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1866 ca.
Unknown
[Abraham Lincoln]
Oval photograph of engraved portrait of Lincoln. With two one-cent tax stamps on verso. (Dating based on use of tax stamps.)
GLC02912.02.01
1860 June, 1894
Ayres, George B.
With blind impressed stamp at lower right "G.B. Ayres, Copyright 1894." The shirt has been retouched.
GLC04697
[n.d.]
C.D. Fredricks & Co.
Lincoln, Abraham.
With gold border; Fredricks imprint on verso. Vignette bust portrait. White mount
GLC06391.40
1861
Carte de Visiten No imprint. Variant of Ostendorf O-55.
GLC06940
1859 October 4
Fassett, Samuel M. (fl. 1859)
Oval albumen print portrait of Lincoln. Ostendorf O-16, which provides dating. Taken while visiting Chicago.
GLC05133.01
1861-1865 ca.
Abraham Lincoln
Full length seated view, holding glasses in right hand and paper in left hand.
GLC05135.093
S.M Fasset's New Gallery
Photograph of an engraving. Seated, half-length view.
GLC05135.094
14 January 1865
Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)
[Abraham Lincoln endorsement]
Lincoln endorsement written on the fourth page of an autograph letter signed of P. Golden from Bangor, Maine to John H. Rice of Washington dated 29 December 1864. Golden asks that a cousin John Murphy, a prisoner of war, be discharged. Golden...
GLC01772
16 September 1862
Ross, John, 1790-1866;
to Abraham Lincoln
One letter addressed to Abraham Lincoln from John Ross dated September 16, 1862. Pertains to a visit with the Cherokee Nation. Mentions how they would like to establish a relationship with the United States.
GLC01233.02
16 August 1862
Dennison, William (1815-1882)
Informs President Lincoln that: "I have just mailed to you a copy of this morning's Columbus Journal containing my denial of a reported conversation between us in relation to the Secy of War & Genl. Halleck, which I will be glad to have you see."
GLC02490.05
30 August 1862
Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland) (1808-1873)
Petition to President Lincoln recommending "the immediate removal of George B. McClellan from the Command of any army of the United States," signed by Chase, Stanton, and Smith. These three members of Lincoln's cabinet feel "constrained to urge this...
GLC00776
25 November 1860
Muggins, Pete (fl. 1860)
Intensely vitriolic letter sent to President Lincoln shortly after his election: "God damn your god damned old Hellfired soul to hell god damn you...Now you God damned old Abolition son of a bitch God damn you..." Attached to a board with a...
GLC08904
13 December 1862
Smith, Caleb B. (1808-1864)
Recommends T. J. Barnett of New York as a judge in one of the territories of the United States. On stationary of the Department of the Interior.
GLC05603.01.16
1864/04/12 ca.
Powell, Governor L.
To: Abraham Lincoln.
Kentucky Governor Powell requested allowance of Confederate POW's to take the oath of Dec. 8th, including prisoners at Camp Chase, Johnson's Island, Camp Douglas, etc.
With note and signature from Lincoln: "Excepting commissioned officers... let the...
GLC07943
1 October 1862
Forney, John Wien (1817-1881)
Secretary of the Senate J.W. Forney recommends William Cole, Esq., editor of the "Irish American," for a paymastership in the U.S. army. Cole also comes recommended by Bishop John Hughes, General Michael Corcoran, Horace Greeley, and New York...
GLC02086.01
13 September 1864
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) (1822-1885)
Grant, Commander-in-Chief of the United States Army responds to President Lincoln's letter of 12 September (refer to GLC07084.01). Writes "It has been my intention for a week...to see Sheridan and arrange what was necessary to enable him to start...
GLC07084.02
24 August 1864
Grant requests a promotion for Theodore S. Bowers, which Lincoln approves with his own signature. Grant wishes that Bowers be promoted from Lieutenant Colonel in the volunteer army to the Adjutant General's Department in the regular army. For this...
GLC00639.09
11 June 1863
True copy of a letter from General Grant to President Lincoln, written one week after the surrender of Vicksburg, Mississippi to Grant. Grant encloses a report (not included) created by General John Eaton discussing African Americans within his...
GLC05485.03
29 December 1864
Hamlin, Hannibal (1809-1891)
Letter of introduction for a Mr. Peniston.
