[CIVIL WAR]. A group of 6 stereoviews featuring African American subjects, incl. "contrabands" and soldiers. Hartford, CT: Taylor & Huntington, ca 1890s.

6 1/4 x 3 1/8 in. stereoviews on oversized, orange cardstock mounts (very good condition overall). All from Taylor & Huntington's "War for the Union, Photographic War History" series, comprised of images spanning from 1861-1865, taken primarily from negatives attributed to Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner.

Numbers and titles printed on mount recto and verso. 383. A Group of "Contrabands." -- 657. A Negro Family coming into the Union Lines. -- 783. Execution of a Colored Soldier. -- 2296. Slave Pen, Alexandria, Va. -- 2594. A Group of "Contrands." -- 6646. Federal Camp at Johnsonville, Tenn., showing the 1st Tennessee Colored Battery at Johnsonville the day before its evacuation in December 1864. -- Together, 6 stereoviews.

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[CIVIL WAR]. A group of 6 stereoviews featuring African American subjects, incl. "contrabands" and soldiers. Hartford, CT: Taylor & Huntington, ca 1890s.

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