A Guide to Virginia Photographs , 1890, n.d. #11211

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Virginia photographs, 1890, n.d., Accession # 11211, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

Purchased from Jerry Showalter, November 8, 1995.

Scope and Content Information

There are photographs taken at Tacoma by Fritz & Rue, Big Stone Gap, Va., which are of the site of the Norfolk and Western Railroad, a boarding house, a church, a saw mill, two old homes and the surrounding countryside. There are also photographs taken at Big Stone Gap by an unidentified photographer, which include the local police force, the arrival of the first train in 1890, a walnut logging crew, and the entrance to Natural Tunnel, Scott County, Va.

Contents List

Photographs Taken by Unknown Photographer

First Train to Big Stone Gap, Virginia 1890 May
Men Trimming Large Walnut Logs at Big Stone Gap, Virginia, photograph "compliments of John Delclisur" present in the photograph with a hammer in his hand. 1890 October 27
Police Force of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. n.d.
North End of Natural Tunnel, Scott County, Virginia, "This wall rises to a perpendicular height of nearly 300 ft. This tunnel is one of nature's wonders surpassing in grandeur the famous Natural Bridge of Virginia or Mammoth Cave of Kentucky." n.d.

Photographs Taken By Fritz and Rue, Big Stone Gap, Virginia

Stone Mountain from the N. & W. Grade, Containing Abundance of Iron Ores, Tacoma, Virginia. n.d.
The Old Burne's House - Rue's Hill in the Distance, Tacoma, Virginia. n.d.
The First Boarding House at Tacoma, Virginia. n.d.
View of Valley Looking West from Rue's Hill, Tacoma, Virginia n.d.
First Saw Mill at Tacoma, Virginia. n.d.
Inclined Plane, Looking North from Wall Street, Tacoma, Virginia. n.d.
The Old House and Its Occupants, South Tacoma, Virginia. n.d.
Southwest View, Showing Old Bruce Residence, Tacoma, Virginia. n.d.
Looking South From the First Boarding House, Showing Northern Plane and Stone Mountain in the Distance. n.d.
First Church at Tacoma, Virginia. n.d.
Viewing the Site of Tacoma and the N. & W. Railroad, Tacoma, Virginia. n.d.