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Proclamation of emancipation by the President of the United States of America.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Portfolio E453 .U8 1864b
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- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--United States.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation.
- United States.
- African Americans--History--1863-1877.
- African Americans.
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Leland, Charles Godfrey, 1824-1903 (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 1 broadside (1 unnumbered page) ; 49 X 31 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Philadelphia] : [F. Leypoldt], [May 15, 1864?]
- Notes:
- Second of three proofs of what is known as the Leland-Boker autographed edition after the two men who arranged for its printing and subsequent sale at the Great Central Sanitary Fair in Philadelphia, June 7-29, 1864.
- No. 30 in Eberstadt, Charles, "Lincoln's Emancipation proclamation," in The new colophon III, p. 343-347; imprint from Eberstadt. Also cf. description by John E. Alden in the Library Chronicle, vol. 14, no. 1, 1947, p. 31-33.
- Local Notes:
- Lower left corner torn off.
- OCLC:
- 213487833
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