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Potomac at mouth of Patterson's Creek – Historic Print

Potomac at mouth of Patterson's Creek, [1892?] — historic photograph
Potomac at mouth of Patterson's Creek, [1892?]. 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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Potomac at mouth of Patterson's Creek comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Where Patterson Creek empties into the Potomac, the river runs through a narrow mountain valley, and this large glass negative captures that stretch of water along with the rail line that followed it. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad commissioned the view, and its main line ran beside the Potomac here, so the image also showed travelers the scenery visible from the train window. The Detroit Photographic Company made the negative, probably around 1892 as the record suggests, on an 18-by-22-inch glass plate. The plate's size shows how much care went into these commercial landscape views.

Created / published[1892?]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 18 x 22 in.
GenreMammoth plates.Glass negatives.
NotesDetroit Photographic Co." and "01744" on negative. Glass varnished. Commissioned by Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 01744. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsRivers. Railroads.United States--West Virginia--Patterson Creek.United States--Potomac River.United States--Maryland.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-79896

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