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Columbia Bridge over the Susquehanna River, Columbia, Pennsylvania, circa 1850
Scanned by
Library of Congress
Notes
Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, June 21, 2010.
Depicted content
Union defenders retreat across the Susquehanna burning the Wrightsville Bridge behind them
Susquehanna River
Columbia, PA
Image type
engraving
Courtesy of
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Original caption
Columbia bridge (Susquehanna) / drawn after nature for the proprietor Herrmann J. Meyer.
Source citation:
Prints and Photograph Collection, Library of Congress
Source note
Artist: William Henry Bartlett
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Mon, 06/21/2010 - 11:00pm — osborne