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Marshall House I: 1860s
Alexandria, Va., 1861-69. "The Marshall house, King & Pitt Streets." Wet plate glass negative, right half of stereo pair. Photographer unknown. View full size. Who'll be the first to put this together with its companion image in a very short flipbook and post it to YouTube? Or it could be an animated gif. Either way, we'd have the world's earliest (and shortest) HD movie.
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Below is the same view from December of 2010. The building visible behind the wagon in the 1860s still stands on Pitt Street.
Re: Google Maps
At that intersection today is another hotel - the Hotel Monaco (which used to be an extremely nice Holiday Inn for years). On the King Street wall of that hotel on the corner of Pitt is a plaque noting the Jackson-Ellsworth incident.
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Google maps shows large industrial or commercial buildings at that intersection.
The two almost work
Despite being from two different stereo pairs, these two images of the Marshall House work well as a stereo pair, other than the moved carriage and people in the streets. The only other differences are that someone has closed the lower center window of the building in the foreground, and the shutters have been closed on the second window from the right on the other building.
[These are not from two different pairs. The images are the pair -- successive shots made with the same camera. - Dave]
Col. Ellsworth, Fire Zouaves
Very significant early Civil War site. The text below is from the Alexandria, VA website which sums up what occurred there very neatly.
On May 24, 1861, the morning of the Federal invasion, Col. Elmer Ellsworth led a contingent of his "Fire Zouaves" to capture the telegraph office. On his way, Ellsworth spotted a Confederate flag defiantly waving from the rooftop of the Marshall House hotel. James W. Jackson, the hotel's proprietor and an ardent secessionist, raised the banner a month earlier during a pro-secession rally vowing that the flag would come down over his dead body.
Incensed, Ellsworth climbed the three stories to the attic, cut the halyards and pulled the flag down. As he and his men descended the stairs, Jackson stepped into the darkened stairway with a shotgun and shot Ellsworth, killing him instantly. One of Ellsworth's men, Cpl. Francis Brownell, retaliated by fatally shooting the innkeeper. Ellsworth became famous as the first Union officer to be killed in the war.
http://visitalexandriava.com/about/history/civil_war_walking
Both Jackson & Ellsworth are regarded as martyrs for their respective causes. The Battle of First Manassas had not yet been fought. The war was just over a month old by the time of this incident.
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