Fowx, Egbert Guy (ca. 1821-1889) Bullrun Bridge and Block House
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0075 Author/Creator: Fowx, Egbert Guy (ca. 1821-1889) Place Written: Manassas, Virginia Type: Photograph Date: April 1863 Pagination: 1 albumen print ; 25.4 x 30.5 cm. Order a Copy
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
Date and positive identification taken from another photograph by Fowx held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. See http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/286631 for details.
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