Image ID: AKAJ

Photographic War History. The War For The Union. 1861-1865. No. 2296. Slave Pen, Alexandria, Va. Exterior view of the famous, or rather, the infamous slave pen. People of this generation can hardly make it seem possible that such an “institution” was ever tolerated under the stars and stripes, in this “land of the free.” Read the inscription on that sign over the door, “Price Birch & Co., Dealers in Slaves.” [Taylor & Huntington stereo card]

Library of Congress says: Slave Pen, Alexandria, Va. Showing Union soldiers standing outside a building designated Price, Birch & Co., Dealers in Slaves. Address: 1315 Duke St., Alexandria, Virginia.

Anthony No. 2296.

Written on negative: 2296.

Only half of the original stereo negative survives.