Mar 01, 2012 - Sale 2271

Sale 2271 - Lot 65

Price Realized: $ 420
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
WWI PRINTING OF THE PROCLAMATION (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. Emancipation Proclamation. September 22, 1863. Chromolithograph, 16 x 20 inches; creases where folded; slight abrasion the conjunction of one of the folds, some slight chiping to the lower right corner and left margin. Chicago: Renesch, 1919

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An early 20 century version of the Emancipation Proclamation in the form of a World War I "uplift" poster, the first we have seen.