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C. & O. Ry. [i.e. Chesapeake and Ohio Railway] at Sandstone Falls, W. Va. – Antique Wall Art

C. & O. Ry. [i.e. Chesapeake and Ohio Railway] at Sandstone Falls, W. Va., c[between 1910 and 1920] — historic photograph
C. & O. Ry. [i.e. Chesapeake and Ohio Railway] at Sandstone Falls, W. Va., c[between 1910 and 1920]. Historic photograph from the Railroads & Depots 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of C. & O. Ry. [i.e. Chesapeake and Ohio Railway] at Sandstone Falls, W. Va.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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C. & O. Ry. [i.e. Chesapeake and Ohio Railway] at Sandstone Falls, W. Va.

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Sandstone Falls, where the New River drops over a broad ledge of rock, gives this view its setting, with Chesapeake and Ohio Railway tracks running along the riverbank beside it. The C&O followed the New River gorge through southern West Virginia, a route that required cutting and grading through steep rock walls and that carried coal and other freight out of the region. The Detroit Publishing Company, which produced large-format views of American towns, rivers, and railroads in the early twentieth century, made this 8 by 10 inch glass negative sometime between about 1910 and 1920. The picture shows how the railroad and the river were forced to share one narrow valley.

Created / publishedc[between 1910 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesG 8896" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 072934. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsRailroad tracks. Rivers.United States--West Virginia--New River.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 777 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-73880

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