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LCWaudphotoContrabands.jpg
A stereograph taken by photographer D.B. Woodbury showing an African American family pausing around a wagon, captioned as a scene taken on January 1, 1863, the first day that the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect. Artist Alfred Waud would…

Waud-Harpers-ComingintoLinesNYPL.jpg
Illustration of a group of freed people around a wagon as they enter the Union lines. Image appeared in the January 31, 1863 issue of Harper's Weekly. Alfred Waud is the credited artist.

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Sketch by Alfred Waud based upon a photograph taken by David B. Woodbury on Jan. 1, 1863 - the day the Emancipation Proclamation took effect. This scene shows the condition of the formerly enslaved as they came in to Union lines.
In the spring of…
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