Alexandria Virginia. Slave pen. Interior view – Historic Photograph 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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Step back in time with Alexandria Virginia. Slave pen. Interior view, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Alexandria Virginia. Slave pen. Interior view
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This stereograph pair, made in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1861, offers a rare interior view of a slave pen at the start of the Civil War. Alexandria had long been a holding point in the domestic slave trade, where enslaved people were confined in pens like this one before being sold farther south. The photographs were taken after Union forces occupied the city in May 1861, when the sites of that trade came under federal control. The glass negatives were once credited to Alexander Gardner, but that attribution is no longer considered firm, so the photographer is best treated as unidentified.
| Created / published | 1861 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Slave Pen Alexandria Va. 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 × 4,960 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46920 |
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