Getty Museum
Third Series of Experiments with Board Trusses
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
More on Getty ULAN- Date
- March 1863
- Medium
- Salted paper print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
View of a group of men posing for a group portrait atop an experimental bridge truss. Three men stand on the back of a train car parked on a set of train tracks on the ground beside the truss.
The authoritative record is held by Getty Museum. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.
Get printable QR codesHide QR codes
Open QR codes for this object page and the museum record. They stay collapsed until needed.
Related across collections
Semantically similar works from Getty Museum and other institutions.