Rockbridge County and the Michael Miley Collection Highlighted in New Book
The newest addition to Arcadia Publishing’s popular Images of America series is Rockbridge County: The Michael Miley Collection is set to release on September 16, 2013. The book is by local author Richard A. Straw and features more than 200 vintage images.
Rockbridge County lies at the southern end of the Shenandoah Valley in southwestern Virginia. After the Civil War, renowned photographer Michael Miley took up residence in Lexington, where he established a studio and created a one-of-a-kind photographic archive with over 7,000 photographs spanning nearly 70 years.
In 1866, Robert E. Lee was invited to come to Lexington to be president of small Washington College. Miley photographed Lee extensively, along with the townspeople of Lexington and Rockbridge County, students and faculty of Washington and Lee, unusual characters who seem to abound in the area as well as gorgeous landscapes of the mountains and rivers of the region.
Rockbridge County: The Michael Miley Collection shares photographs of life in this rural landscape during the last third of the 19th century. It affords the modern reader with a remarkable view into a sometimes familiar but often foreign past.
Topics discussed in Rockbridge County: The Michael Miley Collection:
• Michael Miley, Photographer
• Environmental Portraits
• Studio Photography
• W&L and VMI
• In the Country
• In the Town
Available at area bookstores, independent retailers, and online retailers, or through Arcadia Publishing at (888)-313-2665 or online.
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