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Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, September 29, 2011.
Depicted ContentPottsville, PA
Image type
engraving
Original caption
North-western view of the Railroad-station, Pottsville - The view is taken near the passenger station at the western terminus of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. The Clay Monument is seen on the elevation on the right, the coal cars on the left, beyond which are iron foundries. The river, the canal and the railroad pass at the base of the mountain, seen in the extreme distance.
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), 538.