforce served in the Armed Forces during World War II.
creator: unknown
date: Circa 1942
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR124
description: Employees repair an N&W locomotive at the Roanoke Shops.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR125
description: An interior view of the erecting shop at Roanoke showing an engine's assembly in progress.
creator: unknown
date: Circa 1940s
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR126
description: Taken from the Roanoke passenger station, this photograph shows the Birmingham Special in the background and the Pocahontas in the foreground..
creator: unknown
date: September 1969
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR127
description: Shown here is the back, lower level of the Roanoke passenger station three years before the Raymond Loewy renovation.
creator: unknown
date: 1946
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR128
description: The N&W passenger station at Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
creator: unknown
date: Circa 1940
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR129
description: The N&W station at Bluefield, West Virginia.
creator: unknown
date: 5 December 1941
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR131
description: The N&W station at Portsmouth, Ohio.
creator: unknown
date: 1940
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR132
description: The depot in Ivor, Virginia.
creator: unknown
date: 1964
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR133
description: Two employees examine car wheels at the Roanoke Shops. C.G. Wiley is at right; the man at left is unidentified. Unfortunately, African American employees of the N&W could not be promoted beyond entry-level positions until the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made discrimination illegal.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR134
description: The Dynamometer was pulled by locomotives to determine their actual horsepower and potential speeds. Such calculations were extremely important for effeciently moving freight over different grades and distances. The ability of the locomotive to do so with speed and climbing power contributed significantly to N&W's bottom line.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR135
description: Here, a former N&W mail car is a museum display. Notice the period mail bag hanging from its post. As the train would pass, the mail clerk would position the hook, grab the bag, and then begin the sorting process inside the car.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR136
description: The Powhatan Arrow on one of its runs. The Arrow traveled along a diverse scenic route through Virginia's Dismal Swamp, the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Alleghanies, and into the West Virginia coal fields.
creator: unknown
date: 1948
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR137
description: Aerial photograph of N&W freight docks at Lambert's Point near Norfolk.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR138
description: Coal was not the only export transported by N&W. This image shows freight docks and a grain elevator at Sewall's Point at Norfolk. Pier A is in center foreground.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR139
description: Engine No. 382 runs the steepest grade of all - a sustained three percent grade to the summit at White Top Station. This run, affectionately known as the "Virginia Creeper", ran between Abingdon, Virginia and West Jefferson, North Carolina. Here, the Class M engine passes Green Cove depot, but is still three rail miles from the summit.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR140
description: A small coal yard in West Virginia. N&W pioneered and developed the state's coal industry.
creator: unknown
date: 1937
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR141
description: When passenger services encompassed long distances, dining service was offered. While cooks had to operate in a relatively confined space, they prepared full-course meals as good as any fine restaurants.
creator: unknown
date: Circa 1950
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR142
description: The depot at Grundy, Virginia was reminiscent of many rural depots that lined the tracks of the N&W.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR143
description: The "Wheel Rollers" of the Roanoke Shops include (front left): Earl Dunning, John Cantry, Charles Wiley, Monk Wiggins, and Thomas Campbell. The Wheel Rollers competed in wheel rolling competitions around the nation and always placed high.
creator: unknown
date: Circa 1930s
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR144
description: The Norfolk and Western Male Chorus consisted of African American employees who toured and performed hundreds of concerts. Here, the chorus performs at Roanoke's Academy of Music. The chorus was of such a high caliber that one needed an audition to join.
creator: unknown
date: Circa 1950
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR145
description: The old car record office at Portsmouth, Virginia. Shown from left are: Floyd Chabot (seated), Paul Jones, S.A. Highfield, H.H. Hester, and John Farley.
creator: unknown
date: 1914
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR146
description: Car yardmen at Kimball, West Virginia. As the coal mines opened, the number of men employeed by N&W soared, bringing economic opportunity to many West Virginia families.
creator: unknown
date: 1906
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR147
description: One of N&W's largest freight stations was in Roanoke. Depicted are unidentified freight station employees. The average annual wage for railroad workers in America at the turn of the century was $740, much higher than the average American wage.
creator: unknown
date: 1901
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR148
description: The crew of Engine No. 19. This engine, like most of the engines used by N&W in its infancy, was built by Baldwin Locomotive Works.
creator: unknown
date: 1885
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR149
description: An early example of freight locomotives used by N&W was Engine No. 264.
creator: unknown
date: 1891
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR150
description: Class Q Engine No. 516 pulls into a depot at Nolan, West Virginia. The engine was originally put into service in April 1882. Crew members are servicing both passenger and express cars.
creator: unknown
date: 1 December 1892
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR151
description: Shop employees and crew of Engine No. 205 in Roanoke, shortly after the locomotives construction.
creator: unknown
date: 1926
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR152
description: Engine No. 54 with her crew (from left): Engineer E.H. Jones, Fireman Guy Emery, and Conductor Lloyd Pugh. The train was running between Sardinia and Hillsboro branch, and the main line of the Cincinnati, Portsmouth, and Virginia Railroad.
creator: unknown
date: Circa 1900
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR153
description: An aerial view of Bellevue Yard in Ohio, looking east. The classification yard is at left center and immediately to the right is the car repair facility. In the distance are the receiving and departure yards.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR154
description: Wreck at Powhatan, West Virginia. Notice the double-tracking in the image. Unfortunately, the development of adequate rail safety technology was years from completion, making railroading a dangerous profession.
creator: unknown
date: 7 August 1904
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image
title: HNWR155
description: A postcard image of the N&W depot at Salem, Virginia. The depot still remains, although the shed at the tracks was dismantled many years ago. During the 1930s, depots like this dotted the lines of the N&W. Few remain today, either abandoned or in alternative uses, was reminders of the great era of the Norfolk & Western Railway.
date: 1910

