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Gilder Lehrman Document Number: GLC04654

Title: Facsimile of the Emancipation Proclamation

Author: Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)

Year: 1863

Place: Chicago, Illinois

Type of document: Broadside

Description: Large format facsimile of Lincoln's handwritten Emancipation Proclamation draft freeing the slaves in the Confederacy. Includes blind stamp of authenticity, "Emancipation Proclamation," in lower left corner. Printed by Edward Mendel, Chicago.

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