
Camera and Locomotive: Two Tracks across the Continent: Andrew J. Russell’s Eye for the Land
Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson
The following is the third in a series of guest posts by Micah Messenheimer, Assistant Curator of Photography, Prints and Photographs Division, that discuss the parallel development of two technologies in the 19th century: railroads and photography. The catalysts for a transcontinental railroad lie in the increasing industrialization of the country and the rapid expansion …
Posted in: Photographs, Series: Camera and Locomotive