Fowx, Egbert Guy, 1821-1891 Bullrun Bridge and Block House

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GLC#
GLC05111.01.0075-View header record
Type
Images
Date
April 1863
Author/Creator
Fowx, Egbert Guy, 1821-1891
Title
Bullrun Bridge and Block House
Place Written
Manassas, Virginia
Pagination
1 albumen print Height: 25.4 cm, Width: 30.5 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

A print of a landscape photograph of a military encampment near Bull Run, a tributary of the Occoquan River. The Orange and Alexandria railroad bridge on the right is of military construction and was constructed using prefabricated segments known as "shad-belly" trusses. Winter quarters on right made of logs and convas roofs with stone chimneys. A large two story block house stands on hill to the left guarding the bridge. Several Union soldiers stand on roadway above and to the left of winter quarters. A graphite inscription at the top reads "Bullrun Bridge and Block House" (title taken from this) and "Not Bull Run brigdes Lit" is beneath that with 'not' underlined. Also present is "Fowx" on the right side. However, when compared to another of Fowx's photographs of the Bull Run bridge, they look one and the same.
See GLC 5111.01.0514

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