Bird’s Eye View of Machine Shops, with East Yard of Orange and Alexandria Railroad. Alexandria, Va., [1861-1865]

In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, African Americans seized the opportunity to work and to travel. Visible just to the left of the railroad shop smokestack and roundhouse stood the old Price and Birch "Slave Pen" at 1315 Duke Street.

About this Document

  • Source: Bird?s Eye View of Machine Shops, with East Yard of Orange and Alexandria Railroad
  • Publisher: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C., Lot 11486-C, No. 2
  • Author: Andrew J. Russell
  • Date: 1864