Search Results
- IDNO:
- 039081
- Title:
- Maryland Heights Across Potomac River at Harpers Ferry, Va, (W. Va.)
- Date:
- ca. 1862
- Description:
- Maryland, the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal and a reconstructed Baltimore and Ohio Railroad bridge on the Potomac River as viewed from the Harpers Ferry cemetery. Note the head stones in the foreground and the smoke stack of the burned out United States Armory below. The photograph was taken during the Civil War.
- IDNO:
- 039086
- Title:
- Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Bridge at Fairmont, Va. (later W. Va.) Destroyed During Civil War
- Date:
- ca.1855
- Description:
- This 305 foot long iron bridge over the Monongahela River in Marion County was built in 1852 at the astronomical price of 1/2 million dollars and was, at that time, the longest iron bridge in the country. Confederate General "Grumble" Jones targeted this bridge during his infamous 1863 raid. After two failed attempts to blow the bridge, he succeeded on the third try.
- IDNO:
- 039635
- Title:
- Baltimore and Ohio R. R. Depot by Night Clarksburg, W. Va.
- Date:
- September 3, 1913
- Description:
- Colored postcard photograph. See back of the original image for correspondence.
- IDNO:
- 039782
- Title:
- Two Unidentified Men in Front of Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Car
- Date:
- ca. 1898
- Description:
- The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company was one of the oldest railroads in the United States. It passed through Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia and Ohio. The two men are possible WVU students headed out of Morgantown.
- IDNO:
- 039783
- Title:
- Unidentified Men Pose Behind Railroad Car
- Date:
- ca. 1898
- Description:
- Several well-dressed young men stand on the track next to a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Car. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company was one of the oldest railroads in the U.S. It passed through Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia and Ohio. The men are probably West Virginia University students headed out of Morgantown.
- IDNO:
- 048025
- Title:
- Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Station, Mt. Lake Park, Md.
- Date:
- Undated
- IDNO:
- 050955
- Title:
- B. & O. Depot, Mannington, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1909/07/07
- Description:
- Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Depot in Mannington, WV
- IDNO:
- 051219
- Title:
- The First United Presbyterian Church of Grafton, Taylor County, W. Va.
- Date:
- undated
- Description:
- The church was organized in 1855 in what was then known as Fetterman, Virginia. During the church building's construction, services were held in the carpenter shop of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company in Grafton.
- IDNO:
- 051220
- Title:
- St. Augustine Catholic Church, Grafton, Taylor County, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1964/01/28
- Description:
- The church was established in the 1850's when Irish and German settlers came to the town of Grafton to build the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B. & O.).
- IDNO:
- 051770
- Title:
- Baltimore and Ohio Building, Wheeling, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1913
- Description:
- Photo postcard of a Baltimore and Ohio building during a 1913 flood in Wheeling, W. Va. Postcard is part of a souvenir book of 1913 flood images.
- IDNO:
- 051857
- Title:
- Mrs. White at B and O Railroad Covered Bridge Centennial, Philippi, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1951
- Description:
- Mrs. White, wife of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company president, is pictured with an unidentified man during the centennial event.
- IDNO:
- 052531
- Title:
- Men Toasting Bread for Lunch in Woods, Likely in Somerset County, Pa.
- Date:
- ca. 1905
- Description:
- A group of Baltimore and Ohio surveyors huddle by a fire to toast bread in the snow covered woods.This photograph is found in a scrapbook documenting the survey for the B. & O. Railroad in West Virginia and surrounding states.
