Hampton Virginia. Slab-town – Vintage Photo Print
(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: Hampton Virginia. Slab-town, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Hampton Virginia. Slab-town
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Slab-town, as the caption on the negative sleeve names it, was a makeshift settlement of rough board shanties in Hampton, Virginia, photographed in December 1864. Hampton had been under Union control since 1861, and it drew large numbers of people who had escaped enslavement, many of whom lived in crowded camps and improvised housing built from whatever lumber was at hand. The picture is a wet collodion glass stereograph, a format that made scenes like this appear three-dimensional when viewed through a stereoscope. The negative was once credited to Alexander Gardner, a prominent Civil War photographer, though that attribution is now considered uncertain.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Slab-town Hampton Va. Dec. 1864. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gardner Alexander 1821-1882 formerly attributed to this photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 2,625 px · prints to 17 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-49459 |
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