HNWR158
description: Interior view of a typical N&W lounge car.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR159
description: Interior view of a typical N&W dining car.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR160
description: Here is but one example of how mechanization assisted significantly in the maintenance of tracks. A machine removes cross ties for the crew.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR161
description: To keep passenger coaches looking good, the railroad regularly sent them through a mechanical washing facility.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR162
description: Freight cars line up outside a coal-cleaning and prep plant near Gary, West Virginia. The N&W relied heavily on many of the larger coal mines and facilities throughout West Virginia.
creator: unknown
date: Circa 1950s
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR163
description: A hopper car loaded with coal coasts down the "hump" incline toward classification tracks at the Portsmouth, Ohio freight yard. This car is half-way through the master retarder. The scale house and assistant yard master's office are located in the center. From this yard, coal would go to distribution points at Columbus and Cincinnati.
creator: unknown
date: Circa 1950s
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR164
description: The Bluefield Yard in 1888. In that year, the N&W organized
creator: unknown
date: 1888
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR165
description: The Portsmouth Freight Office included (from left): L.M. Dory, Gus Kehrer, Fred Dressler, S.R. Crawford, T.M. O'Connor, and Theodore Doty.
creator: unknown
date: 1899
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR166
description: This engine was a Class W-1, 2-8-0 type and was originally built by the Roanoke Shops in October 1900.
creator: unknown
date: 17 June 1925
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR167
description: Engine No. 102 rolls out of assembly at the Roanoke Shops and employees pose for the customary photograph of the engine.
creator: unknown
date: 1917
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR168
description: The "Jawn Henry" was the nickname for this combination steam-electric locomotive. It was N&W's last-ditch effort to give steam one last try. The engine had 12 traction motors, weighed in at 1.1 million pounds, and was 161 feet long. Delivered in 1954, it was classed as a TE-1 for turbine-electric. The engine proved flawed; it's high cost, complex control system, inability to fit a standard turntable, and specialized crew demands caused N&W to retire the engine in 1957.
creator: unknown
date: Circa 1955
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR170
description: Welch, West Virginia. The old N&W station is in the foreground; the courthouse is atop the hill and businesses are at left.
creator: unknown
date: 1905
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR172
description: Passenger Engine No. 90 was an example of many engines purchased by N&W in its early years from Baldwin Locomotive Works. Engine No. 90 was a Class A engine.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR173
description: Engine No. 72 is another example of a Class U locomotive built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1892. This passenger locomotive weighed in excess of 132,000 pounds and was later converted to simple cylinders.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR174
description: Engine No. 93 was a small shifting engine used at Roanoke Machine Works. It was built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1883.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR175
description: The old Class M engine was built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1883. N&W owned two of these engines, Nos. 94 and 95, as shown here.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR176
description: Freight Locomotive No. 1203 rests on the turntable at Shaffer's Crossing in Roanoke.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR177
description: A stock train rolls through the Virginia countryside. As a way to encourage agribusiness, N&W operated a working farm at Ivor, Virginia for some years around 1910-1915.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR178
description: An interior view of an express car used by N&W. Express cars held all kinds of freight, from passenger baggage to commercial merchandise.
creator: unknown
date: 19 November 1937
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR179
description: An interior view of a N&W passenger coach. Notice the oil lamps. Although beautiful design features, these lamps would often shatter during an accident, spilling their fuel into the car. Resultant fires sometimes killed more passengers than the accidents themselves.
creator: unknown
date: Circa 1890s
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR180
description: Passenger coaches changed significantly over time. Once elaborate and finely appointed coaches evolved into more basic design, as seen in passenger coach No. 1650.
creator: unknown
date: 13 June 1935
