Watch meeting, Dec. 31, 1862--Waiting for the hour / Heard & Moseley, Cartes de Visite, 10 Tremont Row, Boston.
Summary
African American men, women, and children gathered around a man with a watch, waiting for the Emancipation Proclamation.
Photograph of a painting(?).
Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV68 ; Emancipation.
"GDE7" and "CDV497" written in pencil on back of the mount.
Copyright 1863 by W.T. Carlton.
Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.61)
Exhibited: "The Civil Rights Act of 1964 : A Long Struggle for Freedom" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., June 2014 - June 2015.
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Date
01/01/1863
Contributors
Heard & Moseley, photographer
Source
Library of Congress
Link
Copyright info
Public Domain