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Description Celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation in Massachusetts - not known to be January 1, 1863. The only known photograph "related to" the event according to the Burns Archives. A crowd and a Union band pose. According to an old, since forgotten tradition, the honored person, a black man, is seated comfortably in a wheelbarrow.
Date after 1862
date QS:P,+1862-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1862-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
-September-22
Source Burns Archive via Newsweek, 2.4.2011.
Author
Burns
Archive
This photo is from the collection of the Burns Archive.
Requested attribution: The Burns Archive

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