[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. Stereoview featuring a group of African American convicts from Mobile, AL. 

Sheriff and Captain of Guard, with Convicts from Mobile taken to Wetumpka Penitentiary. Mobile, AL: T. H. Hughes, n.d.

Stereoview featuring a group of 8 African Americans posed with a white man on some type of wooden deck (possibly aboard a ship), with 3 other white men looking upon the group from a higher platform. Verso bears paper label including series name: "Hughes' Instantaneous Views Alabama River;" Image number: "No. 14;" full title; and publisher's information.

Wetumpka Penitentiary was the first state prison established in Alabama. Construction on the prison was completed in 1841, and the first prisoner was confined there in 1842.

This lot is located in Cincinnati.