Across the Continent : The Union Pacific Photographs of Andrew Joseph Russell /

"Andrew J. Russell is primarily known as the man who photographed the famous "East and West Shaking Hands" image of the Golden Spike ceremony on May 10, 1869. He also took nearly one thousand other images that document almost every aspect of the construction of the Union PacificRailro...

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Autor principal: Davis, Daniel (Photography curator) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Salt Lake City : Utah State Historical Society, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Russell, Andrew J.
Union Pacific Railroad Company.
Central Pacific Railroad Company.
Central Pacific Railroad Company > History > Pictorial works.
Union Pacific Railroad Company > History > Pictorial works.
Railroads.
Photography of railroads.
Photographers.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions > General.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Individual Photographers > Artists' Books.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Photoessays & Documentaries.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Subjects & Themes > General.
Photographes > États-Unis.
Photographie de chemins de fer.
Photographers > United States.
Railroads > United States > History > 19th century > Pictorial works.
West United States.
United States.
États-Unis (Ouest) > Histoire > Ouvrages illustres.
West (U.S.) > History > Pictorial works.
Livres de photographies.
Photobooks.
Pictorial works.
History.
photobooks.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The forgotten photographer
  • A.J. Russell and the golden age of Western photography
  • Russell in New York and during the Civil War (1829-1865)
  • The Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads and the use of photography (1862-1868)
  • Russell's first trip out West (1868)
  • Russell's second trip West and the Golden Spike Ceremony (1869)
  • Documenting the West (Summer and Fall of 1869)
  • Leslie's Illustrated and the market in photographs after 1870
  • Russell's images and the rise and decline of Western photography
  • Epilogue: the forgotten photographs of the Union Pacific, from obscurity to rediscovery
  • Catalog of Russell's Union Pacific photographs.

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