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Harpers Ferry by Moonlight – Historic Reproduction

Harpers Ferry by Moonlight — historic image
Harpers Ferry by Moonlight. Historic image from the West Virginia collection.

(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 Harpers Ferry by Moonlight, a historic image rich in period detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

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Harpers Ferry by Moonlight

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Moonlight softens the rocky point where the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers meet, a view that drew painters and printmakers throughout the nineteenth century. The town sits in a narrow gorge where Virginia, now West Virginia, meets Maryland, which made it one of the most sketched places in the region. Harpers Ferry gained lasting fame in 1859, when John Brown's raid on the federal armory helped set the country on the road to the Civil War, and the town changed hands several times during that conflict. A nighttime view like this one invites viewers to look past that turbulence to the scenery that first drew visitors there.

Original scan2,163 × 1,500 px · prints to 7 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceWV Harpers Ferry By Moonlight

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