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Ruins of Petersburg and Richmond Railroad Bridge, across the James
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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 1864
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- Albumen silver print
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- American
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- Photographs
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- Getty Museum
View of the remains of the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Bridge after its destruction by the Confederate Army following the evacuation of Richmond. The brick piers that once supported the bridge span stand in the water across the James River and debris covers the ground around them. The remains of a brick wall with arched windows sits in the foreground on the right, next to the wooden skeleton of the lower passageway of the bridge.
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