Showing posts with label destroyed bridge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label destroyed bridge. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

View of a Recently Destroyed Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad Bridge Over the North Anna River in Virginia (1864)


View of a recently destroyed Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad bridge over the North Anna River in Virginia, May 25, 1864. By Timothy O'Sullivan. Animated stereoscopic photographs.

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Tuesday, April 14, 2015

View of Union Soldiers Guarding a Pontoon Bridge Crossing the Potomac River Connecting Virginia With Brunswick, Maryland (1862)


View of Union soldiers guarding a pontoon bridge crossing the Potomac River connecting Virginia, in the foreground, with Berlin (now Brunswick), Maryland, October 1862. The bridge on the right was destroyed by Confederate forces. By Alexander Gardner. Animated stereoscopic photographs.

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Sunday, November 23, 2014

View of the Buffalora Bridge Over the Ticino River Which Was Partially Destroyed by Austrian Forces During the Second Italian War of Independence (1859)


View of the Buffalora Bridge over the Ticino River which was partially destroyed by Austrian forces during the Second Italian War of Independence, Italy, 1859. The bridge connected the Italian provinces of Lombardy and Piedmont. Animated stereoview.

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Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Photographs of Spectators Viewing a Derailed Train in Bangor, Maine (1871)





The interior of one of the train cars.


Photographs of spectators viewing the wreckage of a derailed train in Bangor, Maine, 1871. By A. K. Dole. Animated stereoview.

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Saturday, September 13, 2014

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Distant Glimpse of the Second Battle of Fredericksburg in Progress (1863)


Three men in a tree on Stafford Heights watching distant fighting on Marye’s Heights during the Second Battle of Fredericksburg, 1863. Smoke from the battle is possibly visible in the distance which would make it one of the earliest combat photographs of a land battle. The destroyed railroad bridge over the Rappahannock River is in the middle ground of the photo.

Photograph is from the National Park Service via the Western Reserve Historical Society, which seems to have a large collection of previously unpublished American Civil War photographs. The photograph was discovered by Bob Zeller, the president of the Center for Civil War Photography.

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