[Lucius Stebbins' engraving Reading the Emancipation Proclamation (1864), after a painting by Henry W. Herrick]

[Lucius Stebbins' engraving Reading the Emancipation Proclamation (1864), after a painting by Henry W. Herrick]

Transparency

C. W. Briggs Company

Maker
American, 1850–1930

Joseph Boggs Beale

Maker
American, 1841–1926

[Lucius Stebbins' engraving Reading the Emancipation Proclamation (1864), after a painting by Henry W. Herrick]

From Life of Lincoln


ca. 1915
Collodion silver transparency with applied color
Image: 2 3/4 × 2 3/4 in. (7 × 7 cm)
Overall: 3 1/4 × 4 × 1/8 in. (8.2 × 10.1 × 0.3 cm)
Gift of the 3M Foundation, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley
1981.1613.0003
Inscriptions Printed and inscribed on applied label, R: UNITED STATES HISTORY. No. \ Eman. Procl. first read to slaves
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