Wrecking Train and Gang clearing Wreck

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Wrecking Train and Gang clearing Wreck

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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: March 28, 1863
Medium: Salted paper print
Culture: American
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

View of a group of men gathered behind a wrecking train as they work to clear a train wreck on the Loudoun and Hampshire Railroad. Three men stand atop the flatbed train car facing the group, as several more stand atop a small slope beside the train tracks.

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