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[View from the top of a train car at Burnside Wharf]
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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- April 1863
- Medium
- Salted paper print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
View of Burnside Wharf along Aquia Creek in Virginia, from atop a train car sitting on the railroad tracks that run parallel to the shore. The wharf is visible on the right side of the train cars, with a docked sailing ship in the foreground beside the small buildings and small boats that line the wharf. Several men are scattered along the wharf.
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