Link revisited his photo sites in 1980s

By Bill Arnold, Link Museum Volunteer In January 1955, New York commercial photographer O. Winston Link began an effort to

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A Look at Past Exhibit “Flood of 1985 Photography”

In 1985, Roanoke Valley photographer Tommy Firebaugh ventured into the rising floodwaters of the Flood of ’85, to visually capture

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‘Vagabonds’ Edison, Ford camped in Virginia

In the summer of 1918, four celebrities, a slew of staff, and a caravan of cars stopped in Roanoke for

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Edward Dudley, from Roanoke, was ambassador to Liberia

Historian and author Nelson Harris offers several talks of little known bits of Roanoke history. They include: The achievement of

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D-Day Memorial Educator tells story of first Roanoker killed in WWII

John Long, educator with the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, tells the story of Benjamin Brown, the first Roanoker to

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Virtual visits include look at Gift Shop special window

Museum manager Lynsey Allie has begun a series of virtual visits to different parts of the O. Winston Link and

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Lewis-Preston-Fleming Lives Converged in Our Area

By ASHLEY WEBB, Curator, HSWV Andrew Lewis, William Preston, and William Fleming helped shape the course of history for Southwestern

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Handwashing History Fitting Topic

By Global Handwashing Partnership Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian doctor working in Vienna General Hospital, is known as the father of

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Visit Link’s Astonishing Railroad Photos

Check out the O. Winston Link railroad-related photography in our Link museum. The world-class photos not only document the end

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$6 gets magazine of Link’s color photos

“Life Along the Line, in Color,” the current National Railway Historical Society Bulletin has devoted an issue to an article

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