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RUSSELL, ANDREW JOSEPH (1830-1902) "Sailors on Russian Frigate, Osliaba, Alexandria, Virginia."
RUSSELL, ANDREW JOSEPH (1830-1902)
"Sailors on Russian Frigate, Osliaba, Alexandria, Virginia." Albumen print, 9x12 1/4 inches (22.9x31.1 cm.), with a letterpress caption label containing the title and plate number on mount recto. 1863-64
"Sailors on Russian Frigate, Osliaba, Alexandria, Virginia." Albumen print, 9x12 1/4 inches (22.9x31.1 cm.), with a letterpress caption label containing the title and plate number on mount recto. 1863-64
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Notes: The Tartt Gallery, Washington, D. C.; by agent to C.W. Sahlman.
The Tampa Museum of Art, "At Anchor and Underway: Images from a Tampa Collection," 1992.
This plate was part of the United States Military Railroad Photographic Album. The artist and sometime house painter Andrew Joseph Russell was the only official military photographer of the Civil War; he enlisted as a captain of the 141st New York Volunteers and in 1863 was assigned to General Herman Haupt''s unit, photographing construction, railroad operations, buildings, equipment and military life. After the war be became the official photographer for the Union Pacific Railroad, worked for a year on Clarence King''s Geological Survey, and covered the "laying of the last rail" at Promontory Point, Utah, for "Frank Leslie''s Illustrated." - Condition: All items are offered for sale subject to Swann Galleries'' standard terms and conditions of sale, which are published in our catalogues.
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