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Wreck caused by the Fracture of an Axle of a Car on the Loudon and Hampshire Railroad
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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- March 28, 1863
- Medium
- Salted paper print
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- American
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- Photographs
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- Getty Museum
View of a group of men gathered around two train cars on the Loudoun and Hampshire Railroad that have become detached from the rest of the train. The derailed front car tilts forward as the rest of the train cars sit farther up the tracks in the background. Several men gather at the back of the train car, as a smaller group sit on a small slope beside the tracks.
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