GLC02490.07
14 April 1864
Blair, Austin (1818-1894)
Blair, Governor of Michigan, recommends William Hemingway from Michigan for the position of judge in the Montana Territory. Notes that Hemingway is a member of the Michigan State Legislature. Written on State of Michigan stationery.
GLC02467.05
30 January 1862
Signed by Hannibal Hamlin as Vice President. Also signed by members of Congress including Representatives from Maine; Lot Myrick Morrill, John N. Goodwin, Charles Wesley Walton, John H. Rice, Frederick Augustus Pike, Anson Peaslee Morrill, and Ohio...
GLC05603.01.10
July 27, 1861
Rousseau, Lovell Harrison (1818-1869)
Colonel Rousseau recommends the appointment of Bland Ballard as Judge of the United States for the District of Kentucky. Of Ballard, Rousseau writes, "Mr. Ballard is, in my Judgment, in every way, fitted for that Place. He is a fine lawyer- we have...
GLC02456.24
1861-1877
Jenks, Ethan A.
Captain Jenks requests that President Lincoln reconsider the 12 June 1863 order dismissing him from military service.
GLC02750.071
16 July 1863
Smith, James
Smith, Governor of Rhode Island, informs President Lincoln that "the first notice which Captain Ethan A. Jenks received of the commission on the charge made against him was the order dismissing him from Service, while on duty at the Siege of...
GLC02750.054
circa 28 February 1865
Lane, E. (fl. ca. 1865)
Letter by E. Lane, who was formerly Chief Justice of the State of Ohio, with a note by Noah H. Swayne, a Supreme Court justice. Writes to inform Lincoln that Thomas M. Root will accept the appointment of District Attorney for the Northern District...
GLC05603.01.14
2 December 1863
Worden, John Lorimer (1818-1897)
Written by Captain Worden to President Lincoln. Says the Reverend Alfred C. Roe wishes to make himself useful to the suppression of the rebellion and that he seeks an appointment as a chaplain in the army. Claims to have known Roe for some time and...
GLC02466.17
6 June 1912
Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)
[Tribute to Abraham Lincoln]
Address regarding Mr. Lincoln's success which Wilson sees as proof that Americans can succeed regardless of their birth and social class.
GLC02786
Second Presbyterian Church of Memphis
Petition to Abraham Lincoln
re: returning control of the church to Union clergy. With AES of Abraham Lincoln (4 March 1864) re: necessity of separation between church and state; and AES of Maj. Gen. Stephen A. Hurlbut (18 March 1864) re: "no military necessity" for taking...
GLC04813.01
Abraham Lincoln [split stereocard]
Image of Abraham Lincoln seated and looking directly at the camera. Inscription on image: "1861 The War For the Union. 1865" Inscription on verso: "This view is not a fair sample of the war views. The 'negative' is very poor . . . ." followed by a...
GLC05111.01.1234
circa 1864
[Tintype photograph of Abraham Lincoln]
Campaign tintype of Lincoln for the election of 1864. In bronze colored metal frame. Printed on reverse is, "Abraham Lincoln. President of the United States. Firm to maintain and defend the Union." Photography studio's name is obscured but...
GLC04102.01
no date
Brooks, Noah (1830-1903)
[Remark about Abraham Lincoln's wisdom]
Writes "When asked what trait of Abraham Lincoln's character most impressed me in the years of my intercourse with him, I reply - his wisdom. He was the wisest man I ever knew."
GLC05603.01.30
6 October 1862
[Abraham Lincoln endorsement of William Cole].
Lincoln recommends, possibly to Secretary of War Stanton, that William Cole, Esq., editor of the "Irish American," be appointed to a paymastership in the U.S. Army. Originally written on p. 4 of an integral blank leaf of the letter of recommendation...
GLC02086.02
1864 February
Berger, Anthony (fl. 1864)
[Cabinet card of Abraham Lincoln]
The cabinet card has Brady's imprint on the recto and verso, and is a variant of O-92 without the table and with Lincoln's lower hand cut-off (see Ostendorf p. 176). The negative was taken by Anthony Berger and is the basis for Lincoln on $5 bill...
GLC02910.01
circa 1858
Rider (fl. 1858)
Printed from the original lost ambrotype taken by T.P. Pearson (Ostendorf No. O-8) at Macomb, Illinois, 26 August 1858 at the time of the Lincoln Douglas debates. Printed circa 1890. Shows Lincoln beardless. Printed with "Rider, 339 W. Madison...
