Wrecking Train and Gang clearing Wreck

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Wrecking Train and Gang clearing Wreck

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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
March 28, 1863
Medium
Salted paper print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
96ecf4b3-5908-4240-a5d4-c1f6e5b44a3e

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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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