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Billionaire hedge funder Kenneth Griffin was the buyer of record-breaking copies of the 13th Amendment and the Emancipation ...
Kenneth Griffin, the billionaire art collector and hedge fund founder, purchased the document that abolished slavery, as well ...
Griffin paid a record $13.7M for the 13th Amendment and $4.4 million for the Emancipation Proclamation. Both documents were ...
A copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by Lincoln -- the highlight of a fascinating catalog -- sold at a Sotheby’s ...
Billionaire developer and Palm Beach resident Ken Griffin's most recent purchases include rare copies of the Emancipation ...
Billionaire Art Collector Ken Griffin Buys Lincoln's Handwritten Copy of 13th Amendment for $13.7 M. Billionaire Kenneth C.
Originally issued by Lincoln during the Civil War in 1863, the proclamation declared enslaved people in the Confederate ...
Fine Art Ken Griffin Pays Record $13.7 Million for Lincoln’s 13th Amendment Ending Slavery The hedge-fund billionaire also paid a record $43.2 million for a copy of the U.S. Constitution four ...
Anderson was only the second African American designer tapped to design a commemorative stamp, the first being Georg Olden who designed the Proclamation’s 100th anniversary stamp in 1963. Description ...
Fine Art; Will a Copy of ... Rare copies of both the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment will be auctioned off in Sotheby’s upcoming books and manuscripts sale on June 26 in New York.
But the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, ... Last year, The Frist Art Museum in Nashville hosted a free Eighth of August celebration in conjunction with the Black Joy In Spite Of exhibition.