[Emancipation Day Celebration band, June 19, 1900]

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Photograph of African-American band at Emancipation Day celebration, June 19, 1900, held in "East Woods" on East 24th Street in Austin. Mrs. Grace Murray Stephenson kept a diary of the day's events, which she later sold to the San Francisco Chronicle, which wrote a full-page feature on it.

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1 photograph : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. Physical print has black smudge obscuring left side of image.

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Stephenson, Mrs. Charles (Grace Murray) June 19, 1900.

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Photograph of African-American band at Emancipation Day celebration, June 19, 1900, held in "East Woods" on East 24th Street in Austin. Mrs. Grace Murray Stephenson kept a diary of the day's events, which she later sold to the San Francisco Chronicle, which wrote a full-page feature on it.

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1 photograph : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. Physical print has black smudge obscuring left side of image.

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Austin History Center General Collection Photographs

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  • June 19, 1900

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  • Dec. 15, 2021, 3:18 p.m.

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Stephenson, Mrs. Charles (Grace Murray). [Emancipation Day Celebration band, June 19, 1900], photograph, June 19, 1900; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth124054/: accessed May 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Austin History Center, Austin Public Library.

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