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Our involvement with important documents often doesn’t end when we sell them. We are happy to arrange loans to museums and other institutions. Here is a list of current exhibitions in which we’re participating, along with some past exhibitions.
Current Exhibitions
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Changing America: The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 and the March on Washington, 1963
December 14, 2012 - September 15, 2013
To commemorate these two pivotal achievements, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in collaboration with the National Museum of American History is presenting an exhibition that explores the historical context of these two crucial events, their accomplishments and limitations, and their impact on the generations that followed. Featuring Schuyler Colfax’s copy of the Thirteenth Amendment, which we acquired for David Rubenstein.
Past Exhibitions
Fairfield Museum & History Center
Promise of Freedom
This was the only exhibition in New England to display Lincoln-signed copies of the Emancipation Proclamation and Thirteenth Amendment (lent by an anonymous client), as well as other fascinating documents, paintings and artifacts that narrated this decisive moment in the quest for human freedom. For context, the exhibit included a scarce early facsimile of the Declaration of Independence we loaned, and a scarce Connecticut printing of the Constitution (lent by the Scarsdale Public Library).
President Lincoln’s Cottage
The Emancipation Proclamation
This exhibit featured a rare Lincoln-signed copy of Emancipation Proclamation (which we acquired for David Rubenstein last year) on display in the place where he first drafted this historic document.
New-York Historical Society
Abolishing Slavery: The 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation
The New-York Historical Society is commemorated the sesquicentennial of the Emancipation Proclamation with a display of rare documents we acquired for the Gilder Lehrman Collection, including Lincoln-signed copies of the Emancipation Proclamation and a congressional copy of the Thirteenth Amendment.
National Museum of American Jewish History
To Bigotry No Sanction: George Washington and Religious Freedom
This exhibition highlighted Washington’s famous 1790 letter to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, R.I. Along with two of our clients we loaned several important documents:
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Washington’s “Throne of Grace” letter to the German Lutheran congregation of Philadelphia.
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A rare first public printing of the Constitution.
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A July 1776 broadside of the Declaration of Independence.
State Archives of the Russian Federation
The Tsar and The President: Alexander II & Abraham Lincoln, Liberator and Emancipator
The American-Russian Cultural Cooperation Foundation, organized this exhibition at the State Archives of the Russian Federation in Moscow and the State Museum Tsarskoye Selo in St. Petersburg.
New-York Historical Society
Lincoln and New York
Bruce Museum
Lincoln, Life-Size
Heinz History Center, in partnership with the National Constitution Center
Lincoln, the Constitution and the Civil War
Federal Hall
Lincoln in New York: A Rail Splitter Bicentennial Exhibit
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