Photograph- Ice jam at foot of Locust Street, Columbia, near coal chutes. Written on back: "Reading Railroad shipped coal to Columbia by train then dumped it in coal chutes where it was put aboard boats and shipped to Baltimore. This is why the Reading Railroad bought the canal, later, from Pennsylvania. It was competition in the coal business."
Photograph- Ice jam at foot of Locust Street, Columbia, near coal chutes. Written on back: "Reading Railroad shipped coal to Columbia by train then dumped it in coal chutes where it was put aboard boats and shipped to Baltimore. This is why the Reading Railroad bought the canal, later, from Pennsylvania. It was competition in the coal business."
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Ice jam at foot of Locust Street, Columbia, near coal chutes. Written on back: "Reading Railroad shipped coal to Columbia by train then dumped it in coal chutes where it was put aboard boats and shipped to Baltimore. This is why the Reading Railroad bought the canal, later, from Pennsylvania. It was competition in the coal business."
Ellmaker Homestead farm. General view - dwelling house in the grove on the left, barn in center, old family graveyard of John Leonard Ellmaker on the right in the distance.
"The Great Match at Baltimore between 'Illinois Bantam' and the 'Old Cock' of the White House"
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James Buchanan political cartoon - "The Great Match at Baltimore between 'Illinois Bantam' and the 'Old Cock' of the White House". Two prints and one negative.
