Printed "General Orders No. 139" being President Lincoln's preliminary emancipation proclamation, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 7, September 4, 1862. Extracted from a bound orders book. The president's proclamation, in part: "That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated area of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free." In fine condition, with a few tiny edge tears and binding holes to the left edge. Accompanied by a curious carte-de-visite with typed caption affixed to the reverse: "Well in Indiana dug by Abraham Lincoln in 1830."
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