Details
Title Facsimile of the Emancipation Proclamation [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia?]
Date [ca. 1863]
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on carte de visite mount; 11 x 7 cm.(4 x 2.25 in.)
Description Photographic reproduction of a lithographic facsimile of the original draft of the proclamation printed and sold as a fundraiser for the Soldiers Home of Chicago. Facsimile includes a portrait of Lincoln and patriotic vignette. Lincoln gave the draft to the organizers of the 1863 Northwestern Sanitary Fair to be sold at auction and then donated to the Chicago Historical Society. Draft was bought by Thomas B. Bryan and given to the Soldiers Home before its display at the historical society.
Notes Originally part of McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln.
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 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
Soldiers' home -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Fund raising -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Geographic subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Economic & industrial aspects.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Cartes de visite -- 1860-1870.
Reproductions -- 1860-1870.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| cdv - misc. - Civil War - Genre & sentimental [5792.F.4j]
Accession number 5792.F.4j