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Post subject: Post Civil War Washington DC: more legs to railroads

Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2013 5:07 pm

Joined: Sat Apr 01, 2006 5:19 pm
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Location: Bowie, MD

This article about a high resolution photo of Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC, apparently taken some time after the Civil War, gets into the realities of railroading of the day in an article from the Washington Post regarding an Artificial leg store:

http://ghostsofdc.org/2013/12/02/amazingly-detailed-fords-theatre-photo-1870s/

Bob

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