GLC07094.03
circa 23 September 1858
German, Christopher S. (fl. 1858)
[Cased daguerreotype of Abraham Lincoln]
Quarter-plate daguerreotype by Christopher S. German, probably taken from an albumen on or about 23 September 1858. Original leather case with 2 hooks intact. Three-quarter view of Lincoln, beardless and seated, at the time of the Lincoln-Douglas...
GLC07088.01
9 February 1864
Brady, Mathew B. (ca. 1823-1896)
[seated portrait of Abraham Lincoln]
Large oval seated photograph of President Lincoln taken for Mathew B. Brady. Albumen photograph on original mount with the Brady studio imprint. Hamilton/Ostendorf O-92.
GLC07735
1 July 1864
[Carte de visite of Abraham Lincoln].
Photograph accompanied letter from Lincoln to Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt (GLC0167.01).
GLC01677.02
15 April 1865
[Telegram announcing Abraham Lincoln's death]
Early telegraphed notice of his death, sent by American Telegraph Company executive George Milliken to his wife at 8:30 AM. "President Lincoln died at twenty-two minutes after seven. J. Wilkes Booth was the Assassin. This is official."
GLC09191
February 1865
Walker, Lewis E.
[Abraham Lincoln, stereocard, seated bust portrait]
Gray mount. Numbered "H59" and "28016 Abraham Lincoln" on recto. Seated bust portrait of Lincoln with spiky haircut. Modern photograph of E. & H. T. Anthony stereocard. [O-103 C and D].
GLC05136.50
1860 ca.
Abraham Lincoln cartes-de-visite (2)
.1= Portrait: "Abe Lincoln/Honest Long Cut Chewing and Smoking/ W. Duke Son & co., NY. .2= President and Cabinet (ca. 1862, not after 1863).
GLC00732
[Photograph of Abraham and "Tad" Lincoln]
Photograph of A. Lincoln and his ten-year-old son "Tad" reading. (with tax stamp on back). An enduring popular image of Lincoln and his youngest son. This informal joint portrait, taken in Brady's Washington studio, features Lincoln seated with a...
GLC00206.02
8 January 1864
Brady, Matthew B.
[Abraham Lincoln, stereocard, seated half length]
Black pressure-sensitive adhesive mount. Half length seated portrait of Lincoln. Modern transparent image of stereocard on plastic.
GLC05136.51
25 March 1865
[Pardon of Robert Barnett by Abraham Lincoln]
Barnett was arrested during the New York Draft Riots and convicted of discouraging enlistments, he was pardoned due to poor health. Endorsed on verso on the date of Lincoln's death. (c/s F.W. Seward)
GLC03912
Abraham Lincoln and George Washington on patriotic card
Small cameo sized albumen prints of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington appear side by side in ovals decorated with stars. The Union shield appears below the photographs. An American eagle holding a scroll perches over two American flags above...
GLC05111.02.0031
1861 February 24
Gardner, Alexander (1821-1882)
[Carte de visite of Abraham Lincoln]
The carte de visite is by Gardner, 2/24/1861, republished by Gardner (imprint on verso), O-49 (M-71). It is the same image as GLC00919.01.
GLC02910.02
1864
Wenderoth & Taylor
With three-cent cancelled tax stamp on the back. Possibly a contemporary copy?
GLC04091
1860 June
Platinum print of beardless Abraham Lincoln
With ink inscription on verso: "Copyright Geo. B. Ayres, Phila." Ostendorf 26. Hesler negative printed by Ayres
GLC04200
22 October 1861
[Endorsement by Abraham Lincoln and Winfield Scott]
Lincoln requests that Lieutenant General Scott see James Woodruff of the Ordnance Office to consider whether to purchase the guns proposed in the letter from Woodruff to J. W. Ripley in GLC 337.01. Scott signs that he agrees with Brigadier General...
GLC00337.02
18 January 1865
[Pardon of Robert Warrax by Abraham Lincoln]
Convicted of counterfeiting, Warrax was pardoned because of new evidence. Also signed by William H. Seward.
GLC00068.09
E. & H.T. Anthony & Co.
[Abraham Lincoln, stereocard, seated half length view]
Yellow mount with printed inscription "American & Foreign Portrait Gallery." Half length, seated view of Lincoln without pink tinting. Similar to image #34.
GLC05136.35
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