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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and its branches, ...: Bladensburg station, [Md.] – Vintage Wall Art

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and its branches, ...: Bladensburg station, [Md.], 1871 — historic photograph
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and its branches, ...: Bladensburg station, [Md.], 1871. Historic photograph from the Baltimore collection.

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Bladensburg, a small town in Prince George's County, Maryland, just northeast of Washington, D.C., is the subject of this 1871 view of its Baltimore and Ohio Railroad station. The station sat on a line that carried passengers and freight between Baltimore and the national capital, so it was a working stop on one of the region's main rail routes after the Civil War. The record credits the photographers as Cushings & Bailey and Hagadorn Brothers, but notes that this attribution is unverified and comes from an old caption card. The picture is a useful glimpse of how a railroad depot looked in a rural Maryland community during Reconstruction-era rail expansion.

Created / published1871
Medium1 photographic print.
Subjects[Photo by?] Cushings & Bailey and Hagadorn Brothers. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; Md.--Bladensburg; Railroads--Stations--Md.; Geogr.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,349 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-140003

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