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Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, September 30, 2011.
Depicted ContentWheeling, VA
Image type
engraving
Original caption
Southern view of Wheeling - The view shows the appearance of Wheeling as it is entered upon the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The steamboat and part of the city is seen in the central part. The suspension bridge crossing over to Wheeling Island on the left. Part of the railroad depot is on the right.
Source citation
John Warner Barber & Henry Howe,Our Whole Country or the Past and Present of the United States....Volume I (New York: Tuttle & McCauley, 1861), 658.