The Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation

From the The preliminary Emancipation Proclamation and related documents from the collections of the New York State Library [electronic resource] : with an essay by Harold Holzer was compiled in 2010.  Documents include: 

• The Second Declaration of Independence : Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation by Harold Holzer
• Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
• Transcription of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
• Lincoln reading the Emancipation Proclamation to his cabinet, engraving based on the original painting by Francis B. Carpenter
• Lincoln watching Francis B. Carpenter at work
• Writing the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation from Francis B. Carpenter's autobiographical account of Lincoln's White House
• The Final Emancipation Proclamation facsimile
• Souvenir printings of the Emancipation Proclamation: Selected broadsides from the collections of the New York State Library
• Contemporary Popular Reactions To The Emancipation Proclamation: A selection of documents from the collections of the New York State Library
• The Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation at the New York State Library: “With the President's Permission...” How New York Acquired The Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation by Paul Mercer, Rescuing the Emancipation Proclamation from the 1911 New York State Library Fire. From: New York State and the Civil War. Albany: New York Civil War Centennial Commission, Vol. 1, No.9 (March 1962) and  the Preservation of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation and Exhibit History by Liza Duncan.