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Color postcard of Signing of Emancipation Proclamation
- Creator:
- unknown
- Location:
- unknown place made
- Origin Date:
- Unknown
- Materials:
- paper
- Item ID:
- 71.2009.083.0387
- Holding Institution:
- Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, Courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
- Available for Viewing:
- No
- Category:
- Cartoons, Broadsides & Ephemera
Description
This is a color illustrated postcard of Abraham Lincoln and his cabinet. The front of the postcard has a color illustration at the center of Abraham Lincoln sitting with seven other men. "Signing the Emancipation Proclamation" is printed below the image. The illustration is based on Frank B. Carpenter's painting, "First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation before the Cabinet." Information on the first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation is printed on the back of the postcard. Part of The Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum.