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Title: Potomac Creek Bridge across the Potomac Creek, Stafford County, Virginia
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: Potomac Creek Bridge: Photograph showing a truss bridge built for the Aquia Creek & Fredericksburgh Railroad. There is a railroad car on the track, U.S.M.R.R. stamped on its side, leaving the frame to the right.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photographic print : albumen ; image 15 x 19.5 cm, mount 23 x 27 cm.
Identifier: photCL 301 (33)
396496
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll6/id/290
Subject: Railroad bridges--Virginia--Potomac Creek site--1860-1870. (lctgm)
Truss bridges--Virginia--1860-1870. (lctgm)
Railroad bridges--Virginia--1860-1870. (lctgm)
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Transportation
Bridge construction--Virginia--1860-1870. (lctgm)
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Engineering and construction
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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