Slave pen, Alexandria, Virginia - 19th century Virginia.
Summary
Stereograph shows the interior of a Union military prison; prior to its capture by the Union Army in 1861, the facility had been used by Price, Birch & Co. slave dealership to hold slaves before they auctioned. (Source: The Center for Civil War Photography, http://www.civilwarphotography.org/index.php/3-d-photographs-exhibit/70)
Numbered as 2296 97-98-99-2800 on mount verso.
Date of printing based on when the publisher's move to 591 Broadway on February 10, 1869 (Source: Dietrich, Henry. Reminiscences of the house of E. & H.T. Anthony & Company. Anthony's photographic bulletin, 1900, volume 31, pages 104-106)
Corresponding glass negatives: LC-B811-2297A, left, and LC-B811-2297B, right. E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. acquired the negatives from the studio of Mathew Brady in exchange for photographic supplies.
Purchase; Russell Norton; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012: 069).
During the Civil War, photographers produced thousands of stereoviews. Stereographs were popular during American Civil War. A single glass plate negative capture both images using a Stereo camera. Prints from these negatives were intended to be looked at with a special viewer called a stereoscope, which created a three-dimensional ("3-D") image. This collection includes glass stereograph negatives, as well as stereograph card prints.
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