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First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation by the artist Francis BicknellCarpenter. The map in the lower right hand corner is Edwin Hergesheimer's MapShowing the Distribution of the Slave Population while the map on the table isMap of the State of Virginia compiled at the Coast Survey Office. These two maps illustrate an influential political role for the Coast Survey in the Civil War. (Image credit: NARA C&GS; Colllection)