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First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln
Photographer: Francis Bicknell Carpenter (Oil, 108x180 inches)
Taken: 1864
Caption: First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln
Additional Description: Shown from left to right are Edwin McMasters Stanton, secretary of war; Salmon Portland Chase, secretary of the treasury; Lincoln; Gideon Welles, secretary of the navy; Caleb Blood Smith, secretary of the interior; William Henry Seward, secretary of state; Montgomery Blair, postmaster general; and Edward Bates, attorney general.
Submitted: April 10, 2011, by J. J. Prats of Powell, Ohio.
Database Locator Identification Number: p149686
File Size: 0.161 Megabytes

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