The New York Times Prints the Emancipation Proclamation for the First Time
[Emancipation Proclamation]. New York Times. Vol. XII, No. 3519. Saturday, January 3, 1863. Four sheets, eight pages. 21 x 15 ½”. Printed on page 5. On January 1, 1863, as the US was entering its third year of bloody civil war, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing “all.....