First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln
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Holly Hayes
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  Public Domain
Date Created
1864
Date Added
March 9, 2017
Last Updated
March 4, 2024
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0.31 MB
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First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln

"First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln" by Francis Carpenter. Shown from left to right are Edwin Stanton, secretary of war; Salmon Chase, treasury secretary; Lincoln; Gideon Welles, secretary of the navy; Caleb Smith, interior secretary; William Seward, secretary of state; Montgomery Blair, postmaster general; and Edward Bates, attorney general.