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Shenandoah River--Harpers Ferry and Vicinity – Historic Reproduction

Shenandoah River--Harpers Ferry and Vicinity, Gettysburg, Pa. : W.H. Tipton & Co., c1877. — historic photograph
Shenandoah River--Harpers Ferry and Vicinity, Gettysburg, Pa. : W.H. Tipton & Co., c1877.. Historic photograph from the West Virginia 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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Where the Shenandoah meets the Potomac, the river runs between steep wooded ridges, and this stereograph frames that confluence country rather than the town itself. The card was issued around 1877 by W.H. Tipton & Co. of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, a firm that sold stereo views of Civil War battlefields and scenic American landscapes to a public eager for armchair travel. Harpers Ferry had already gained fame as the site of John Brown's 1859 raid on the federal arsenal, and by the 1870s the town was drawing tourists to its gorges and overlooks. The view also reflects the era's taste for picturesque nature, when photographers sought dramatic river scenery to be seen in three dimensions through a viewer.

Created / publishedGettysburg, Pa. : W.H. Tipton & Co., c1877.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
GenreStereographs 1870-1880.Photographic prints 1870-1880.
Notes10411 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 767. Copyright by W.H. Tipton & Co.
SubjectsMountains--West Virginia--1870-1880. Harpers Ferry (W. Va.)--1870-1880. Shenandoah River (Va. and W. Va.)--1870-1880.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan5,120 × 4,080 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-199298

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