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Carte-de-visite Emancipation Watch Meeting

Heard & Moseley, photographer1862-12-31

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Washington, D.C., United States

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.)
Access Advisory: Use digital images. Original served only by appointment because material requires special handling. For more information see,(http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/info/617_apptonly.html)
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

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  • Title: Carte-de-visite Emancipation Watch Meeting
  • Creator: Heard & Moseley, photographer
  • Date Created: 1862-12-31
  • Location: Tremont Row, Boston
  • Location Created: Unknown
  • Subject Keywords: Juneteenth, Slavery, Emancipation, Church, African American
  • Original Source: Library of Congress
  • External Link: Library of Congress
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