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Harper's Weekly newspaper page from 1864 with two engraved portraits above, a train falling from a bridge into water below, and columns of text.

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
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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)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery