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Pontoon Bridge Across the Potomac, at Berlin
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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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- November 1862
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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 a pontoon, or floating, bridge across the Potomac River in Berlin, Maryland. A man stands at the near end of the bridge, which stretches across the water towards the opposite shore. Houses and other buildings are visible scattered across the land in the distance.
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