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR181
description: Passenger coach No. 1700.
creator: unknown
date: 17 December 1934
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR182
description: This passenger train stops in Ivanhoe, Virginia. Passenger service would serve as a popular form of distance travel until the emergence of the automobile.
creator: unknown
date: May 1887
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR183
description: The Class J 600 is pulling a Southern Railway streamlined passenger train. The Class Js were built between 1941 and 1950.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR184
description: This photograph shows one of the largest loads of coal cargo on a single ship at Lambert's Point. A total of 493 carloads were required.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR185
description: Loaded coal cars await their turn at the car-dumping machine. Upwards of 400 cars of coal are required to fill the large colliers.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR186
description: Norfolk & Western always kept a spare for every part necessary to cargo operations.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR187
description: An interior view of a Pullman car after being made into a sleeper.
creator: unknown
date: Circa 1950
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR188
description: Frederick J. Kimball was one of the most forward-thinking of the early N&W presidents. He was so respected, the citizens of Big Lick voted to change its name to Kimball in his honor. He declined and suggested the location be called Roanoke, which it became in 1882. At 38, he was president of the Shenandoah Valley Railroad when he was tapped to be the N&W's first chief operating officer. He then served as the N&W's president or chairman for 20 years, from 1883 until his death in 1903. Kimball was interested in the coal fields of West Virginia and on a weekend trip in May 1881, Kimball, his wife, and others journeyed to the state. At Abb's Valley, Kimball turned to his wife and uttered the greatest understatement in N&W history: "This may be a very important day". Kimball's wife suggested the vein be called "Pocahontas".
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR189
description: This photograph of a bygone era shows a racehorse car with an auction occurring on the platform car. Taken by George Davis of Roanoke, it hints at the possible location of the auction. There were several racehorse tracks in the Roanoke Valley at the time.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
date: Circa 1920
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR190
description: Employees of the Roanoke freight office.
creator: unknown
date: February 1924
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR191
description: Engine No. 550 is a later example of the steam locomotive used by N&W. The crew poses for a picture in Roanoke.
creator: George C. Davis Photography
date: Circa 1918
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR192
description: The Birmingham Special moves northbound, having detoured through Waynesboro, Virginia, on account of a washout on the Southern Railway's main line between Monroe, West Virginia and Charlottesville, Virginia. The Special was among a number of other passenger trains operated by N&W.
creator: unknown
date: 2 September 1969
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR193
description: An industrial hoist rests in the yard at Roanoke. Notice the huge pulleys hanging from the arm. Engine No. 131 is in the background.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR194
description: Norfolk & Western's passenger service ceased in 1971. Here is the Pocahontas on her last run, traveling eastbound at Blue Ridge, Virginia. An estimated 100,000 spectators lined the route to catch a glimpse of a passing era.
creator: unknown
date: 1 May 1971
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR195
description: This consist of coal includes some hoppers from the Virginia Railway, which had been acquired by N&W in 1959.
creator: unknown
date: Circa 1965
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR196
description: Engine No. 2146 pulls a load of coal. In the 1940s, N&W served the following seven coal districts: Kenova, Thacker, Tug River, Pocahontas, Clinch Valley 1 & 2, and Radford.
creator: unknown
date: 1949
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR197
description: This is the view across the flat yard at Norfolk, Virginia. Hoppers would wait in the yard to be emptied.
creator: unknown
date: Circa 1950
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR198
description: Diesel Engine No. 322 pulls a consist of coal through Virginia. The switch to diesel was difficult for N&W given its commercial investment in coal.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR199
description: Loaded coal cars awaiting shipment from an N&W coal tipple. Note the different grades of coal being loaded. During World War II, the United States Navy almost exclusively used N&W coal for its Atlantic fleet.
creator: unknown
date: 1954
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

