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Represents arks in process of construction
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 a large wooden structure with a platform surrounded by piles of wood planks for building military transport barges. A partially built barge sits in front of the structure surrounded by sawhorses, a portable forge, and piles of wood. Boats float in the water along the banks of the river, and buildings line the river in the background.
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