Watch Meeting,December 1862,African Americans,Emancipation Proclamation,Waiting

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.
Summary: African American men, women, and children gathered around a man with a watch, waiting for the Emancipation Proclamation.
Notes:
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)
General information about the Gladstone collection is available at, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.gld
Subjects:
United States.--President (1861-1865 : Lincoln).--Emancipation Proclamation.
African Americans--Civil rights--1860-1870.
Liberty--1860-1870.
Albumen prints--1860-1870.
Cartes de visite--1860-1870.
Bookmark /98501210/
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