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Slave Pen, Alexandria, Virginia - 19th century Virginia.

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Slave Pen, Alexandria, Virginia - 19th century Virginia.

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Stereograph showing Union soldiers standing outside a building designated Price, Birch & Co., Dealers in Slaves. Address: 1315 Duke St., Alexandria, Virginia.
No. 2296.
Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic War History, 1861-1865.

Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
Original negative may be available: LC-B811-2296.

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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01/01/1861
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Alexandria38.81982, -77.08419
Google Map of 38.8198176, -77.0841863
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Library of Congress
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