Seeing the Civil War

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Image ID: AIFS

Credit:

unknown photographer
Date:

1863.08
Negative Size:

8 in. x 10 in.
Locations & Lines:

Hanover Branch Railroad (HB); Hanover Junction PA; Northern Central Railroad (NC); Pennsylvania
Structures & Establishments:

HB Station (Hanover Junction PA); Junction Hotel (Hanover Junction PA)
Transports:

boxcar; locomotive; passenger car
Sources:

Library of Congress; National Archives; SMU Libraries; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

Library of Congress says: Hanover Junction, Pa. August, 1863.

National Archives says: Hanover Junction, PA. Station at Hanover Junction, PA. showing an engine and cars, 1864 [sic]. In November 1863, Lincoln had to change trains at this point to dedicate the Gettysburg Battlefield.

Man in top hat is often misidentified as Abraham Lincoln.

Etched onto negative: New No. 20[?] [crossed out]. 83.

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