THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS – EDISON COMPANIES – FILM AND SOUND RECORDINGS
Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, 101 Independence Ave., SE, James Madison Building, LM 336, Washington, D.C. 20540

Entry #1

Author: Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
Title: Down the old Potomac. Thomas A. Edison, Inc. United States: Edison Manufacturing Co., 1917.
Description: 1 reel (silent film).
Summary: Follows a week-long, 180-mile trip on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal through the Potomac Valley from Cumberland, MD, to Washington, D.C. Includes scenes of the locks in operation; a mile-long, hand-dug tunnel which was built in 1840; coal barges plying the canal; Maryland farming country; Harper's Ferry; and Great Falls.
Location: Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, 101 Independence Ave., SE, James Madison Building, LM 336, Washington, D.C. 20540.
Source: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edhome.html.