1860s BLACK SLAVES South Carolina PLANTATION by DAGUERREOTYPIST George BARNARD

Description

Superb 1874 albumen stereoview taken by the pioneer daguerreian and Civil War photographer George Barnard of recently emancipated Black  slaves working in the cotton fields on the Alex Knox plantation near Charleston,South Carolina.Powerful view of generations of freed slaves still laboring picking cotton during Reconstruction .From the legendary William C. Darrah stereoview collection and pictured in his seminal book "The World of Stereographs" on page 176. Fabulous composition and powerful content with the subjects wooden cabins visible at the edge of the fields in the far distance.
Barnard, George N.
Later to achieve fame as a Civil War photographer, Barnard was first listed as a daguerreian in 1850 in Oswego, N.Y. From 1852 to 1855 he was listed over City Bank. In 1855 he lived at 105 East Fourth St.
In 1854 Barnard moved to Syracuse, N.Y. and left A.C. Nichols in charge of the Oswego gallery. Barnard purchased the gallery of Clark Brothers in Syracuse. The gallery was apparently located at 4 Franklin Buildings, over Abbott & Co.'s store; he was listed in partnership as Barnard and Nichols (A.C.). In 1857 Barnard's former Oswego location over City Bank was occupied by Samuel Austen.
In 1857-1858, Barnard was listed as a daguerreian in Syracuse, at 8 Whiting Block; he boarded at the Onondaga Temperance House. He was last listed in Syracuse directories in 1867.
During the Civl War, Barnard achieved fame as a photographer, first working for Mathew Brady, and then as official photographer for the Tenth Army Corps. Info John Craig