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San Marino, CA 91108
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Yard at Alexandria, construction corps finishing portable bridge trusses, known as a "shad-belly" trusses because of their shape. Title on mount: Shad bellies. Handwritten in upper left corner: No. 30.
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Potomac Creek Bridge: Photograph showing a truss bridge built for the Aquia Creek & Fredericksburgh Railroad. There is a railroad car on the track, U.S.M.R.R. stamped on its side, leaving the frame to the right.
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Stationary steam railway locomotive standing on the middle of a wooden trestle bridge. Locomotive has one engine, coal-tender and one box car. There are five men, two sitting in the coal-tender and three standing or sitting on the box car which has U.S.M.R.R. printed on its side. Title on mount: Trestle Work, Potomac Creek. Handwritten in upper left corner: No. 3.
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A truss bridge over waterway which includes a steamboat. Foreground is a plot of land sectioned off by a slat-wood fence and a small house with metal chimney on right-hand side. No. 4.
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Numerous men building military railroad Haupt truss bridge across Bull Run River in Virgnia. Title on mount: Haupt Truss, Bull Run. Handwritten in upper left corner: No. 15.
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Wreck caused by the fracture of an axle of a car on the Loudon and Hampshire Railroad, March 28th, 1863. Front of train has separated from three railroad cars, the last car is stamped with No. 123[7], U.S.M.R.R. About fifteen men work on this car in foreground and six men rest at the gap between the train's separation. Title on mount: Breakdown. Handwritten in upper left corner: No. 25.
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