The Great West Illustrated in a Series of Photographic Views Across the Continent

1869

Andrew Joseph Russell

Artist, American, 1829 - 1902

Union Pacific Railroad

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume of 50 albumen prints

  • Credit Line

    Avalon Fund and New Century Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall (closed): 34 × 49 × 3.8 cm (13 3/8 × 19 5/16 × 1 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2016.155.1.1-50

Associated Artworks

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Plate 49. Brigham Young's Cotton and Woolen Factories

Andrew Joseph Russell, Union Pacific Railroad

1869

Plate 45. Salt Lake City, from the Top of the Tabernacle

Andrew Joseph Russell, Union Pacific Railroad

1869

Plate 39. East End of Tunnel, Weber Canon

Andrew Joseph Russell, Union Pacific Railroad

1869

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Stephen Loewentheil, Brooklyn, NY); NGA purchase, 2016.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2019

  • The Eye of the Sun: Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019, unnumbered catalogue.

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