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Title: Steel hooks and rail twisted by their use
Creator: Russell, Andrew J., photographer
Contributor: Clough, J. B. (Joel Barber), 1823-1881. (collector)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1863
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: United States Civil War
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Steel hooks and piece of rail twisted by their use. A Union solider points to destroyed track as a man in suit holds steel hooks which are shaped like horse shoes. Steam locomotive engine stands in the background of photo. Title on mount: Rail Twisters. Handwritten in upper left corner: No. 1.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photographic print : albumen ; image 19.5 x 14 cm, mount 27 x 23 cm.
Identifier: photCL 301 (12)
396480
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll6/id/269
Subject: Railroad tracks--Virginia--1860-1870. (lctgm)
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Destruction and pillage
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Transportation
Albumen prints--1860-1870. (gmgpc)
Source: Joel B. Clough Collection of United States Military Railroad Photographs by Andrew J. Russell.
United States Civil War, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance: Gift of Frank Clough, Capt. Clough's grandson, July 25, 1975.

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