Whole plate tintype, which appears to be a period enlargement made from a carte de visite of the Sultana taken at Helena, AR, on April 26, 1865, a day before she was destroyed. The view captures a large crowd of paroled Union prisoners packed tightly together on the steamboat's decks.
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42313633" class="extiw" title="d:Q42313633"><span title="British-American painter and photographer">Thomas W. Bankes</span></a>
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