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Object Name
Print - "First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation Before the Cabinet"
Object Number
1923-16-1
Description
Image of men standing and seated around a table, Lincoln eated in center reading docment to cabinet mambers. "From an original picture painted at the White House in 1864," printed along bottom "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1866 by E.B. Carpenter in the clerk's office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York" Print includes images and ids of "Edwin M. Stanton Salmon P. Chase President Lincoln Gideon Welles Caleb Smith William H. Seward Montgomery Blair and Edwin Bates" painting
Category
Date Made
1866
Dimensions
40 1/2" x 30 1/2"
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