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Toms Creek trestle [Frederick County, Md.] – Historic Reproduction

Toms Creek trestle [Frederick County, Md.], [between 1900 and 1905] — historic photograph
Toms Creek trestle [Frederick County, Md.], [between 1900 and 1905]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company 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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This rare historic photograph captures Toms Creek trestle [Frederick County, Md.] in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Toms Creek trestle [Frederick County, Md.]

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Toms Creek, in Frederick County, Maryland, is crossed here by a timber railroad trestle, a type of bridge that carried trains over ravines and streams on a framework of repeated supports. The glass negative dates to about 1900 to 1905, when railroads were expanding across rural Maryland and freight and passenger lines needed many such crossings. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made this view, sold large numbers of photographs of American rail lines, bridges and scenery, and its pictures give a useful record of how this kind of engineering looked in the early twentieth century.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1905]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesMaryland" on jacket. "851-G" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 062026. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsTrestles. Railroad bridges.United States--Maryland.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 803 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70776

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