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Steel Hooks, and Piece of Rail Twisted by Their Use
Creator
A. J. RussellAmerican Photographer · 1830–1902
All works by this person →Andrew Joseph Russell, a captain in the volunteer infantry, became a photographer during the American Civil War. As photographer-engineer for the United States Military Railroad Construction Corps, he was assigned to photograph battlefields and campsites in Virginia. He also photographed engineering projects and contributed images to what was probably the world's first technical manual illustrated
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- July 1863
- Medium
- Salted paper print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 374473ae-f2c6-46c1-890c-6d84ac883ad0
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View of two men, one in uniform, standing on a set of railroad tracks. The man in uniform points towards a twisted railroad tie on the ground as he looks at his companion, who holds two steel hooks and rests one foot on the twisted tie. A locomotive sitting in front of a building can be seen in the background.
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