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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 -September-22 | ||
| Source | Burns Archive via Newsweek , 2.4.2011. | ||
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