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View of Harper's Ferry, Virginia – Historic Photo Reproduction

View of Harper's Ferry, Virginia, 1854 — antique engraving
View of Harper's Ferry, Virginia, 1854. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive 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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Step back in time with View of Harper's Ferry, Virginia, an antique engraving rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Harper's Ferry sits where the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers meet, and in 1854 it was a town built around a federal armory and arsenal. This wood engraving, cut by R. Miller from a drawing by C. Minton, ran in the July 29, 1854 issue of *Gleason's Pictorial*, a Boston illustrated weekly. Views like this gave readers who had never traveled to Virginia a picture of the river gap and the town's industrial setting. Five years later, John Brown's raid on the federal armory would make the place far better known.

Created / published1854
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
SubjectsWood engraving by R. Miller after drawing by C. Minton, in Gleason's Pictorial, 1854 July 29, v. 7, no. 4. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: A/P/P I (2); Va.--Harper's Ferry--1854; Geogr.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,156 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-147238

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