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Raft of Blanket Boats Without Load
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
- 425aea89-93f3-47ad-9a43-123607d624d7
From the Getty Museum record
View of blanket boats lashed together to create a raft floating on the Potomac River. A man holding oars sits alone in the boat, which floats just off the bank of the river. Individual blanket boats rest along the riverbank, where sailing ships in the process of construction can be seen over a wooden fence.
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