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[Down New River from Hinton, Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, Fayette, W. Va.] – Historic Print

[Down New River from Hinton, Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, Fayette, W. Va.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Down New River from Hinton, Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, Fayette, W. Va.], [between 1900 and 1915]. 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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[Down New River from Hinton, Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, Fayette, W. Va.]

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Titled for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, this view looks down the New River from Hinton, a railroad town in southern West Virginia where the river cuts through a deep gorge. The C&O built its line through that gorge in the 1870s, and the bridges and cuts it required were among the notable engineering works of the route. The Detroit Publishing Company, which sold views of railroads and the scenery along them, made this 8 by 10 inch glass negative sometime between 1900 and 1915, when rail travel was the main way visitors reached such country.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 8893" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 500603. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsRivers. Bridges.United States--West Virginia--Hinton.United States--West Virginia--New River.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 784 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-74919

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