Posted to Beaver Island Historical Society (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Historical Society on 2022-06-19 19:46:34. Caption as posted: "Today we celebrate freedom for all. On September 22, 1862, 16th President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that as of January 1, 1863, all enslaved people in the states currently engaged in rebellion against the Union “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.” (1) However, the document applied only to enslaved people in the Confederacy, and not to those in the border states that remained loyal to the Union. Freedom finally came on June 19, 1865, when some 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas. The army announced that the "
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A graphic poster displays the word “JUNETEENTH” in large black letters at the top and “1865” at the bottom. Between them is a blue-and-red horizontal flag design with a white star inside a radiating outline; distressed white speckles and scratches appear across the design and lettering.
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Subjects and keywords
Text in the image
Transcribed from the object itself.
JUNETEENTH 1865
Taken from the record
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The catalogue record identifies this as a digital image posted to a historical society Facebook page on 2022-06-19. The record caption discusses the Emancipation Proclamation and the arrival of Union troops in Galveston Bay, Texas, in 1865.
Rights and credit
Community source, no stated terms; published non-commercially with attribution and a link to the original post.
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Provenance
- Held by
- Individual posters, credited per image
- Collection
- Community photographs — public Facebook groups and pages
- Original
- https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2063134683894810&set=pb.100063605411595.-2207520000
- Copy taken
- 2025-03-05
- Title from
- the note recorded at retrieval
The file
| Rendition | Format | Extent | Size | SHA-256 |
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| Master | JPEG | 730 × 705 px | 45 KB | 9498b85a5a8a… |
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“Posted to Beaver Island Historical Society (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Historical Society on 2022-06-19 19:46:34”. Individual posters, credited per image. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/2022-06-19-2063134683894810/. copy retrieved 2025-03-05.
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