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Title: Machine shop, Alexandria, Va
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: Bird's eye view of machine shops, with east yard of Orange & Alexandria Railroad. Photograph shows a railroad yard of the Orange & Alexandria Railroad in Alexandria, Virginia. Photograph taken from the top of the roundhouse. Smoke can be seen coming out of a chimney on the roof of shop. This image similar to photCL 301 (88) & (89). Title on mount: Machine shop Alex Va. Handwritten in upper left corner: No. 15.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photographic print : albumen ; image 18.5 x 24 cm, mount 30.5 x 35.5 cm.
Identifier: photCL 301 (90)
396550
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll6/id/347
Subject: Railroad shops & yards--Virginia--Alexandria--1860-1870. (lctgm)
Railroads--Virginia--Alexandria--1860-1870. (lctgm)
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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