HNWR202
description: Two N&W locomotives prepare to pass one another heading to and from the West Virginia coal fields.
creator: unknown
date: unknown
contributor: Nelson Harris; Virginia Museum of Transportation
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: Digital tiff
type: Still Image

Hollins Institute, Virginia: Founded 1842
description: Pictorial booklet of scenes of and around Hollins Institute (now Hollins University).
creator: Hollins College
publisher: Harwell-Evans
date: Circa 1911
rights: No known restrictions on copyright.
format: pamphlet
type: Text

Illustrated Story of Roanoke: The "Magic City"
description: A description of Roanoke with a directory of businesses and industries.
creator: Clarence E. Weaver
publisher: Clarence E. Weaver
date: Circa 1912
rights: No known copyright restrictions.
format: pamphlet
type: Text

Imprint 1995
subject: Roanoke Valley Christian School
description: The Imprint is the annual for Roanoke Valley Christian School.
creator: Roanoke Valley Christian School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1995
format: Yearbook
type: Text

Imprint 1998
subject: Roanoke Valley Christian School
description: The Imprint is the annual for Roanoke Valley Christian School.
creator: Roanoke Valley Christian School
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1998
format: Yearbook
type: Text

Index to Raymond Barnes News Articles
description: This is an index of articles written by Raymond Barnes for the Roanoke World News. Barnes' feature articles, entitled "Echoes of Roanoke", ran from 1958-1969 and covered an array of historical topics related to the Roanoke Valley.
creator: Roanoke Public Libraries
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: Articles were published from 1958-1969, but content ranges from the Colonial era through the 20th Century.
format: pdf
type: Text

Index to the Journal of the Historical Society of Western Virginia
description: This document is a subject index to the Journal of the Historical Society of Western Virginia. Originally called the Journal of the Roanoke Historical Society, on February 15, 1972, the Historical Society changed its name to the Roanoke Valley Historical Society, and the Journal accordingly changed its name thereafter to the Journal of the Roanoke Valley Historical Society. In 1997, the Historical Society again changed its name to the History Museum and Historical Society of Western Virginia, and theJournal became the Journal of the History Museum and Historical Society of Western Virginia with publication of the 1999 Journal. With publication of the 2006-2007 issue, the Journal became the Journal of the Historical Society of Western Virginia. Journal articles relate the rich history of Southwestern Virginia.
creator: Roanoke Public Libraries
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1964 - present
format: pdf
type: Text

Index to the Roanoker Magazine
description: This document is an index to the Roanoker Magazine arranged alphabetically by subject. from 1974-present.
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1974-present
format: pdf
type: Text

Insurance Rating Request for the City of Roanoke
description: Prepared for the Virginia Insurance Rating Bureau, this request contains an inventory of city owned property with descriptions and in many cases photographs.
creator: City of Roanoke
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1949
format: report
format: photograph
type: Text
type: Still Image

