Alexandria Virginia. Slave pen. (Price Birch & Co. dealers in slaves) – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Alexandria Virginia. Slave pen. (Price Birch & Co. dealers in slaves). Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Alexandria Virginia. Slave pen. (Price Birch & Co. dealers in slaves)
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A slave pen in Alexandria, Virginia, photographed in 1861 under the name of Price, Birch & Co., the firm that bought and sold enslaved people there. Alexandria was a major hub of the domestic slave trade, and pens like this one held people awaiting sale to buyers farther south. The glass negative was once credited to Alexander Gardner, though that attribution is no longer accepted, and it is now held in the Library of Congress's Civil War collection.
| Created / published | 1861 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass 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 | 4,948 × 5,120 px · prints to 16 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46916 |
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