LC-DIG-PGA-04067: Proclamation of Emancipation by the President of the United States of America (President Abraham Lincoln). Lithograph with tint stone by C.A. Alvord, circa 1864. Eagle with banner "Proclamation of Emancipation" and U.S. flags over portrait of Abraham Lincoln above text framed along the sides with vignettes about slavery, escape, education of African Americans, and the American cotton industry. Below the text is an image of rebuilding southern agriculture in the ruins of the Civil War. (5/29/2015).

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