Carte-de-visite Emancipation Watch Meeting

Title: Watch meeting, Dec. 31, 1862--Waiting for the hour / Heard & Moseley, Cartes de Visite, 10 Tremont Row, Boston.
Creator(s): Heard & Moseley, photographer
Date Created/Published: c1863.
Medium: 1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen.
Summary: African American men, women, and children gathered around a man with a watch, waiting for the Emancipation Proclamation.
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-10980 (digital file from original item, front) LC-DIG-ppmsca-10981 (digital file from original item, back) LC-USZC4-6160 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZ62-119987 (b&w film copy neg.) LC-USZCN4-153 (color film copy neg.)
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Call Number: LOT 14022, no. 61 [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print