PROCLAMATION OF EMANCIPATION, U. S. CAPITOL.
PUBLISHED BY B. S. REYNOLDS CO.. 1202 D ST., NORTHWEST, WASHINGTON, D. C. PROCLAMATION OF EMANCIPATION, U. S. CAPITOL.
Above the first landing, house corridor, East Entrance. hangs Frank B. Carpenter's picture of the First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation before the Cabinet. Sept. 22, 1862. The portraits, beginning at the left, are: Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War; Salmon P. Chase. Secretary of the Treasury; Abraham Lincoln. President; Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy: William H. Seward, (seated), Secretary of State; Caleb B. the Interior; Montgomery Blair, Smith, Secretary of Postmaster-General: Edward Bates, Attorney-General. The presented to the United States by Mrs. picture was Mary Elizabeth Thompson, in 1878. Alex H. Stephens, ex-Vice-President of the Confederacy, and then a Member of the House, was one of the orators of its reception.
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POSTCARD THIS SPACE FOR ADDRESS ONLY. PLACE STAMP HERE ONE CENT FOR UNITED STATES AND ISLAND rosatosions, cubA. CANADA AND MEXICO TWO CENTS FOR FOREIGN 3 Z
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