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[Small raft of blanket boats crossing the Potomac River]
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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- July 1863
- Medium
- Salted paper print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
View of a group of men sitting in several blanket boats lashed together and floating on the Potomac River. Two men stand on either side of the far end of the boat with oars, as the men hold on to one of two parallel ropes stretched across the river to pull the raft across.
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