Interments in Old Lick, First Baptist Church, and City Farm Cemeteries, 1912-1960
description: This is a guide to a collection of death certificates of individuals buried in Old Lick, First Baptist Church, and City Farm cemeteries beginning with the earliest available certificates in 1912 and concluding with 1960 when burials at the cemeteries ceased. The graves at City Farm and those from the western portion of Old Lick cemeteries were relocated to Coyner Springs in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Many of the graves were unmarked and as a result, the remains were reinterred in mass graves at Coyner Springs. Nine hundred thirty-three graves were removed from Old Lick/First Baptist cemetery. Over 550 graves were removed from City Farm cemetery. In an effort to help identify individuals relocated to Coyner Springs, this collection includes death certificates of over 2,600 individuals originally interred in Old Lick/First Baptist Church and City Farm cemeteries. It is not definitively known which of these graves were relocated as the remains were not identified during the relocation process. Certificates are arranged alphabetically by surname for each year. It should be noted that some stillbirths were not included with death certificates. Only certificates issued in the City of Roanoke, Roanoke County, Salem, and Vinton were searched. Persons who may have died outside of these areas and buried in these cemeteries have not been identified in this process.
creator: Roanoke Public Libraries
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: 1912-1960
format: pdf
type: Text

IRB 102 Dwelling 1
description: A two story and basement building of frame construction, composition shingle roofm plastered interior finish, wood floors on first and second, concrete basement, steam heat and electric lighting. Excellent condition. Valuation: The sound value of this building is approximately $10.5K.
creator: City of Roanoke
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: February 1949
contributor: Krissy Price
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: photograph
type: Still Image

IRB 104 Dwelling 2
description: A one story and basement building, frame construction, metal roof, plastered interior finish, wood floors, concrete basement, electric lighting, steam heat. Building in good condition. Valuation: The sound value of this building is approximately $5.3K.
creator: City of Roanoke
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: February 1949
contributor: Krissy Price
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use
format: photograph
type: Still Image

IRB 110 Dwelling
description: A two and one story frame building, composition roof, plastered interior finish, wood floors, stove heat. Building in fair condition. Valuation: The sound value of this building is approximately $4K.
creator: City of Roanoke
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: February 1949
contributor: Krissy Price
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: photograph
type: Still Image

IRB 115 Caretakers Dwelling
description: A one story and basement building of log and stone construction, composition roof, wood boards and earth floors, open interior finish, electric lighting, stove heat. Built in 1930 and in excellent condition. Valuation: The sound value of this building is approximately $8.8K.
creator: City of Roanoke
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: February 1949
contributor: Krissy Price
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use
format: photograph
type: Still Image

IRB 118 Tenant Dwelling
description: A two and one story frame dwelling, metal roof, wood floors, plastered interior finish, electric lighting. Approximately 40 years old in fair condition. A small frame outbuilding also located on premises. Valuation: The sound value of this building is approximately $3K. The sound value of the outbuilding is approximately $100.
creator: City of Roanoke
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: February 1949
contributor: Krissy Price
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use
format: photograph
type: Still Image

IRB 119 Tenant Dwelling
description: A one and a half story building of frame construction, composition roof, wood floors, plastered interior finish, electric lighting, stove heat. Building approximately 40 years old and in fair condition. Small frame outbuilding on premises. Valuation: The sound value of this dwelling is approximately $2.3K. The sound value of this outbuilding is approximately $100.
creator: City of Roanoke
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: February 1949
contributor: Krissy Price
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use
format: photograph
type: Still Image

IRB 122 CC Filter Plant
description: One and two story building with basement. The modern fire resistive building was completed in 1947. Valuation: The sound value of this building is approximately $227K.
creator: City of Roanoke
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: February 1949
contributor: Krissy Price
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use
format: photograpgh
type: Still Image

IRB 125 Main Library
description: "A two story and basement brick building with stucco finish, metal roof, wood floors, except basement, which is brick, plastered interior finish, electric lights, low pressure steam heat. Approximately 125 years old. Occupancy: Basement - Heating apparatus, stack rooms, book repair room. First Floor - Reading rooms, office. Second Floor - Reading rooms, stack room. Valuation: The sound value of this building is approximately $30K."
creator: City of Roanoke
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: February 1949
contributor: Krissy Price
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use
format: photograph
type: Still Image

IRB 126 Raleigh Court
description: "One story brick building, wood joisted roof covered with slate. Interior; floor of concrete with mastic tile wearing surfaces, close plastered sidewalls, metal lath and plastered beam ceiling. Electric lighting, stoker-fired low pressure steam heat. Good repair. Occupancy: Public library. Valuation: The sound value of this building is approximately $15K."
creator: City of Roanoke
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: February 1949
contributor: Krissy Price
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use
format: photograph
type: Still Image

