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- GLC#
- GLC08878.1230-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- circa 1887
- Author/Creator
- Carpenter, Francis Bicknell, 1830-1900
- Title
- Signing the Emancipation Proclamation
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 1 print : b&w
- Primary time period
- Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
- Sub-Era
- The Gilded Age
One postcard of the first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation. Depicts Abraham Lincoln and members of his cabinet. From an original painting by F.B. Carpenter. Reverse side contains a summary about the painting and signing of the document.
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