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Views of the American West

One photograph album entitled, "Views of the American West," taken by Andrew J. Russell. Consists of 30 albumen prints, each with a typed caption below each photograph. Photographs capture scenes of the developing American West and emphasize the...

GLC04349

Front of Arlington House

Image of Robert E. Lee's estate at Arlington, Virginia. Union soldiers sit on the front steps of the portico, dwarfed by the immense columns they lean on. The estate was used by Union soldiers as a hospital and later turned into Arlington National...

GLC03092.01

[View on the James River]

One undated image was taken by Andrew J. Russell. The image is of a stretch of the James River; the specific scene has not been identified. The image may have been taken during General George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign. It depicts the banks of...

GLC03092.02

[Photograph of the effect of a shell explosion near Fredericksburg, Va.]

One undated photograph was taken by Andrew J. Russell. The image shows General Herman Haupt leaning against a stump and surveying the damage to artillery caissons caused by a shell. The caissons lie in wreckage next to the dead mules who had hauled...

GLC03093

No. 302. Perspective View of Union Arch, Washington Aqueduct

Image of Union Arch across Cabin John Creek in wintertime. A few men stand down below the structure beside a pile of logs and a wood cabin. The arch forms a part of the aqueduct that bears water to Washington, D.C. The arch is designated a Historic...

GLC05172