Wilson Chinn - A Branded Slave from Louisiana - 1863

3D red/cyan anaglyph created from three photographic prints - albumen, on carte de visite mount, courtesy of, (#1) Library of Congress, (#2) public domain copy, and (#3) William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan (used for the mount only).

Title: Wilson Chinn, a branded slave from Louisiana. Also exhibiting instruments of torture used to punish slaves.

Clements Library Notes: "Full length portrait of an African American man with a branded forehead, standing with an iron-pronged collar around his neck and wearing leg irons, other punishment devices at his feet, including a nail-studded paddle. Text on verso: The nett 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 Maj. Gen. Banks."

Date: 1863

Photographer: M. H. Kimball

Notes on Photo: A widely circulated carte de visite (cdv) of freed slave Wilson Chinn. The Harper's Weekly of Jan 30, 1864, ran an article on the former slaves that appeared in this series of cdv's, and on Wilson Chinn, it had the following background information:

"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."

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/

Taken on: February 6, 2020

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