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Bickwell, W. H. W. (ca. 1850-1865)
[Portrait of Abraham Lincoln]
Print of a pen and ink drawing of Lincoln from the waist up without a beard. Issued to the members of the Bibliophile Society.
GLC08879.01.03
1860
Currier & Ives
[Color print depicting Abraham Lincoln]
The caption underneath this print describes Lincoln as the Republican candidate for sixteenth President of the United States. A red drapery serves as a backdrop for this oval-shaped print. Published by Currier & Ives. Note along the bottom of the...
GLC02132.01
1860-1939
Collection of prints, engravings, cartoons depicting Abraham Lincoln and others [Decimalized .01- .11]
GLC08879.01
no date
Priest, R. R.
Lincoln and Family
White mount. Image of Lincoln and son Tad looking at Brady album, with Mary Lincoln, Robert Lincoln, and portrait of Willie Lincoln added. Photo of engraving. [O-93 variant].
GLC05136.14
Greeley, Horace (1811-1872)
The Life of Lincoln
Tribune Tracts no. 6. Extra-illustrated biography with engravings of Lincoln, the Executive Mansion, the Capitol, and a Lincoln-Hamlin electoral ribbon depicting Lincoln pasted in first few pages. Published by Horace Greeley & Co.
GLC03012
23 August 1862
Punch, or the London Charivari
Lincoln's Two Difficulties
Reproduced from Punch.
GLC05603.02.88
Lithographs depicting Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin following their nomination as Republican candidates for President and Vice President respectively [Decimalized .01-.02]
GLC02132
Unknown
[metallic token with lithograph of Lincoln]
Metallic token painted black with gold designs and gold back. Center of token has colored lithograph of Lincoln under glass
GLC05136.53
1858/09/29
Illinois State Journal + Lincoln collateral (engravings, photos, etc.)
Includes oval print (mezzotint?) of Lincoln published by J.W. Whatley, London; two oval lithographs of Lincoln from Bufford's Print Publishing House, Boston; a keepsake of the Lincoln Memorial compliments of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (n.d.); a...
GLC08879.02
[carte de visite photograph album of Lincoln and family]
Carte de visite photograph album of Lincoln and family containing eleven photographs (#i-xi) and one engraving (#xii).
i. "Death bed of Lincoln." Photo of engraving showing Andrew Johnson, Charles Sumner, and other political figures gathered...
GLC05136.52
[Print of pen and ink drawing of Lincoln delivering a speech]
A date of June 15, 1858 is written in pencil. Print is signed Watt.
GLC08879.01.05
E. & H.T. Anthony & Co.
"Private Box at Ford's Theatre, the place where President Lincoln was assassinated"
Yellow mount with printed inscription "Photographic History, The War for the Union." Anthony's War Views, #3403.
GLC05136.36
"Uncle Sam" making new arrangements
Published by Currier & Ives at 152 Nassau Street, New York. Black and white political cartoon related to Abraham Lincoln's 1860 election. Uncle Sam holds a wanted sign which reads, "An honest upright and capable man to take charge of this house for...
GLC03488
[John Wilkes Booth, carte de visite, standing, three-quarter length view]
White mount with red border. Standing, three-quarter length view of John Wilkes Booth wearing cloak.
GLC05136.23
[John Wilkes Booth, carte de visite, seated, three-quarter length view]
White mount with red border. Seated, three-quarter length view of John Wilkes Booth wearing one glove and holding the other. Similar to images 26, 28, and 29.
GLC05136.24
Snell, W.
[John Wilkes Booth, carte de visite, seated, half length view]
White mount with gold border. Seated, half-length view of John Wilkes Booth holding riding crop.
GLC05136.25
C.D. Fredericks & Co.
White mount with thin black border. Seated, half-length view of John Wilkes Booth. Lighter, vignetted version of images 24, 28, and 29.
GLC05136.26
J.H. Bufford & Sons.
White mount. Seated half-length view of John Wilkes Booth holding riding crop. Photo from engraving of image #25.
GLC05136.27
White mount. Seated, half-length view of John Wilkes Booth. Similar to images 24, 26 and 29.
GLC05136.28
White mount. Seated, half-length view of John Wilkes Booth. Similar to images 24, 26, and 28.
GLC05136.29
Gracy, Tracy
[Edwin Booth, carte de visite, seated, half length view]
White mount with thin black border. Seated, half length view of Edwin Booth.
GLC05136.30
[Edwin Booth, carte de visite, seated, half length profile view]
White mount with gray border. Seated, half length profile view of Edwin Booth.
GLC05136.31
"The Irrepressible Conflict" or the Republican Barge in Danger
Published by Currier & Ives at 152 Nassau Street, New York. Cartoon making reference to the so-called "Irrepressible Conflict" speech given by New York Senator William Seward at Rochester, New York on 25 October 1858. This speech ignited a firestorm...
GLC03489
18 October 1895
Ferguson, William Jason (1845-1930)
W. Ferguson
Written in blue ink on recto: "Ferguson was stage the night Lincoln was shot"
GLC05603.02.46
Barnes, J.
J. Barnes
Note written in pencil on recto: "Night Lincoln was killed "Our American Cousin," Ford's Theater."
GLC05603.02.54
1847/01/31-1848/03/23
Lincoln, Solomon (fl. 1847-1848)
2 letters to Francis Bassett concerning Mexico
1. ALS. Solomon Lincoln to Francis Bassett re: Congressional elections, Texas, Gen.s. Taylor & Scott . Hingham, Mass. 3 p. (29x30 cm) Mentions Governor Young pardoning 18 anti-rent (riot) convicts as well as Generals Taylor and Scott....
GLC02390.01
Daggett, E. A. (fl. 1860)
Wide-Awake Vocalist, or Rail Splitter's song book.
Songbook for the 1860 Republican presidential campaign. Published by E.A. Daggett, New York. Proclaims itself, "The best collection of words and music ever published for a campaign."
GLC03430
Burleigh, William Henry (1812-1871)
Republican campaign songster, for 1860.
Edited by Burleigh and published by H. Dayton. Original blue printed front wrapper (only), stab-stitched as issued. Intended for the 1860 Presidential election. Burleigh was a prominent New York journalist and social reformer.
GLC00676.02
circa 1830-1910
Ward, John Quincy Adams (1830-1910)
[Numerous small sketches on both sides]
Man slaughtering goat or deer, one figure holding another, etc. Possibly representing the biblical story of Abraham nearly sacrificing his son and slaying the ram. Black ink and graphite; wove paper.
GLC06343.082
Bachelder, John B.
[Pencil sketch. Green Room in the White House]
colors of room noted in margin. Apparently a study for a Presidential print or painting; possibly JBB's Lincoln painting
GLC02673.06
1836
Stuart, Charles
A memoir of Granville Sharp
First edition; early publisher's cloth. Includes Patrick Reason's first published portrait engraving. Reason was an black artist. Collateral to Lincoln manuscript GLC 5302, referring to Granville Sharp.
GLC06841
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