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Title	Potomac River and B & O RR looking west
Creator	Biscoe, T. Dwight (1840-1930); Biscoe, Walter S. (1853-1953)
Date	Saturday, August 2, 1884, 5:00 pm.
Decade	1880-1889
Part Of	Trip through West Virginia, Maryland and Penn. vol. 2
Page Number	p. 049
Place	Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Description	This photograph is part of an album of photographs from a trip through Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania that primarily depicts Civil War battlefields and cemeteries. The mount on each photograph includes a detailed description about the image and its relation to the Civil War, and the date and time the photograph was taken.
Notes	Handwritten inscription: Aug 2. Sat. 5 pm. Potomac River and B & O R.R. looking west. Bolivar Heights on left beyond where the tracks disappear. No 132. W. (55) 1611
Keywords	Civil War; outdoors; battlefields; Harpers Ferry, West Virginia; Battle of Harpers Ferry; landscape; Potomac River; Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company; railroad tracks
Subject Headings	United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Battlefields--Photographs Harpers Ferry (W. Va.)--Photographs Harpers Ferry, Battle of, Harpers Ferry, W. Va., 1862 Potomac River--Photographs
Physical Description	1 photographic print: albumen; 11.5 x 19 cm. on 16 x 24 cm. mount
Form/Genre	Photographs Albumen prints Photograph albums
Digital Resource Type	Image
Digitization Date	Digitized: 2009
Digital Format	Displayed as .jp2; uploaded as .tif
Archival File Resolution	Archival scan: 800 dpi
Digitization Process	Digitization process: archival scan created at 800 dpi; upload derivative resized to 300 dpi in Photoshop
Call Number	Ag1984.0319
Upload File Name	ag1984_0319_049_300.tif
Archival File Name(s)	ag1984_0319_049.tif
Archival File Path	ARCHIVE\DeGolyer\reproductions\Ag1984-0319
Digital Collection	Civil War: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints
Library	DeGolyer Library
Publisher	Central University Libraries, Southern Methodist University
Rights	Please cite Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries, DeGolyer Library when using this image file. A high-quality version of this file may be obtained for a fee by contacting degolyer@smu.edu.

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