A Negro family coming into the Union lines (LOC)

    Woodbury, D. B., d. 1866,, photographer.

    A Negro family coming into the Union lines

    Hartford, Conn. : War Photograph & Exhibition Company, [1863 Jan. 1, (printed later)].

    1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph ; 4 x 7 in.

    Notes:
     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)

    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).

    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.

    Format: Stereographs--1860-1870.
    Albumen prints--1860-1870.

    Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

    Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

    Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/stereo.1s02761
    hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/stereo.2s02761

    Call Number: LOT 4172-A, no. 202 [item]

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