[Blanket boats]

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[Blanket boats]

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American Photographer · 1830–1902

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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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Date: July 1863
Medium: Salted paper print
Culture: American
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

View of many blanket boats lashed together to create a raft floating on the Potomac River. Logs run across the top of the raft for support as a group of men stand in the boats and the water beside it to pose for the camera. Several of the men hold on to a large wooden beam at the center of the raft. Individual blanket boats rest along the riverbank, where sailing ships in the process of construction can be seen over a wooden fence.

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