Drill - Constructing Blanket Boats

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Drill - Constructing Blanket Boats

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A. J. Russell

American Photographer · 1830–1902

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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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Date
July 1863
Medium
Salted paper print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
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Object ID
890c2af1-f33c-4145-858b-f7758ff98837

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View of men standing in two rows facing each other on the bank of the Potomac River. Supplies for the construction of blanket boats, including wood frames and piles of wood, rope, and canvas, lay on the ground at their feet.

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