From "War Memories" catalog: 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."
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Title from "War Memories" catalog.
"War Memories" catalog number: 2296
Handwritten on item back: 368
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"War memories, the war for the Union 1861-1865 : catalogue of original photographic war views : photographic history of the war for the Union." Taylor & Huntington, 1890, Hartford, Conn.
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