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Auction 739 April.

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Lot 426

Civil War: Picket Guard with Prisoners near Lewinsville, VA

Opening: $200

Estimate: $200 - $400

Stereoview photograph after Edward Bierstadt, 7 x 3.5, entitled 'Picket Guard with Prisoners near Lewinsville, Va.,' showing a Union picket guard with Confederate prisoners in 1861. In fine condition.

Edward Bierstadt (1824–1906), brother of the landscape painter Albert Bierstadt, was a photographer and publisher active during the Civil War era who produced stereographic views for the commercial market.