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Looking east along the Potomac River on the Virginia (West Virginia) side. The ruins of the Armory can be seen on the left and telegraph poles line the damaged tracks. Two men, one leaning on a telegraph pole and another next to the house are not identified. The photograph was taken several weeks after the September,1862 battle when Stonewall Jackson's artillery shelled the town, forcing the Union troops to surrender.

1. Harpers Ferry Gap, Harpers Ferry, Va. (W. Va. )

Stero card photograph of buildings in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, burned by the Confederate Cavalry under General John Mc Causland of Mason County, West Virginia. Mc Causland's destructive raid was in reprisal for the burnings in the Shenandoah Valley by the Union troops.

2. Destroyed Bank of Chambersburg & Franklin House After Mc Causland Raid

Stereograph image of people riding a ferris wheel.

3. Ferris Wheel at Fair, Middlebourne, Tyler County, W. Va.

A man sits on a chair in the lawn. In the background is a small pavilion. The stereograph is part of photographer William Dunnington's "Webster Springs Series."

4. Webster Springs Series, Webster Springs. W. Va.

Construction on the National Road near the Ohio River.  Published and sold by E. L. Nicoll, under the McLure House.

5. McColloch Leap and National Road, W. Va.

Unidentified man stands on a railroad track with the Potomac River behind him, 'Armory building on original site to left'.

6. Harpers Ferry, Va. Before 1861

View of Maryland Heights from across the Potomac River and the covered railroad bridge at Harpers Ferry, Virginia,, later West Virginia, before 1861 and the Civil War.

7. Maryland Heights Before 1861, Harpers Ferry, Va. (later W. Va.)

An unidentified man sits on Jefferson Rock above the Shenandoah River at Harpers Ferry. A pontoon bridge has been laid across the river to temporarily replace the destroyed bridge. The bridge's piers can be seen rising out of the river.

8. View of Jefferson Rock and Pontoon Bridge Over Shenandoah River, Harpers Ferry, W. Va.

9. Woodburn Seminary, Morgantown, W. Va.

10. Woodburn Seminary, WVU, Morgantown, W. Va.

A view of John Brown's Fort in Harper's Ferry, W. Va.

11. John Brown's Fort

A raumbild-verlag (stereocard) of what was left of the ancient quarter and entrance to Saalgasse after Germany was bombed during World War II.

12. Saalgasse In Ruins, Frankfort on Main, Germany