
Harper's Weekly page with portraits and railway bridge disaster, 1864
A Harper's Weekly newspaper page dated July 23, 1864, with two wood-engraved portraits at top: a bearded officer in naval uniform at left and a man in a dark suit at right. Below, an engraving shows a railway train falling from a bridge into a river, with onlookers on the bank, beside columns of printed text.
- Artist
- Unidentified Artist
- Date
- c. 1864
- Medium
- Wood engraving on paper
- Source
- Smithsonian (National Portrait Gallery)
- Size
- 2766 × 4000 px
Public domain · Smithsonian (National Portrait Gallery) releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1869).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery