The new railroad bridge across the Susquehanna, from Havre de Grace to Perryville, Maryland / from a photograph by Schrieber & Son, Philadelphia. – Vintage Photo Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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The new railroad bridge across the Susquehanna, from Havre de Grace to Perryville, Maryland / from a photograph by Schrieber & Son, Philadelphia. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The new railroad bridge across the Susquehanna, from Havre de Grace to Perryville, Maryland / from a photograph by Schrieber & Son, Philadelphia.
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This wood engraving shows the new railroad bridge spanning the Susquehanna River between Havre de Grace and Perryville, Maryland, where the river marks the boundary between the upper and lower Chesapeake. The crossing was rebuilt after Confederate troops burned the earlier bridge in 1863, and its completion was a notable step in restoring the rail link between Philadelphia and Baltimore. The engraving was made from a photograph by the Philadelphia firm Schrieber & Son and published in *Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper* in December 1866, when such woodcut reproductions were the main way most readers saw new photographs.
| Created / published | 1866 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Genre | Periodical illustrations 1860-1870.Wood engravings 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, Dec. 22, 1866, p. 217. |
| Subjects | Bridge construction--Maryland--1860-1870. Railroad bridges--Maryland--1860-1870. Railroad construction & maintenance--Maryland--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,000 × 2,421 px · prints to 10 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-118407 |
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