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Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, September 29, 2011.
Depicted ContentWilkes-Barre, PA
Image type
engraving
Original caption
North-western view in the central part of Wilkesbarre - The view shows the apprearance of the public square , or diamond, as entered by the road from the Susquehanna bridge, 30 or 40 rods distant. The new court house is seen in the central part; the academy on the left; the ancient court house 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), 533.