Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Emancipation Proclamation

Emancipation Proclamation

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Original – Library of Congress description: "Eagle with banner 'Proclamation of Emancipation' and U.S. flags over portrait of Abraham Lincoln above text framed along the sides with vignettes about slavery, escape, education of African Americans, and the American cotton industry. Below the text is an image of rebuilding southern agriculture in the ruins of the Civil War." [1]

Reason

Emancipation Proclamation, an executive order by Abraham Lincoln. It changed the legal status of slavery in the United States. A description of this print by the Library of Congress is in the image caption. I restored obvious damage and kept dated smudge and blemishes. I wanted to preserve the historic integrity of the document and not recreate a new copy. An unrestored version of this was nominated in 2015.

Articles in which this image appears

Emancipation Proclamation, Abraham Lincoln and slavery, History of slavery in Maryland

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/USA History

Creator

LOC, engraving by W. Roberts, circa 1864, restored by Bammesk

• Support as nominator – Bammesk (talk) 18:58, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
• Support Geoffroi 20:19, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
• What about that red spot over the slave auctioneer's hand? I would think that is from the pen of a clumsy archivist. Yomangani^talk 14:42, 10 March 2020 (UTC)

• Yomangani, nominations need a minimum of 5 supports to pass, so feel free to cast a Conditional support vote and state your conditions. I will do the modifications when there are enough votes. Bammesk (talk) 01:25, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

  I know how it works but I don't generally do supporting or opposing. I was just pointing out the artefact in case you wanted to remove it. Yomangani^talk 09:07, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

• Support. Not as encyclopedic as the original proclamation at the head of the article, but that one's not currently in shape for FP. I note that there was an old error in the image caption in two of the articles that used it: it said that it's from the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, but the (poor quality) image from there was replaced by the current image from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division in 2009. I have just now fixed the caption. — Preceding unsigned comment added by David Eppstein (talk • contribs)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 19:47, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

• Nomination didn't reach the necessary quorum for promotion. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 19:47, 18 March 2020 (UTC)