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View on Canal, near Crenshaw's Mill, Richmond, Virginia
Creator
Alexander GardnerAmerican Photographer · 1821–1882
All works by this person →As an idealistic young reporter and newspaper editor in Glasgow, Scotland, Alexander Gardner dreamed of forming a semi-socialistic colony somewhere in what he thought of as the unspoiled wilderness of America. He selected a place in Iowa, but even though he sent family and friends to live there, Gardner never joined them. Instead, when he disembarked in New York he remained. The celebrated America
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- April 1865
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- d6159225-3baf-4ce5-9197-940334cb0f9a
From the Getty Museum record
View of a stone bridge over the canal at the Haxall and Crenshaw Mills in Richmond, Virginia. Two men sit on the bridge with their legs hanging over the side, as several wooden carts sit on the bridge span. The ruins of the Gallego Flour Mill are visible in the distance.
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