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[Railroad construction workers straightening rails]
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 railroad workers standing in a semi-circle with a long bent rail resting on a stack of blocks at the center. Workers on the right and left sides of the circle hold long boards that rest on the top ends of the rail to straighten it out. Beams are scattered across the ground, and houses sit at the top of a slope in front of a tunnel in the background.
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