Florida - The old slave market [sic] - St. Augustine – Historic Photo Reproduction
![Florida - The old slave market [sic] - St. Augustine, 1886 — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/38/38386a4ee733-L.webp)
(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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A window into the past: Florida - The old slave market [sic] - St. Augustine, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Florida - The old slave market [sic] - St. Augustine
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The stereograph shows the Old Slave Market in St. Augustine, a small coquina-stone building that visitors in the 1880s treated as a relic of the town's Spanish past. St. Augustine was then reinventing itself as a winter resort, and photographers like George Barker, whose "Gems of American Scenery" series this card belongs to, sold views of such landmarks to a public eager for travel images. The card's title keeps the period label "old slave market," which reflects how the building was understood at the time, and it is worth reading that label with the history of enslavement in colonial and territorial Florida in mind.
| Created / published | 1886 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | R15472 U.S. Copyright Office. Gems of American Scenery. Copyright by George Barker. Title from item. · Greenough Horatio 1805-1852. |
| Subjects | Saint Augustine (Fla.)--1880-1890. Markets--Florida--Saint Augustine--1880-1890. Historic sites--Florida--Saint Augustine--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Stereograph Cards |
| Original scan | 5,824 × 3,675 px · prints to 19 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-STV-271670 |
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