A perfect fac simile [sic] of the original manuscript of the Emancipation Proclamation
Subtitle: [advertising brochure]
Contributors: Bryan, Thomas B. (Thomas Barbour), 1828-1906; Soldiers' Home (Chicago, Ill.). Publishing Committee
Publisher: [Soldiers' Home]
Published: 1863
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill.]
Language: eng
Other titles: Perfect facsimile of the original manuscript of the Emancipation Proclamation
Description: In October 1863, Abraham Lincoln sent his original manuscript of the Emancipation Proclamation to be sold for the benefit of the Northwestern Fair of the United States Sanitary Commission, forerunner of the Red Cross. It was purchased by Thomas B. Bryan, President of the Soldiers' Home of Chicago, who decided to sell lithographic copies of the proclamation to benefit sick and disabled Union servicemen. This brochure advertises those copies.
Notes: Caption title.

At head of title: "Editors friendly to the cause will please give insertion in their papers to the following."

"Chicago, Ill., Dec. 19th, 1863."

Handwritten notation in ink on p. [3]: "Please read and interest your people in this work."

Includes miscellaneous pencil notations on p. [3].

Includes embossed stamp on p. [3]: Soldiers' Home, Chicago.

Folder.