The Great West Illustrated in a Series of Photographic Views Across the Continent
Medium
bound volume of 50 albumen prints
Dimensions
overall (closed): 34 × 49 × 3.8 cm (13 3/8 × 19 5/16 × 1 1/2 in.)
Classification
Volume
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Avalon Fund and New Century Fund
Accession Number
2016.155.1.1-50
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...