Details
Creator Pratt, W. H. (William Henry), 1822-1893, lithographer.
Contributor Hageboeck, August, lithographer.
Title Proclamation of Emancipation, Abraham Lincoln [graphic] / Designed and written by W.H. Pratt.
Publisher Davenport, Iowa : Lith by A. Hageboeck
Date 1865
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; sheet 34 x 26 cm (13.5 x 10 in).
Description Oval bust length calligraphic portrait of Abraham Lincoln formed from the words of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Notes Title from item.
Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865 by W.H. Pratt in the Clerk's Office of the Dist. Court of the U.S. for the Dist. of Iowa.
Pratt taught penmanship in both private and public schools in Davenport, Iowa. Pratt executed a similar calligraphic portrait of Lincoln in German and a calligraphic portrait of George Washington.
LCP copy trimmed.
Purchase 1998.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Portraits.
United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln). Emancipation Proclamation
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States.
Free persons -- United States -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Genre Calligraphy -- 1860-1870.
Portrait prints -- 1860-1870.
Printer Hageboeck, August, lithographer.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *GC - Lincoln [P.9626]
Accession number P.9626