New bridge over Potomac River on the Washington, Alexandria and Georgetown Railroad.  Total length 5,104 feet

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New bridge over Potomac River on the Washington, Alexandria and Georgetown Railroad. Total length 5,104 feet

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Photograph showing a railroad bridge across the Potomac River. Three men are seated at right: S. Seymour, chief engineer, C.B. Morse, constructing engineer, S.S. Post & Co., contractors.
Exhibited: "East of the Mississippi : Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography" at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., March - July 2017; at the New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, Oct. 2017 - January 2018.

No digital image for LC-B8184-10246 (b&w film copy neg.)

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01/01/1861
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Russell, Andrew J., photographer
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National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
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