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Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, October 7, 2011.
Depicted ContentPeoria, IL
Image type
engraving
Original caption
South-eastern view of Peoria - Showing the appearance of the central part of the city, as it is entered from the eastern side of the Illinois River, by the Railroad and the Peoria bridge. Part of the Railroad Bridge is seen on the extreme left; the steamboat landing on the right. The draw or swing of the bridge is represented open for the passage of steamboats.
Source citation
John Warner Barber & Henry Howe,Our Whole Country or the Past and Present of the United States....Volume II (New York: Tuttle & McCauley, 1861), 1082.