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President Lincoln and Secretary Seward signing the Proclamation of Freedom: January 1st. 1863 – Antique Print

President Lincoln and Secretary Seward signing the Proclamation of Freedom: January 1st. 1863, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1865. — antique lithograph
President Lincoln and Secretary Seward signing the Proclamation of Freedom: January 1st. 1863, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1865.. Antique lithograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: President Lincoln and Secretary Seward signing the Proclamation of Freedom: January 1st. 1863, preserved in this antique lithograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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President Lincoln and Secretary Seward signing the Proclamation of Freedom: January 1st. 1863

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Lincoln sits at a table with Secretary of State William H. Seward, the two men shown at the moment the Emancipation Proclamation took effect on January 1, 1863. The proclamation declared enslaved people in Confederate-held territory free and made the end of slavery an explicit Union war aim. Published by Currier & Ives in New York around 1865, as the war was ending, the print shows how Northern publishers chose to commemorate the decree and the president who issued it.

Created / publishedNew York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1865.
Medium1 print : lithograph.
GenreLithographs 1860-1870.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5294
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,201 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-119019

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