Wilson, Charley, Rebecca & Rosa - Slaves from New Orleans - 1863

3D red/cyan anaglyph created from 2 photographic prints - albumen, on carte de visite mount courtesy of Library of Congress.

Title: Wilson, Charley, Rebecca & Rosa, slaves from New Orleans / Chas. Paxson, photographer, New York.

LOC Notes: "The nett [sic] proceeds from the sale of these photographs will be devoted exclusively to the education of colored people in the Department of the Gulf, now under the command of Major General Banks" printed on back of the mount."

Date: 1864

Notes on Photo: The Harper's Weekly of Jan 30, 1864, ran an article on the former slaves that appeared in this series of cdv's, and the following excerpts are from that article, in order from right to left:

"WILSON CHINN is about 60 years old, he was "raised" by Isaac Howard of Woodford County, Kentucky. When 21 years old he was taken down the river and sold to Volsey B. Marmillion, a sugar planter about 45 miles above New Orleans. This man was accustomed to brand his negroes, and Wilson has on his forehead the letters "V.B.M." Of the 210 slaves on this plantation 105 left at one time and came into the Union camp. Thirty of them had been branded like cattle with a hot iron, four of them on the forehead, and the others on the breast or arm."

CHARLES TAYLOR is eight years old. His complexion is very fair, his hair light and silky. Three out of five boys in any school in New York are darker than he. Yet this white boy, with his mother, as he declares, has been twice sold as a slave. First by his father and "owner," Alexander Wethers, of Lewis County, Virginia, to a slave-trader named Harrison, who sold them to Mr. Thornhill of New Orleans. This man fled at the approach of our army, and his slaves were liberated by General Butler. The boy is decidedly intelligent, and though he has been at school less than a year he reads and writes very well.......

REBECCA HUGER is eleven years old, and was a slave in her father's house, the special attendant of a girl a little older than herself. To all appearances she is perfectly white. Her complexion, hair, and features show not the slightest trace of negro blood. In the few months during which she has been at school she has learned to read well, and writes as neatly as most children of her age. Her mother and grandmother live in New Orleans, where they support themselves comfortably by their own labor. The grandmother, and intelligent mulatto, told Mr. Bacon that she had "raised" a large family of children, but these are all that are left to her.

ROSINA DOWNS is not quite seven years old. She is a fair child, with blonde complexion and silky hair. Her father is in the rebel army. She has one sister as white as herself, and three brothers who are darker. Her mother, a bright mulatto, lives in New Orleans in a poor hut, and has hard work to support her family."
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Notes on Anaglyph: Many or perhaps most of the carte de visite in the "Slaves from New Orleans" series were photographed with multi-lens cameras to enable quick reproduction of multiple copies in large quantities for public sale. On cursory inspection, the copies from the different lens appear to be identical, but slight differences in perspective were captured, enabling stereoscopic viewing, if a L&R combination, from the same row of lens, still exists today and can be found and utilized.
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Red/Cyan (not red/blue) glasses of the proper density must be used to view 3D effect without ghosting. Anaglyph prepared using red cyan glasses from The Center For Civil War Photography / Civil War Trust. CCWP Link: www.civilwarphotography.org/

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