Rails of the Manassas Gap Railroad, Alexandria Va.
about January 1865
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Dimensions
- 23.5 × 32.7 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-648603
From an elevated perspective, A. J. Russell made this photograph overlooking the Union Army's plentiful supply of iron rails. Rows of barracks and a train of boxcars fill the background. Between the tall, neatly stacked rails rests a train of flatbed cars loaded with more rails. During the American Civil War, the frequent destruction of railroads required a large supply of replacement rails. According to one report, the Union's. Military Railroad purchased over 21,000 tons of track between 1862 and 1865.
Provenance
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Registry history
- about January 1865 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — photographs
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