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Lantern Slide - First Reading of Emancipation Proclamation
1895-1925
A. D. Handy Stereopticons and Supplies
USA: Massachusetts, Boston
Glass
overall: 3-3/16"h x 4"w x 1/8"d
Gift of Anne R. Berntsen
2008.023.29

Lantern slide in color. Image shows Abraham Lincoln seated at a table. Several other men are seated or stand around the table. Lincoln holds a piece of paper; there are several other papers on the table and on the floor. A label printed in black is applied to one end of the slide and reads, "8 - First Reading of Emancipation Proclamation." A label printed in red applied to the other end of the slide reads, "A.D. Handy, Stereopticons & Supplies, Boston."