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Railway officials, messrs. Swan, Cadell, Middleton, Howse, & Kellock – Historic Print

Railway officials, messrs. Swan, Cadell, Middleton, Howse, & Kellock, [1855] — historic photograph
Railway officials, messrs. Swan, Cadell, Middleton, Howse, & Kellock, [1855]. Historic photograph from the Railroads & Depots collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Five railway officials, Messrs. Swan, Cadell, Middleton, Howse, and Kellock, posed together at Balaklava, the Black Sea port the British used as their supply base in the Crimean War. In 1855 the army ran a rail line from the harbor up to the plateau above Sevastopol, hauling food, ammunition, and other supplies to the troops besieging the city. Roger Fenton made the photograph that year while documenting the war, and his salted paper prints are among the earliest large-scale photographic records of a conflict. The formal, grouped pose says as much about the men's standing as about the work they oversaw.

Created / published[1855]
Medium1 photographic print : salted paper ; 20.3 x 17 cm.
GenrePortrait photographs 1850-1860.Group portraits 1850-1860.Salted paper prints 1850-1860.
NotesTitle transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection.
SubjectsCrimean War, 1853-1856. Railroad employees--Ukraine--Balaklava--1850-1860. Railroads--Ukraine--Balaklava--1850-1860.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,277 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-124736

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