Canvas Print: Over Eastern Branch, Potomac, 1865

Title: Over Eastern Branch, Potomac, 1865 Description: Photograph shows the Navy Yard Bridge across the Anacostia River, Washington, D.C., with horse-drawn wagon by house in foreground. (Source: similar image with caption "Navy Yard Bridge across the Anacostia River," Smithsonian Institution, "America on the Move" online exhibit: http://amhistory.si.edu/onthemove/) Subjects: Bridges--Washington (D.C.)--1860-1870, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Places: Washington D.C. Collection: National Photo Company Collection. The collection documents virtually all aspects of Washington, D.C., life. During the administrations of Presidents Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover, the National Photo Company supplied photographs of current news events in Washington, D.C., as a daily service to its subscribers. It also prepared sets of pictures on popular subjects and undertook special photographic assignments for local businesses and government agencies. The images date between ca. 1850 and 1945; the bulk of the images were created between 1909 and 1932.