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White paper poster. “EMANCIPATION CELEBRATION, TUESDAY, AUG. 6, PICNIC AND BARBECUE, AUSPICES, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. . . . ELECTRIC PARK – WATERLOO, IA.” printed in black ink at poster’s anterior. Donated to the museum by Mrs. Sylvester B. Howell following the death of her husband, manager of the Howell Printing Company in Waterloo, in 1971. Based on similarities to other posters printed by Howell, we may date this poster to the late 1920s through about 1935. Emancipation Day was an American holiday celebrated by Blacks in commemoration of the abolition of slavery in the British West Indies on 1 August 1834. The first Emancipation Day celebration in Iowa was held in Muscatine in 1857. The holiday came to Waterloo in the 1910s, following significant black migration to the city. The NAACP negotiated annually with the ownership of Electric Park, an amusement park adjacent to the National Dairy Cattle Congress grounds, to reserve the park for an entire day. In addition to the regularly-offered amusement park entertainment, there was usually a parade, speakers, and dancing at the Electric Park Ballroom. Emancipation Day has been largely replaced by Juneteenth in Waterloo.
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Title:
Emancipation Celebration Poster From The 1920S
Creator (Person):
Howell, Sylvester B.
Date Created:
1920-1935~
Time Period:
1920s
Description:
White paper poster. “EMANCIPATION CELEBRATION, TUESDAY, AUG. 6, PICNIC AND BARBECUE, AUSPICES, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. . . . ELECTRIC PARK – WATERLOO, IA.” printed in black ink at poster’s anterior. Donated to the museum by Mrs. Sylvester B. Howell following the death of her husband, manager of the Howell Printing Company in Waterloo, in 1971. Based on similarities to other posters printed by Howell, we may date this poster to the late 1920s through about 1935. Emancipation Day was an American holiday celebrated by Blacks in commemoration of the abolition of slavery in the British West Indies on 1 August 1834. The first Emancipation Day celebration in Iowa was held in Muscatine in 1857. The holiday came to Waterloo in the 1910s, following significant black migration to the city. The NAACP negotiated annually with the ownership of Electric Park, an amusement park adjacent to the National Dairy Cattle Congress grounds, to reserve the park for an entire day. In addition to the regularly-offered amusement park entertainment, there was usually a parade, speakers, and dancing at the Electric Park Ballroom. Emancipation Day has been largely replaced by Juneteenth in Waterloo.
Subject (Topic):
African Americans Black people Enslaved persons--Emancipation--Anniversaries, etc. Anniversaries Inventions Visual communication Art
Subject (Organization):
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Contributor (Person):
Howell, Sylvester B.
Location:
Iowa--Waterloo
Latitude:
42.49583
Longitude:
-92.3428
Language:
zxx
Contributing Institution:
Grout Museum District
Extent:
2 pages
Genre:
posters
Type:
Image
Format:
image/jpeg
Digital Collection Title:
Amplifying Black Voices in Iowa
Digital Collection Permalink:
https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w9156m
Digital Object Identifier:
gmd1971021011001
Item Permalink:
https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w93j39806
Metadata License:
This metadata record is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Source
Suggested Citation:
"Emancipation Celebration Poster From The 1920S", Grout Museum District, Amplifying Black Voices in Iowa, Iowa State University Library Digital Collections
Reference Link:
https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w93j39806
Rights
Rights:
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Standardized Rights:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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