The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation Before the Cabinet

This 1866 engraving by Alexander Hay Ritchie is based on the 1864 painting by Francis Bicknell Carpenter. The widely circulated engraving depicts the first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation in the Cabinet Room of the White House, in what is now the Lincoln Bedroom. The Emancipation Proclamation was signed on January 1, 1863 and granted freedom to enslaved people residing in Confederate states. Those present were (from left to right): Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, President Abraham Lincoln, Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Interior Caleb B. Smith, Secretary of State William H. Seward, Postmaster General Montgomery Blair, and Attorney General Edward Bates.

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The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation Before the Cabinet.

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From the original picture painted at the White House in 1864

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Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1866 by F. B. Carpenter in the clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Souther District of New York

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[left] Painted by F. B. Carpenter. [right] Engraved by A.H. Ritchie

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F. B. Carpenter

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