[Destroying a truss bridge]

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[Destroying a truss bridge]

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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
Institution: Getty Museum

View down a set of railroad tracks that run through a truss bridge. A man stands on the right side using an auger to bore a hole in one of the bridge trusses as a second man sits near him with two explosive charges, or "torpedoes" in his hands. A train car sits on the tracks at the far end of the bridge.

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