Across The Continent. The Union Pacific Photographs Of Andrew J. Russell

DANIEL DAVIS

Publication: University of Utah Press, 2018, Salt Lake City

Co-published with the Utah State Historical Society. 10" x 8 1/2" in color pictorial wrappers. "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 Pacific Railroad. Across the Continent is the most detailed study to date of the life and work of an often-overlooked but prolific artist. The images include masons working on bridge foundations, freighters and their wagons, surveyors with their transits, engine crews posed on their engines, as well as tracklayers, laborers, cooks, machinists, carpenters, graders, teamsters, and clerks pushing paper." Fine. As new.

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