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[transcribed text] 657. A Negro Family Coming into Union Lines. A characteristic view of the big load of "contraband" coming into our lines. 1861 Photographic history 1865 This series of pictures are original photographs taken during the war of the Rebellion. More than a quarter of a century has passed away since the sun painted these real scenes of that great war, and the "negatives"(made by the old "wet plate" process) have undergone chemical changes which renders it slow and difficult work to get "prints" from them. Of course no more "negatives" can be made, as the scenes represented by this series of war views have passed away forever. The great value of these pictures is apparent. Some "negatives" are entirely past printing from, and all of them are very slowly printers. A Word as to Price A gentleman living in Watkin's Glen, New York, wrote us that he thought 30 cents each, too high price for the stereoscopic war views, as he could buy views of Watkin's Glen for $1.50 per dozen. We wrote him to this effect. " If there was but one negative of Watkin's Glen itself were entirely wiped off the face of the earth, and if this one negative was old and "dense" and very slow to "print," and if all people of this country were as much interested in a view of Watkin's Glen as they are in seeing to real scenes of our great war, so faithfully reproduced, the, and only under such...

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