Vintage landscape: canal towpath

C&O Canal towpath, ca. 1900, Library of Congress
Towpath along the C & O Canal near Washington, D.C., about 1900.  The canal was still in operation at this time, principally transporting coal.

Photo by Detroit Publishing Co. via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Vintage landscape: perspective

Belmont, Falmouth, Virginia, late 1920s.

All photos by Frances Benjamin Johnston via the Carnegie Survey of the South, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Click the pictures to enlarge.

Wormoloe Plantation, Savannah, Georgia, 1939 or 1944.

York Hall, Yorktown, Virginia, ca. 1930s.

Wakefield, Westmoreland County, Virginia, 1931.

Redesdale, Richmond, Virginia, 1926 or 27.

Sherrill Inn, Hickory Nut Gap, North Carolina, 1938.

Gardiner Booth, Alexandria, Virginia, 1930s.

Reveille House, Richmond, Virginia, 1936.