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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Emancipation Proclamation [California printing, Cheesman copy]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00742 Author/Creator: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Place Written: San Francisco, California Type: Document signed Date: January 1, 1863 Pagination: 1p. : Height: 67 cm, Width: 52 cm Order a Copy PDF Download(s): PDF of images and transcript

One of three color lithographic broadsides. Printed by L. Nagel and copyright by "F.S. Butler, 1864." Presented to Lincoln for signing by David Williams Cheesman. Signed on back: "Property of Mrs. Maria Cheesman/ Phoenix/ Oregon." See Eberstadt, "Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation," New Colophon (2d Series, 1950) no. 19. The broadside, according to Eberstadt, was "executed by a fourteen-year-old boy. Benjamin F. Butler, who was a California pioneer of 1849 and established the first lithographing plant on the West Coast, may have been the boy's father." (p. 337)

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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