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Title: Union Mills Station, Orange & Alexandria RR
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: Two locomotives pulling into the Union Mills Station in Clifton, Virginia. First locomotive has only one car, name on side unreadable. The second locomotive is hauling two flat bed cars, a single car and a manual derrick car. There are several men riding on the flat bed and scattered around the track. One man stands in the middle of the photo in front of a triangle tent and on the front right-hand side of photo is a water tower with large wooden barrels. This image similar to photCL 301 (95). Title on mount: Union Mills Handwritten in upper left corner: No. 16.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photographic print : albumen ; image 13.5 x 20 cm, mount 23 x 27 cm.
Identifier: photCL 301 (27)
163105
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll6/id/284
Subject: Orange, Alexandria, and Manassas Railroad
Railroads--Virginia--Clifton--1860-1870. (lctgm)
Railroad stations--Virginia--Clifton--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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