H69.459.1974

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Andrew J. Russell

Group of Officials

circa 1868

Imperial collodion glass plate negative

10.0625 HIGH x 13.0625 WIDE x 0.125 DEEP
(25.56 HIGH x 0.32 DEEP)

Museum Purchase

H69.459.1974

inscription: "161 No 2 Group of Officials" inscribed in emulsion along top edge.

Tag words:

transcontinental railroad
union pacific railroad

History

Photograph. Title: 161 No 2 Group of Officials (Scratched on negative) Image Description: See title. Group posing in front of corral. Physical Description: "Imperial Plate" collodion glass negative, 10"X13 ". Sub. Cat.: Transportation -- Railroads

"Reed and Dillon can be identified. Samuel Reed is sitting second from the left; Sidney Dillion is standing second from the right." Remarks per Glenn Willumson for the NEA Russell Grant, July 2013 - June 2015.

This work (by Andrew J. Russell), identified by Oakland Museum of California, is free of known copyright restrictions.

Used: Union Pacific Railroad

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