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View of "Putnam's Hill" from West Zanesville

A print (1835).

 

5 3/4 x 9 in. (sheet)

 

Published with Samuel P. Hildreth's article Observations on the bituminous coal deposits of the valley of the Ohio, and the accompanying rock strata : with notices of the fossil organic remains and the relics of vegetable and animal bodies, in The American Journal of Science and Arts, volume 29, number 1.

 

Used courtesy of the Periodicals Department, Cleveland Public Library.

 

The article included 38 plates, mostly of fossils found in the coal. They represent a most interesting historical record.

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Uploaded on October 3, 2012
Taken sometime in 1835