Sickel Hospital, Looking toward Fairfax Seminary, Alexandria, Virginia
January 5, 1865
Medium
albumen print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 21 × 32 cm (8 1/4 × 12 5/8 in.) mount: 24.8 × 35.1 cm (9 3/4 × 13 13/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Funds from Ronald M. Costell, M.D. and the Estate of Marsha E. Swiss
Accession Number
2025.44.23
About the Artist
Andrew Joseph Russell · 1830–1902
Andrew Joseph Russell (1829–1902) was a pioneering American photographer whose work captured the raw drama of the Civil War and the monumental engineering of the transcontinental railroad. Born on March 20, 1829, in Walpole, New Hampshire, to Joseph Russell and Harriet Robinson, he grew up in Nunda, New York, where he developed an early passion for painting, creating portraits, landscapes, and eve...