University of the State of New York Planning Committee for the Shrine for the Emancipation Proclamation Plans, Photographs, and Working Files B0928

University of the State of New York Planning Committee for the Shrine for the Emancipation Proclamation Plans, Photographs, and Working Files

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Overview of the Records

Repository:

New York State Archives
New York State Education Department
Cultural Education Center
Albany, NY 12230

Summary:

This series contains files kept by the secretary relate to the Planning Committee for the Shrine for the Emancipation Proclamation activities. The series provides information on the work of the committee, design of the proposed shrine, and other displays of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation during the centennial of the Civil War. The shrine was designed for the Education Building in Albany, but was never built.

Creator:

University of the State of New York. Planning Committee for the Shrine for the Emancipation Proclamation

Title:

Planning Committee for the Shrine for the Emancipation Proclamation plans, photographs, and working files

Quantity:

3 cubic feet

2 oversize folders; 2 boxes

Inclusive Dates:

1961-1963

Series Number:

B0928

Arrangement

Working files: Roughly alphabetical by subject or type of document. The rest are unarranged.

Scope and Content Note

This series contains files kept by the secretary of the Planning Committee for the Shrine for the Emancipation Proclamation, established by law in 1962 (Chapter 550). These files relate to the committee's activities in designing a shrine for permanent exhibit of Lincoln's draft of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation held by the New York State Library. The shrine was designed for the Education Building in Albany, but was never built. These files provide information on the work of the committee, design of the proposed shrine, and other displays of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation during the centennial of the Civil War.

The following kinds of records are included: newspaper clippings; correspondence of the committee; news releases; minutes of planning committee meetings; photographs of committee meetings and public ceremonies involving the Emancipation Proclamation; final report of the planning committee; New York State and local publications relating to the centennial of the Civil War; plans, elevations, and artist's renderings of the proposed Shrine; original Governor's proclamation of Lincoln Memorial Week, February 11-17, 1963; and two original copies of Governor's certificate that pen attached was used to sign the bill establishing the Planning Committee.

Alternate Formats Available

Items Online

Selected photographs from this series have been digitized and are available in State Archives Digital Collections.

New York State Archives Digital Collections

Plans, photographs, and working files of the Planning Committee for the Shrine for the Emancipation Proclamation, 1961-1963

Acquisition Information

These records were transferred by the New York State Library to the State Archives in 1978 as old collections 215 and 104, accession number -93. They were subsequently combined and described as a single series.