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Officers' quarters at Fort David A. Russell
Officers' quarters at Fort David A. Russell

Officers' quarters at Fort David A. Russell

Artist Alexander Gardner (American, born Scotland, 1821 - 1882)
Date1868
MediumAlbumen print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 13 1/16 × 18 13/16 inches (33.18 × 47.78 cm)
Mount: 19 3/16 × 23 15/16 inches (48.74 × 60.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2006.30.10
SignedTyped on mount recto, lower left: "A. GARDNER, Photographer,"; Typed on mount recto, lower right: "511 Seventh Street, Washington."
InscribedOn mount recto, lower right, in pencil: "Officers Quarters Fort David Russell"
MarkingsOn mount verso, top left corner, in pencil: "THE WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY"; On mount verso, top right corner, in black pen: "40.1150"
On View
Not on view
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DescriptionRichly toned image of fort buildings, some under construction, set in a completely flat landscape with a few soldiers milling around in the foreground.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, sic no. 34.

Published References
Susan Danly Walther, The Landscape Photographs of Alexander Gardner and Andrew Joseph Russell (Ph.D. dissertation, Brown University, 1983).
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