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Emancipation Monument, Lincoln Park, Washington, D.C. - Thomas Ball, sculptor – Historic Print

Emancipation Monument, Lincoln Park, Washington, D.C. - Thomas Ball, sculptor, 1870 Nov. 13. — historic photograph
Emancipation Monument, Lincoln Park, Washington, D.C. - Thomas Ball, sculptor, 1870 Nov. 13.. Historic photograph from the Washington DC collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Emancipation Monument, Lincoln Park, Washington, D.C. - Thomas Ball, sculptor, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Emancipation Monument, Lincoln Park, Washington, D.C. - Thomas Ball, sculptor

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The Emancipation Monument in Lincoln Park was designed by the sculptor Thomas Ball and unveiled in 1876, so this 1870 stereograph captures the work while it was still in progress, before the statue existed in its final form. Stereo cards like this one were sold by publishers such as J.F. Jarvis, who issued views of the capital's public spaces for home parlor viewers. The monument was funded largely by formerly enslaved people and the image records an early moment in the effort to commemorate emancipation in the nation's capital.

Created / published1870 Nov. 13.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
SubjectsStereo by J.F. Jarvis, publisher & dealer. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: DC, Wash.--PARKS; African American hist.--Em.; Pre. I.; Sculputre--Ball, DC, Wash.--Monum.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,479 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-129690

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