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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Alexandria Virginia. Slave pen. Interior view. 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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A stereograph of the interior of a slave pen in Alexandria, Virginia, made in 1861, shows a space where enslaved people were confined before being sold. Alexandria had long been a center of the domestic slave trade, and its pens held men, women and children awaiting buyers who would often take them to the Deep South. The picture dates from the first months of the Civil War, shortly after Union troops occupied the city in May 1861. The glass negative was once credited to Alexander Gardner, though that attribution is no longer considered certain, and the two halves were meant to be viewed together through a stereoscope.
| 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 | 5,100 × 5,120 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46919 |
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