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Ruins of Arsenal, Richmond, Virginia
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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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- April 1865
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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 the remains of the Confederate arsenal at Richmond. The brick walls of the Franklin Paper Mill sit, without a roof, behind an arched brick abutment that was once part of a Richmond and Petersburg Railroad bridge. Debris covers the yard of the arsenal, where piles of artillery shells are stacked in rows and can be seen in the foreground on the right and left sides of the image. A group of men gather in the middle of the yard, as two men perched atop a pile of shells look on.
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