Famous documents
Subtitle: the Emancipation Proclamation
Publisher: ANC
Published: 1920
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Subjects: Portraits; History
Notes: Caption title from illustration (recto).

Recto is a chromolithograph, illustration with caption "Famous Documents" and oval portrait of President Lincoln, with background: document "Emancipation Proclamation", Lady Liberty with American flag, President Lincoln holding a document on a platform before a celebrating crowd of African Americans, and an image of broken chains.

Verso is a three paragraph history of Lincoln's proclamation, with heading: "The Emancipation Proclamation."

Verso has ms. note at top left corner: "No 472 Walpole Galleries 12 Dec. 1921".