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Alexandria Yard, Looking West, Virginia

National Gallery of Art · Photograph

Alexandria Yard, Looking West, Virginia

Andrew Joseph Russell

Date
March 1863
Medium
albumen silver print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 26.4 × 33.9 cm (10 3/8 × 13 3/8 in.) mount: 35 × 41.9 cm (13 3/4 × 16 1/2 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Accession number
2026.1.35
Credit line
Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund
Time span
1851 to 1875
Department
CPH
Original NGA record

Subjects and terms

  • American
  • albumen silver print
  • Train
  • Railroad
  • Civil War
  • military
  • Virginia
Provenance

(William L. Schaeffer / Photographs, Chester, CT); Ron Perisho, Gettysburg, PA, 2002; NGA purchase, 2026.

Inscription

by unknown hand, lower right on mount in graphite: Alexandria Yard / Looking West- / Mar. 1863; on verso, upper right in graphite: 14007-03

NGA object ID 232045. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.