Visual Materials

Smithsonian excursion to Potomac River shell middens

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Description: The eight stereoscopic photographs capture the Potomac river, various watercrafts and men approaching the shoreline, and the nearby shell middens referred to in the annotations as shell-heaps. The photographs may have been transferred from the William Jones Rhees papers.
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Production date: 1880.
Call number: photPF 3570-3577
Provenance: Acquired from various sources.
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