Down the Old Potomac

Duration: 12 min
Release date: 1917-03-06
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This fascinating 12-minute documentary from Edison's Conquest Pictures features a man in a small boat being pulled (from a horse on shore) down the Potomac river. From Cumberland, MD, through Washington, DC, this short charts the Waterway and its locks.

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Down the Old Potomac

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