Trip Through West Virginia, Maryland and Penn. Vol. 2

Trip through West Virginia, Maryland and Penn. vol. 2

These photographs are part of an album made by T. Dwight Biscoe (1840-1930) and Walter S. Biscoe (1853-1933) on a trip through Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. The two brothers made 129 photos of Civil War battlefields and cemeteries, as well as people and places along the way.

Mounts include detailed descriptions about the battles, and the date, time and weather when the photographs were made. Sites include: the battlefields of Fisher's Hill, Cedar Creek near Winchester, Virginia, Harper's Ferry, Antietam and Hagerstown, Maryland.

A graduate of Amherst College, Dwight Biscoe was a professor of science at Marrietta College in Ohio for more than 30 years. Keenly interested in photography, he made his own glass plate negatives and also had a dark room in his home.

Walter Biscoe was an Amherst graduate who served as New York state librarian. Reportedly, he was classmate and friend of Melvil Dewey and helped him with Dewey's library decimal classification system.

The album is held by Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries, DeGolyer Library . A high-quality version of this file may be obtained for a fee by contacting degolyer@smu.edu.

For more information, see: digitalcollections.smu.edu/u?/ civ,10

View Civil War Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints at: digitalcollections.smu.edu/all /cul/civ/

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