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Exhibits the surface of a pair of barges showing the tracks for loading and unloading cars, also the movable bridges by which the tracks of the floats are connected with those on the wharf
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 1863
- Medium
- Salted paper print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
View of the rail transfer bridge at the wharf in Alexandria, Virginia, from a train car transport barge tied to the dock with ropes. The dock features three ramps beneath wooden frames that lead to train tracks. A locomotive engine sits on a set of tracks in the background, as three men stand on the ramps facing the camera, and a fourth man stands on the barge.
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