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Hawksbill Creek Swimming Hole, Luray, Virginia

1956

O. Winston Link

(American, 1914–2001)
Culture
America
Medium
gelatin silver print
Measurements
Image: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Catherine Edelman 2024.162
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Location
Not on view
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Did You Know?

O. Winston Link was a successful New York commercial photographer who became obsessed with documenting the final days of the steam locomotive.

Description

Link photographed the Norfolk & Western Railway as it passed through small towns in western Virginia, North Carolina, West Virginia, and Maryland. Link often contrasted the steam locomotives, which were 19th-century inventions, and historical, rural icons such as the swimming hole, with modern forms of transportation such as the automobile. Those images reveal how changes in technology were impacting small-town American life in the 1950s.
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Hawksbill Creek Swimming Hole, Luray, Virginia

1956

O. Winston Link

(American, 1914–2001)
America

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