"Double-header" freight train on the Northern Central, back of Druid Hill Park (Clipper Mill), Baltimore, 1902

The collection consists of one album containing 42 photoprints, of which 40 are gelatin silver prints and two are cyanotypes. Titled "Vacation Memories, Summer ‘02", the album documents a vacation by Charles Chaney in August of 1902, with scenes in Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. Specific locations include Woodberry, Lake Roland, and Hollins in Maryland, Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia, and Mount Vernon, Virginia. Many of the photographs depict trains and locations accessible by train, with several specific train engines identified, and one photo depicts an old horse car.