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."
Photograph- Flood of the Susquehanna River, March 19, 1936. Southern end of Marietta, rescue workers taking a family from their house. Members of this family were Mrs. Matt McCann, her daughter Mary, her son James and a boarder named Elmer Cashore. Also taken from the house were a dog and basket of chicks.
Photograph- Flood of the Susquehanna River, March 19, 1936. Southern end of Marietta, rescue workers taking a family from their house. Members of this family were Mrs. Matt McCann, her daughter Mary, her son James and a boarder named Elmer Cashore. Also taken from the house were a dog and basket of chicks.
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Flood of the Susquehanna River, March 19, 1936. Southern end of Marietta, rescue workers taking a family from their house. Members of this family were Mrs. Matt McCann, her daughter Mary, her son James and a boarder named Elmer Cashore. Also taken from the house were a dog and basket of chicks.
