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[Barge at C&O Canal near Cabin John Bridge, Washington, D.C.] – Vintage Print

[Barge at C&O Canal near Cabin John Bridge, Washington, D.C.], 1917 — historic photograph
[Barge at C&O Canal near Cabin John Bridge, Washington, D.C.], 1917. 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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A window into the past: [Barge at C&O Canal near Cabin John Bridge, Washington, D.C.], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Barge at C&O Canal near Cabin John Bridge, Washington, D.C.]

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The bridge in this 1917 print is the Cabin John Bridge, whose single stone arch spanned Cabin John Creek in Montgomery County, just outside the District. Here a barge sits on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, which ran along the Potomac from Georgetown toward Cumberland, Maryland. Mules walking the towpath pulled such barges loaded with coal and other goods, and in 1917 the canal was still a working route, though its commercial traffic was already declining. The scene shows how the waterway and its stone structures shared the landscape with the railroads and roads that were replacing it.

Created / published1917
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1910-1920.
SubjectsBarges--Washington (D.C.)--1910-1920. Canals--Washington (D.C.)--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,135 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-163207

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