File:View of bridges at Harpers Ferry.jpg

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The B&O Potomac crossing at Harper's Ferry, 1859

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Harper's Ferry - the scene of the late insurrection
Author
Unknown (Porte Crayon?)
Title
Harper's Ferry - the scene of the late insurrection
Description
English: Nice picture with detail of Harper's Ferry (today Harpers Ferry) at the time of John Brown's raid, October 1859. View is from the Maryland side. Note boat on Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, foreground, and now-vanished bridge over the Shenandoah, at left background. The plate depicts the "bridge over the Potomac, where the train was stopped by the rioters... ; it is curved, and nine hundred feet long."
Date 29 October 1859
date QS:P571,+1859-10-29T00:00:00Z/11
Source/Photographer https://www.google.com/books/edition/Harper_s_Weekly/l4Y-AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Trumps

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