<I>Waiting for the Hour</I>

American Heard & Moseley American William Tolman Carlton

1860

Medium: albumen and silver nitrate on photographic paper
Genre: Cartes-de-visite
Museum: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Styles

Cartes-De-Visite

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slaveryLawEmancipation

About

Carte-de-visite of a group of African Americans gathered around a man with a pocket watch, leaning on a pulpit made out of U.S. Sanitation Commission crates. A sign on the wall reads "1 Jan-Slaves Forever Free." The text in chain links on the sides read "Waiting for the Hour - Watch Meeting Dec 31, 1862."