Capt. Ed. Armstrong (Col'd) & crew of batteau Tam O'Shanter on beach of New River, Section 103, near 1st Res. 2nd N. R. Div.

Photograph shows a boat crew of African American men sitting on, and in front of, a fallen tree near the New River, West Virginia.

Inscribed on recto: Capt's P.O. Lovely Mt. Central Depot.
In Jedediah Hotchkiss photograph album of views along railroad lines and rivers from near Staunton, Virginia, to Huntington, West Virginia, p. 101, no. 199.
Transfer; LC Manuscript Division; 1979; (DLC/PP-1979:137).
Forms part of: Visual materials from the Jedediah Hotchkiss papers (Library of Congress).