New Charleston photo book coming out Monday

[CoolBreeze]

In "Charleston," a new photo book that goes on sale Monday, historian Billy Joe Peyton chronicles the history of dozens of the city's famous and lesser-known structures. To show the differences, there are before-and-after photos of each site. Each page has two photos -- a historic one, and a new one taken from the same angle to show what the place looks like today.

Peyton tapped a number of collectors to find vintage photographs. "Stan Cohen, the local history author who did the Kanawha County Images books; Jerry Waters, who has an extensive collection of online images; KRT, the WVU library and friends of the family. The bulk are from Jerry Waters, the state archives and the Kanawha County Library. I tried not to use the common images you see repeated."

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[cgarison]

I am glad to see Arcadia doing some great work in the Kanawha Valley. The have several publications documenting the photographic history of southeastern PA and have done a wonderful job with the neighborhoods of Philly which were their own independent towns 100 years ago.

[DJSHOCKLEY]

Agreat number of students have told me about what a great teacher he is. His class takes students around to the different sites that I am sure his book is going to make mention of... Unfortunately I was never able to take a class from him while I was in southern WV..