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Lock & Whitfield (photographers), fl. 1850-1890 John Scott Russell

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08878.1722 Author/Creator: Lock & Whitfield (photographers), fl. 1850-1890 Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 1878 Pagination: 1 photograph Order a Copy

One photograph of John Scott Russell, a Scottish civil engineer in 1878 taken by photographers Lock and Whitfield.

Lock & Whitfield (photographers), fl. 1850-1890
Russell, John Scott, 1808-1882

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