mikl-em's combine

Albumen print of the ruins at the end of the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Bridge. Circa 1861-65 by Alexander Gardner. via the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photographs Collection (and tuesday-johnson). Ah my hometown.

Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 – December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who moved to the United States in 1856, where he began to work full-time in that profession. He is best known for his photographs of the American Civil War, American President Abraham Lincoln, and the execution of the conspirators to Lincoln’s assassination.