IRB 128 Gainsboro
description: One story and part basement brick building, wood joisted roof covered with slate. Interior; joisted floor, oak wearing surfaces, close plastered sidewalls, ceilings metal lath and plaster. Basement partly finished with concrete floor. Electric lights, stoker-fired hot water heat. Very good repair. Occupancy: Public library. Valuation: The sound value of this building is approximately $42K.
creator: City of Roanoke
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: February 1949
contributor: Krissy Price
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use
format: photograph
type: Still Image

IRB 133 Almshouse
description: "A two story and part basement brick building of fire resistive construction, roof of composition on concrete slab, concrete floors, plastered interior finish, electric lighting, low pressure steam heat. Approximately 25 years old and in good condition. Occupancy: First floor - kitchen, dining room, reception and sleeping rooms. Second Floor - sleeping rooms. Valuation: The sound value of this building is approximately $92K."
creator: City of Roanoke
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: February 1949
contributor: Krissy Price
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use
format: photograph
type: Still Image

IRB 152 Detention Home
description: This is a three story and basement and part two story and basement brick building of fire resistive construction with a roof of composition on concrete slab, concrete floors throughout. One open stairs from basement to third floor. Electric lighting and low pressure steam heat. This building is approximately 15 years old and in good condition. Occupancy: Offices, matrons' quarters, detention rooms, classroom and kitchen. Valuation: The sound value of this building is approximately $105K.
creator: City of Roanoke
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: February 1949
contributor: Krissy Price
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use
format: photograph
type: Still Image

IRB 153 Coyner Springs
description: A two and one story part basement building of brick and frame construction with composition shingled roofm concrete floors with tile and wood surfacing, plastered interior finish,electric lighting, low pressure steam heat. Built in 1939 and in excellent condition. Occupancy: First Floor - White and colored ward rooms and private rooms, x-ray offices and examination rooms, kitchen. Second Floor - Nurses' quarters. Basement - Heating equipment and storage room. Valuation: The sound value of this building is approximately $180K.
creator: City of Roanoke
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: February 1949
contributor: Krissy Price
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use
format: photograph
type: Still Image

IRB 23 Municipal Airport
description: A two story and basement and part one story and basement brick building, metal roof, wood floors except basement which is earth, plastered interior finish, electric lights and steam heat; fair condition. Occupancy: Office and apartments. Valuation: The sound value of this building is approximately $31K.
creator: City of Roanoke
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: February 1949
contributor: Krissy Price
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: photograph
type: Still Image

IRB 24 Tenant Dwelling 2
description: One story frame dwelling with composition covered roof and wood floor. Building in fair repair; occupied as tenant dwelling. Valuation: The sound value of this building is approximately $2.5K
creator: City of Roanoke
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: February 1949
contributor: Krissy Price
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: photograph
type: Still Image

IRB 25 Hangars A&B
description: Two buildings of similar construction. Each building of cinder block walls with large frame doors, wood joisted roof covered with composition, concrete floor, electric lighting; stove heat. Buildings recently erected and in good repair.
creator: City of Roanoke
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: February 1949
contributor: Krissy Price
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: photograph
type: Still Image

IRB 26 Nose-In Hangar
description: This is a one-high story building with roof of gypsum plank on unprotected steel, cinder block walls, concrete floor. One side is open. Building of recent construction and in good repair. Occupancy: Nose-in hangar and office. Valuation: The sound value of this building is approximately $30K.
creator: City of Roanoke
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: February 1949
contributor: Krissy Price
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073.
format: photograph
type: Still Image

IRB 27 Hangar 2
description: This is a one story building of cinder block construction, all metal roof, concrete floor, electric lighting and steam heat. Occupancy: airplane hangar and supplies storage. Valuation: The sound value of this building is approximately $25.5K
creator: City of Roanoke
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: February 1949
contributor: Krissy Price
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: photograph
type: Still Image

IRB 28 Hangar 1
description: This is a one story building of cinder block construction, all metal roof, concrete floor, electric lighting and steam heat. Occupancy: airplane hangar, with woodworking, machine shop and spray. Valuation: The sound value of this building is approximately $24.5K.
creator: City of Roanoke
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: February 1949
contributor: Krissy Price
rights: Please contat the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: photograph
type: Still Image

