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Maj. Gen. Granger – Historic Print

Maj. Gen. Granger, [between 1860 and 1876] — historic photograph
Maj. Gen. Granger, [between 1860 and 1876]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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This carte de visite shows Major General Gordon Granger, a Union officer whose name is tied to one of the most consequential days in American history. On June 19, 1865, Granger arrived at Galveston, Texas, with federal troops and read General Order No. 3, which announced that enslaved people in Texas were free. That date is now observed as Juneteenth. Small card portraits like this one were produced in large numbers during and after the Civil War, when soldiers, officials and the public traded them as keepsakes, so the format itself reflects how widely the faces of wartime leaders circulated.

Created / published[between 1860 and 1876]
Medium1 photographic print on carte de visite mount.
GenrePortrait photographs 1860-1880.Photographic prints 1860-1880.Cartes de visite 1860-1880.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,322 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-200229

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