White House table and chair, c. 1850
     Upon this table, Abraham Lincoln reportedly drafted the Emancipation Proclamation, an act that freed over three million slaves. The chair is from a matched set belonging to Lincoln's cabinet room.  
White House table and chair, c. 1850

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