IRB 29 Quonset Hangars
description: Four Quonset hut buildings of similar construction. Buildings of all metal on concrete dwarf walls, asphalt floors, electric lighting; no heat. Buildings new and in good condition. Occupancy: airplane storage. Valuation: Each hangar is valued at $8K.
creator: City of Roanoke
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: February 1949
contributor: Krissy Price
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at b540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: photograph
type: Still Image

IRB 3 Mercantile Building
description: This is a two story frame building with metal roof, wood floors, plastered interior finish, electric lights and coal stove hear. This building is approximately 50 years old an in fair condition. Occupancy: Offices, drugstore, dwelling. Valuation: The sound value of this building is approximately $8K.
creator: City of Roanoke
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: February 1949
contributor: Krissy Price
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: photograph
type: Still Image

IRB 30 Administration Building
description: This is a one story building of cinder block construction with a metal roof on wood boards on metal truss, concrete floor, electric lighting, stove heat. Occupancy: Offices, waiting room and restaurant. Valuation: The sound value of this building is approximately $15K.
creator: City of Roanoke
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: February 1949
contributor: Krissy Price
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: photograph
type: Still Image

IRB 37 Fire Station 1
description: This is a two story and part basement brick building, metal roof, concrete floors, with the exception of the second which is wood boards, open interior finish with the exception of the second floor which is plaster. One stairs basement to first floor, two stairs first to send floor. Electric lighting, low pressure steam heat. This building is approximately sixty years old and in good condition. Occupancy: First floor - fire fighting apparatus. Second floor - central alarm station, dormitories, kitchen, bath. Valuation: The sound value of this building is approximately $77K.
creator: City of Roanoke
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: February 1949
contributor: Krissy Price
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: photograph
type: Still Image

IRB 38 Fire Station 2
description: This is a two story brick building with composition roof on wood boards. First floor has open interior finish, metal ceiling and concrete floor. Second floor has plastered interior finish and wood floors. One stairs first to second flood. Electric lighting and low pressure steam heat. Building approximately 80 years old and in good condition. Occupancy: First floor - fire fighting apparatus. Second floor - dormitories. Valuation: The sound value of this building is approximately $31K.
creator: City of Roanoke
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: February 1949
contributor: Krissy Price
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: photograph
type: Still Image

IRB 39 Fire Station 3
description: This is a two story and part basement brick building of ordinary joisted construction with composition roof; open interior finish with the exception of the second floor which is plaster, concrete floors with the exception of the second floor which is wood boards. One stairs basement to first floor, one stairs first to second floor. Electric lighting, low pressure steam heat. Building approximately 35 years old and in excellent condition. Occupancy: First floor - fire fighting apparatus. Second floor - dormitories. Valuation: The sound value of this building is approximately $35K.
creator: City of Roanoke
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: February 1949
contributor: Krissy Price
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: photograph
type: Still Image

IRB 4 Mercantile Building
description: This is a one story brick building with metal roof, wood floors, plastered walls and metal ceiling, electric lights and cooking gas range. This building is approximately 30 years old and in fair condition. Occupancy: Restaurant. Valuation: The sound value of this building is approximately $4K.
creator: City of Roanoke
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: February 1949
contributor: Krissy Price
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: photograph
type: Still Image

IRB 40 Fire Station 4
description: This is a two story and part basement brick building with slate roof. First floor, open interior finish with metal ceiling; second floor, plaster. Concrete floors with exception of second floor which is wood boards. One stairs basement to second floor. Electric lighting and low pressure steam heat. Approximately forty years old, good condition. Occupancy: First floor - fire fighting apparatus. Second floor - dormitories. Valuation: The sound value of this building is approximately $20K
creator: City of Roanoke
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: February 1949
contributor: Krissy Price
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: photograph
type: Still Image

IRB 41 Fire Station 5
description: This is a two story and part basement brick building with slate roof. First floor, open interior finish with metal ceiling; second floor, plaster. Concrete floors with exception of second floor which is wood boards. One stairs basement to second floor. Electric lighting and low pressure steam heat. Approximately 40 years old, good condition. Occupancy: First floor - fire fighting apparatus. Second floor - dormitories. Valuation: The sound value of this building is approximately $20K.
creator: City of Roanoke
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: February 1949
contributor: Krissy Price
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: photograph
type: Still Image

