- Collection:
- Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History: The Collection
- Title:
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Creator:
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Date of Original:
- 1863-01-01
- Subject:
- Emancipation Proclamation
Slaves--Emancipation--United States
Slavery--United States
Slaves--United States
Liberty
Equality - People:
- Seward, William H. (William Henry), 1801-1872
Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901 - Location:
- United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.03637
United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County, Philadelphia, 39.95233, -75.16379
United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434 - Medium:
- texts (document genres)
legal documents
speeches - Type:
- Text
- Description:
- Wide-margined copy of the Leland-Boker "authorized" edition, produced for raising money at the Philadelphia Great Central Sanitary Fair in June 1864. The Sanitary Commission engaged in hospital and other charitable work during the Civil War; it was a forerunner of the Red Cross. Countersigned by Sec. of State William H. Seward and Lincoln's personal secretary John G. Nicolay. Charles Eberstadt lists this as no. 32 (Leland-Boker autographed edition)in his bibliography of the Emancipation Proclamation. Forty-eight copies were printed, but fewer than half are thought to survive.
Gilder Lehrman Document No.: GLC00004.
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- Original Collection:
- Gilder Lehrman Collection (Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (New York, N.Y.))
- Contributing Institution:
- Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
