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Building Military Railroad Truss Bridge across Bull Run, April, 1863
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
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- Photographs
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- Getty Museum
View of Union Army engineers rebuilding Bull Run Bridge from across the river. The bridge features two arched trusses, and is surrounded by wooden scaffolding. Construction workers stand on the tracks leading to the bridge, the bridge span, and atop the trusses.
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