The Planning Committee for the Shrine for the Emancipation Proclamation
Subtitle: report of the Committee to the Commissioner of Education
By: The University of the State of New York, The State Education Department, The New York State Library, Albany 1.
Publisher: The University
Published: 1962
Place of publication: Albany, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 29
Subjects: Monuments; Manuscripts; Conservation and restoration; United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln)
Notes: Cover title.

"September 21, 1962."

Report describes plans for the erection of a shrine to preserve and display the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in the New York State Library. Includes facsimiles of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation / Abraham Lincoln, a letter by William H. Seward forwarding a copy of the document to Emily W. Barnes, dated Jan. 4, 1864, and An act to authorize the commissioner of education to proceed with the planning of, and a design for, the erection of a shrine to house Lincoln's manuscript draft of the Emancipation Proclamation in the rotunda of the New York State Library, and making an appropriation therefor. Report also includes Lincoln, the man of the people / Edwin Markham, and correspondence of Harlan Hoyt Horner, chairman of the committee.