IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the summer of 1862, Lincoln ...
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A print of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by Lincoln will be auctioned by Christie's
PHILADELPHIA — Less than a year after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, while our nascent nation was still in the throes of the Civil War, two industrious Philadelphians ...
“The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.” Thus declared Major General Gordon Granger of the Union Army on ...
President Abraham Lincoln drafted the Emancipation Proclamation during the autumn of 1862 and it formally took effect 160 years ago this January. When released to the public, the 719 word document ...
Today, the federal government observes Juneteenth. The holiday marks the arrival of U.S. Army troops in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865. The troops told some of the last enslaved Americans that ...
Over the last few weeks we’ve heard a lot about Juneteenth. Juneteenth celebrations happen on June 19 and celebrate the day in 1865 that enslaved people in Texas learned about the Emancipation ...
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A print of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by Lincoln with deep Philly ties will be auctioned by Christie's
Less than a year after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, while our nascent nation was still in the throes of the Civil War, two industrious Philadelphians devised a plan ...
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