Trestle Bridge across Bull Run

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Trestle Bridge across Bull Run

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A. J. Russell

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
April 1863
Medium
Salted paper print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
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View of a trestle bridge on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad line over the dry riverbed of Bull Run.

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