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Harper's Ferry, W. Va

Description: Image of an elevated landscape view of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, looking eastward down towards the Potomac River with a suspension bridge, houses on the hillside, rocky mountains, the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal with a boat in it, and a railroad train coming around the mountainside below Maryland Heights.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: between 1885 and 1896
Call number: priJLC_VIEW_000712
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.

Camp 5th New York heavy artillery Camp Hill, Harper's Ferry, VA

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Image of the military camp of the 5th New York Heavy Artillery Regiment in Harpers Ferry, (now) West Virginia; rows of buildings and groups of soldiers at center; camp activity, artillery, horse-drawn wagons and women hanging laundry on a line at the edges of camp; American bald eagle at top center with banner and Union shield.

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Sketch of the Niagara Falls suspension bridge : (new in progress) shewing [sic] the basket ferry and the temporary towers of the foot bridge

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Image of an eye-level landscape view of the Niagara Falls gorge, showing the cable lines and ferry basket that were strung across the Niagara River during the construction Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge connecting New York and Ontario, Canada, with towers and a man on the banks in the foreground, and the waterfall in the distance; section view of cable in ferry and bridge statistics printed in bottom margin.

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Fogg’s ferry

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Image of three panels with outdoor scenes consisting of people standing on the lawn before a house in the moonlight with a girl pointing a finger at a man, captioned "'The Thief Is There.'" at top; passengers and horses on "Fogg's Ferry" crossing a river with signs on the boat for "Chip" and "Fogg's Ferry" at center; and a girl on a shore shooting a gun towards a steamship as a bomb explodes in the river before it, captioned "The Torpedo" at bottom; the poster advertises the play "Fogg's Ferry" by Charles E. Callahan.

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Great falls of the Yellow-Stone

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Image of an eye-level landscape view of the Lower Falls, known as the Great Falls, descending into the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, as seen from a rocky forested hillside overlooking the waterfall, with Native Americans in the foreground.

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Camp, Gauley Bridge

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Image of a Union military camp at Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, during the American Civil War; soldiers visible on a hill looking out over the Gauley River; rafts and a rowboat ferry men across the river; military camp tents extend up the hillside in the background.

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Ferry's seeds

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Image of a vase of flowers in a windowsill silhouetted by the full moon outside the window in an advertisement for D. M. Ferry & Company of Detroit, Michigan.

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