Maryland Heights Across Potomac River at Harpers Ferry, Va, (W. Va.)

Identifier:

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.

Subjects:

Railroad bridges--West Virginia--Harpers Ferry., Civil War.

Corporate Names:

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company., Harpers Ferry Armory (U.S.)

Geographic:

Maryland Heights (Md.), Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (Md. and Washington, D.C.), Potomac River., Harpers Ferry (W. Va.)

Acquisition Source:

Library of Congress

Acquisition Method:

Acquired

Medium:

glass plate negative

Projects:

West Virginia History OnView