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The Photographic View:
By the late 1800s photographers were providing realistic, if somewhat grainy, records of the streets and residents of Harpers Ferry. Today, photographers are still attracted to Harpers Ferry, perhaps for the same reasons that strike all visitors. In the town's picturesque streets and surrounding hillsides, you tap many deep sources of America's heritage. Washington, Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis, Native Americans, pioneers pushing westward, canal builders, railroaders, armory craftsmen, immigrants, John Brown, Frederick Douglass, slaves, freedmen, the townspeople of Harpers Ferry, all speak across the generations to you. |