Reading the Emancipation Proclamation
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4059139
Item data
Title
Reading the Emancipation Proclamation
Collection
Print Collection
Slavery
Emancipation
Names
S.A. Peters & Co. (Hartford, Conn.) (Publisher)
Watts, James W., -1895 (Engraver)
Date / Origin
Date Issued: 1864
Library Location
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division
Subjects
Slavery
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation
African Americans -- History -- 1863-1877
Genres
Physical Description
Engravings
Extent: 51 60 cm
Identifiers
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b11486940
accession number: SCPR 07.23.086
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 51d3ecd0-c5f5-012f-b6b7-58d385a7bc34
Rights
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Type Of Resource
Date Issued
1864
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MLA format
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Reading the Emancipation Proclamation" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1864. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/51d3ecd0-c5f5-012f-b6b7-58d385a7bc34
APA format
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. (1864). Reading the Emancipation Proclamation Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/51d3ecd0-c5f5-012f-b6b7-58d385a7bc34
Chicago/Turabian Format
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Reading the Emancipation Proclamation" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 17, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/51d3ecd0-c5f5-012f-b6b7-58d385a7bc34
Wikipedia citation
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