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Pywell, Wm. R.
American (1843-1886)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Slave Pen, Alexandria, Virginia
BOOK TITLE: "Gardner's Sketchbook of the Civil War"

August 1862 / print ca. 1866
albumen print
17.7 x 22.9 cm.
Museum Collection
GEH NEG: 8996
81:0004:0002

NON-GEH NUMBER: No. 2

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Mayer, Robert A. --Blacks in America.-- Rochester, NY: George Eastman House, 1986. p. 7.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "Blacks in America: A Photographic Record", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, January 25 - March 30, 1986.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(printed on mount below image) "Negative by Wm. R. Pywell. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1866, by A. Gardner, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia. Positive by A. Gardner, 511 7th St., Washington." "Slave Pen, Alexandria, Virginia." "No. 2" "August, 1862."

NOTES: Catalogued 3/90, DZ.

SUBJECTS:
cityscape
architecture, slave pen

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