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The slave market, Atlanta, Ga. - A black and white photo of a town street
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Stereograph showing a man with a rifle sitting outside a commercial building used as a slave market, bearing a sign "Auction & Negro Sales" on Whitehall Street.
No. 3608, in series: War Views.
Imprinted on card: E. & H.T. Anthony & Co., 591 (i.e. 501) Broadway, New York.
Attributed to George N. Barnard, based on LC-B811-3608.
Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
Original negative is: LC-B811-3608.
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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