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Depot at Wamego, Kansas
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Depot at Wamego, Kansas

Series TitleAcross the Continent on the Union Pacific Railway
Artist Alexander Gardner (American, born Scotland, 1821 - 1882)
Date1867
MediumAlbumen print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 7 × 9 3/16 inches (17.78 × 23.34 cm)
Mount: 11 7/8 × 17 7/8 inches (30.16 × 45.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.499
SignedTyped on mount recto, lower left: "A. GARDNER, Photographer,"; Typed on mount recto, lower right: "511 Seventh street, Washington."
InscribedTyped on mount recto, lower center: "ACROSS THE CONTINENT ON THE UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY, E.D."
Markingsnone
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DescriptionImage of a building next to railroad tracks; figures are standing on the platform.Exhibition History
Across the Indian Country: Photographs by Alexander Gardner, 1867-1868. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 25, 2014 - January 11, 2015, Jane L. Aspinwall, Alexander Gardner The Western Photographs, 1867 – 1868, 2014, no. atc 93.
Published References
D. Mark Katz, Witness to an Era: The Life and Photographs of Alexander Gardner (New York: Viking, 1991).
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