Emancipation Day, Richmond, Va. – Vintage Wall Art
![Emancipation Day, Richmond, Va., [c1905] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e5/e5dba9a85caf-L.webp)
(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 Day, Richmond, Va., preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Emancipation Day, Richmond, Va.
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Richmond's Emancipation Day observance, captured here around 1905, recalls April 3, 1865, when Union troops entered the Confederate capital shortly after its evacuation. In the decades that followed, such commemorations became important gatherings for Black communities across Virginia and the South, combining speeches, music, and public processions with reunions of family and neighbors. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made this glass-plate negative, traveled widely to document American towns and cities, and its crowd scenes offer a useful view of how these celebrations looked in the early twentieth century.
| Created / published | [c1905] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | G 2586" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018421. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | African Americans--Civil rights. Crowds. Liberty.United States--Virginia--Richmond. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 786 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-61941 |
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