A Negro family coming into the Union lines, 1863

A Negro family coming into the Union lines, 1863

1863-01-01

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 make a sketch from this photograph, which would be reproduced in Harper's Weekly on January 31, 1863.

Woodbury, D.B. (David B.)

Hartford, Conn. : War Photograph & Exhibition Company,

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2004682778. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.

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1860-1865

stereograph