Search Results
- IDNO:
- 037961
- Title:
- Artistic Portrait of Mrs. Aspinwall
- Description:
- Portrait of a hooded young woman gazing up to the left.
- IDNO:
- 037962
- Title:
- Interior Room of Harewood, Home of Samuel Washington, Jefferson County, W. Va.
- Description:
- Post card photograph of the room in Harewood, where Dolley Payne Todd married James Madison, 1793. Over the mantel is a portrait of Colonel Samuel Washington, brother of George Washington.
- IDNO:
- 037963
- Title:
- Driving Along Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Near Harpers Ferry, W. Va.
- Description:
- Color postcard of a ca. 1918 touring car driving next to the the C&O Canal. The Harpers Ferry bridge crossing the confluence of the Potomac and the Shenandoah Rivers is in the background.
- IDNO:
- 037964
- Title:
- Main Street, Charles Town, Jefferson County, W. Va.
- Description:
- Named for Charles Washington , the youngest of George Washington's five brothers, the town was laid out in 1776, eight miles southwest of Harpers Ferry.
- IDNO:
- 037965
- Title:
- Carter House in Charles Town, W. Va.
- Description:
- The three story building with a "x" over it, in the right foreground of the image, quartered Union soldiers varies times during the Civil War including May 15, 1863 when an attack by a squad of Confederates, lead by Jefferson County's Captain R. Preston Chew, resulted in the capture of 60 Federals.
- IDNO:
- 037966
- Title:
- Corner of George and Washington Streets in Charles Town, W. Va.
- Description:
- Postcard photograph of early 20th century, downtown Charles Town, Jefferson County, West Virginia. The Old Jail is shown in the left foreground where John Brown was held for trail and awaited his execution.
- IDNO:
- 037967
- Title:
- Old Grist Mill, Shepherdstown, W. Va.
- Date:
- undated
- Description:
- Postcard photograph of a grist mill in Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, West Virginia. Note the worker on the left emptying barrels
- IDNO:
- 037968
- Title:
- Part of River Drive, Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, W. Va.
- Description:
- Postcard photograph of River Road along the Potomac River at Shepherdstown. The structure in the background is probably Boteler's Cement Mill and site of the Battle of Shepherdstown, September 20, 1862, following the Battle of Antietam during the Civil War.
- IDNO:
- 037969
- Title:
- Methodist Church, I. O.O. F. and D.A. R. Hall, Shepherdstown, W. Va.
- Description:
- Methodist Church on the left with stain glass windows and the D.A.R. Hall on the right. The hall was built ca. 1800.
- IDNO:
- 037970
- Title:
- 'Pastrauga' Home of Captain James Strode, Berkeley County, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1920
- Description:
- Built in 1763 on the Sulphur Spring Rd. south of Martinsburg, Virginia (West Virginia) and burned down in 1922. George Washington recorded in his journal his visit to "Pastrauga" on his way to Bath.
- IDNO:
- 037971
- Title:
- Tombs of James Strode and Wife, Anna Hamilton Foreman Strode, Berkeley County, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1925
- Description:
- The tombs are in the garden at "Pastrauga" the couples' home in the 18th century near Martinsburg.
- IDNO:
- 037972
- Title:
- Samuel Washington of Harewood, Jefferson County, Va. (W. Va)
- Description:
- Sketch of a portrait of Samuel Washington, George Washington's younger brother. Samuel built a home he named "Harewood" in Jefferson County, Virginia (later West Virginia)
