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Small Raft of Blanket Boats Crossing the Potomac River
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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- July 1863
- Medium
- Salted paper print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Five men float on the Potomac River in three blanket boats that have been lashed together. Two men stand on either side with tall oars, while the three men at the center use a long rope to pull them to shore.
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