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[C&O Canal from Wisconsin Avenue Bridge, Georgetown, Washington, D.C.] – Historic Print

[C&O Canal from Wisconsin Avenue Bridge, Georgetown, Washington, D.C.], [between 1890 and 1940] — historic photograph
[C&O Canal from Wisconsin Avenue Bridge, Georgetown, Washington, D.C.], [between 1890 and 1940]. Historic photograph from the Washington DC collection.

(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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[C&O Canal from Wisconsin Avenue Bridge, Georgetown, Washington, D.C.]

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Taken from the Wisconsin Avenue Bridge, this view looks down on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal where it runs through Georgetown, near the eastern end of a waterway that stretched about 184 miles to Cumberland, Maryland. Construction began in 1828, and the canal was built to carry coal and goods around the rapids of the Potomac, though railroads soon competed for that trade. Floods repeatedly damaged its locks and towpath in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and commercial traffic had dwindled to little by the 1920s. The scene shows the canal in the decades when its working life was fading and its future was uncertain.

Created / published[between 1890 and 1940]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1890-1940.
NotesPictorial Archive of Early American Architecture no. DC, GEO, 25-3. Photograph no. 5023.
SubjectsCanals--Washington (D.C.)--1890-1940. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (Md. and Washington, D.C.)--1890-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,032 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-159912

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