IRB 42 Fire Station 6
description: This is a two story and part basement brick building with slate roof. First floor, open interior finish with metal ceiling; second floor, plaster. Concrete floors with exception of second floor which is wood boards. One stairs basement to second floor. Electric lighting and low pressure steam heat. Approximately 40 years old, good condition. Occupancy: First floor - fire fighting apparatus. Second floor - dormitories. Valuation: The sound value of this building is approximately $20K.
creator: City of Roanoke
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: February 1949
contributor: Krissy Price
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: photograph
type: Still Image

IRB 43 Fire Station 7
description: This is a two story and part basement brick building of semi-fire resistive construction with composition shingled roof on wood boards over concrete slab, open interior finish with exception of second floor which is plastered, concrete floors. One stairs first to second floor. Electric lighting and low pressure steam heat. Approximately 40 years old and in good condition. Occupancy: First floor - fire fighting apparatus. Second floor - dormitories. The sound value of this building is approximately $29K.
creator: City of Roanoke
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: February 1949
contributor: Krissy Price
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: photograph
type: Still Image

IRB 44 Fire Station 8
description: This is a two story and part basement brick building of semi-fire resistive construction with slate roof, open interior finish with exception of second floor which is plaster, concrete floors - wood surface on second floor. One stairs basement to second floor. Electric lighting, low pressure steam heat. Approximately 20 years old, excellent condition. Occupancy: First floor - fire fighting apparatus. Second floor - dormitories. Valuation: The sound value of this building is approximately $62K.
creator: City of Roanoke
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: February 1949
contributor: Krissy Price
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: photograph
type: Still Image

IRB 45 Fire Station 9
description: This is a two story and part basement brick building of semi-fire resistive construction with composition roof on a concrete slab; Plastered interior finish with exception of basement which is open; concrete basement, terrazzo first floor, wood boards on second floor. One stairs basement to second floor. Electric lighting, low pressure steam heat. Building is approximately 20 years old and in excellent condition. Occupancy: First floor - fire fighting apparatus. Second floor - dormitories. Valuation: The sound value of this building is approximately $48K.
creator: City of Roanoke
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: February 1949
contributor: Krissy Price
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: photograph
type: Still Image

IRB 46 Fire Station 10
description: This is a one-two story and part basement of brick veneer, frame and cinder block, ordinary joisted construction with approved roof. Part of first floor concrete, stove heat; indifferent repair. Occupancy: 1617 - Life Saving Station. 1619-21 - Fire fighting apparatus. 1623 - First floor - Library and dormitories. Second Floor - vacant. Valuation: The sound value of this building is approximately $13K.
creator: City of Roanoke
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: February 1949
contributor: Krissy Price
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: photograph
type: Still Image

IRB 47 Rockledge
description: A large two story and basement building, frame clapboard and wood shingle construction, wood shingle roof, board floors, wood board interior finish, electric lighting, heat from stoves and fireplaces; in poor condition. Occupancy: First floor - dance pavilion, kitchen. Second floor - living quarters, large part vacant. Valuation: the salvage value of this building is approximately $20K.
creator: City of Roanoke
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: February 1949
contributor: Krissy Price
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: photograph
type: Still Image

IRB 48 Caretakers Dwelling
description: A one story frame, approved roof dwelling, electric lighting, stove heat; no basement and in fair repair. Valuation: The sound value of this building is approximately $3K.
creator: City of Roanoke
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: February 1949
contributor: Krissy Price
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: photograph
type: Still Image

IRB 49 Elmwood Club Rooms
description: A two story building of brick and stone stuccoed construction with composition shingle roof, wood board floors, plastered interior finish, electric lights, coal-fired Arcola heat. Approximately 50 years old and in good condition. Valuation: The sound value of this building is approximately $5.5K.
creator: City of Roanoke
publisher: Roanoke Public Libraries
date: February 1949
contributor: Krissy Price
rights: Please contact the Virginia Room at 540.853.2073 for permission to use.
format: photograph
type: Still Image