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Group of Freedpeople in Richmond
Credit: Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division
Original Author: Alexander Gardner
Created: June 9, 1865
Medium: Wet collodion glass-plate stereograph

Group of Freedpeople in Richmond

On June 9, 1865, a several freedpeople pose near Haxall's Mill in Richmond for the photographer Alexander Gardner. Union forces had taken control of Richmond two months earlier.

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