[Port Hudson, Provost Marshall's Quarters]

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GLC#
GLC05111.01.0014-View header record
Type
Images
Date
1863
Title
[Port Hudson, Provost Marshall's Quarters]
Place Written
Port Hudson, Louisiana
Pagination
1 albumen print Height: 24 cm, Width: 21.4 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

A print of a photograph taken in Port Hudson, Louisiana in 1863. It portrays a cabin with black women laborers gathered in front and black soldiers lined up on the side. Pencil description written on back notes that Provost Marshall Captain Schenk [?] stands in the doorway of the house. Said to be a reading of the Emancipation Proclamation. Either McPherson & Oliver or the same photographer who did the winter scene (next item). It is a mounted albumen print.

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