[Loosening rails]

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[Loosening rails]

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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
July 1863
Medium
Salted paper print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
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View of a group of workers using levers to loosen rails along military railroad tracks. One man stands bent over the rail holding the leaver as three other men stand around him.

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