The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation Before the Cabinet

The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation Before the Cabinet, mezzotint by Alexander Hay Ritchie after a painting by Francis Bicknell Carpenter, 1866. Shows Abraham Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation on July 22, 1862 at the White House. Shown, left to right, are Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War, Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, President Lincoln, Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, Caleb B. Smith, Secretary of the Interior, William H. Seward, Secretary of State, Montgomery Blair, Postmaster General, and Edward Bates, Attorney General. Simon Cameron and Andrew Jackson are featured as paintings. (Photo by VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images)
The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation Before the Cabinet, mezzotint by Alexander Hay Ritchie after a painting by Francis Bicknell Carpenter, 1866. Shows Abraham Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation on July 22, 1862 at the White House. Shown, left to right, are Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War, Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, President Lincoln, Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, Caleb B. Smith, Secretary of the Interior, William H. Seward, Secretary of State, Montgomery Blair, Postmaster General, and Edward Bates, Attorney General. Simon Cameron and Andrew Jackson are featured as paintings. (Photo by VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images)
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