After original Francis Bicknell Carpenter (American, 1830-1900, The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation, black and white engraving by A.H. Ritchie, 1866. Titled in plate lower to the center. Seated from left to right: Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, Pres. Abraham Lincoln, Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, Secretary of State William H. Seward, and Attorney General Edward Bates. Standing from left to right: Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Interior Caleb B. Smith, and Postmaster General Montgomery Blair. Framed.