Photo of Stereograph,Negro Family coming to Union Lines,American Civil War,1863
Title: A Negro family coming into the Union lines
Creator(s): Woodbury, D. B. (David B.), d. 1866, photographer
Date Created/Published: Hartford, Conn. : War Photograph & Exhibition Company, [1863 Jan. 1, (printed later)].
Summary: Photo shows African American men, women, and children seated in front of and inside a mule-drawn covered wagon. Artist Alfred Waud worked up a sketch from this photograph, probably made in his presence by David B. Woodbury on January 1, 1863. The drawing, called 'An arrival in Camp--under the Proclamation of Emancipation' was published in Harper's Weekly, January 31, 1863, p. 6 and is now at the Library of Congress. (Source for Waud info: Ray, plate 48)
Notes:
Part of the series:The War for the Union. Photographic War History, no. 657.
Title from item. Date from negative LC-B811-657, which shows the same image as a half-stereograph.
Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
Original glass negative no.: LC-B811-657 (half).
Subjects:
African Americans--War--1860-1870.
Families--1860-1870.
Carts & wagons--1860-1870.
Military camps--1860-1870.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans.
Albumen prints--1860-1870.
Stereographs--1860-1870.
Bookmark /2004682778/
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